Commission Regulation (EC) No 1712/2006 of 20 November 2006 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 as regards Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products originating in Turkey

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21.11.2006	EN	Official Journal of the European Union	L 321/7

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 of 9 April 2001 providing for the management of Community tariff quotas and of reference quantities for products eligible for preferences by virtue of agreements with certain Mediterranean countries and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1981/94 and (EC) No 934/95 ¹, and in particular Article 5(1)(b) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) By Decision No 2/2006 of 17 October 2006 ² the EC-Turkey Association Council has approved the amendment to Protocols 1 and 2 to Decision No 1/98 of the EC-Turkey Association Council on the trade regime for agricultural products.

(2) For certain agricultural products originating in Turkey, the amended Protocol 1 provides for new Community tariff quotas and for changes to the existing Community tariff quotas laid down in Regulation (EC) No 747/2001.

(3) To implement the new tariff quotas and the changes to the existing tariff quotas, it is necessary to amend Regulation (EC) No 747/2001.

(4) Since Decision No 2/2006 of the EC-Turkey Association Council is applicable from 1 November 2006, this Regulation should apply from the same date and should enter into force as soon as possible.

(5) 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 IX to Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 is replaced by the text 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 November 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 20 November 2006.

For the Commission

László KOVÁCS

Member of the Commission

OJ L 109, 19.4.2001, p. 2. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 19/2006 (OJ L 4, 7.1.2006, p. 7).

Not yet published in the Official Journal.

ANNEX

‘ANNEX IX

TURKEY

Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording for the description of the products is to be considered as having no more than an indicative value, the preferential scheme being determined, within the context of this Annex, by the coverage of the CN codes as they exist at the time of adoption of this Regulation. Where ex CN codes are indicated, the preferential scheme is to be determined by application of the CN code and corresponding description taken together.

Tariff quotas

Order No	CN code	Description of goods	Quota period	Quota volume (in tonnes net weight)	Quota duty
09.0202	0701 90	Potatoes, fresh or chilled, other than seed	From 1.1 to 31.12	2 500	Exemption
09.0211	0703 10 11 0703 10 19	Onions, fresh or chilled	From 16.5 to 14.2	2 000	Exemption
09.0213	0709 30 00	Aubergines (eggplants), fresh or chilled	From 1.5 to 14.1	1 000	Exemption
09.0215	0709 90 70	Courgettes, fresh or chilled	From 1.3 to 30.11	500	Exemption³
09.0204	0806 10 10	Fresh table grapes	From 1.5 to 17.6 and from 1.8 to 14.11	350	Exemption³
09.0217⁴	0807 11 00	Watermelons, fresh	From 16.6 to 31.3	16 500	Exemption
09.0219		Fruit and nuts, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen, with a sugar content exceeding 13 % by weight:	From 1.1 to 31.12	100	Exemption
09.0219	0811 10 11	Strawberries	From 1.1 to 31.12	100	Exemption
09.0219	0811 20 11	Raspberries, blackberries, mulberries, loganberries, black-, white- or redcurrants and gooseberries	From 1.1 to 31.12	100	Exemption
09.0219	0811 90 19	Other, except tropical fruit and tropical nuts	From 1.1 to 31.12	100	Exemption
09.0206	1509 10 90	Other virgin olive oil	From 1.1 to 31.12	100	7,5 % ad valorem
09.0221		Tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid:	From 1.1 to 31.12	8 900	Exemption
09.0221	2002 10	Whole or in pieces	From 1.1 to 31.12	8 900	Exemption
09.0221	2002 90 11 2002 90 19	Other, with a dry matter content of less than 12 % by weight	From 1.1 to 31.12	8 900	Exemption
09.0207⁴	2002 90 31 2002 90 39 2002 90 91 2002 90 99	Tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, other than whole or in pieces, with a dry matter content of not less than 12 % by weight	From 1.1 to 30.6	15 000 , of a dry matter content of 28 to 30 % by weight⁵	Exemption
09.0209⁴	2002 90 31 2002 90 39 2002 90 91 2002 90 99	Tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, other than whole or in pieces, with a dry matter content of not less than 12 % by weight	From 1.7 to 31.12	15 000 , of a dry matter content of 28 to 30 % by weight⁵	Exemption
09.0208	2007 10 10 2007 91 10 2007 91 30 2007 99 20 2007 99 31 2007 99 33 2007 99 35 2007 99 39 2007 99 55 2007 99 57	Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or nut purée and fruit or nut pastes	From 1.1 to 31.12	1 750	33 % of the specific duty
09.0223	2007 91 30	Jams, jellies, marmalades, puree and pastes, obtained by cooking, other than homogenised preparations, of citrus fruit, with a sugar content exceeding 13 % but not exceeding 30 % by weight	From 1.1 to 31.12	100	Exemption
09.0225	2007 99 39	Other preparations of fruit and nuts, obtained by cooking, with a sugar content exceeding 30 % by weight, other than homogenised preparations	From 1.1 to 31.12	100	Exemption
09.0212	2008 30 19 2008 50 19 2008 50 51 2008 50 92 2008 50 94 2008 60 19 2008 70 19 2008 70 51 2008 80 19	Citrus fruit, apricots, cherries, peaches, including nectarines, and strawberries, otherwise prepared or preserved	From 1.1 to 31.12	2 100	Exemption³
09.0214	2009 11 11 2009 11 91 2009 19 11 2009 19 91 2009 29 11 2009 29 91 2009 39 11 2009 39 51 2009 39 91 2009 61 90 2009 69 11 2009 69 79 2009 69 90 2009 80 11 2009 80 34 2009 80 35 2009 80 61 2009 80 85 2009 80 86 2009 90 11 2009 90 21 2009 90 31 2009 90 71 2009 90 92 2009 90 94	Fruit juices (including grape must) and vegetable juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit	From 1.1 to 31.12	3 400	33 % of the specific duty

The exemption applies only to the ad valorem duty.

The application of this tariff quota is suspended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1506/98 (OJ L 200, 16.7.1998, p. 1).

For the administration of these Community tariff quotas, the following coefficients will be applied to imports of products with a dry matter content other than 28 to 30 % by weight:

Dry matter content by weight	Dry matter content by weight	Coefficients
not less than:	but less than:	Coefficients
12	14	0,44828
14	16	0,51724
16	18	0,58621
18	20	0,65517
20	22	0,72414
22	24	0,7931
24	26	0,86207
26	28	0,93103
28	30	1
30	32	1,06897
32	34	1,13793
34	36	1,20689
36	38	1,27586
38	40	1,34483
40	42	1,41379
42	93	1,44828
93	100	3,32759 ’

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