Commission Regulation (EC) No 928/2006 of 22 June 2006 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards certain new Community tariff quotas bound in GATT

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Publication 2006-06-23

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23.6.2006	EN	Official Journal of the European Union	L 170/14

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 of 17 December 1999 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT and certain other Community tariff quotas and establishing detailed rules for adjusting the quotas, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1808/95 ¹, and in particular Article 9(1)(b) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) By Decision 2006/333/EC ², the Council has approved the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the United States of America pursuant to Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions in the schedules of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic in the course of their accession to the European Union.

(2) The Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the United States of America provides for new annual tariff quotas for certain goods.

(3) Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 opened and provided for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT designed to be used following the chronological order of dates of acceptance of customs declarations.

(4) To implement certain new annual tariff quotas for which provision is made in the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters, it is necessary to amend Regulation (EC) No 32/2000.

(5) Council Regulation (EC) No 711/2006 of 20 March 2006, concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the United States of America pursuant to Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions in the schedules of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic in the course of their accession to the European Union, amending and supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff ³, provides for the application of the new tariff quotas six weeks from the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union, therefore this Commission implementing Regulation should apply from the same date.

(6) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 is amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply with effect from 22 June 2006.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 22 June 2006.

For the Commission

László KOVÁCS

Member of the Commission

OJ L 5, 8.1.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2158/2005 (OJ L 342, 24.12.2005, p. 61).

OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 13.

OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 1.

ANNEX

The following rows are inserted in the table in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 32/2000:


‘09.0084	1702 50 00	Chemically pure fructose	From 1 January to 31 December	1 253 tonnes	20
09.0085	1806	Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa	From 1 January to 31 December	107 tonnes	43
09.0086	1902 11 00 1902 19 1902 20 91 1902 20 99 1902 30 1902 40	Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed or otherwise prepared, except stuffed pasta of CN subheadings 1902 20 10 and 1902 20 30 ; couscous, whether or not prepared	From 1 January to 31 December	532 tonnes	11
09.0087	1901 90 99 1904 30 00 1904 90 80 1905 90 20	Food preparations of cereals	From 1 January to 31 December	191 tonnes	33
09.0088	2106 90 98	Other food preparations not elsewhere specified or included	From 1 January to 31 December	921 tonnes	18 ’

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