Council Regulation (EU) No 7/2010

of 22 December 2009

opening and providing for the management of autonomous tariff quotas of the Union for certain agricultural and industrial products and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2505/96

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to theTreaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 31 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1) Production in the European Union of certain agricultural and industrial products is insufficient to meet the specific requirements of the user industries in the Union. Consequently, the Union's supplies of those products depend to a considerable extent on imports from third countries. The most urgent requirements of the Union for the products in question should be met immediately on the most favorable terms. Tariff quotas of the Union at preferential duty rates should therefore be opened within the limits of appropriate volumes taking account of the need not to disturb the markets for such products or impede the establishment or development of the Union's production.

(2) It is necessary to ensure for all importers in the Union equal and uninterrupted access to those quotas, and to ensure the uninterrupted application of the rates laid down for the quotas to all imports of the products concerned into all Member States until the quotas have been exhausted.

(3) 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 [1] provides for a system of tariff quota management which ensures equal and uninterrupted access to the quotas and uninterrupted application of the rates and follows the chronological order of dates of acceptance of declarations of release for free circulation. The tariff quotas opened by the present Regulation should therefore be managed by the Commission and the Member States in accordance with that system.

(4) The quota volumes are mostly expressed in tonnes. For certain products for which an autonomous tariff quota is opened the quota volume is set out in another measurement unit. Where for those products no supplementary measurement unit is specified in the Combined Nomenclature laid down in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff [2] there can be uncertainty in respect of the measurement unit used. For the sake of clarity and in the interest of better quota management it is therefore necessary to provide that, in order to benefit from those autonomous tariff quotas, the exact quantity of the products imported be entered in the declaration for release for free circulation using the measurement unit of the quota volume set out for those products in the Annex to this Regulation.

(5) Regulation (EC) No 2505/96 of 20 December 1996 opening and providing for the administration of autonomous Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and industrial products [3] has been amended many times. In the interest of transparency it should therefore be repealed and replaced in its entirety.

(6) The measures necessary for the the adoption of amendments to this Regulation arising from amendments to the Combined Nomenclature and TARIC codes should be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise on implementing powers conferred on the Commission [4].

(7) Since the tariff quotas have to take effect from 1 January 2010, this Regulation should apply from the same date and enter into force immediately,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the products listed in the Annex autonomous tariff quotas of the Union shall be opened, within which the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties shall be suspended for the periods, at the duty rates, and up to the volumes indicated therein.

Article 2

The 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

Where a declaration for release for free circulation is presented in respect of a product mentioned in this Regulation, for which the quota volume is expressed in a measurement unit other than the weight in tonnes or kilograms and other than the value, for products for which no supplementary unit is set out in the Combined Nomenclature laid down in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, the exact quantity of the products imported shall be entered in "Box 41: Supplementary units" of that declaration using the measurement unit of the quota volume for those products as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 4

The amendments and technical adaptations arising from amendments to the Combined Nomenclature and TARIC codes shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 5(2).

Article 5

1. The Commission shall be assisted by the Customs Code Committee set up by Article 247a of Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92.

2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 5 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply.

The period laid down in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at three months.

Article 6

Regulation (EC) No 2505/96 is hereby repealed.

Article 7

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 January 2010.

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

Done at Brussels, 22 December 2009.

For the Council

The President

A. Carlgren

[1] OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1.

[2] OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1.

[3] OJ L 345, 31.12.1996, p. 1.

[4] OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.

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ANNEX

Order number | CN code | TARIC | Description | Quota period | Quota volume | Quota duty (%) |

09.2849 | ex07108069 | 10 | Mushrooms of the species Auricularia polytricha (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling), frozen, for the manufacture of prepared meals [1] [2] | 1.1.-31.12. | 700 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2913 | ex24011035 | 91 | Natural unmanufactured tobacco, whether or not cut in regular size, having a custom value of not less than EUR 450 per 100 kg net weight, for use as binder or wrapper for the manufacture of goods falling within subheading 24021000 [1] | 1.1-31.12. | 6000 tonnes | 0 % |

