Council Regulation (EU) 2018/1977 of 11 December 2018 opening and providing for the management of autonomous Union tariff quotas for certain fishery products for the period 2019–2020

COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) 2018/1977

of 11 December 2018

opening and providing for the management of autonomous Union tariff quotas for certain fishery products for the period 2019–2020

Article 1

Import duties on the products listed in the Annex shall be reduced or suspended within the tariff quotas at the rates, for the periods and up to the amounts indicated therein.

Article 2

The tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 of this Regulation shall be managed in accordance with Articles 49 to 54 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2447.

Article 3

The tariff quotas shall be subject to end-use customs supervision in accordance with Article 254 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council ([^E0001]).

Article 4

• — cleaning, gutting, tailing, heading;

• — cutting;

• — repacking of frozen IQF (individually quick frozen) fillets;

• — sampling, sorting;

• — labelling;

• — packing;

• — chilling;

• — freezing;

• — deep freezing;

• — glazing;

• — thawing;

• — separation.

• — dicing;

• — cutting into rings and cutting into strips for materials under CN codes 0307 43 91 , 0307 43 92 , 0307 43 99 ;

• — filleting;

• — production of flaps;

• — cutting of frozen blocks;

• — splitting of frozen interleaved fillet blocks to obtain individual fillets;

• — slicing for materials under CN codes ex 0303 66 11 , 0303 66 12 , 0303 66 13 , 0303 66 19 , 0303 89 70 , 0303 89 90 ;

• — subjecting products under CN codes 0306 16 99 (TARIC subdivisions 20 and 30 ), 0306 17 92 (TARIC subdivision 20 ), 0306 17 99 (TARIC subdivision 10 ), 0306 35 90 (TARIC subdivisions 12 , 14 , 92 and 93 ), 0306 36 90 (TARIC subdivisions 20 and 30 ), 1605 21 90 (TARIC subdivisions 45 , 55 and 62 ) and 1605 29 00 (TARIC subdivisions 50 , 55 and 60 ) to processing treatment by packaging gases as defined in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council ([^E0002]);

• — dividing the frozen product or subjecting the frozen product to heat treatment to enable the removal of internal waste material for materials under CN codes 0306 11 10 (TARIC subdivision 10 ), 0306 11 90 (TARIC subdivision 20 ) and 0306 31 00 (TARIC subdivision 10 ).

Article 5

The Commission and the customs authorities of the Member States shall cooperate closely to ensure the proper management and control of the application of this Regulation.

Article 6

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

It shall apply from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2020.

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

ANNEX

[^E0003]: (¹)Expressed in net weight, unless otherwise stated.

[^E0004]: (²)Body of cephalopod or the squid headless and without tentacle, with skin and fins.

[^E0005]: (³)This tariff quota (09.2784) is automatically deleted starting from 1 January of the year following that in which the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Vietnam enters into force or is applied provisionally, whichever occurs first.

[^E0006]: (⁴)For TARIC code 1604320020 this tariff quota applies from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019.

[^E0001]: Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 laying down the Union Customs Code (OJ L 269, 10.10.2013, p. 1).

[^E0002]: Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on food additives (OJ L 354, 31.12.2008, p. 16).