COMMISSION REGULATION

(EC) No 816/2007

of 12 July 2007

opening annual tariff quotas for the importation from Turkey of certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of 6 December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products(1), and in particular, Article 7(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Decision No 1/95 of the EC Turkey Association Council(2) implements the final phase of the Customs Union. Its Section V establishes the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products.

(2) Decision No 1/97 of the EC Turkey Association Council(3) establishes arrangements applicable to certain processed agricultural products.

(3) Decision No 1/2007 of the EC Turkey Association Council(4) establishes new trade improvements applicable to certain processed agricultural products which aim to deepen and widen the Customs Union and to improve economic convergence as a result of the enlargement of the Community on 1 May 2004. These improvements lay down concessions in the form of duty free tariff quotas. For imports outside of the quotas the current trade provisions continue to apply.

(4) 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(5), lays down rules for the management of tariff quotas. It is appropriate to provide that the tariff quotas opened by this Regulation are to be managed in accordance with those rules.

(5) Commission Regulation (EC) No 2026/2005 of 13 December 2005 opening tariff quotas for 2006 and the following years for the importation into the European Community of certain goods from Turkey resulting from the processing of agricultural products covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93(6) should be repealed. Quantities imported under this Regulation between 1 January 2007 and the date of repealing should be deducted from the quantity of the corresponding new quota.

(6) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee on horizontal questions concerning trade in processed agricultural products not listed in Annex I,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Community tariff quotas for the importation from Turkey of the goods set out in the Annex are opened for the period from 1 January to 31 December of each year from 2007 under the conditions set out in that Annex.

Admission to the benefit of those tariff quotas shall be subject to the presentation of an A.TR. movement certificate in accordance with Decision No 1/2006 of the EC-Turkey Customs Cooperation Committee.

Article 2

The Community tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 shall be managed by the Commission in accordance with Articles 308a, 308b and 308c of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93.

Article 3

Regulation (EC) No 2026/2005 shall be repealed on the date of entering into force of this Regulation. The quantity of tariff quota with order number 09.0232 shall be reduced by the quantities of pasta imported under Regulation (EC) No 2026/2005 (order number 09.0205) between 1 of January 2007 and the date of entering into force of this Regulation.

Article 4

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

Official Journal of the European Union

It shall be applicable from 1 January 2007.

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

Done at Brussels, 12 July 2007.

For the Commission

Günter

VERHEUGEN

Vice-President

(1)

OJ L 318, 20.12.1993, p. 18

. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2580/2000 (

OJ L 298, 25.11.2000, p. 5

(2)

OJ L 35, 13.2.1996, p. 1

(3)

OJ L 126, 17.5.1997, p. 26

(4) Not yet published in the Official Journal.

(5)

OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1

. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 214/2007 (

OJ L 62, 1.3.2007, p. 6

(6)

OJ L 327, 14.12.2005, p. 3

ANNEX

Duty free tariff quotas applicable upon imports into the EU of processed agricultural products from Turkey

