22003A0430(02)
Protocol adjusting the trade aspects of the Europe Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Slovak Republic, of the other part, to take account of the outcome of negotiations between the parties on new mutual agricultural concessions
Official Journal L 107 , 30/04/2003 P. 0040 - 0056
Protocol
adjusting the trade aspects of the Europe Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Slovak Republic, of the other part, to take account of the outcome of negotiations between the parties on new mutual agricultural concessions
THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, hereinafter referred to as "the Community",
of the one part, and
THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC,
of the other part,
Whereas:
(1) The Europe Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Slovak Republic, of the other part (hereinafter referred to as "the Europe Agreement") was signed in Luxembourg on 4 October 1993 and entered into force on 1 February 1995(1).
(2) Article 21(5) of the Europe Agreement provides that the Community and the Slovak Republic shall examine in the Association Council, product by product and on an orderly and reciprocal basis, the possibility of granting each other additional agricultural concessions. On this basis negotiations have been undertaken and were concluded between the parties.
(3) For the first time, improvements to the preferential agricultural regime of the Europe Agreement were provided for in the Protocol adjusting trade aspects of the Europe Agreement(2) to take account of the last enlargement of the Community and the outcome of the GATT Uruguay Round.
(4) Two further rounds of negotiations for improved agricultural trade concessions were concluded on 3 May 2000 and 21 June 2002.
(5) From the one side, the Council decided, by virtue of Council Regulation (EC) No 2434/2000 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 the Slovak Republic(3), to apply on a provisional basis, as from 1 July 2000, the Community concessions resulting from the 2000 round of negotiations and from the other side the Government of the Slovak Republic took legislative provisions to apply, as from the same date, the equivalent Slovak concessions.
(6) The abovementioned concessions will be supplemented and replaced on the date of entry into force of this Protocol by the concessions provided for herein,
HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
Article 1
The arrangements for import into the Community applicable to certain agricultural products originating in the Slovak Republic as set out in Annexes A(a) and A(b) and the arrangements for import into the Slovak Republic applicable to certain agricultural products originating in the Community as set out in Annexes B(a) and B(b) to this Protocol shall replace those set out in Annexes XI and XII as referred to in Article 21(2) and (4), as amended, of the Europe Agreement. The agreement between the Community and the Slovak Republic on reciprocal preferential trade concessions for certain wines, set out in Annex C, shall form an integral part of this Protocol.
Article 2
This Protocol shall form an integral part of the Europe Agreement. The Annexes to this Protocol shall form an integral part thereof.
Article 3
This Protocol shall be approved by the Community and the Slovak Republic in accordance with their corresponding procedures. The Contracting Parties shall take the necessary measures to implement this Protocol.
The Contracting Parties shall notify each other of the accomplishment of the abovementioned procedures.
Article 4
Subject to completion of the procedures provided for in Article 3, this Protocol shall enter into force on 1 January 2003. Should these procedures not be completed in time, it shall enter into force on the first day of the first month following the Contracting Parties' notification of the accomplishment of the procedures.
Article 5
This Protocol shall be drawn up in duplicate in the Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Slovak languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.
Hecho en Bruselas, el veinticuatro de abril del dos mil tres./Udfærdiget i Bruxelles den fireogtyvende april to tusind og tre./Geschehen zu Brüssel am vierundzwanzigsten April zweitausendunddrei./Έγινε στις Βρυξέλλες, στις είκοσι τέσσερις Απριλίου δύο χιλιάδες τρία./Done at Brussels on the twenty-fourth day of April in the year two thousand and three./Fait à Bruxelles, le vingt-quatre avril deux mille trois./Fatto a Bruxelles, addì ventiquattro aprile duemilatre./Gedaan te Brussel, de vierentwintigste april tweeduizenddrie./Feito em Bruxelas, em vinte e quatro de Abril de dois mil e três./Tehty Brysselissä kahdentenakymmenentenäneljäntenä päivänä huhtikuuta vuonna kaksituhattakolme./Som skedde i Bryssel den tjugofjärde april tjugohundratre./V Bruseli dvadsiatchostvrtého apríla dvetisíetri.
Por la Comunidad Europea/For Det Europæiske Fællesskab/Für die Europäische Gemeinschaft/Για την Ευρωπαϊκή Κοινότητα/For the European Community/Pour la Communauté européenne/Per la Comunità europea/Voor de Europese Gemeenschap/Pela Comunidade Europeia/Euroopan yhteisön puolesta/På Europeiska gemenskapens vägnar
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Za Slovenskú republiku
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(1) OJ L 359, 31.12.1994, p. 2.
