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Document 02018R1977-20190101

    Consolidated text: Council Regulation (EU) 2018/1977 of 11 December 2018 opening and providing for the management of autonomous Union tariff quotas for certain fishery products for the period 2019–2020

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    COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) 2018/1977

    of 11 December 2018

    opening and providing for the management of autonomous Union tariff quotas for certain fishery products for the period 2019–2020

    (OJ L 317 14.12.2018, p. 2)

    Amended by:

     

     

    Official Journal

      No

    page

    date

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    COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) 2020/231 of 18 February 2020

      L 47I

    1

    20.2.2020


    Corrected by:

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    Corrigendum, OJ L 157, 14.6.2019, p.  67 (2018/1977)




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    COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) 2018/1977

    of 11 December 2018

    opening and providing for the management of autonomous Union tariff quotas for certain fishery products for the period 2019–2020



    Article 1

    Import duties on the products listed in the Annex shall be reduced or suspended within the tariff quotas at the rates, for the periods and up to the amounts indicated therein.

    Article 2

    The tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 of this Regulation shall be managed in accordance with Articles 49 to 54 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2447.

    Article 3

    The tariff quotas shall be subject to end-use customs supervision in accordance with Article 254 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 1 ).

    Article 4

    1.  The reduction or suspension of import duties shall apply only to products intended for human consumption.

    2.  The tariff quotas shall not be available for those products whose processing is carried out at retail or catering level.

    3.  The tariff quotas shall not be available for products intended solely for one or more of the following operations:

    — 
    cleaning, gutting, tailing, heading;
    — 
    cutting;
    — 
    repacking of frozen IQF (individually quick frozen) fillets;
    — 
    sampling, sorting;
    — 
    labelling;
    — 
    packing;
    — 
    chilling;
    — 
    freezing;
    — 
    deep freezing;
    — 
    glazing;
    — 
    thawing;
    — 
    separation.

    4.  Notwithstanding paragraph 3, the tariff quotas shall be available for products intended for one or more of the following operations:

    — 
    dicing;
    — 
    cutting into rings and cutting into strips for materials under CN codes 0307 43 91 , 0307 43 92 , 0307 43 99 ;
    — 
    filleting;
    — 
    production of flaps;
    — 
    cutting of frozen blocks;
    — 
    splitting of frozen interleaved fillet blocks to obtain individual fillets;
    — 
    slicing for materials under CN codes ex 0303 66 11 , 0303 66 12 , 0303 66 13 , 0303 66 19 , 0303 89 70 , 0303 89 90 ;
    — 
    subjecting products under CN codes 0306 16 99 (TARIC subdivisions 20 and 30 ), 0306 17 92 (TARIC subdivision 20 ), 0306 17 99 (TARIC subdivision 10 ), 0306 35 90 (TARIC subdivisions 12 , 14 , 92 and 93 ), 0306 36 90 (TARIC subdivisions 20 and 30 ), 1605 21 90 (TARIC subdivisions 45 , 55 and 62 ) and 1605 29 00 (TARIC subdivisions 50 , 55 and 60 ) to processing treatment by packaging gases as defined in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 2 );
    — 
    dividing the frozen product or subjecting the frozen product to heat treatment to enable the removal of internal waste material for materials under CN codes 0306 11 10 (TARIC subdivision 10 ), 0306 11 90 (TARIC subdivision 20 ) and 0306 31 00 (TARIC subdivision 10 ).

    Article 5

    The Commission and the customs authorities of the Member States shall cooperate closely to ensure the proper management and control of the application of this Regulation.

    Article 6

    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 January 2019 to 31 December 2020.

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




    ANNEX



    Order No

    CN code

    TARIC code

    Description

    Annual amount of quota (tonnes) (1)

    Quota duty

    Quota period

    09.2746

    ex 0302 89 90

    30

    Southern red snapper (Lutjanus purpureus), fresh, chilled, for processing

    1 500

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    09.2748

    ex 0302 91 00

    95

    Hard fish roes enclosed in the ovarian membrane, fresh, chilled or frozen, salted or in brine, for processing

    5 700

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    ex 0303 91 90

    91

    ex 0305 20 00

    30

    09.2750

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    ex 0305 20 00
    ex 1604 32 00  ◄

    ►M1  
    35
    20  ◄

    Hard fish roes, washed, cleaned of adherent organs and simply salted or in brine, for the manufacture of caviar substitutes ►M1   (4)  ◄

    1 500

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    09.2754

    ex 0303 59 10

    10

    Anchovies (Engraulis anchoita and Engraulis capensis), frozen, for processing

    500

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    09.2759

    ex 0302 51 10

    20

    Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus) and fish of the species Boreogadus saida, excluding livers and roes, fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing

    95 000

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    ex 0302 51 90

    10

    ex 0302 59 10

    10

    ex 0303 63 10

    10

    ex 0303 63 30

    10

    ex 0303 63 90

    10

    ex 0303 69 10

    10

    09.2760

    ex 0303 66 11

    10

    Hake (Merluccius spp. excluding Merluccius merluccius, Urophycis spp.), and pink cusk-eel (Genypterus blacodes and Genypterus capensis), frozen, for processing

    12 000

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    ex 0303 66 12

    10

    ex 0303 66 13

    10

    ex 0303 66 19

    11

     

    91

    ex 0303 89 70

    10

    ex 0303 89 90

    30

    09.2761

    ex 0304 79 50

    10

    Blue grenadier (Macruronus spp.), frozen fillets and other frozen meat, for processing

    17 500

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    ex 0304 79 90

    11

     

    17

    ex 0304 95 90

    11

     

    17

    09.2765

    ex 0305 62 00

    20

    Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus) and fish of the species Boreogadus saida, salted or in brine, but not dried or smoked, for processing