Order number	CN code	Product description	Annual duty free tariff quota (in tonnes net weight)
	(1)	(2)	(3)
09.0228	1704	Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa:	5 000
	1704 10	– Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated:
		– – Containing less than 60 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose):
	1704 10 11	– – – Gum in strips
	1704 10 19	– – – Other
		– – Containing 60 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose):
	1704 10 91	– – – Gum in strips
	1704 10 99	– – – Other
09.0229	1704 90	– Other:	10 000
	1704 90 30	– – White chocolate
		– – Other:
	1704 90 51	– – – Pastes, including marzipan, in immediate packings of a net content of 1 kg or more
	1704 90 55	– – – Throat pastilles and cough drops
	1704 90 61	– – – Sugar-coated (panned) goods
		– – – Other:
	1704 90 65	– – – – Gum confectionery and jelly confectionery including fruit pastes in the form of sugar confectionery
	1704 90 71	– – – – Boiled sweets whether or not filled
	1704 90 75	– – – – Toffees, caramels and similar sweets
		– – – – Other:
	1704 90 81	– – – – – Compressed tablets
	ex 1704 90 99	– – – – – Other:
		– – – – – – Containing less than 70 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)
		– – – – – – Containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose):
		– – – – – – – Halva and Loukhum
09.0230	1806	Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:	5 000
	1806 10	– Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:
	1806 10 20	– – Containing 5 % or more but less than 65 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose
	1806 20	– Other preparations in block, slabs or bars weighing more than 2 kg or in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form in containers or immediate packings, of a content exceeding 2 kg:
	1806 20 10	– – Containing 31 % or more by weight of cocoa butter or containing a combined weight of 31 % or more of cocoa butter and milk fat
	1806 20 30	– – Containing a combined weight of 25 % or more, but less than 31 % of cocoa butter and milk fat
		– – Other:
	1806 20 50	– – – Containing 18 % or more by weight of cocoa butter
	1806 20 70	– – – Chocolate milk crumb
	ex 1806 20 80	– – – Chocolate flavour coating:
		– – – – Containing less than 70 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)
	ex 1806 20 95	– – – Other:
		– – – – Containing less than 70 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)
		– Other, in blocks, slabs or bars:
	1806 31 00	– – Filled
	1806 32	– – Not filled:
	1806 32 10	– – – With added cereal, fruit or nuts
	1806 32 90	– – – Other
	1806 90	– Other:
		– – Chocolate and chocolate products:
		– – – Chocolates (including pralines), whether or not filled:
	1806 90 11	– – – – Containing alcohol
	1806 90 19	– – – – Other
		– – – Other:
	1806 90 31	– – – – Filled
	1806 90 39	– – – – Not filled
	1806 90 50	– – Sugar confectionery and substitutes therefor made from sugar substitution products, containing cocoa
	1806 90 60	– – Spreads containing cocoa
	1806 90 70	– – Preparations containing cocoa for making beverages
	ex 1806 90 90	– – Other:
		– – – Containing less than 70 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)
09.0231	1901	Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods of headings 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included:	900
09.0231	1901 20 00	– Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading 1905	900
09.0232	1902	Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared:	20 000
		– Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared:
	1902 11 00	– – Containing eggs
	1902 19	– – Other:
	1902 19 10	– – – Containing no common wheat flour or meal
	1902 19 90	– – – Other
	1902 20	– Stuffed pasta whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared:
		– – Other:
	1902 20 91	– – – Cooked
	1902 20 99	– – – Other
	1902 30	– Other pasta:
	1902 30 10	– – Dried
	1902 30 90	– – Other
	1902 40	– Couscous:
	1902 40 10	– – Unprepared
	1902 40 90	– – Other
09.0233	1904	Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, cornflakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)), in grain form, or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour, groats and meal), pre-cooked, or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included:	500
	1904 10	– Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products:
	1904 10 10	– – Obtained from maize
	1904 10 30	– – Obtained from rice
	1904 10 90	– – Other
09.0234	1904 20	– Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals:	100
	1904 20 10	– – Preparation of the Müsli type based on unroasted cereal flakes
		– – Other:
	1904 20 91	– – – Obtained from maize
	1904 20 95	– – – Obtained from rice
	1904 20 99	– – – Other
09.0235	1904 30 00	Bulgur wheat	10 000
09.0236	1904 90	– Other:	2 500
	1904 90 10	– – Rice
	1904 90 80	– – Other
09.0237	1905	Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products:	10 000
		– Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers:
	1905 31	– – Sweet biscuits:
		– – – Completely or partially coated or covered with chocolate or other preparations containing cocoa:
	1905 31 11	– – – – In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 85 g
	1905 31 19	– – – – Other
		– – – Other:
	1905 31 30	– – – – Containing 8 % or more by weight of milk fats
		– – – – Other:
	1905 31 91	– – – – – Sandwich biscuits
	1905 31 99	– – – – – Other
09.0238	1905 32	– – Waffles and wafers:	3 000
	1905 32 05	– – – With a water content exceeding 10 % by weight
		– – – Other:
		– – – – Completely or partially coated or covered with chocolate or other preparations containing cocoa:
	1905 32 11	– – – – – In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 85 g
	1905 32 19	– – – – – Other
		– – – – Other:
	1905 32 91	– – – – – Salted, whether or not filled
	1905 32 99	– – – – – Other
09.0239	1905 40	– Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products:	120
	1905 40 10	– – Rusks
	1905 40 90	– – Other
09.0240	1905 90	– Other:	10 000
	1905 90 10	– – Matzos
	1905 90 20	– – Communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products
		– – Other:
	1905 90 30	– – – Bread, not containing added honey, eggs, cheese or fruit, and containing by weight in the dry matter state not more than 5 % of sugars and not more than 5 % of fat
	1905 90 45	– – – Biscuits
	1905 90 55	– – – Extruded or expanded products, savoury or salted
		– – – Other:
	1905 90 60	– – – – With added sweetening matter
09.0242	2106	Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:	4 000
	2106 10	– Protein concentrates and textured protein substances:
	2106 10 80	– – Other
	2106 90	– Other:
	2106 90 98	– – – Other