COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 741/2013

of 30 July 2013

opening and providing for the administration of Union tariff quotas for agricultural products originating in Colombia

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Decision 2012/735/EU of 31 May 2012 on the signing, on behalf of the Union, and provisional application of the Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Colombia and Peru, of the other part(1), and in particular Article 6 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) By Decision 2012/735/EU, the Council authorised the signing, on behalf of the Union, of the Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Colombia and Peru, of the other part (‘the Agreement’). Pursuant to Decision 2012/735/EU, the Agreement is to be applied on a provisional basis, pending the completion of the procedures for its conclusion. The Agreement applies on a provisional basis from 1 August 2013.

(2) Subsection 1 of Section B of Appendix 1 to Annex I to the Agreement concerns the tariff elimination schedule of the EU party for goods originating in Colombia. For a number of specific products, it provides for the application of tariff quotas. It is therefore necessary to open tariff quotas for such products.

(3) The tariff quotas should be managed by the Commission on a first-come, first-served basis in accordance with 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(2).

(4) Entitlement to benefit from the tariff concessions should be subject to the presentation of the relevant proof of origin to the customs authorities, as provided for in the Agreement.

(5) 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(3), as amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 927/2012(4), contains new CN codes which are different from those referred to in the Agreement. The new codes should therefore be reflected in the Annex to this Regulation.

(6) Since the Agreement takes effect on 1 August 2013, this Regulation should apply from the same date.

(7) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Union tariff quotas are opened for the goods originating in Colombia and listed in the Annex.

Article 2

The customs duties applicable to imports into the Union of goods originating in Colombia and listed in the Annex shall, within the respective tariff quota set out in the Annex to this Regulation, be suspended.

Article 3

The tariff quotas in the Annex shall be managed by the Commission in accordance with the provisions of Articles 308a to 308c of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93.

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the

Official Journal of the European Union

It shall apply from 1 August 2013.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 July 2013.

For the Commission

The President

José Manuel BARROSO

(1)

OJ L 354, 21.12.2012, p. 1

(2)

OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1

(3)

OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1

(4)

OJ L 304, 31.10.2012, p. 1

ANNEX

Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording of the description of the products is to be considered as having no more than an indicative value, the scope of the preferential scheme being determined, within the context of this Annex, by CN codes as they exist at the time of adoption of this Regulation.

Order No	CN code	Description of goods	Quota period	Annual quota volume (in tonnes net weight if not otherwise specified)
09.7230	0201 30 0202 30	Meat of bovine animals, fresh, chilled or frozen, boneless	From 1.8.2013 to 31.12.2013	2 334
09.7230	0201 30 0202 30	Meat of bovine animals, fresh, chilled or frozen, boneless	From 1.1. to 31.12.2014 and for each period thereafter from 1.1. to 31.12.	6 160(1)
09.7231	0711 51	Mushrooms of the genus Agaricus, provisionally preserved, but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption	From 1.8.2013 to 31.12.2013	42
09.7231	2003 10	Mushrooms of the genus Agaricus, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid	From 1.1. to 31.12.2014 and for each period thereafter from 1.1. to 31.12.	105(2)
09.7232	2208 40 51 2208 40 99	Rum and other spirits obtained by distilling fermented sugar-cane products, in containers holding more than 2 litres	From 1.8.2013 to 31.12.2013	625 hectolitres (expressed in equivalent pure alcohol)
09.7232	2208 40 51 2208 40 99		From 1.1. to 31.12.2014 and for each period thereafter from 1.1. to 31.12.	1 600 hectolitres (expressed in equivalent pure alcohol)(3)
09.7233	0710 40 0711 90 30 2001 90 30 2004 90 10 2005 80	Sweetcorn	From 1.8.2013 to 31.12.2013	84
09.7233	2008 99 85	Maize (corn), other than sweetcorn (Zea mays var. saccharata), otherwise prepared or preserved, not containing added spirit and added sugar	From 1.1. to 31.12.2014 and for each period thereafter from 1.1. to 31.12.	210(4)
09.7234	0403 10	Yogurt	From 1.8.2013 to 31.12.2013	42
09.7234	0403 10	Yogurt	From 1.1. to 31.12.2014 and for each period thereafter from 1.1. to 31.12.	105(2)
09.7235	1701 13 1701 14 1701 91 1701 99	Cane sugar, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter; cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form, other than raw sugar not containing added flavouring or colouring matter	From 1.8.2013 to 31.12.2013	25 834 (expressed in raw sugar equivalent)
09.7235	1701 13 1701 14 1701 91 1701 99		From 1.1. to 31.12.2014 and for each period thereafter from 1.1. to 31.12.	63 860 (expressed in raw sugar equivalent)(5)
09.7236	Ex17049099	Other sugar confectionery, not containing cocoa, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose	From 1.8.2013 to 31.12.2013	8 334
	1806 10 30 1806 10 90	Cocoa powder, containing 65 % or more by weight of sucrose or isoglucose expressed as sucrose	From 1.1. to 31.12.2014 and for each period thereafter from 1.1. to 31.12.	20 600(6)
	Ex18062095	Other preparations in blocks, slabs or bars weighing more than 2 kg or in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk in containers or immediate packings, of a content exceeding 2 kg, containing less than 18 % by weight of cocoa butter and 70 % or more by weight of sucrose
	Ex19019099	Other food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40 % of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose
	Ex20060031 Ex20060038	Fruit (excluding tropical fruit and ginger), vegetables, nuts (excluding tropical nuts), fruit-peel and other parts of plants, preserved by sugar (drained, glacé or crystallised), containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose
	Ex20079110 Ex20079920 Ex20079931 Ex20079933 Ex20079935 Ex20079939	Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or nut purée and fruit or nut pastes, obtained by cooking, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose
	Ex20 09	Fruit juices (excluding tomato juice, juices of tropical fruit and mixtures of juices of tropical fruit) and vegetable juices of a value not exceeding 30 EUR per 100 kg net weight, unfermented and not containing added spirit, containing 30 % or more by weight of added sugar
	Ex21011298 Ex21012098	Preparations with a basis of coffee, tea or mate, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose
	Ex21069098	Other food preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose
	Ex33021029	Mixtures of odoriferous substances and mixtures with a basis of one or more of these substances, of a kind used in the drink industries, containing all flavouring agents characterising a beverage, of an actual alcoholic strength by volume not exceeding 0,5 %, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose
09.7237	0402 99	Milk and cream, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, not in powder, granules or other solid forms	From 1.8.2013 to 31.12.2013	42
09.7237	0402 99		From 1.1. to 31.12.2014 and for each period thereafter from 1.1. to 31.12.	105(2)

(1) With an increase of 560 metric tonnes each year as from 2015.

(2) With an increase of 5 metric tonnes each year as from 2015.

(3) With an increase of 100 hectolitres (expressed in equivalent pure alcohol) each year as from 2015.

(4) With an increase of 10 metric tonnes each year as from 2015.

(5) With an increase of 1 860 metric tonnes (expressed in raw sugar equivalent) each year as from 2015.

(6) With an increase of 600 metric tonnes each year as from 2015.