Commission Regulation (EC) No 816/2007

of 12 July 2007

opening annual tariff quotas for the importation from Turkey of certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of 6 December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products [1], and in particular, Article 7(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Decision No 1/95 of the EC Turkey Association Council [2] implements the final phase of the Customs Union. Its Section V establishes the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products.

(2) Decision No 1/97 of the EC Turkey Association Council [3] establishes arrangements applicable to certain processed agricultural products.

(3) Decision No 1/2007 of the EC Turkey Association Council [4] establishes new trade improvements applicable to certain processed agricultural products which aim to deepen and widen the Customs Union and to improve economic convergence as a result of the enlargement of the Community on 1 May 2004. These improvements lay down concessions in the form of duty free tariff quotas. For imports outside of the quotas the current trade provisions continue to apply.

(4) 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 [5], lays down rules for the management of tariff quotas. It is appropriate to provide that the tariff quotas opened by this Regulation are to be managed in accordance with those rules.

(5) Commission Regulation (EC) No 2026/2005 of 13 December 2005 opening tariff quotas for 2006 and the following years for the importation into the European Community of certain goods from Turkey resulting from the processing of agricultural products covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 [6] should be repealed. Quantities imported under this Regulation between 1 January 2007 and the date of repealing should be deducted from the quantity of the corresponding new quota.

(6) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee on horizontal questions concerning trade in processed agricultural products not listed in Annex I,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Community tariff quotas for the importation from Turkey of the goods set out in the Annex are opened for the period from 1 January to 31 December of each year from 2007 under the conditions set out in that Annex.

Admission to the benefit of those tariff quotas shall be subject to the presentation of an A.TR. movement certificate in accordance with Decision No 1/2006 of the EC-Turkey Customs Cooperation Committee.

Article 2

The Community 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.

Article 3

Regulation (EC) No 2026/2005 shall be repealed on the date of entering into force of this Regulation. The quantity of tariff quota with order number 09.0232 shall be reduced by the quantities of pasta imported under Regulation (EC) No 2026/2005 (order number 09.0205) between 1 of January 2007 and the date of entering into force of this Regulation.

Article 4

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

It shall be applicable from 1 January 2007.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 12 July 2007.

For the Commission

G眉nter Verheugen

Vice-President

[1] OJ L 318, 20.12.1993, p. 18. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2580/2000 (OJ L 298, 25.11.2000, p. 5).

[2] OJ L 35, 13.2.1996, p. 1.

[3] OJ L 126, 17.5.1997, p. 26.

[4] Not yet published in the Official Journal.

[5] OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 214/2007 (OJ L 62, 1.3.2007, p. 6).

[6] OJ L 327, 14.12.2005, p. 3.

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ANNEX

Duty free tariff quotas applicable upon imports into the EU of processed agricultural products from Turkey

Order number | CN code | Product description | Annual duty free tariff quota (in tonnes net weight) |

| (1) | (2) | (3) |

09.0228 | 1704 | Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa: | 5000 |

170410 | ‘�Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated: |

| ‘�‘�Containing less than 60 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose): |

17041011 | ‘�‘�‘�Gum in strips |

17041019 | ‘�‘�‘�Other |

| ‘�‘�Containing 60 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose): |

17041091 | ‘�‘�‘�Gum in strips |

17041099 | ‘�‘�‘�Other |

09.0229 | 170490 | ‘�Other: | 10000 |

17049030 | ‘�‘�White chocolate |

| ‘�‘�Other: |

17049051 | ‘�‘�‘�Pastes, including marzipan, in immediate packings of a net content of 1 kg or more |

17049055 | ‘�‘�‘�Throat pastilles and cough drops |

17049061 | ‘�‘�‘�Sugar-coated (panned) goods |

| ‘�‘�‘�Other: |

17049065 | ‘�‘�‘�‘�Gum confectionery and jelly confectionery including fruit pastes in the form of sugar confectionery |

17049071 | ‘�‘�‘�‘�Boiled sweets whether or not filled |

17049075 | ‘�‘�‘�‘�Toffees, caramels and similar sweets |

| ‘�‘�‘�‘�Other: |

17049081 | ‘�‘�‘�‘�‘�Compressed tablets |

ex17049099 | ‘�‘�‘�‘�‘�Other: |

| ‘�‘�‘�‘�‘�‘�Containing less than 70 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) |

| ‘�‘�‘�‘�‘�‘�Containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose): |

| ‘�‘�‘�‘�‘�‘�‘�Halva and Loukhum |

09.0230 | 1806 | Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa: | 5000 |

180610 | ‘�Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter: |

18061020 | ‘�‘�Containing 5 % or more but less than 65 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose |

180620 | ‘�Other preparations in block, 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: |

18062010 | ‘�‘�Containing 31 % or more by weight of cocoa butter or containing a combined weight of 31 % or more of cocoa butter and milk fat |

