L 34770 Official Journal of the European Union 30.12.2005 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2185/2005 of 27 December 2005 opening Community tariff quotas for 2006 for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2529/2001 of 19 December 2001 on the common organisation of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat ('), and in particular Article 16(1) thereof, Whereas: Community tariff quotas for sheepmeat and goatmeat should be opened for 2006. The duties and quantities referred to in Regulation (EC) No 2529/2001 should be fixed in accordance with the respective international agreements in force during the year 2006. Council Regulation (EC) No 312/2003 of 18 February 2003 implementing for the Community the tariff provisions laid down in the Agreement establishing an association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Chile, of the other part (3) has provided for an additional bilateral tariff quota of 2 000 tonnes with a 10 % annual increase of the original quantity to be opened for product code 0204 from 1 February 2003. That quota was added to the GATT/WTO quota for Chile and both quotas should continue to be managed in the same way during 2006. Moreover, a quota calculation error occurred when attributing the quota for the year 2005 under Commission Regulation (EC) No 2202/2004 of 21 December 2004 opening Community tariff quotas for 2005 for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat (}) and a quantity of 5 417 tonnes instead of 5 400 tonnes was attributed. A quantity of 17 tonnes should therefore be deducted from the quantity available for 2006. () OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 3. Regulation as last amended by Regu- lation (EC) No 1913/2005 (O] L 307, 25.11.2005, p. 2). ( OJ L 46, 20.2.2003, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 305/2005 (O] L 52, 25.2.2005, p. 6). () O] L 374, 22.12.2004, p. 31. () Council Regulation (EC) No 992/95 of 10 April 1995 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and fishery products originating in Norway (¥), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1329/2003 (°), grants additional bilateral trade concessions concerning agricultural products. Council Regulation (EC) No 2175/2005 of 21 December 2005 concerning the implementation of the Agreements concluded by the EC following negotiations in the framework of Article XXIV:6 of GATT 1994, amending Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (°) grants an additional tariff quota quantity of 1154 tonnes for New Zealand as from 1 January 2006, which should be added to the quantity available for 2006. Certain tariff quotas for sheep and goat meat products have been granted to the ACP States under the Cotonou Agreement (7). Certain quotas are defined for a period running from 1 July of a given year to 30 June of the following year. Since imports under this present Regulation should be managed on a calendar-year basis, the corresponding quantities to be fixed for the calendar year 2006 with regard to the quotas concerned are the sum of half of the quantity for the period from 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006 and half of the quantity for the period from 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007. A carcase-weight equivalent needs to be fixed in order to ensure a proper functioning of the Community tariff quotas. Furthermore, since certain tariff quotas provide for the option of importing either the live animals or their meat, a conversion factor is required. (*) OJ L 101, 4.5.1995, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1920/2004 (OJ L 331, 5.11.2004, p. 1). () O] L 187, 26.7.2003, p. 1. (®) See page 9 of this Official Journal. () O] L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 3.