Commission Regulation (EC) No 1506/2006 of 11 October 2006 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 to take account of amendments to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

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 Regulation (EC) No 1808/95 ¹, and in particular Article 9(1)(a) thereof,

Whereas:

• (1) In the Combined Nomenclature for 2006, laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff ², as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1719/2005 ³, the combined nomenclature codes (CN-codes) for certain products have been amended. Annexes IV and V to Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 refer to some of those CN-codes. It is therefore necessary to adjust those Annexes.

• (2) Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 should therefore be amended accordingly.

• (3) Since Regulation (EC) No 1719/2005 entered into force on 1 January 2006, this Regulation should apply from the same date.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annexes IV and V to Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 are amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 January 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 11 October 2006.

For the Commission

László KOVÁCS

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

Annexes IV and V to Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 are amended as follows:

• 1. In the first part of Annex IV, the CN codes in the second column are amended as follows:

• (a) For order number 09.0104, the CN codes are amended as follows:

• (i) CN code ‘9405 10 99 ’ is replaced by CN code ‘ex 9405 10 98 ’;

• (ii) CN code ‘9405 60 99 ’ is replaced by CN code ‘ex 9405 60 80 ’;

• (iii) CN code ‘9405 99 90 ’ is replaced by CN code ‘ex 9405 99 00 ’.

• (b) For order number 09.0106, CN code ‘6204 49 90 ’ is replaced by CN code ‘ex 6204 49 00 ’.

• 1. In the second part of Annex IV, the codes for order number 09.0104 are amended as follows:

• (a) the TARIC codes in the third column are amended as follows:

• (i) in the row for CN code 9405 10 99 , TARIC code ‘10’ is replaced by TARIC code ‘20’;

• (ii) in the row for CN code 9405 60 99 , TARIC code ‘10’ is replaced by TARIC code ‘20’;

• (iii) in the row for CN code 9405 99 90 , TARIC code ‘10’ is replaced by TARIC code ‘20’;

• (b) the CN codes in the second column are amended as follows:

• (i) CN code ‘9405 10 99 ’ is replaced by CN code ‘9405 10 98 ’;

• (ii) CN code ‘9405 60 99 ’ is replaced by CN code ‘9405 60 80 ’;

• (iii) CN code ‘9405 99 90 ’ is replaced by CN code ‘9405 99 00 ’.

• 1. In the second part of Annex IV, the codes for order number 09.0106 are amended as follows:

• (a) the TARIC codes in the third column are amended as follows:

• (i) in the row for CN code ‘5208 52 90 ’, TARIC codes ‘11’ and ‘91’ are deleted;

• (ii) in the row for CN code 6204 49 90 , TARIC code ‘10’ is replaced by TARIC code ‘91’;

• (iii) in the rows for CN codes ‘6214 90 10 ’ and ‘6214 90 90 ’, TARIC codes ‘10’, ‘11’ and ‘19’ are replaced by TARIC codes ‘11’ and ‘91’.

• (b) the CN codes in the second column are amended as follows:

• (i) CN codes ‘5208 52 10 ’ and ‘5208 52 90 ’ are replaced by CN code ‘5208 52 00 ’;

• (ii) CN code ‘6204 49 90 ’ is replaced by CN code ‘6204 49 00 ’;

• (iii) CN codes ‘6214 90 10 ’ and ‘6214 90 90 ’ are replaced by CN code ‘6214 90 00 ’.

• 1. In the second part of Annex V, the codes for order number 09.0103 are amended as follows:

• (a) in the third column, in the row for CN code ‘5208 52 90 ’, the TARIC codes ‘11’ and ‘19’ are deleted.

• (b) in the second column, the CN codes ‘5208 52 10 ’ and ‘5208 52 90 ’ are replaced by CN code ‘5208 52 00 ’.