18062030 | ‘�‘�Containing a combined weight of 25 % or more, but less than 31 % of cocoa butter and milk fat |

| ‘�‘�Other: |

18062050 | ‘�‘�‘�Containing 18 % or more by weight of cocoa butter |

18062070 | ‘�‘�‘�Chocolate milk crumb |

ex18062080 | ‘�‘�‘�Chocolate flavour coating: |

| ‘�‘�‘�‘�Containing less than 70 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) |

ex18062095 | ‘�‘�‘�Other: |

| ‘�‘�‘�‘�Containing less than 70 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) |

| ‘�Other, in blocks, slabs or bars: |

18063100 | ‘�‘�Filled |

180632 | ‘�‘�Not filled: |

18063210 | ‘�‘�‘�With added cereal, fruit or nuts |

18063290 | ‘�‘�‘�Other |

180690 | ‘�Other: |

| ‘�‘�Chocolate and chocolate products: |

| ‘�‘�‘�Chocolates (including pralines), whether or not filled: |

18069011 | ‘�‘�‘�‘�Containing alcohol |

18069019 | ‘�‘�‘�‘�Other |

| ‘�‘�‘�Other: |

18069031 | ‘�‘�‘�‘�Filled |

18069039 | ‘�‘�‘�‘�Not filled |

18069050 | ‘�‘�Sugar confectionery and substitutes therefor made from sugar substitution products, containing cocoa |

18069060 | ‘�‘�Spreads containing cocoa |

18069070 | ‘�‘�Preparations containing cocoa for making beverages |

ex18069090 | ‘�‘�Other: |

| ‘�‘�‘�Containing less than 70 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) |

09.0231 | 1901 | Malt extract; 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: | 900 |

19012000 | ‘�Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading 1905 |

09.0232 | 1902 | Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared: | 20000 |

| ‘�Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared: |

19021100 | ‘�‘�Containing eggs |

190219 | ‘�‘�Other: |

19021910 | ‘�‘�‘�Containing no common wheat flour or meal |

19021990 | ‘�‘�‘�Other |

190220 | ‘�Stuffed pasta whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared: |

| ‘�‘�Other: |

19022091 | ‘�‘�‘�Cooked |

19022099 | ‘�‘�‘�Other |

190230 | ‘�Other pasta: |

19023010 | ‘�‘�Dried |

19023090 | ‘�‘�Other |

190240 | ‘�Couscous: |

19024010 | ‘�‘�Unprepared |

19024090 | ‘�‘�Other |

09.0233 | 1904 | Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, cornflakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)), in grain form, or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour, groats and meal), pre-cooked, or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included: | 500 |

190410 | ‘�Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products: |

19041010 | ‘�‘�Obtained from maize |

19041030 | ‘�‘�Obtained from rice |

19041090 | ‘�‘�Other |

09.0234 | 190420 | ‘�Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals: | 100 |

19042010 | ‘�‘�Preparation of the M眉sli type based on unroasted cereal flakes |

| ‘�‘�Other: |

19042091 | ‘�‘�‘�Obtained from maize |

19042095 | ‘�‘�‘�Obtained from rice |

19042099 | ‘�‘�‘�Other |

09.0235 | 19043000 | Bulgur wheat | 10000 |

09.0236 | 190490 | ‘�Other: | 2500 |

19049010 | ‘�‘�Rice |

19049080 | ‘�‘�Other |

09.0237 | 1905 | Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products: | 10000 |

| ‘�Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers: |

190531 | ‘�‘�Sweet biscuits: |

| ‘�‘�‘�Completely or partially coated or covered with chocolate or other preparations containing cocoa: |

19053111 | ‘�‘�‘�‘�In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 85 g |

19053119 | ‘�‘�‘�‘�Other |

| ‘�‘�‘�Other: |

19053130 | ‘�‘�‘�‘�Containing 8 % or more by weight of milk fats |

| ‘�‘�‘�‘�Other: |

19053191 | ‘�‘�‘�‘�‘�Sandwich biscuits |

19053199 | ‘�‘�‘�‘�‘�Other |

09.0238 | 190532 | ‘�‘�Waffles and wafers: | 3000 |

19053205 | ‘�‘�‘�With a water content exceeding 10 % by weight |

| ‘�‘�‘�Other: |

| ‘�‘�‘�‘�Completely or partially coated or covered with chocolate or other preparations containing cocoa: |

19053211 | ‘�‘�‘�‘�‘�In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 85 g |

19053219 | ‘�‘�‘�‘�‘�Other |

| ‘�‘�‘�‘�Other: |

19053291 | ‘�‘�‘�‘�‘�Salted, whether or not filled |

19053299 | ‘�‘�‘�‘�‘�Other |

09.0239 | 190540 | ‘�Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products: | 120 |

19054010 | ‘�‘�Rusks |

19054090 | ‘�‘�Other |

09.0240 | 190590 | ‘�Other: | 10000 |

19059010 | ‘�‘�Matzos |

19059020 | ‘�‘�Communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products |

| ‘�‘�Other: |

19059030 | ‘�‘�‘�Bread, not containing added honey, eggs, cheese or fruit, and containing by weight in the dry matter state not more than 5 % of sugars and not more than 5 % of fat |

19059045 | ‘�‘�‘�Biscuits |

19059055 | ‘�‘�‘�Extruded or expanded products, savoury or salted |

| ‘�‘�‘�Other: |

19059060 | ‘�‘�‘�‘�With added sweetening matter |

09.0242 | 2106 | Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included: | 4000 |

210610 | ‘�Protein concentrates and textured protein substances: |

21061080 | ‘�‘�Other |

210690 | ‘�Other: |

21069098 | ‘�‘�‘�Other |

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