Commission Regulation (EC) No 497/2008

law://eu/reg/2008/497@2026-11-13

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THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 140/2008 of 19 November 2007 on certain procedures for applying the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Montenegro, of the other part, and for applying the Interim Agreement between the European Community, of the one part, and the Republic of Montenegro, of the other part^note, and in particular Article 2 thereof,Whereas:

(1)A Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Montenegro, of the other part (the Stabilisation and Association Agreement), was signed in Luxembourg on 15 October 2007. The Stabilisation and Association Agreement is in the process of ratification.

(2)On 15 October 2007 an Interim Agreement was concluded on trade and trade-related matters between the European Community, of the one part, and the Republic of Montenegro, of the other part^note (Interim Agreement), which was approved by Council Decision 2007/855/EC of 15 October 2007^note. The Interim Agreement provides for the early entry into force of the trade and trade-related provisions of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement. It enters into force on 1 January 2008.

(3)The Interim Agreement and the Stabilisation and Association Agreement provide that certain fish and fishery products originating in Montenegro may be imported into the Community, within the limits of Community tariff quotas, at a reduced or a zero-rate customs duty.

(4)The tariff quotas provided for in the Interim Agreement and in the Stabilisation and Association Agreement are annual and have been provided for an indeterminate period. It is necessary to open the Community tariff quotas for 2008 and following years and to provide for a common system for their management.

(5)This common management should ensure that all Community importers have equal and continuous access to the tariff quotas and that the rates laid down for the quotas are applied uninterruptedly to all imports of the products in question into all Member States until the quotas will be exhausted. In order to ensure the efficiency of the system, Member States should be authorised to draw from the quota volumes the necessary quantities corresponding to actual imports. Close cooperation between the Member States and the Commission is required and the latter must in particular be able to monitor the rate at which the quotas are used up and inform the Member States accordingly. For reasons of speed and efficiency, communication between the Member States and the Commission should, as far as possible, take place by electronic transmission.

(6)The quotas opened by this Regulation should therefore be managed in accordance with the system for management of tariff preferences within tariff quotas designed to be used following the chronological order of dates of acceptance of customs declarations which is laid down in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code^note.

(7)In accordance with the Stabilisation and Association Agreement and the Interim Agreement, the tariff quotas volumes for prepared or preserved sardines and for prepared or preserved anchovies should from 1 January of the fourth year following the entry into force of the Interim Agreement, be increased to 250 tonnes provided that at least 80 % of the total amount of the previous tariff quota has been used by 31 December of that year. The increased quotas volumes, if implemented, should continue to apply until the parties to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement and the Interim Agreement agree other arrangements.

(8)As the Interim Agreement enters into force on 1 January 2008, this Regulation should apply from the same date and should remain in application after the entry into force of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement.

(9)The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1 #

Fish and fishery products originating in Montenegro and listed in the Annex which are put into free circulation in the Community shall benefit from a reduced or a zero-rate of customs duty, at the levels and within the limits of the annual Community tariff quotas set out in the Annex.In order to benefit from these preferential rates, those products shall be accompanied by a proof of origin as provided for in Protocol 3 to the Interim Agreement with Montenegro or in Protocol 3 to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Montenegro.

Article 2 #

1.The tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 shall be managed by the Commission in accordance with Articles 308a, 308b and 308c of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93.

2.Communications referring to the management of tariff quotas between the Member States and the Commission shall be effected, as far as possible, by electronic transmission.

Article 3 #

1.The tariff quotas for prepared or preserved sardines and for prepared or preserved anchovies referred to in the Annex under order numbers 09.1524 and 09.1525 shall be increased to 250 tonnes from 1 January 2012 for 2012 and the following years.

2.The increase referred to in paragraph 1 may be applied only if at least 80 % of the tariff quotas volumes opened within the previous year have been used in the fourth year following the entry into force of the Interim Agreement.

Article 4 #

The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate closely to ensure compliance with this Regulation.

Article 5 #

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.It shall apply from 1 January 2008.

Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording for the description of the products is to 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 is to be determined by application of the CN code and corresponding description taken together.

FISH AND FISHERY PRODUCTS
Order No	CN code	TARIC subdivision	Description	Annual tariff quota volume(in tonnes net weight)	Rate of quota duty
09.1516	03019110		Trout (Salmo trutta, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus clarki, Oncorhynchus aguabonita, Oncorhynchus gilae, Oncorhynchus apache and Onchorhynchus 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	20 tonnes	Free
03019190
03021110
03021120
03021180
03032110
03032120
03032180
03041915
03041917
ex03041919	30
ex03041991	10
03042915
03042917
ex03042919	30
ex03049921	11, 12, 20
ex03051000	10
ex03053090	50
03054945
ex03055980	61
ex03056980	61
09.1518	03019300		Carp: live; fresh or chilled; frozen; dried, salted or in brine, smoked; fillets and other fish meat; flours, meals and pellets, fit for human consumption	10 tonnes	Free
03026911
03037911
ex03041919	20
ex03041991	20
ex03042919	20
ex03049921	16
ex03051000	20
ex03053090	60
ex03054980	30
ex03055980	63
ex03056980	63
09.1520	ex03019980	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	20 tonnes	Free
03026961
03037971
ex03041939	80
ex03041999	77
ex03042999	50
ex03049999	20
ex03051000	30
ex03053090	70
ex03054980	40
ex03055980	65
ex03056980	65
09.1522	ex03019980	22	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	20 tonnes	Free
03026994
ex03037700	10
ex03041939	85
ex03041999	79
ex03042999	60
ex03049999	70
ex03051000	40
ex03053090	80
ex03054980	50
ex03055980	67
ex03056980	67
09.1524	16041311		Prepared or preserved sardines	200 tonnes^note	6 %
16041319
ex16042050	10, 19
09.1525	16041600		Prepared or preserved anchovies	200 tonnes^note	12,5 %
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