ex24011070 | 10 |

ex24011095 | 11 |

ex24011095 | 21 |

ex24011095 | 91 |

ex24012035 | 91 |

ex24012070 | 10 |

ex24012095 | 11 |

ex24012095 | 21 |

ex24012095 | 91 |

09.2841 | ex27129099 | 10 | Blend of 1-alkenes containing 80 % by weight or more of 1-alkenes of a chain-length of 20 and 22 carbon atoms | 1.1.-31.12. | 10000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2703 | ex28253000 | 10 | Vanadium oxides and hydroxides exclusively for use in alloys [1] | 1.1.-31.12. | 13000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2806 | ex28259040 | 30 | Tungsten trioxide, including blue tungsten oxide | 1.1.-31.12. | 12000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2611 | ex28261990 | 10 | Calcium fluoride having a total content of aluminium, magnesium and sodium of 0,25 mg/kg or less, in the form of powder | 1.1.-31.12. | 55 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2837 | ex29034980 | 10 | Bromochloromethane | 1.1.-31.12. | 600 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2933 | ex29036990 | 30 | 1,3-Dichlorobenzene | 1.1.-31.12. | 2600 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2950 | ex29055998 | 10 | 2-Chloroethanol, for the manufacture of liquid thioplasts of subheading 40029990 [1] | 1.1.-31.12. | 15000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2851 | ex29071200 | 10 | O-Cresol having a purity of not less than 98,5 % by weight | 1.1.-31.12. | 20000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2767 | ex29109000 | 80 | Allyl glycidyl ether | 1.1.-31.12. | 2500 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2624 | 29124200 | | Ethylvanillin (3-ethoxy-4-hydroxybenzaldehyde) | 1.1.-31.12. | 600 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2972 | 29152400 | | Acetic anhydride | 1.1.-31.12. | 20000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2769 | ex29171390 | 10 | Dimethyl sebacate | 1.1.-31.12. | 1300 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2634 | ex29171990 | 40 | Dodecanedioic acid, of a purity by weight of more than 98,5 % | 1.1.-31.12. | 4600 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2808 | ex29182200 | 10 | o-Acetylsalicylic acid | 1.1.-31.12. | 120 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2975 | ex29183000 | 10 | Benzophenone-3,3′:4,4′-tetracarboxylic dianhydride | 1.1.-31.12. | 1000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2632 | ex29212200 | 10 | Hexamethylenediamine | 1.1.-31.12. | 35000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2602 | ex29215119 | 10 | o-Phenylenediamine | 1.1.-31.12. | 1800 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2977 | 29261000 | | Acrylonitrile | 1.1.-31.12. | 30000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2002 | ex29280090 | 30 | Phenylhydrazine | 1.1.-31.12. | 1000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2917 | ex29309013 | 90 | Cystine | 1.1.-31.12. | 600 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2603 | ex29309099 | 79 | Bis(3-triethoxysilylpropyl)tetrasulphide | 1.1.-31.12. | 9000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2810 | 29321100 | | Tetrahydrofuran | 1.1-31.12. | 20000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2955 | ex29321900 | 60 | Flurtamone (ISO) | 1.1.-31.12. | 300 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2812 | ex29322985 | 77 | Hexan-6-olide | 1.1.-31.12. | 4000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2615 | ex29349990 | 70 | Ribonucleic acid | 1.1.-31.12. | 110 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2945 | ex29400000 | 20 | D-Xylose | 1.1.-31.12. | 400 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2908 | ex38040000 | 10 | Sodium lignosulphonate | 1.1.-31.12. | 40000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2889 | 38051090 | | Sulphate turpentine | 1.1.-31.12. | 20000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2935 | ex38061000 | 10 | Rosin and resin acids obtained from fresh oleoresins | 1.1.-31.12. | 280000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2814 | ex38159090 | 76 | Catalyst consisting of titanium dioxide and tungsten trioxide | 1.1.-31.12. | 1600 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2829 | ex38249097 | 19 | Solid extract of the residual, insoluble in aliphatic solvents, obtained during the extraction of rosin from wood, having the following characteristics: a resin acid content not exceeding 30 % by weight,an acid number not exceeding 110anda melting point of 100 °C or more | 1.1.-31.12. | 1600 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2914 | ex38249097 | 26 | Aqueous solution containing not less than 40 % by weight of dry betaine-extract and between 5 % and 30 % by weight of organic or inorganic salts | 1.1.-31.12. | 5000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2986 | ex38249097 | 76 | Mixture of tertiary amines containing: 60 % by weight of dodecyldimethylamine, or more20 % by weight of dimethyl(tetradecyl)amine, or more0,5 % by weight of hexadecyldimethylamine, or more,for use in the production of amine oxides [1] | 1.1.-31.12. | 14315 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2907 | ex38249097 | 86 | Mixture of phytosterols, in the form of powder, containing by weight: 75 % or more of sterols,not more than 25 % of stanolsfor use in the manufacture of stanol/sterol esters [1] | 1.1.-31.12. | 2500 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2140 | ex38249097 | 98 | Mixture of tertiary amines containing by weight: 2,0-4,0 % of N,N-dimethyl-1-octanamine94 % minimum of N,N-dimethyl-1-decanamine2 % maximum of N,N-dimethyl-1-dodecanamine | 1.1.-31.12. | 4500 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2992 | ex39023000 | 93 | Propylene-butylene copolymer, containing by weight 60 % or more but not more than 68 % of propylene and 32 % or more but not more than 40 % of butylene, of a melt viscosity of not more than 3000 mPa at 190 °C, as determined by the ASTM D 3236 method, for use as an adhesive in the manufacture of products falling within subheading 481840 [1] | 1.1.-31.12. | 1000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2947 | ex39046990 | 95 | Poly(vinylidene fluoride), in powder form, for the preparation of paint or varnish for coating metal [1] | 1.1.-31.12. | 1300 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2604 | ex39053000 | 10 | Poly(vinyl alcohol) partially acetalized with 5-(4-azido-2-sulphobenzylidene)-3-(formylpropyl)-rhodanine, sodium salt | 1.1.-31.12. | 100 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2616 | ex39100000 | 30 | Polydimethylsiloxane with a degree of polymerisation of 2800 monomer units (± 100) | 1.1.-31.12. | 1300 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2816 | ex39121100 | 20 | Cellulose acetate flakes for use in the manufacture of cellulose acetate filament tow [1] | 1.1.-31.12. | 37000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2807 | ex39139000 | 86 | Non sterile sodium hyaluronate | 1.1.-31.12. | 110000 g | 0 % |

