ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY AND THE REPUBLIC OF ICELAND

THE EUROPEAN UNION

and

ICELAND

HAVING REGARD to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Iceland signed on 22 July 1972, and to the existing arrangements for trade in fish and fishery products between Iceland and the Community,

HAVING REGARD to the Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and Iceland concerning special provisions applicable for the period 2014–2021 to imports into the Union of certain fish and fishery products, and in particular Article 1 thereof,

HAVE DECIDED TO CONCLUDE THIS PROTOCOL:

Article 1

1. The special provisions applicable to imports into the European Union of certain fish and fishery products originating in Iceland are laid down in this Protocol and the Annex hereto. The annual duty free tariff quotas are set out in the Annex to this Protocol. These tariff quotas shall be applicable from the day on which the provisional application of this Protocol becomes effective, according to procedures laid down in paragraph 3 of Article 4, until 30 April 2028.

2. At the end of this period, the Contracting Parties will assess the need to maintain the special provisions referred to in paragraph 1 and, if necessary, review the quota levels while taking into account all relevant interests.

Article 2

1. The tariff quotas shall be opened on the day on which the provisional application of this Protocol becomes effective, according to procedures laid down in paragraph 3 of Article 4.

2. The volumes of the tariff quotas are set out in the Annex to this Protocol. The first tariff quota shall be available from the date of provisional application of this Protocol until 30 April 2024. From 1 May 2024 onwards, subsequent tariff quotas shall be allocated annually from 1 May to 30 April until the end of the period referred to in Article 1 of this Protocol.

3. The tariff quota volumes covering the period from 1 May 2021 until the provisional application this Protocol shall be proportionally allocated and made available for the rest of the period referred to in Article 1 of this Protocol.

4. In case tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 are not exhausted during the period referred to in Article 1, and in case a subsequent protocol establishing duty-free tariff quotas for the same products is not provisionally applied, imports from Iceland can be made for the remaining accumulated quota volume of those tariff quotas for up to two years following the end of the period referred to in Article 1, but not longer than provisional application of a subsequent protocol establishing duty-free tariff quotas for the same products.

Article 3

The rules of origin applicable for the tariff quotas listed in the Annex to this Protocol shall be those set out in Protocol 3 to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and Iceland signed on 22 July 1972.

Article 4

1. This Protocol shall be ratified or approved by the Parties in accordance with their own procedures. The instruments of ratification or approval shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union.

2. It shall enter into force on the first day of the second month after the last instrument of ratification or approval has been deposited.

3. Pending the completion of the procedures referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, this Protocol shall be applied on a provisional basis from the first day of the third month following the deposit of the last notification to this effect.

Article 5

This Protocol, drawn up in a single original, in the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Icelandic languages, the text in each of these texts being equally authentic, shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, which will remit a certified copy to each of the Parties.

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ANNEX

SPECIAL PROVISIONS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 1 OF THE PROTOCOL

In addition to the existing permanent duty free tariff quotas, the European Union shall open the following annual duty free tariff quotas for products originating in Iceland:

