Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1468 of 11 August 2017 amending Regulation (EU) No 354/2011 opening and providing for the management of tariff quotas of the Union for certain fish and fishery products originating in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 laying down the Union Customs Code, and in particular Article 58(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) By Decision (EU) 2017/75 (the Decision), the Council authorised the signing, on behalf of the Union and its Member States, of the Protocol (the Protocol) to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, of the other part (the Agreement), to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union. Pursuant to this Decision the Protocol was applied on a provisional basis, from 1 February 2017.
(2) In Article 3, the Protocol stipulates that Union concessions for certain fish and fishery products originating in Bosnia-Herzegovina are to be granted according to Annex II to the Protocol. Therefore, the tariff quota volumes for trout, carp and anchovies should be increased by 440, 10 and 20 tonnes accordingly.
(3) The Union tariff quotas should be applied in full for the year 2017, as stipulated in Annex II to the Protocol.
(4) The tariff quotas set out in Annex II to the Protocol should be managed by the Commission on the basis of the chronological order of dates of acceptance of customs declarations for release for free circulation in accordance with Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447.
(5) Commission Regulation (EU) No 354/2011 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(6) In order to ensure the quota system under the Protocol is applied and managed smoothly, this Regulation should apply from the same date as that of the provisional application of the Protocol.
(7) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Regulation (EU) No 354/2011 is amended as follows:
(1) Article 2 is replaced by following:
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(1)
Article 2
The tariff quotas set out in the Annex shall be managed in accordance with Articles 49 to 54 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447.
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(2) the Annex 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 that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 1 February 2017.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 11 August 2017. For the Commission The President Jean-Claude Juncker
ANNEX
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Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording for the description of the products shall 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 CN codes. Where ex CN codes are indicated, the preferential scheme shall be determined by application of the CN code and the corresponding description taken together.
FISH AND FISHERY PRODUCTS
Order No CN Code TARIC subdivisions Description Annual Tariff Quota volume (in tonnes net weight) Rate of quota duty 09.1594 030191 Trout (Salmo trutta, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus clarki, Oncorhynchus aguabonita, Oncorhynchus gilae, Oncorhynchus apache and Oncorhynchus chrysogaster): live; fresh or chilled; frozen; dried, salted or in brine, smoked; fillets and other fish meat; flours, meals and pellets, fit for human consumption 500 Free 030211 030314 030442 03045200 10 030482 03049921 11, 12, 20 03051000 10 03053990 10 03054300 03055985 61 03056980 61 09.1595 03019300 Carp (Cyprinus spp., Carassius spp., Ctenopharyngodon idellus, Hypophthalmichthys spp., Cirrhinus spp., Mylopharyngodon piceus, Catla catla, Labeo spp., Osteochilus hasselti, Leptobarbus hoeveni, Megalobrama spp.): live; fresh or chilled; frozen; dried, salted or in brine, smoked; fillets and other fish meat; flours, meals and pellets, fit for human consumption 140 Free 03027300 03032500 03043900 20 03045100 10 03046900 20 03049390 10 03051000 20 03053100 10 03054490 10 03055200 10 03056400 10 09.1596 03019985 80 Sea bream (Dentex dentex and Pagellus spp.): live; fresh or chilled; frozen; dried, salted or in brine, smoked; fillets and other fish meat; flours, meals and pellets, fit for human consumption 30 Free 03028510 03038950 03044990 60 03045990 40 03048990 30 03049999 20 03051000 30 03053990 70 03054980 40 03055985 65 03056980 65 09.1597 03019985 22 European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax): live; fresh or chilled; frozen; dried, salted or in brine, smoked; fillets and other fish meat; flours, meals and pellets, fit for human consumption 30 Free 03028410 03038410 03044990 70 03045990 45 03048990 40 03049999 70 03051000 40 03053990 80 03054980 50 03055985 67 03056980 67 09.1598 16041311 Prepared or preserved sardines 50 6 % 16041319 16042050 10, 19 09.1599 16041600 Prepared or preserved anchovies 70 12,5 % 16042040