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Official Journal of the European Union
4.4.2011
REGULATION (EU) No 306/2011 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 9 March 2011
repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1964/2005 on the tariff rates for bananas
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
applied retroactively from 15 December 2009, the date
EUROPEAN UNION,
of initialling of the Agreement, reduced the tariff to EUR
148/metric tonne. The subsequent cuts are to apply in
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
seven annual instalments with a possible delay of a
Union, and in particular Article 207(2) thereof,
maximum of two years if agreement on agriculture
modalities in the Doha Round of the World Trade
Organisation (WTO) is delayed. The final tariff of EUR
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
114/metric tonne is to be reached on 1 January 2019 at
the latest. The tariff reductions will be bound in the
After transmission of the draft legislative act to the national
WTO at the moment of the certification of the EU
parliaments,
banana schedule.
Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure ( 1 ),
(4) After
having
been
applied
provisionally
since
its
date
of
signature, the Agreement was approved by Council
Whereas:
Decision 2011/194/EU ( 4 ).
(1) Council
Regulation
(EC)
No
1964/2005
( 2 ) provides that,
(5) In
light
of
the
new
banana
tariffs
to
be
applied
pursuant
from 1 January 2006, the tariff rate for bananas of CN
to the Agreement, it is appropriate to repeal Regulation
code 0803 00 19 is to be EUR 176/metric tonne.
(EC) No 1964/2005,
(2) On
31
May
2010,
the
Geneva
Agreement
on
Trade
in
Bananas (
HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

3 ) between the European Union and Brazil,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras,
Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela (‘the
Article 1
Agreement’) regarding the structure and operation of
the Union’s trading regime for bananas of CN code
Regulation (EC) No 1964/2005 is repealed.
0803 00 19 was signed.
Article 2
(3) In accordance with the Agreement, the Union will
gradually reduce its banana tariff from EUR 176/metric
This Regulation shall enter into force on the date of entry into
tonne to EUR 114/metric tonne. A first cut, which was
force of the Agreement.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Strasbourg, 9 March 2011.
For the European Parliament
For the Council
The President
The President
J. BUZEK
GYRI E.
( 1 ) Position of the European Parliament of 3 February 2011 (not yet
published in the Official Journal) and decision of the Council of
7 March 2011.
( 2 ) OJ L 316, 2.12.2005, p. 1.
( 3 ) OJ L 141, 9.6.2010, p. 3.
( 4 ) See page 66 of this Official Journal.

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