Regulation 2006/1894 - Implementation of the Agreement with Brazil relating to the modification of concessions in the schedules of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia in the course of accession to the EC, amending and supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

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  1. Current status
  2. Key information
  3. Key dates
  4. Legislative text
  5. Original proposal
  6. Sources and disclaimer
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1.

Current status

This regulation has been published on December 30, 2006 and entered into force on December 31, 2006.

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Key information

official title

Council Regulation (EC) No 1894/2006 of 18 December 2006 concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and Brazil 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 accession to the European Community, amending and supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
 
Legal instrument Regulation
Number legal act Regulation 2006/1894
Original proposal COM(2006)668 EN
CELEX number i 32006R1894

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Key dates

Document 18-12-2006
Publication in Official Journal 30-12-2006; Special edition in Bulgarian: Chapter 11 Volume 052,Special edition in Romanian: Chapter 11 Volume 052,Special edition in Croatian: Chapter 11 Volume 111,OJ L 397, 30.12.2006
Effect 31-12-2006; Entry into force Date pub. + 1 See Art 2
End of validity 31-12-9999

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Legislative text

30.12.2006   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 397/1
 

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1894/2006

of 18 December 2006

concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and Brazil 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 accession to the European Community, amending and supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 133 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

 

(1)

Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (1) established a goods nomenclature, hereinafter referred to as the ‘Combined Nomenclature’ or ‘CN’, and set out the conventional duty rates of the Common Customs Tariff.
 

(2)

By Decision 2006/1894/EC (2), the Council approved, on behalf of the Community, the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and Brazil 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 accession to the European Community with a view to closing negotiations initiated pursuant to Article XXIV:6 of GATT 1994.
 

(3)

Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 should therefore be amended and supplemented accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex I (Combined Nomenclature) of Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 shall be amended as follows:

 

(a)

Parts Two (schedule of customs duties) and Three (tariff annexes) shall be amended with the duties and supplemented with the volumes shown in the Annex to this Regulation;
 

(b)

CN codes 0201 30 00, 0202 30 90, 0206 10 95, 0206 29 91 in Annex 7 (WTO tariff quotas to be opened by the competent Community authorities) of Section III of Part Three shall be amended as follows:

 

(i)

the description of the EC tariff rate quota of 5 000 tonnes ‘Boneless “high quality” meat, fresh chilled or frozen, answering the following description: Beef cuts obtained from steers (novilhos) or heifers (novilhas) aged between 20 and 24 months, which have been exclusively pasture grazed, have lost their central temporary incisors but do not have more than four permanent incisor teeth, which are of a good maturity and which meet the following beef carcase classification requirements: meat from B or R class carcases with rounded to straight conformation and a fat-cover class of 2 or 3; the cuts bearing the letters “sc” (special cuts) or an “sc” (special cuts) label as a sign of their high quality will be boxed in cartons bearing the words “high quality beef”’ shall be replaced by ‘Boneless high quality meat of bovine animals fresh, chilled or frozen’;
 

(ii)

under ‘Other terms and conditions’ the text ‘Supplying country Brazil’ shall be inserted.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 18 December 2006.

For the Council

The President

J.-E.ENESTAM

 

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