Commission Regulation (EC) No 926/2006 of 22 June 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards the import arrangements for milk and milk products and opening tariff quotas
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23.6.2006
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Official Journal of the European Union
L 170/8
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 926/2006
of 22 June 2006
amending Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards the import arrangements for milk and milk products and opening tariff quotas
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk and milk products (1), and in particular Article 29(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Annex I.A to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 (2) sets out the tariff quotas not specified by country of origin to be imported by quota period.
(2)
Council Regulation (EC) No 267/2006 of 30 January 2006 concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of letters between the European Community and Australia pursuant to Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions in the schedules of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic in the course of their accession to the European Union, supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (3) provides for an additional allocation of butter and other fats and oils derived from milk under the annual import tariff quota.
(3)
Council Regulation (EC) No 711/2006 of 20 March 2006 concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the United States of America pursuant to Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions in the schedules of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic in the course of their accession to the European Union, amending and supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (4) provides for additional allocations to several quotas of cheeses under the annual import tariff quota.
(4)
It is therefore appropriate to adjust the concerned quota quantities referred to in Annex I.A to Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001.
(5)
Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(6)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Annex I.A to Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 July 2006.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 22 June 2006.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1913/2005 (OJ L 307, 25.11.2005, p. 2).
(2) OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 29. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 591/2006 (OJ L 104, 13.4.2006, p. 11).
(3) OJ L 47, 17.2.2006, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 1.
ANNEX
‘I.A
TARIFF QUOTAS NOT SPECIFIED BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
Quota number
CN code
Description (2)
Country of origin
Annual quota
Six-monthly quota
Import duty
(EUR/100 kg net weight)
09.4590
0402 10 19
Skimmed-milk powder
All third countries
68 000
34 000
47,50
09.4599
0405 10 11
0405 10 19
0405 10 30
0405 10 50
0405 10 90
0405 90 10 (1)
0405 90 90 (1)
Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk
All third countries
11 360
5 680
94,80
in butter equivalent
09.4591
ex 0406 10 20
ex 0406 10 80
Pizza cheese, frozen, cut into pieces each weighing not more than 1 gram, in containers with a net content of 5 kg or more, of a water content, by weight, of 52 % or more, and a fat content by weight in the dry matter of 38 % or more
All third countries
5 360
2 680
13,00
09.4592
ex 0406 30 10
Processed Emmentaler
All third countries
18 438
9 219
71,90
0406 90 13
Emmentaler
85,80
09.4593
ex 0406 30 10
Processed Gruyère
All third countries
5 413
2 706,5
71,90
0406 90 15
Gruyère, Sbrinz
85,80
09.4594
0406 90 01
Cheese for processing (3)
All third countries
20 007
10 003,5
83,50
09.4595
0406 90 21
Cheddar
All third countries
15 005
7 502,5
21,00
09.4596
ex 0406 10 20
Fresh (unripened or uncured) cheese, including whey cheese, and curd, other than pizza cheese of quota number 09.4591
All third countries
19 525
9 762,5
92,60
ex 0406 10 80
106,40
0406 20 90
Other grated or powdered cheese
94,10
0406 30 31
Other processed cheese
69,00
0406 30 39
71,90
0406 30 90
102,90
0406 40 10
0406 40 50
0406 40 90
Blue-veined cheese
70,40
0406 90 17
Bergkäse and Appenzell
85,80
09.4596
0406 90 18
Fromage Fribourgeois, Vacherin Mont d’Or and Tête de Moine
75,50
0406 90 23
Edam
0406 90 25
Tilsit
0406 90 27
Butterkäse
0406 90 29
Kashkaval
0406 90 31
Feta, of sheep’s milk or buffalo milk
0406 90 33
Feta, other
0406 90 35
Kefalo-Tyri
0406 90 37
Finlandia
0406 90 39
Jarlsberg
0406 90 50
Cheese of sheep’s milk or buffalo milk
ex 0406 90 63
Pecorino
94,10
0406 90 69
Other
0406 90 73
Provolone
75,50
ex 0406 90 75
Caciocavallo
ex 0406 90 76
Danbo, Fontal, Fynbo, Havarti, Maribo, Samsø
0406 90 78
Gouda
ex 0406 90 79
Esrom, Italico, Kernhem, Saint-Paulin
ex 0406 90 81
Cheshire, Wensleydale, Lancashire, Double Gloucester, Blarney, Colby, Monterey
0406 90 82
Camembert
0406 90 84
Brie
0406 90 86
Exceeding 47 % but not exceeding 52 %
0406 90 87
Exceeding 52 % but not exceeding 62 %
0406 90 88
Exceeding 62 % but not exceeding 72 %
0406 90 93
Exceeding 72 %
92,60
0406 90 99
Other
106,40
(1) 1 kg product = 1,22 kg butter.
(2) Irrespective of the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording of the product description must be considered to have merely indicative value, since the applicability of the preferential arrangements is determined in the context of this Annex by the scope of the CN code. Where ex CN codes are indicated, the applicability of the preferential scheme is determined on the basis of the CN code and the corresponding description taken jointly.
(3) The cheeses referred to are considered as processed when they have been processed into products falling within subheading 0406 30 of the Combined Nomenclature. Articles 291 to 300 of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 apply.’