(2) OJ L 306, 16.11.1998, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 280, 4.11.2000, p. 9.
ANNEX A(a)
Customs duties on imports applicable in the Community to products originating in the Slovak Republic and listed below shall be abolished
CN code(1)
0101 10 90
0101 90 19
0101 90 30
0101 90 90
0104 20 10
0106 19 10
0106 39 10
0205 00
0206 80 91
0206 90 91
0207 13 91
0207 14 91
0207 26 91
0207 27 91
0207 35 91
0207 36 89
0208 10 11
0208 10 19
0208 20 00
0208 30 00
0208 40
0208 50 00
0208 90 10
0208 90 55
0208 90 60
0208 90 95
0210 99 10
0210 99 39
0210 99 59
0210 99 79
0210 99 80
0407 00 90
0409 00 00
0410 00 00
0701 10 00
0701 90 50
0703 10 11
0703 20 00
0703 90 00
0709 20 00
0709 30 00
0709 40 00
0709 51 00
0709 52 00
0709 59
0709 70 00
0709 90 10
0709 90 20
0709 90 40
0709 90 50
0709 90 90
0710 10 00
0710 21 00
0710 22 00
0710 29 00
0710 30 00
0710 80 51
0710 80 59
0710 80 61
0710 80 69
0710 80 70
0710 80 85
0710 80 95
0710 90 00
0711 30 00
0711 40 00
0711 59 00
0711 90 10
0711 90 50
0711 90 80
0711 90 90
0712 20 00
0712 31 00
0712 32 00
0712 33 00
0712 39 00
0712 90 05
0712 90 30
0712 90 50
0712 90 90
0713 50 00
0713 90
0714 90 90
0802 12 90
0802 21 00
0802 22 00
0802 31 00
0802 32 00
0802 40 00
0802 50 00
0802 90 50
0802 90 60
0802 90 85
0806 20
0808 20 90
0809 40 90
0810 40 30
0810 40 50
0810 40 90
0810 50 00
0810 60 00
0810 90 95
0811 20 59
0811 20 90
0811 90 50
0811 90 70
0811 90 75
0811 90 80
0811 90 85
0811 90 95
0812 10 00
0812 90 10
0812 90 30
0812 90 40
0812 90 50
0812 90 60
0812 90 70
0812 90 99
0813
0814 00 00
0901 12 00
0901 21 00
0901 22 00
0901 90 90
0902 10 00
0904 12 00
0904 20
0905 00 00
0907 00 00
0910 20 90
0910 40
0910 91 90
0910 99 99
1006 10 10
1007 00 10
1105 20 00
1106 10 00
1106 30 90
1208 10 00
1209 10 00
1209 21 00
1209 23 80
1209 29 50
1209 29 60
1209 29 80
1209 30 00
1209 91
1209 99 91
1209 99 99
1210
1211 90 30
1212 10 10
1212 10 99
1214 90 10
1302 19 05
1503 00 19
1503 00 90
1504 10 10
1504 10 99
1504 20 10
1504 30 10
1507
1508
1511 10 90
1511 90 19
1511 90 91
1511 90 99
1512 11 91
1512 19 91
1512 21
1512 29
1513
1515
1516 20 95
1516 20 96
1516 20 98
1518 00 31
1518 00 39
1518 00 91
1518 00 95
1518 00 99
1522 00 91
1602 90 10
1602 90 31
1602 90 41
1602 90 72
1602 90 74
1602 90 76
1602 90 78
1602 90 98
1603 00 10
2001 90 20
2001 90 50
2003 20 00
2003 90 00
2005 60 00
2005 90 10
2005 90 50
2007 91 90
2007 99 10
2007 99 91
2007 99 93
2008 19 11
2008 19 19
2008 19 51
2008 19 95
2008 19 99
2008 92 14
2008 92 34
2008 92 38
2008 92 59
2008 92 72
2008 92 74
2008 92 78
2008 92 93
2008 92 98
2008 99 11
2008 99 19
2008 99 23
2008 99 28
2008 99 37
2008 99 40
2008 99 43
2008 99 45
2008 99 49
2008 99 68
2008 99 99
2009 11 19
2009 11 99
2009 19 19
2009 29 11
2009 29 19
2009 29 91
2009 29 99
2009 31 11
2009 39 31
2009 41
2009 49 19
2009 49 30
2009 49 93
2009 49 99
2009 80 19
2009 80 38
2009 80 50
2009 80 63
2009 80 69
2009 80 71
2302 50 00
2306 90 19
2308 00 90
2309
(1) As defined in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2031/2001 of 6 August 2001, amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (OJ L 279, 23.10.2001).
