26.1.2011 Official Journal of the European Union L 22/1 II (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 59/2011 of 25 January 2011 opening and providing for the administration of Union tariff quotas for wines originating in the Republic of Serbia THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European the condition that no export subsidies shall be paid for exports of these quantities by Serbia, at a zero-rate customs duty. Union, () The Commission should adopt the implementing measures for the opening and the administration of those Union tariff quotas. Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agri- cultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agri- (5)  Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July cultural products (Single CMO Regulation) ('), and in particular 1993 laying down provisions for the implementation Article 144(1), in conjunction with Article 4, thereof, of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code (%), has established the management rules for tariff quotas designed to be used following the chronological order of dates of acceptance Whereas: of customs declarations. (1) The Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the (6) ?artlcular care should be takerl. to ensure that all Union European Communities and their Member States, of the importers have equal and continuous access to the tariff one part, and the Republic of Serbia, of the other part quotas .and th.at the.zero—rate duty 1a1d‘d0wn for the (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Stabilisation and quotas is applied unlpterruptedly to all imports (_)f the Association Agreement), signed on 29 April 2008, is products concerned into all Member States until the in the process of ratification. quotas are exhausted. In order to ensure the efficiency of a common administration of those quotas, there should be no obstacle to authorising the Member States to draw from the quota volumes the necessary (2)  The Interim Agreement on trade and trade-related quantities corresponding to actual imports. Communi- matters between the European Communityy of the one cation between the Member States and the Commission part, and the Republic of Serbia, of the other part (?) should, as far as possible, take place by electronic (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Interim Agreement), transmission. approved by Council Decision 2010/36/EC () on 29 April 2008, provides for the early implementation of the trade and trade-related provisions of the (7)  This Regulation should apply from 1 February 2010, Stabilisation and Association Agreement. date of the entry into force of the Interim Agreement and should continue to apply after the date of entry into force of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement. (3)  The Interim Agreement and the Stabilisation and Association Agreement provide that wines originating ) . ) . ) in Serbia may be imported into the European Union, (8)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in ( (3 within the limits of Union tariff quotas, and subject to L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1. L 28, 30.1.2010, p. 2. L 28, 30.1.2010, p. 1. accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets, (*) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1.