Commission Regulation (EU) No 449/2010

law://eu/reg/2010/449@2026-11-14

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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 of 9 April 2001 providing for the management of Community tariff quotas and of reference quantities for products eligible for preferences by virtue of agreements with certain Mediterranean countries and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1981/94 and (EC) No 934/95^note and in particular Article 5(1)(b) thereof,Whereas:

(1)In 2008 an Agreement has been concluded in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the Arab Republic of Egypt concerning reciprocal liberalisation measures on agricultural products, processed agricultural products and fish and fishery products, the replacement of Protocols 1 and 2 and their annexes and amendments to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Arab Republic of Egypt, of the other part, hereinafter ‘the Agreement’, which has been approved by Council Decision 2010/240/EC^note.

(2)The Agreement provides for new tariff quotas for agricultural and processed agricultural products originating in Egypt. It provides also for changes to existing tariff quotas for those products which are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 747/2001, Commission Regulation (EC) No 2276/2003 of 22 December 2003 opening tariff quotas and laying down the duties applicable within these tariff quotas for imports into the European Community of certain processed agricultural products originating in Egypt^note, Commission Regulation (EC) No 955/2005 of 23 June 2005 opening a Community import quota for rice originating in Egypt^note, Commission Regulation (EC) No 1002/2007 of 29 August 2007 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2184/96 concerning imports into the Community of rice originating in and coming from Egypt^note and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1455/2007 of 10 December 2007 opening certain Community import quotas for rice originating in Egypt^note.

(3)It is necessary to implement the new tariff quotas and the changes to the existing tariff quotas provided for in the Agreement. For reasons of clarity, it is appropriate to bring together all tariff quotas for agricultural and processed agricultural products originating in Egypt in one single legislative act.

(4)Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 should therefore be amended accordingly and Regulations (EC) No 2276/2003, (EC) No 955/2005, (EC) No 1002/2007 and (EC) No 1455/2007 should therefore be repealed.

(5)Import licences issued under Regulation (EC) No 955/2005 and Regulation (EC) No 1002/2007 are valid from their date of issue until the end of the following month. Where the validity period of import licences issued under those Regulations before the entry into force of this Regulation expires after the date of repeal of those Regulations, importers could not comply with their obligations related to import licences. Member States should therefore be permitted in such cases to derogate from Commission Regulation (EC) No 376/2008 of 23 April 2008 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of import and export licences and advance fixing certificates for agricultural products^note, and to release the security lodged by importers. In the interest of clarity it should also be provided that import licences issued after the entry into force of this Regulation under Regulation (EC) No 955/2005 and Regulation (EC) No 1002/2007 are to be valid only until the date of repeal of those Regulations.

(6)For the purpose of calculating the tariff quotas for the first year of application, it should be provided, in accordance with the Agreement, that the volumes of the tariff quotas for which the quota period starts before the date of entry into force of the Agreement, should be reduced by a proportion relating to that part of the period which has elapsed before that date.

(7)Since the Agreement enters into force on 1 June 2010, this Regulation should apply from that date. However, in the interest of legal certainty, provisions concerning the validity of licences issued before that date should apply immediately.

(8)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 IV to Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2 #

Regulations (EC) No 2276/2003, (EC) No 955/2005, (EC) No 1002/2007 and (EC) No 1455/2007 are repealed.

Article 3 #

1.The validity of import licences issued with an expiry date after 31 May 2010 under Regulation (EC) No 955/2005 and Regulation (EC) No 1002/2007 before the entry into force of this Regulation shall expire on 31 May 2010.By derogation from Article 7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 376/2008, until 30 June 2010 the titular holder of the import licences referred to in the first subparagraph may return the unused import licences to the competent authorities of the Member States concerned which shall release the security for the quantities not used.

2.By derogation from Article 4(3) of Regulation (EC) No 955/2005 and Article 3(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1002/2007, the validity period of import licences issued under those Regulations after the entry into force of this Regulation shall not extend after 31 May 2010.

Article 4 #

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 June 2010 with the exception of Article 3 which shall apply from the date of the entry into force of this Regulation.

Annex IV

Egypt

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 the CN codes as they exist at the time of adoption of this Regulation. Where ex CN codes are indicated, the preferential scheme is to be determined by application of the CN code and corresponding description taken together.

