Commission Regulation (EC) No 926/2006

of 22 June 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards the import arrangements for milk and milk products and opening tariff quotas

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk and milk products [1], and in particular Article 29(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Annex I.A to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 [2] sets out the tariff quotas not specified by country of origin to be imported by quota period.

(2) Council Regulation (EC) No 267/2006 of 30 January 2006 concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of letters between the European Community and Australia pursuant to Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions in the schedules of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic in the course of their accession to the European Union, supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff [3] provides for an additional allocation of butter and other fats and oils derived from milk under the annual import tariff quota.

(3) Council Regulation (EC) No 711/2006 of 20 March 2006 concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the United States of America pursuant to Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions in the schedules of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic in the course of their accession to the European Union, amending and supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff [4] provides for additional allocations to several quotas of cheeses under the annual import tariff quota.

(4) It is therefore appropriate to adjust the concerned quota quantities referred to in Annex I.A to Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001.

(5) Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(6) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Milk and Milk Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex I.A to Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 July 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 22 June 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann Fischer Boel

Member of the Commission

[1] OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1913/2005 (OJ L 307, 25.11.2005, p. 2).

[2] OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 29. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 591/2006 (OJ L 104, 13.4.2006, p. 11).

[3] OJ L 47, 17.2.2006, p. 1.

[4] OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 1.

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ANNEX

"I.A

TARIFF QUOTAS NOT SPECIFIED BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

Quota number | CN code | Description [2] | Country of origin | Annual quota | Six-monthly quota | Import duty (EUR/100 kg net weight) |

09.4590 | 04021019 | Skimmed-milk powder | All third countries | 68000 | 34000 | 47,50 |

09.4599 | 04051011 04051019 04051030 04051050 04051090 04059010 [1] 04059090 [1] | Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk | All third countries | 11360 | 5680 | 94,80 |

in butter equivalent |

09.4591 | ex04061020 ex04061080 | Pizza cheese, frozen, cut into pieces each weighing not more than 1 gram, in containers with a net content of 5 kg or more, of a water content, by weight, of 52 % or more, and a fat content by weight in the dry matter of 38 % or more | All third countries | 5360 | 2680 | 13,00 |

09.4592 | ex04063010 | Processed Emmentaler | All third countries | 18438 | 9219 | 71,90 |

04069013 | Emmentaler | 85,80 |

09.4593 | ex04063010 | Processed Gruyère | All third countries | 5413 | 2706,5 | 71,90 |

04069015 | Gruyère, Sbrinz | 85,80 |

09.4594 | 04069001 | Cheese for processing [3] | All third countries | 20007 | 10003,5 | 83,50 |

09.4595 | 04069021 | Cheddar | All third countries | 15005 | 7502,5 | 21,00 |

09.4596 | ex04061020 | Fresh (unripened or uncured) cheese, including whey cheese, and curd, other than pizza cheese of quota number 09.4591 | All third countries | 19525 | 9762,5 | 92,60 |

ex04061080 | 106,40 |

04062090 | Other grated or powdered cheese | 94,10 |

04063031 | Other processed cheese | 69,00 |

04063039 | 71,90 |

04063090 | 102,90 |

04064010 04064050 04064090 | Blue-veined cheese | 70,40 |

04069017 | Bergk盲se and Appenzell | 85,80 |

09.4596 | 04069018 | Fromage Fribourgeois, Vacherin Mont d‘橭r and T锚te de Moine | | | | 75,50 |

04069023 | Edam |

04069025 | Tilsit |

04069027 | Butterk盲se |

04069029 | Kashkaval |

04069031 | Feta, of sheep‘檚 milk or buffalo milk |

04069033 | Feta, other |

04069035 | Kefalo-Tyri |

04069037 | Finlandia |

04069039 | Jarlsberg |

04069050 | Cheese of sheep‘檚 milk or buffalo milk |

ex04069063 | Pecorino | 94,10 |

04069069 | Other |

04069073 | Provolone | 75,50 |

ex04069075 | Caciocavallo |

ex04069076 | Danbo, Fontal, Fynbo, Havarti, Maribo, Sams酶 |

04069078 | Gouda |

ex04069079 | Esrom, Italico, Kernhem, Saint-Paulin |

ex04069081 | Cheshire, Wensleydale, Lancashire, Double Gloucester, Blarney, Colby, Monterey |

04069082 | Camembert |

04069084 | Brie |

04069086 | Exceeding 47 % but not exceeding 52 % |

04069087 | Exceeding 52 % but not exceeding 62 % |

04069088 | Exceeding 62 % but not exceeding 72 % |

04069093 | Exceeding 72 % | 92,60 |

04069099 | Other | 106,40 |

[1] 1 kg product = 1,22 kg butter.

[2] Irrespective of the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording of the product description must be considered to have merely indicative value, since the applicability of the preferential arrangements is determined in the context of this Annex by the scope of the CN code. Where ex CN codes are indicated, the applicability of the preferential scheme is determined on the basis of the CN code and the corresponding description taken jointly.

[3] The cheeses referred to are considered as processed when they have been processed into products falling within subheading 040630 of the Combined Nomenclature. Articles 291 to 300 of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 apply."

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