Document ID: 32007R0816

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 816/2007
of 12 July 2007
opening annual tariff quotas for the importation from Turkey of certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of 6 December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products (1), and in particular, Article 7(2) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Decision No 1/95 of the EC Turkey Association Council (2) implements the final phase of the Customs Union. Its Section V establishes the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products.
(2)
Decision No 1/97 of the EC Turkey Association Council (3) establishes arrangements applicable to certain processed agricultural products.
(3)
Decision No 1/2007 of the EC Turkey Association Council (4) establishes new trade improvements applicable to certain processed agricultural products which aim to deepen and widen the Customs Union and to improve economic convergence as a result of the enlargement of the Community on 1 May 2004. These improvements lay down concessions in the form of duty free tariff quotas. For imports outside of the quotas the current trade provisions continue to apply.
(4)
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code (5), lays down rules for the management of tariff quotas. It is appropriate to provide that the tariff quotas opened by this Regulation are to be managed in accordance with those rules.
(5)
Commission Regulation (EC) No 2026/2005 of 13 December 2005 opening tariff quotas for 2006 and the following years for the importation into the European Community of certain goods from Turkey resulting from the processing of agricultural products covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 (6) should be repealed. Quantities imported under this Regulation between 1 January 2007 and the date of repealing should be deducted from the quantity of the corresponding new quota.
(6)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee on horizontal questions concerning trade in processed agricultural products not listed in Annex I,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The Community tariff quotas for the importation from Turkey of the goods set out in the Annex are opened for the period from 1 January to 31 December of each year from 2007 under the conditions set out in that Annex.
Admission to the benefit of those tariff quotas shall be subject to the presentation of an A.TR. movement certificate in accordance with Decision No 1/2006 of the EC-Turkey Customs Cooperation Committee.
Article 2
The Community tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 shall be managed by the Commission in accordance with Articles 308a, 308b and 308c of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93.
Article 3
Regulation (EC) No 2026/2005 shall be repealed on the date of entering into force of this Regulation. The quantity of tariff quota with order number 09.0232 shall be reduced by the quantities of pasta imported under Regulation (EC) No 2026/2005 (order number 09.0205) between 1 of January 2007 and the date of entering into force of this Regulation.
Article 4
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall be applicable from 1 January 2007.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 12 July 2007.

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