CN code	Description of products	Annual (1.5-30.4) tariff quota volume in net weight unless otherwise specified (1)
0303 51 00	Frozen herrings ‘Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii’ (2)	400 tonnes
0306 15 00	Frozen Norway lobsters ‘Nephrops norvegicus’, even smoked, whether in shell or not, incl. lobsters in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water	100 tonnes
0304 49 50	Fresh or chilled fillets of redfish ‘Sebastes spp.’	2 500 tonnes
1604 19 92 1604 20 90	Preparations of cod and other fish	2 000 tonnes
	Fresh or chilled	5 500 tonnes
0302 23 00	Sole (Solea spp.)
0302 24 00	Turbots (Psetta maxima)
0302 29	Megrim (Lepidorhombus spp.) and other flat fish, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat
Ex03025990	Fish of the families Bregmacerotidae, Euchlichthyidae, Gadidae, Macrouridae, Melanonidae, Merlucciidae, Moridae and Muraenolepididae
0302 82 00	Rays and skates (Rajidae)
0302 89 50	Monkfish (Lophius spp.)
0302 89 90	Other fresh or chilled fish, n.e.s.
0303 32 00	Frozen plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)
0303 39 85	Frozen flatfish
Ex03035990	Frozen Indian mackerels, ‘Rastrelliger spp.’
Ex03036990	Frozen fish of the families Bregmacerotidae, Euchlichthyidae, Gadidae, Macrouridae, Melanonidae, Merlucciidae, Moridae and Muraenolepididae
0303 82 00	Frozen rays and skates (Rajidae)
0303 89 90	Frozen fish, n.e.s.
0303 99 00	Frozen fish fins, heads, tails, maws and other edible fish offal
0304 43 00	Fresh or chilled fillets of flat fish (Pleuronectidae, Bothidae, Cynoglossidae, Soleidae, Scophthalmidae and Citharidae)
Ex03044490	Fresh or chilled fillets of fish of the families Bregmacerotdae, Euchlichthyidae, Gadidae, Macrouridae, Melanonidae, Merlucciidae, Moridae and Muraenolepididae
0304 46	Fresh or chilled fillets of toothfish
0304 49 10	Fresh or chilled fillets of freshwater fish
0304 49 90	Fresh or chilled fillets of other fish, n.e.s.
0304 95 10	Frozen surimi
0305 39 10	Fillets of salmon salted or in brine, but not smoked	50 tonnes
0305 42 00	Smoked herring
0305 69 50	Salmon only salted or in brine
0305 41 00	Smoked salmon, including fillets
0305 72 00	Fish heads, tails and maws, smoked, dried, salted or in brine	1 950 tonnes
0305 79 00	Fish fins and other edible fish offal, smoked, dried, salted or in brine
0305 43 00	Smoked trout (Salmo trutta, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus clarki, Oncorhynchus aguabonita, Oncorhynchus gilae, Oncorhynchus apache and Oncorhynchus chrysogaster)
0305 49 80	Other smoked fish
1604 11 00 1604 20 10	Prepared or preserved salmon, whole or in pieces (excl. minced)
1605 61 00	Prepared or preserved sea cucumbers
1605 62 00	Prepared or preserved sea urchins
0302 22 00	Fresh or chilled plaice (‘Pleuronectes platessa’)	2 500 tonnes
0302 59 20	Fresh or chilled whiting (‘Merlangius merlangus’)
0304 49 10	Fresh or chilled fillets of freshwater fish, n.e.s.
0304 52 00	Fresh or chilled meat, whether or not minced, of Salmonidae
0304 89 10	Frozen fillets of freshwater fish, n.e.s.
0305 69 80	Other fish, only salted or in brine
0304 82 10 0304 82 90	Frozen fillets of trout ‘Salmo trutta, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus aguabonita, Oncorhynchus gilae’
0302 59 40	Fresh or chilled ling ‘Molva spp.’
0305 53 90	Dried fish of the families Bregmacerotidae, Euclichthyidae, Gadidae, Macrouridae, Melanonidae, Merlucciidae, Moridae and Muraenolepididae, other than cod
0303 14 20 0303 14 90	Frozen trout ‘Oncorhynchus mykiss’, with heads and gills on, gutted
0304 82 10	Frozen trout ‘Salmo trutta, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus’, frozen fillets of trout ‘Oncorhynchus mykiss’, weighing > 400 grammes each
0302 14 00	Fresh or chilled Atlantic salmon ‘Salmo salar’ and Danube salmon
0303 13 00	Frozen Atlantic salmon ‘Salmo salar’ and Danube salmon ‘Hucho hucho’
0304 41 00	Fresh or chilled fillets of Pacific salmon ‘Oncorhynchus nerka, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus keta, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus masou and Oncorhynchus rhodurus), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and Danube salmon (Hucho hucho)’
0304 81 00	Frozen fillets of Pacific salmon ‘Oncorhynchus nerka, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus keta, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus masou and Oncorhynchus rhodurus), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and Danube salmon (Hucho hucho)’

( 1 ) Quantities shall be added in accordance with Article 2 paragraph 3 of this Protocol.

( 2 ) The benefit of the tariff quota shall not be granted to goods declared for release for free circulation during the period 15 February to 15 June.

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/prot/2024/2601/oj

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