Council Regulation (EC) No 2785/1999 of 17 December 1999 temporarily suspending some or all of the autonomous common customs tariff duties on certain fishery products (2000)
29. 12. 1999 EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 336/1 I (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2785/1999 of 17 December 1999 temporarily suspending some or all of the autonomous common customs tariff duties on certain fishery products (2000) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 26 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas: (1) (2) (3) The Community relies at present on imports from third countries for supplies of certain fishery products; it is in the interest of the Community to suspend partially or totally the customs duties for these products; in order to avoid endangering the prospects for developing the production of competitive products in the Community while ensuring that the industries concerned receive the necessary supplies, it is advisable to adopt these suspen- sion measures only from 1 January to 31 December 2000; It is for the Community to decide to suspend these autonomous duties; Having regard to the economic importance of this Regu- lation for European industry and the requirement that it enter into force by 1 January 2000, it is necessary to invoke the ground of urgency referred to in point I(3) of the additional Protocol to the Treaty of Amsterdam on the role of national parliaments in the European Union, Article 1 1. From 1 January to 31 December 2000 the autonomous common customs tariff duties on the products listed in the Annex shall be suspended at indicated for each product. the level 2. Imports of the products in question shall qualify for the suspension referred to in paragraph 1 only on the condition that the free-at-frontier price laid down by the Member States, in accordance with Article 22 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 of 17 December 1992 on the common organisation of the market in fishery and aquaculture products (1), is at least equal to the reference price fixed or to be fixed by the Community for the products or categories of products in ques- tion. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. It shall apply with effect from 1 January 2000. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 17 December 1999. For the Council The President K. HEMILÄ (1) OJ L 388, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regula- tion (EEC) No 1891/93 (OJ L 172, 15. 7. 1993, p. 1). L 336/2 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 29. 12. 1999 ANNEX CN code & TARIC Description 0001 ex 0304 10 98 60 ex 0304 90 97 31 Meat of dogfish of the species Squalus acanthias, fresh, chilled or frozen 0002 ex 0302 69 99 30 ex 0303 79 99 30 Sturgeons, fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing (a) (b) 0003 ex 0302 69 99 40 Lump fish (Cyclopterus lumpus), with roe, fresh or chilled, for processing (a) Red snapper (Lutjanus purpureus), fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing (a) (c) Hard fish roes, fresh, chilled or frozen 0004 ex 0302 69 99 50 ex 0303 79 99 20 0005 ex 0302 70 00 11 ex 0302 70 00 31 ex 0302 70 00 41 ex 0302 70 00 91 ex 0303 80 90 10 ex 0303 80 90 19 0006 ex 0303 10 00 10 Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp. ), frozen and headless, for the processing industry for manufac- ture into pastes or spreads (a) Rate of autonomous duty (%) 6 0 0 0 0 0 0007 ex 0304 20 85 10 ex 0304 90 61 10 Fillets and meat of Alaska pollack (Theragra chalcogramma), frozen, for processing (a) (b) in the form of industrial blocks, 3,5 0008 ex 0305 20 00 11 ex 0305 20 00 18 ex 0305 20 00 20 Hard fish roes, salted or in brine 0009 ex 0306 19 90 10 ex 0306 29 90 10 Krill for processing (a) 0022 ex 1604 11 00 20 ex 1604 20 10 20 Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp. ), for the processing industry for manufacture into pastes or spreads (a) 0023 ex 1604 30 90 10 Hard fish roes, washed, cleaned of adherent organs and simply salted or in brine, processing (a) for 0024 ex 1605 10 00 11 ex 1605 10 00 19 ‘Kegani’ Crabs of the species ‘King’ (Paralithodes camchaticus), (Erimacrus isenbecki), ‘Rough stone’ (Neolithodes asperrimus), Lithodes antarctica, ‘Mud’ (Scylla serrata), ‘Blue’ (Portunus spp. ), simply boiled in water and shelled, whether or not frozen, in immediate packings of a net content of 2 kg or more ‘Hanasaki’ (Paralithodes brevipes), ‘Red’ (Geryon quinquedens), ‘Queen’ and ‘Snow’ (Chionoecetes spp. ), 0025 ex 1605 10 00 92 ex 1605 10 00 94 Crabs of the species Paralomis granulosa 0 0 0 0 0 0 29. 12. 1999 EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 336/3 (a) Control of the use for this special purpose shall be carried out pursuant to the relevant Community provisions. (b) The suspension shall apply to fish intended to undergo any operation unless they are intended to undergo exclusively one or more of the following operations: — cleaning, gutting, tailing, heading, — cutting (excluding filleting or cutting of frozen blocks or splitting of frozen interleaved fillet blocks), — sampling, sorting, — labelling, — packing, — chilling, — freezing, — deep freezing, — thawing, separation. The suspension is not allowed for products intended, in addition, to undergo treatment (or operations) qualifying for suspension where such treatment (or operations) is (are) carried out at retail or catering level. The suspension of customs duties shall apply only to fish intended for human consumption. (c) However, the suspension is not allowed where processing is carried out by retail or catering undertakings