Tariff quotas
Order No	CN code	TARIC sub-division	Description of goods	Quota period	Quota volume(in tonnes net weight)	Quota duty
09.1712	07032000		Garlic, fresh or chilled	From 1.6 to 30.6.2010	727	Exemption
From 15.1.2011 to 30.6.2011 and for each period thereafter from 15.1 to 30.6	4000^note
09.1783	07070005		Cucumbers, fresh or chilled	From 15.11.2010 to 15.5.2011 and for each period thereafter from 15.11 to 15.5	3000^note	Exemption^note
09.1784	08051020		Sweet oranges, fresh	From 1.12 to 31.5	36300^note	Exemption^note
09.1799	08101000		Strawberries, fresh	From 1.10.2010 to 30.4.2011	10000	Exemption
From 1.10.2011 to 30.4.2012	10300
From 1.10.2012 to 30.4.2013	10609
From 1.10.2013 to 30.4.2014	10927
From 1.10.2014 to 30.4.2015	11255
From 1.10.2015 to 30.4.2016 and for each period thereafter from 1.10 to 30.4	11593
09.1796	100620		Husked (brown) rice	From 1.6 to 31.12.2010	11667	Exemption
From 1.1 to 31.12.2011	20600
From 1.1 to 31.12.2012	21218
From 1.1 to 31.12.2013	21855
From 1.1 to 31.12.2014	22510
From 1.1 to 31.12.2015 and for each period thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12	23185
09.1797	100630		Semi-milled or wholly milled rice, whether or not polished or glazed	From 1.6 to 31.12.2010	40833	Exemption
From 1.1 to 31.12.2011	72100
From 1.1 to 31.12.2012	74263
From 1.1 to 31.12.2013	76491
From 1.1 to 31.12.2014	78786
From 1.1 to 31.12.2015 and for each period thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12	81149
09.1798	10064000		Broken rice	From 1.6 to 31.12.2010	46667	Exemption
From 1.1 to 31.12.2011	82400
From 1.1 to 31.12.2012	84872
From 1.1 to 31.12.2013	87418
From 1.1 to 31.12.2014	90041
From 1.1 to 31.12.2015 and for each period thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12	92742
09.1785	17025000		Chemically pure fructose in solid form	From 1.6 to 31.12.2010	583	Exemption
For each period thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12	1000
09.1786	ex17049099	9199	Other sugar confectionery, not containing cocoa, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)	From 1.6 to 31.12.2010	583	Exemption
From 1.1 to 31.12.2011	1100
From 1.1 to 31.12.2012	1210
From 1.1 to 31.12.2013	1331
From 1.1 to 31.12.2014	1464
From 1.1 to 31.12.2015 and for each period thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12	1611
09.1787	ex18061030	10	Sweetened cacao powder, containing 70 % or more but less than 80 % of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose	From 1.6 to 31.12.2010	292	Exemption
From 1.1 to 31.12.2011	525
From 1.1 to 31.12.2012	551
From 1.1 to 31.12.2013	579
From 1.1 to 31.12.2014	608
From 1.1 to 31.12.2015 and for each period thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12	638
09.1788	18061090		Sweetened cacao powder, containing 80 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose	From 1.6 to 31.12.2010	292	Exemption
From 1.1 to 31.12.2011	525
From 1.1 to 31.12.2012	551
From 1.1 to 31.12.2013	579
From 1.1 to 31.12.2014	608
From 1.1 to 31.12.2015 and for each period thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12	638
09.1789	ex18062095	90	Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa, in blocks, slabs or bars weighing more than 2 kg or in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form, in containers or immediate packings of a content exceeding 2 kg, containing less than 18 % by weight of cocoa butter, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)	From 1.6 to 31.12.2010	292	Exemption
From 1.1 to 31.12.2011	525
From 1.1 to 31.12.2012	551
From 1.1 to 31.12.2013	579
From 1.1 to 31.12.2014	608
From 1.1 to 31.12.2015 and for each period thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12	638
09.1790	ex19019099	3695	Other food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included, food preparations of goods of headings 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose/isoglucose	From 1.6 to 31.12.2010	583	Exemption
From 1.1 to 31.12.2011	1100
From 1.1 to 31.12.2012	1210
From 1.1 to 31.12.2013	1331
From 1.1 to 31.12.2014	1464
From 1.1 to 31.12.2015 and for each period thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12	1611
09.1791	ex21011298	9297	Preparations with a basis of coffee, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose/isoglucose	From 1.6 to 31.12.2010	583	Exemption
From 1.1 to 31.12.2011	1100
From 1.1 to 31.12.2012	1210
From 1.1 to 31.12.2013	1331
From 1.1 to 31.12.2014	1464
From 1.1 to 31.12.2015 and for each period thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12	1611
09.1792	ex21012098	85	Preparations with a basis of tea or mate, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose/isoglucose	From 1.6 to 31.12.2010	292	Exemption
From 1.1 to 31.12.2011	525
From 1.1 to 31.12.2012	551
From 1.1 to 31.12.2013	579
From 1.1 to 31.12.2014	608
From 1.1 to 31.12.2015 and for each period thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12	638
09.1793	ex21069059	10	Other flavoured or coloured sugar syrups (excluded isoglucose, lactose, glucose and maltodextrine syrups), containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose/isoglucose	From 1.6 to 31.12.2010	292	Exemption
From 1.1 to 31.12.2011	525
From 1.1 to 31.12.2012	551
From 1.1 to 31.12.2013	579
From 1.1 to 31.12.2014	608
From 1.1 to 31.12.2015 and for each period thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12	638
09.1794	ex21069098	263453	Other food preparations not elsewhere specified or included, of a kind used in drink industries, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose/isoglucose	From 1.6 to 31.12.2010	583	Exemption
From 1.1 to 31.12.2011	1100
From 1.1 to 31.12.2012	1210
From 1.1 to 31.12.2013	1331
From 1.1 to 31.12.2014	1464
From 1.1 to 31.12.2015 and for each period thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12	1611
09.1795	ex33021029	10	Other preparations of a kind used in drink industries, containing all flavouring agents characterising a beverage, of an actual alcoholic strength by volume not exceeding 0,5 %, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose/isoglucose	From 1.6 to 31.12.2010	583	Exemption
From 1.1 to 31.12.2011	1100
From 1.1 to 31.12.2012	1210
From 1.1 to 31.12.2013	1331
From 1.1 to 31.12.2014	1464
From 1.1 to 31.12.2015 and for each period thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12	1611

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