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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

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Contents
  1. Preamble
    1. Article 1
    2. Article 2
    3. Article 3
    4. Article 4
    5. Article 5
    6. Article 6
  3. ANNEX
  4. ANNEX

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 31 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,

Whereas:

(1) Union supplies of certain fishery products currently depend on imports from third countries. In the last 21 years, the Union has become more dependent on imports to meet its consumption of fishery products. In order not to jeopardise the Union production of fishery products and to ensure an adequate supply to the Union processing industry, import duties should be reduced or suspended for a number of fishery products within tariff quotas of an appropriate volume. To guarantee a level playing field for the Union producers, the sensitivity of individual fishery products on the Union market should be taken into consideration.

(2) Council Regulation (EU) 2015/2265, which was amended by Council Regulation (EU) 2016/1184, opened and provided for the management of autonomous Union tariff quotas for certain fishery products for the period 2016–2018. Given that the period of application of Regulation (EU) 2015/2265 expires on 31 December 2018, a new Regulation providing for tariff quotas should be adopted for the period 2019–2020.

(3) Equal and uninterrupted access to the tariff quotas provided for in this Regulation should be ensured for all Union importers, and the rates laid down for the tariff quotas should be applied without interruption to all imports of the fishery products concerned into all Member States until the tariff quotas have been used up.

(4) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 provides for a system of tariff-quota management which follows the chronological order of the dates of acceptance of the customs declarations for release for free circulation. The tariff quotas opened by this Regulation should be managed by the Commission and the Member States in accordance with that system.

(5) It is important to ensure transparency, predictability and legal certainty for all stakeholders. Since the tariff quotas are intended to ensure adequate supply to the Union processing industry, minimum treatment or operation should be required for quota entitlement.

(6) To ensure the efficiency of a common management of the tariff quotas, Member States should be permitted to draw from the tariff quota amount the necessary quantities corresponding to their actual imports. Since that method of management requires close cooperation between the Member States and the Commission, the Commission should be able to monitor the rate at which the tariff quotas are used up and should inform the Member States accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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.

Article 4

1. The reduction or suspension of import duties shall apply only to products intended for human consumption.

2. The tariff quotas shall not be available for those products whose processing is carried out at retail or catering level.

3. The tariff quotas shall not be available for products intended solely for one or more of the following operations:

cleaning, gutting, tailing, heading;

cutting;

repacking of frozen IQF (individually quick frozen) fillets;

sampling, sorting;

labelling;

packing;

chilling;

freezing;

deep freezing;

glazing;

thawing;

separation.

4. Notwithstanding paragraph 3, the tariff quotas shall be available for products intended for one or more of the following operations:

dicing;

cutting into rings and cutting into strips for materials under CN codes 03074391, 03074392, 03074399;

filleting;

production of flaps;

cutting of frozen blocks;

splitting of frozen interleaved fillet blocks to obtain individual fillets;

slicing for materials under CN codes ex03036611, 03036612, 03036613, 03036619, 03038970, 03038990;

subjecting products under CN codes 03061699 (TARIC subdivisions 20 and 30), 03061792 (TARIC subdivision 20), 03061799 (TARIC subdivision 10), 03063590 (TARIC subdivisions 12, 14, 92 and 93), 03063690 (TARIC subdivisions 20 and 30), 16052190 (TARIC subdivisions 45, 55 and 62) and 16052900 (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;

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 03061110 (TARIC subdivision 10), 03061190 (TARIC subdivision 20) and 03063100 (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. Done at Brussels, 11 December 2018. For the Council The President G. Blümel

