Commission Regulation (EC) No 2244/2004 of 23 December 2004 opening tariff quotas for the year 2005 for imports into the European Community of certain processed agricultural products originating in Romania
Commission Regulation (EC) No 2244/2004of 23 December 2004opening tariff quotas for the year 2005 for imports into the European Community of certain processed agricultural products originating in Romania 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 productsOJ L 318, 20.12.1993, p. 18. Regulation as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 2580/2000 (OJ L 298, 25.11.2000, p. 5)., and in particular Article 7(2) thereof,Having regard to Council Decision 98/626/EC of 5 October 1998 relating to the conclusion of a Protocol for the adaptation of the trade aspects of the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Romania, of the other part, to take into account the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union and the results of the agricultural negotiations of the Uruguay Round, including the improvements to the existing preferential regimeOJ L 301, 11.11.1998, p.1., and in particular Article 2(1) thereof,Whereas:(1)Protocol 3 on trade in processed agricultural products to the Europe Agreement with Romania, as amended by the Protocol for the adaptation of the trade aspects of that Agreement, provides for the reduction in the agricultural component of the duties applicable on importation of certain processed agricultural products originating in Romania, within the limits of tariff quotas. Those quotas should be opened for 2005.(2)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 Common Customs CodeOJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p.1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2286/2003 (OJ L 343, 31.12.2003, p.1). 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.(3)The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for horizontal questions concerning trade in processed agricultural products not listed in Annex I,HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1The Community annual tariff quotas for the processed agricultural products originating in Romania listed in the Annex are opened from 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2005 under the conditions set out in that Annex.
Article 2The 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 3This 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 2005.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 23 December 2004.For the CommissionGünter VerheugenVice-PresidentANNEX
RAC = reduced agricultural components (calculated in accordance with the basic amounts set out in Protocol 3 to the Agreement) applicable within the quantitative limits of the quotas. Such reduced agricultural components are subject to the maximum duty laid down in the common customs tariff, if any, and in the case of products falling within CN codes 17041091, 17041099, 21050010, 21050091 or 21069010, to the maximum duty provided for in the Agreement.Excluding goods containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose), falling within CN codes ex17049051, ex17049099, ex18062080, ex18062095, ex18069090 or ex21069098.
Serial NoCN CodeDescriptionQuota for 2005(tonnes)Rate of duty applicable
09.5431ex1704Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa, excluding liquorice extract containing more than 10 % by weight of sucrose but not containing other added substances, falling within CN code 1704901021000 + RAC
09.5433ex1806Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa, other than those falling within CN codes 18061015 or 1806207015000 + RAC
09.5435ex1902Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed or otherwise prepared, excluding stuffed pasta falling within CN codes 19022010 and 19022030, couscous, whether or not prepared6000 + RAC
09.5437ex1904Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, corn flakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour and meal), precooked or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included, excluding products falling within CN code 190420104380 + RAC
09.54391905Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers’ wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products18750 + RAC
09.54412101301921013099Roasted coffee substitutesExtracts, essences and concentrates of roasted coffee substitutes excluding those of roasted chicory1630 + RAC
09.5443210500Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa1140 + RAC
09.54450405201004052030ex2106ex33021033021029Dairy spreads of a fat content, by weight, of 39 % or more, but not exceeding 75 %Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included other than those falling within CN codes 21061020, 21069020 and 21069092 and other than flavoured or coloured sugar syrupsMixtures of odoriferous substances and mixtures (including alcoholic solutions) with a basis of one or more of these substances, of a kind used for the beverages industries:Other10500 + RAC
09.5447220290912202909522029099Non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of CN code 2009, containing products of CN codes 0401 to 0404 or fat obtained from products of CN codes 0401 to 04041000 + RAC