# COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 996/2006

of 29 June 2006

amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

## Preamble

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff [^1] , and in particular Article 9(1)(a) thereof,

Whereas:

**(1)** In order to stabilise the markets and to ensure a fair standard of living for the agricultural community within the sugar sector, a fundamental review of the common organisation of the market in the sugar sector took place.

**(2)** In the light of these developments Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 [^2] on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector, was repealed and replaced by Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 [^3] .

**(3)** Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 makes it necessary to revise additional note 2 to Chapter 17 of the Combined Nomenclature set out in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87.

**(4)** Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 should be amended accordingly.

**(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 I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 shall be amended as set out in the Annex.

## **Article 2**

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 2006.

## Final provisions

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 29 June 2006. *For the Commission* László KOVÁCS *Member of the Commission*

[^1] [OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1](http://publications.europa.eu/resource/oj/JOL_1987_256_R_TOC) . Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 838/2006 ( [OJ L 154, 8.6.2006, p. 1](http://publications.europa.eu/resource/oj/JOL_2006_154_R_TOC) ).

[^2] [OJ L 178, 30.6.2004, p. 1](http://publications.europa.eu/resource/oj/JOL_2004_178_R_TOC) .

[^3] [OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1](http://publications.europa.eu/resource/oj/JOL_2006_058_R_TOC) .

In Chapter 17 of Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, Additional Note 2 is amended as follows:

‘2. The duty applicable to raw sugar of subheadings 1701 11 10 and 1701 12 10 whose yield established according to Annex I, point III, of Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 differs from 92 % is fixed in the following manner: the relevant rate is multiplied by a correcting coefficient obtained by dividing the percentage yield established according to the above provisions by 92.’

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