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Document 32006R1712

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

OJ L 338M, 17/12/2008, p. 600–604 (MT)
OJ L 321, 21/11/2006, p. 7–10 (ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, NL, PL, PT, SK, SL, FI, SV)

This document has been published in a special edition(s) (BG, RO, HR)

Legal status of the document In force

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2006/1712/oj

21.11.2006   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 321/7


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

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


(1)   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).

(2)  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

Exemption (1)

09.0204

0806 10 10

Fresh table grapes

From 1.5 to 17.6 and from 1.8 to 14.11

350

Exemption (1)

09.0217 (2)

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

0811 10 11

Strawberries

0811 20 11

Raspberries, blackberries, mulberries, loganberries, black-, white- or redcurrants and gooseberries

0811 90 19

Other, except tropical fruit and tropical nuts

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

2002 10

Whole or in pieces

2002 90 11

2002 90 19

Other, with a dry matter content of less than 12 % by weight

09.0207 (2)

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 weight (3)

Exemption

09.0209 (2)

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 weight (3)

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

Exemption (1)

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


(1)  The exemption applies only to the ad valorem duty.

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

(3)  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

Coefficients

not less than:

but less than:

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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