09.2813 | ex39209100 | 94 | Co-extruded trilayer poly(vinyl butyral) film without a graduated colour band containing by weight 29 % or more but not more than 31 % of 2,2′-ethylenedioxydiethyl bis(2-ethylhexanoate) as a plasticiser | 1.1.-31.12. | 2000000 m2 | 0 % |

09.2818 | ex69029000 | 10 | Refractory bricks with an edge length of more than 300 mm anda TiO2 content of not more than 1 % by weight anda Al2O3 content of not more than 0,4 % by weight anda change in volume of less than 9 % at 1700 C | 1.1.-31.12. | 75 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2815 | ex69091900 | 70 | Supports for catalysts or filters, consisting of porous ceramics made primarily from oxides of aluminium and titanium; with a total volume of not more than 65 litres and at least one duct (open on one or both ends) per cm2 of cross section | 1.1.-31.12. | 380000 units | 0 % |

09.2628 | ex70195200 | 10 | Glass web woven from glass fibre coated in plastic, of a weight of 120 g/m2 (± 10 g/m2), of a type used in rolling insect screens with fixed frames | 1.1.-31.12. | 350000 m2 | 0 % |

09.2799 | ex72024990 | 10 | Ferro-chromium containing 1,5 % or more but not more than 4 % by weight of carbon and not more than 70 % of chromium | 1.1.-31.12. | 50000 tonnes | 0 % |

09.2629 | ex76169990 | 85 | Aluminium telescopic handle for use in the manufacture of luggage [1] | 1.1.-31.12. | 240000 units | 0 % |

09.2763 | ex85014080 | 30 | Electric AC commutator motor, single-phase, with an output of more than 750 W, an input power of more than 1600 W but not more than 2700 W, an external diameter of more than 120 mm (± 0,2 mm) but not more than 135 mm (± 0,2 mm), a rated speed of more than 30000 rpm but not more than 50000 rpm, equipped with air-inducting ventilator, for use in the manufacture of vacuum cleaners [1] | 1.1.-31.12. | 2000000 units | 0 % |

09.2633 | ex85044081 | 30 | Electric adapter, with a capacity of not more than 1 kVA, for use in the manufacture of hair removal apparatus [1] | 1.1.-31.12. | 4500000 units | 0 % |

09.2620 | ex85269120 | 20 | Assembly for GPS system having a position determination function | 1.1.-31.12. | 3000000 units | 0 % |

09.2003 | ex85437090 | 63 | Voltage controlled frequency generator, consisting of active and passive elements mounted on a printed circuit, contained in a housing with dimensions of not more than 30 × 30 mm | 1.1.-31.12. | 1400000 units | 0 % |

09.2631 | ex90019000 | 80 | Unmounted glass lenses, prisms and cemented elements for use in the manufacture of goods of CN codes 9005, 9013 and 9015 [1] | 1.1.-31.12. | 5000000 units | 0 % |

[1] The relief from or reduction of customs duties shall be subject to the conditions laid down in the relevant provisions of the Union with a view to customs control of the use of such goods (see Articles 291 to 300 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 (OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1)).

[2] However, the measure is not allowed where processing is carried out by retail or catering undertakings.

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