29.6.2002 Official Journal of the European Communities L 170/15 COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1151/2002 of 27 June 2002 establishing certain concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and transitional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for in the Europe Agreement with Estonia THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, (5) A swift implementation of the adjustments forms an es- Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Commu- nity, and in particular Article 133 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas: (1)  The Europe Agreement establishing an association be- tween the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Estonia, of the other part (!), hereinafter referred to as the ‘Europe Agreement’, provides for certain concessions for certain agricultural products originating in Estonia. (2)  The first improvements to the preferential arrangements of the Europe Agreement were provided for in the Proto- col adjusting trade aspects of the Europe Agreement to take account of the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union and the outcome of the Uruguay Round negotiations on agriculture, including improve- ments to the existing preferential arrangements (%). The Council approved the abovementioned Protocol on be- half of the Community by Decision 1999/86/EC (®). (3)  Improvements to the preferential arrangements of the Europe Agreement were also provided for, in the form of an autonomous and transitional measure pending a second adjustment of the relevant provisions of the Eur- ope Agreement, as a result of a first round of negotia- tions to liberalise the agricultural trade. The improve- ments entered into force as from 1 July 2000 by virtue of Council Regulation (EC) No 1349/2000 of 19 June 2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and transitional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for in the Europe Agreement with Estonia (4. The second adjustment of the relevant provisions in the Europe Agreement — which will take the form of an- other Additional Protocol thereto — has not yet entered into force. (4) A new Additional Protocol to the Europe Agreement on trade liberalisation for agricultural products has been ne- gotiated. 1 68, 9.3.1998, p. 3. 29,3.2.1999, p. 11. 29, 3.2.1999, p. 9. J L 155, 28.6.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regula- tion (EC) No 2677/2000 (O] L 308, 8.12.2000, p. 7). L L L 4 () © () O () O () O sential part of the results of the negotiations for the con- clusion of a new Additional Protocol to the Europe Agreement. It is therefore appropriate to provide for the adjustment, as an autonomous and transitional measure, of the agricultural concessions provided for in the Eur- ope Agreement. (6)  The measures necessary for the implementation of this Regulation should be adopted in accordance with Coun- cil Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (*). (77 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 () codified the management rules for tariff quotas designed to be used following the chronological order of dates of customs declarations. Tariff quotas under this Regulation should therefore be administered in accordance with those rules. (8)  As a result of the aforementioned negotiations, Regula- tion (EC) No 1349/2000 has effectively lost its substance and should therefore be repealed, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 1. The arrangements for import into the Community applic- able to certain agricultural products originating in Estonia as set out in Annex C(a) and Annex C(b) to this Regulation shall re- place those set out in Annex Va to the Europe Agreement. 2. On the entry into force of the Additional Protocol adjust- ing the Europe Agreement to take into account the outcome of the negotiations between the Parties on new mutual agricultural concessions, the concessions provided for in that Protocol shall replace those referred to in Annex C(a) and Annex C(b) to this Regulation. () OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23. () OJ L 253,11.10.1993, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commis- sion Regulation (EC) No 444/2002 (O] L 68, 12.3.2002, p. 11).