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12.1.2012 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union
L
8/31
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 17/2012
of 11 January 2012
amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards the extension of the tariff quotas of the
Union for jute and coconut-fibre products
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
(3) As
the
GSP
scheme
has
been
extended
until
31 December 2013 by Regulation (EU) No 512/2011
of the European Parliament and of the Council of
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
11 May 2011 amending Council Regulation (EC)
Union,
No 732/2008 applying a scheme of generalised tariff
preferences for the period from 1 January 2009 to
31 December 2011 ( 3 ), the tariff quota arrangement for
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 of
jute and coconut-fibre products should also be extended
17 December 1999 opening and providing for the adminis
until 31 December 2013.
tration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT and
certain other Community tariff quotas and establishing
detailed rules for adjusting the quotas, and repealing Regulation
(4) Regulation
(EC)
No
32/2000
should
therefore
be
(EC) No 1808/95 ( 1 ), and in particular the second indent of
amended accordingly.
Article 9(1)(b) thereof,
(5) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
in
Whereas:
accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code
Committee,
(1) In
accordance
with
the
offer
it
made
within
the
United HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad)
and alongside its scheme of generalised preferences
(GSP), the Community introduced tariff preferences in
Article 1
1971 for jute and coconut-fibre products originating in
certain developing countries. Those preferences took the
For order numbers 09.0107, 09.0109 and 09.0111, in the fifth
form of a gradual reduction of Common Customs Tariff
column (‘Quota period’) of Annex III to Regulation (EC)
duties and, from 1978 to 31 December 1994, the
No 32/2000, the words ‘from 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009’, ‘from
complete suspension of these duties.
1.1.2010 to 31.12.2010’ and ‘from 1.1.2011 to 31.12.2011’
are replaced by ‘from 1.1.2012 to 31.12.2012’ and ‘from
1.1.2013 to 31.12.2013’.
(2) Since
the
entry
into
force
of
the
GSP
scheme
in
1995,
the Community has, alongside the GATT, opened
autonomous zero-duty Community tariff quotas for
Article 2
specific quantities of jute and coconut-fibre products.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
The tariff quotas opened for those products under Regu
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
lation (EC) No
32/2000 were extended until
31 December 2011 by Commission Regulation (EC)
No 204/2009 ( 2 ).
It shall apply from 1 January 2012.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 11 January 2012.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
( 1 ) OJ L 5, 8.1.2000, p. 1.
( 2 ) OJ L 71, 17.3.2009, p. 13.
( 3 ) OJ L 145, 31.5.2011, p. 28.

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