ANNEX A(b)
Imports into the Community of the following products originating in the Slovak Republic shall be subject to the concessions set out below
(MFN = most-favoured-nation duty)
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ANNEX TO ANNEX A(b)
Minimum import price arrangement for certain soft fruit for processing
1. Minimum import prices are fixed as follows for the following products for processing originating in the Slovak Republic:
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2. The minimum import prices, as set out in Article 1, will be respected on a consignment by consignment basis. In the case of a customs declaration value being lower than the minimum import price, a countervailing duty will be charged equal to the difference between the minimum import price and the customs declaration value.
3. If the import prices of a given product covered by this Annex show a trend suggesting that the prices could go below the level of the minimum import prices in the immediate future, the European Commission will inform the Slovak authorities in order to enable them to correct the situation.
4. At the request of either the Community or the Slovak Republic, the Association Committee shall examine the functioning of the system or the revision of the level of the minimum import prices. If appropriate, the Association Committee shall take the necessary decisions.
5. To encourage and promote the development of trade and for the mutual benefit of all parties concerned, a consultation meeting will be organised three months before the beginning of each marketing year in the Community. This consultation meeting will take place between the European Commission and the interested European producers' organisations for the products concerned, of the one part and the authorities', producers' and exporters' organisations of all the associated exporting countries, of the other part.
During this consultation meeting, the market situation for soft fruit including, in particular, forecasts for production, stock situation, price evolution and possible market development, as well as possibilities to adapt supply to demand, will be discussed.
ANNEX B(a)
Customs duties on imports applicable in the Slovak Republic to products originating in the Community and listed below shall be abolished
SLK customs code(1)
0101 90 11
0101 90 19
0102 90 90
0103 91 90
0103 92 90
0206 10 10
0206 10 91
0206 10 99
0206 21 00
0206 22 00
0206 29 10
0206 29 99
0206 30 20
0206 30 31
0206 30 80
0206 41 20
0206 41 80
0206 49 20
0206 49 80
0206 80 10
0206 80 91
0206 80 99
0206 90 10
0206 90 91
0206 90 99
0207 13 91
0207 14 91
0207 26 91
0207 27 91
0207 34 10
0207 34 90
0207 35 91
0207 36 81
0207 36 85
0207 36 89
0209 00 11
0209 00 19
0209 00 30
0210 99 10
0210 99 71
0210 99 79
0210 91 00
0210 92 00
0210 93 00
0210 99 39
0210 99 59
0210 99 80
0407 00 90
0408 11 20
0408 19 20
0408 91 20
0408 99 20
0409 00 00
0410 00 00
06
0701 10 00
0703 10 11
0703 90 00
0709 51 00
0709 70 00
0709 90 10
0709 90 90
0710 21 00
0710 22 00
0710 29 00
0710 30 00
0710 80 51
0710 80 59
0710 80 70
0710 80 85
0710 80 95
0710 90 00
0711 40 00
0711 90 10
0711 90 50
0711 90 80
0711 90 90
0712 20 00
0712 90 05
0712 90 11
0712 90 30
0712 90 50
0712 90 90
0713 10 10
0713 10 90
0713 40 00
0806 10 10
0806 20
0808 20 90
0809 20 05
0809 20 95
0809 30 90
0809 40 05
0810 40 10
0810 40 30
0810 40 50
0810 40 90
0811 20 19
0811 20 31
0811 20 59
0811 20 90
0811 90 31
0811 90 50
0811 90 70
0811 90 75
0811 90 80
0811 90 85
0811 90 95
0812 10 00
0812 90 10
0812 90 40
0812 90 50
0812 90 60
0812 90 70
0812 90 99
0813
0901 11 00
0901 12 00
0901 21 00
0901 22 00
0901 90 10
0901 90 90
0904 20 10
0904 20 30
0904 20 90
1001 10 00
1105 20 00
1204 00 90
1205 10 10
1205 90 00
1206 00 10
1207 50 10
1207 50 90
1207 91 10
1207 91 90
1209 10 00
1209 29 60
1209 21 00
1209 22 10
1209 22 80
1209 23 11
1209 23 15
1209 23 80
1209 24 00
1209 25 10
1209 25 90
1209 26 00
1209 29 10
1209 29 50
1209 29 80
1210 10 00
1210 20 10
1210 20 90
1302 19 05
1502 00 10
1503 00 11
1503 00 19
1503 00 30
1503 00 90
1510 00 90
1511 90 19
1511 90 91
1511 90 99
1512 11 91
1512 19 91
1513 19 11
1513 29 19
1513 29 50
1513 29 91
1513 29 99
1515 11 00
1515 19 10
1515 19 90
1515 21 10
1515 21 90
1515 29 10
1515 29 90
1515 90 51
1515 90 59
1515 90 91
1515 90 99
1516 20 95
1516 20 96
1516 20 98
1518 00 31
1518 00 39
1518 00 91