ANNEX

ANNEX

Order No CN code TARIC code Description Annual amount of quota (tonnes) Quota duty Quota period 09.2746 ex03028990 30 Southern red snapper (Lutjanus purpureus), fresh, chilled, for processing 1500 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 09.2748 ex03029100 95 Hard fish roes enclosed in the ovarian membrane, fresh, chilled or frozen, salted or in brine, for processing 5700 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 ex03039190 91 ex03052000 30 09.2750 ex03052000 35 Hard fish roes, washed, cleaned of adherent organs and simply salted or in brine, for the manufacture of caviar substitutes 1500 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 09.2754 ex03035910 10 Anchovies (Engraulis anchoita and Engraulis capensis), frozen, for processing 500 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 09.2759 ex03025110 20 Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus) and fish of the species Boreogadus saida, excluding livers and roes, fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing 95000 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 ex03025190 10 ex03025910 10 ex03036310 10 ex03036330 10 ex03036390 10 ex03036910 10 09.2760 ex03036611 10 Hake (Merluccius spp. excluding Merluccius merluccius, Urophycis spp.), and pink cusk-eel (Genypterus blacodes and Genypterus capensis), frozen, for processing 12000 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 ex03036612 10 ex03036613 10 ex03036619 11 91 ex03038970 10 ex03038990 30 09.2761 ex03047950 10 Blue grenadier (Macruronus spp.), frozen fillets and other frozen meat, for processing 17500 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 ex03047990 11 17 ex03049590 11 17 09.2765 ex03056200 20 Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus) and fish of the species Boreogadus saida, salted or in brine, but not dried or smoked, for processing 3500 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 25 29 ex03056910 10 09.2770 ex03056300 10 Anchovies (Engraulis anchoita), salted or in brine, but not dried or smoked, for processing 2500 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 09.2772 ex03049310 10 Surimi, frozen, for processing 60000 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 ex03049410 10 ex03049510 10 ex03049910 10 09.2774 ex03047415 10 North Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) and Argentine hake (Southwest Atlantic hake) (Merluccius hubbsi), frozen fillets and other meat, for processing 25000 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 ex03047419 10 ex03049550 10 20 09.2776 ex03047110 10 Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus macrocephalus), frozen fillets and frozen meat, for processing 50000 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 ex03047190 10 ex03049521 10 ex03049525 10 09.2777 ex03036700 10 Alaska pollack (Theragra chalcogramma), frozen, frozen fillets and other frozen meat, for processing 320000 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 ex03047500 10 ex03049490 10 09.2778 ex03048390 21 Flatfish, frozen fillets and other fish meat (Limanda aspera, Lepidopsetta bilineata, Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus, Limanda ferruginea, Lepidopsetta polyxystra), for processing 10000 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 ex03049999 65 09.2785 ex03074391 10 Pod of squid (Ommastrephes spp. - excluding Todarodes sagittatus (synonym Ommastrephes sagittatus) -, Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis spp.) and Illex spp., frozen, with skin and fins, for processing 28000 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 ex03074392 10 ex03074399 21 09.2786 ex03074391 20 Squid (Ommastrephes spp. - excluding Todarodes sagittatus (synonym Ommastrephes sagittatus) -, Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis spp.) and Illex spp., frozen, whole or tentacles and fins, for processing 5000 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 ex03074392 20 ex03074399 29 09.2788 ex03024100 10 Herrings (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii), of a weight exceeding 100 g per piece or flaps of a weight exceeding 80 g per piece, excluding livers and roes, for processing 8000 0 % 1.10.2019-31.12.2019 1.10.2020-31.12.2020 ex03035100 10 ex03045950 10 ex03049923 10 09.2790 ex16041426 10 Fillets known as loins of tunas and skipjack, for processing 30000 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 ex16041436 10 ex16041446 11 21 92 94 09.2794 ex16052190 45 Shrimps and prawns of the species Pandalus borealis, and Pandalus montagui, cooked and peeled, for processing 7000 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 62 50 ex16052900 55 09.2798 ex03061699 20 Shrimps and prawns of the species Pandalus borealis and Pandalus montagui, in shells, fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing 4000 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 30 ex03063590 12 14 92 93 09.2800 ex16052190 55 Shrimps and prawns of the species Pandalus jordani, cooked and peeled, for processing 3000 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 ex16052900 60 09.2802 ex03061792 20 Shrimps and prawns of the species Penaeus vannamei and Penaeus monodon, whether in shell or not, fresh, chilled or frozen, not cooked, for processing 40000 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 ex03063690 30 09.2824 ex03025200 10 Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) fresh, chilled or frozen with heads off, gilled and gutted, for processing 3500 2,6 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 ex03036400 10 09.2826 ex03061799 10 Shrimps and prawns of the species Pleoticus muelleri, whether in shell or not, fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing 4000 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 ex03063690 20 09.2804 ex16054000 40 Crayfish tails of the species Procambarus clarkii, cooked, for processing 4000 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 09.2762 ex03061110 10 Rock lobster and other sea crawfish (Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp., Jasus spp.), live, chilled, frozen, for processing 200 6 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 ex03061190 20 ex03063100 10 09.2784 ex16051000 21 Crabs of the species King (Paralithodes Camchaticus), Hansaki (Paralithodes brevipes), Kegani (Erimacrus isenbecki), Queen and Snow (Chionoecetes spp.), Red (Geryon quinquedens), Rough stone (Neolithodes asperrimus), Lithodes santolla, Mud (Scylla serrata), Blue (Portunus spp.), simply boiled in water and shelled, whether or not frozen, in immediate packings of a net content of 2 kg or more, for processing 500 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 95 09.2822 ex03031100 20 Pacific Salmon, headed and gutted, frozen, of the species Oncorhynchus nerka (sockeye salmon (red salmon)) and Oncorhynchus kisutch, for processing 10000 0 % 1.1.2019-31.12.2020 ex03031200 20

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