Commission Regulation (EC) No 928/2006 of 22 June 2006 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards certain new Community tariff quotas bound in GATT

of 22 June 2006

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards certain new Community tariff quotas bound in GATT

Preamble

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 of 17 December 1999 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT and certain other Community tariff quotas and establishing detailed rules for adjusting the quotas, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1808/95 ¹ , and in particular Article 9(1)(b) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) By Decision 2006/333/EC ² , the Council has approved 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.

(2) The Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the United States of America provides for new annual tariff quotas for certain goods.

(3) Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 opened and provided for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT designed to be used following the chronological order of dates of acceptance of customs declarations.

(4) To implement certain new annual tariff quotas for which provision is made in the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters, it is necessary to amend Regulation (EC) No 32/2000.

(5)

(6) 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 (EC) No 32/2000 is amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

It shall apply with effect from 22 June 2006.

Final provisions

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 22 June 2006. For the Commission László KOVÁCS Member of the Commission

¹ OJ L 5, 8.1.2000, p. 1 . Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2158/2005 ( OJ L 342, 24.12.2005, p. 61 ).

² OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 13 .

³ OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 1 .

The following rows are inserted in the table in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 32/2000:

‘09.0084 1702 50 00 Chemically pure fructose From 1 January to 31 December 1 253 tonnes 20 09.0085 1806 Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa From 1 January to 31 December 107 tonnes 43 09.0086 1902 11 00 1902 19 1902 20 91 1902 20 99 1902 30 1902 40 Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed or otherwise prepared, except stuffed pasta of CN subheadings 1902 20 10 and 1902 20 30 ; couscous, whether or not prepared From 1 January to 31 December 532 tonnes 11 09.0087 1901 90 99 1904 30 00 1904 90 80 1905 90 20 Food preparations of cereals From 1 January to 31 December 191 tonnes 33 09.0088 2106 90 98 Other food preparations not elsewhere specified or included From 1 January to 31 December 921 tonnes 18 ’

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