1518 00 95
1518 00 99
1602 90 10
1602 90 31
1602 90 41
1602 90 72
1602 90 74
1602 90 76
1602 90 78
1602 90 98
2001 90 20
2001 90 50
2001 90 65
2001 90 91
2005 60 00
2005 90 10
2007 91 90
2007 99 10
2007 99 91
2007 99 93
2008 20 19
2008 20 39
2008 20 51
2008 20 59
2008 20 71
2008 20 79
2008 20 91
2008 20 99
2008 30
2008 92 12
2008 92 14
2008 92 32
2008 92 34
2008 92 36
2008 92 38
2008 92 51
2008 92 59
2008 92 72
2008 92 74
2008 92 76
2008 92 78
2008 92 92
2008 92 93
2008 92 94
2008 92 97
2008 92 98
2008 99 11
2008 99 19
2008 99 23
2008 99 25
2008 99 26
2008 99 28
2008 99 36
2008 99 37
2008 99 38
2008 99 40
2008 99 41
2008 99 43
2008 99 45
2008 99 46
2008 99 47
2008 99 49
2008 99 51
2008 99 61
2008 99 62
2008 99 68
2008 99 99
2009 61 10
2009 61 90
2009 69 11
2009 69 19
2009 69 51
2009 69 59
2009 69 90
2009 80 19
2009 80 36
2009 80 38
2009 80 50
2009 80 63
2009 80 69
2009 80 71
2309
(1) As defined in Decree of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 598/2001 on the Customs Tariff of the Slovak Republic.
ANNEX B(b)
Imports into the Slovak Republic of the following products originating in the Community shall be subject to the concessions set out below
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ANNEX TO ANNEX B(b)
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ANNEX C
Agreement
between the European Community and the Slovak Republic on reciprocal preferential trade concessions for certain wines
1. Imports into the Community of the following products originating in the Slovak Republic shall be subject to the concessions set out below:
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2. The Community shall grant a preferential zero duty within tariff quotas as mentioned under point 1, subject to the condition that no export subsidies shall be paid for exports of these quantities by the Slovak Republic.
3. Imports into the Slovak Republic of the following products originating in the Community shall be subject to the concessions set out below:
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4. The Slovak Republic shall grant a preferential zero duty within tariff quotas as mentioned under point 3, subject to the condition that no export subsidies shall be paid for exports of these quantities by the Community.
5. This Agreement shall cover wine
(a) which has been produced from fresh grapes wholly produced and harvested in the territory of the Contracting Party in question, and
(b) (i) originating in the Community, which has been produced in accordance with the rules governing the oenological practices and processes referred to in Title V of Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine(1);
(ii) originating in the Slovak Republic, which has been produced in accordance with the rules governing the oenological practices and processes in conformity with the Slovak law. These oenological rules referred to shall be in conformity with the Community legislation.
6. Imports of wine under the concessions provided in this Agreement will be subject to the presentation of a certificate issued by a mutually recognised official body appearing on the lists drawn up jointly, to the effect that the wine in question complies with point 5(b).
7. The Contracting Parties shall examine the opportunities for granting each other further concessions taking into account the development of wine trade between the Contracting Parties.
8. The Contracting Parties agreed to continue immediately with the already started negotiations with the aim to conclude rapidly an agreement on the reciprocal recognition, protection and control of spirits and wine names, including "Slovenske Tokajske Vino" originating in the Slovak part of the Tokaj Wine Growing Region.
9. The Contracting Parties shall ensure that the benefits granted reciprocally are not called into question by other measures.
10. Consultations are to take place at the request of either Contracting Party on any problem relating to the way this Agreement operates.
11. This Agreement shall apply, on the one hand, in the territories in which the Treaty establishing the European Community is applied and under the conditions laid down in that Treaty and, on the other hand, in the territory of the Slovak Republic.
(1) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2585/2001 (OJ L 345, 29.12.2001, p. 10).
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