    3 500

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

     

    25

     

    29

    ex 0305 69 10

    10

    09.2770

    ex 0305 63 00

    10

    Anchovies (Engraulis anchoita), salted or in brine, but not dried or smoked, for processing

    2 500

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    09.2772

    ex 0304 93 10

    10

    Surimi, frozen, for processing

    60 000

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    ex 0304 94 10

    10

    ex 0304 95 10

    10

    ex 0304 99 10

    10

    09.2774

    ex 0304 74 15

    10

    North Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) and Argentine hake (Southwest Atlantic hake) (Merluccius hubbsi), frozen fillets and other meat, for processing

    25 000

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    ex 0304 74 19

    10

    ex 0304 95 50

    10

     

    20

    09.2776

    ex 0304 71 10

    10

    Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus macrocephalus), frozen fillets and frozen meat, for processing

    50 000

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    ex 0304 71 90

    10

    ex 0304 95 21

    10

    ex 0304 95 25

    10

    09.2777

    ex 0303 67 00

    10

    Alaska pollack (Theragra chalcogramma), frozen, frozen fillets and other frozen meat, for processing

    320 000

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    ex 0304 75 00

    10

    ex 0304 94 90

    10

    09.2778

    ex 0304 83 90

    21

    Flatfish, frozen fillets and other fish meat (Limanda aspera, Lepidopsetta bilineata, Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus, Limanda ferruginea, Lepidopsetta polyxystra), for processing

    10 000

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    ex 0304 99 99

    65

    09.2785

    ex 0307 43 91

    10

    Pod (2) of squid (Ommastrephes spp. - excluding Todarodes sagittatus (synonym Ommastrephes sagittatus) -, Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis spp.) and Illex spp., frozen, with skin and fins, for processing

    28 000

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    ex 0307 43 92

    10

    ex 0307 43 99

    21

    09.2786

    ex 0307 43 91

    20

    Squid (Ommastrephes spp. - excluding Todarodes sagittatus (synonym Ommastrephes sagittatus) -, Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis spp.) and Illex spp., frozen, whole or tentacles and fins, for processing

    5 000

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    ex 0307 43 92

    20

    ex 0307 43 99

    29

    09.2788

    ex 0302 41 00

    10

    Herrings (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii), of a weight exceeding 100 g per piece or flaps of a weight exceeding 80 g per piece, excluding livers and roes, for processing

    8 000

    0 %

    1.10.2019-31.12.2019

    1.10.2020-31.12.2020

    ex 0303 51 00

    10

    ex 0304 59 50

    10

    ex 0304 99 23

    10

    09.2790

    ex 1604 14 26

    10

    Fillets known as ‘loins’ of tunas and skipjack, for processing

    30 000

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    ex 1604 14 36

    10

    ex 1604 14 46

    11

     

    21

     

    92

     

    94

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    09.2794

    ex 1605 21 90

    45

    Shrimps and prawns of the species Pandalus borealis, and Pandalus montagui, cooked and peeled, for processing

    7 000

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

     

    62

    ex 1605 29 00

    50

     

    55

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    09.2798

    ex 0306 16 99

    20

    Shrimps and prawns of the species Pandalus borealis and Pandalus montagui, in shells, fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing

    4 000

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

     

    30

    ex 0306 35 90

    12

     

    14

     

    92

     

    93

    09.2800

    ex 1605 21 90

    55

    Shrimps and prawns of the species Pandalus jordani, cooked and peeled, for processing

    3 000

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    ex 1605 29 00

    60

    09.2802

    ex 0306 17 92

    20

    Shrimps and prawns of the species Penaeus vannamei and Penaeus monodon, whether in shell or not, fresh, chilled or frozen, not cooked, for processing

    40 000

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    ex 0306 36 90

    30

    09.2824

    ex 0302 52 00

    10

    Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) fresh, chilled or frozen with heads off, gilled and gutted, for processing

    3 500

    2,6 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    ex 0303 64 00

    10

    09.2826

    ex 0306 17 99

    10

    Shrimps and prawns of the species Pleoticus muelleri, whether in shell or not, fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing

    4 000

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    ex 0306 36 90

    20

    09.2804

    ex 1605 40 00

    40

    Crayfish tails of the species Procambarus clarkii, cooked, for processing

    4 000

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    09.2762

    ex 0306 11 10

    10

    Rock lobster and other sea crawfish (Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp., Jasus spp.), live, chilled, frozen, for processing

    200

    6 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    ex 0306 11 90

    20

    ex 0306 31 00

    10

    09.2784 (3)

    ex 1605 10 00

    21

    Crabs of the species ‘King’ (Paralithodes Camchaticus), ‘Hansaki’ (Paralithodes brevipes), ‘Kegani’ (Erimacrus isenbecki), ‘Queen’ and ‘Snow’ (Chionoecetes spp.), ‘Red’ (Geryon quinquedens), ‘Rough stone’ (Neolithodes asperrimus), Lithodes santolla, ‘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, for processing

    500

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

     

    95

    09.2822

    ex 0303 11 00

    20

    Pacific Salmon, headed and gutted, frozen, of the species Oncorhynchus nerka (sockeye salmon (red salmon)) and Oncorhynchus kisutch, for processing

    10 000

    0 %

    1.1.2019-31.12.2020

    ex 0303 12 00

    20

    (1)   Expressed in net weight, unless otherwise stated.

    (2)   Body of cephalopod or the squid headless and without tentacle, with skin and fins.

    (3)   This tariff quota (09.2784) is automatically deleted starting from 1 January of the year following that in which the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Vietnam enters into force or is applied provisionally, whichever occurs first.

    (4)   For TARIC code 1604320020 this tariff quota applies from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019.



    ( 1 ) Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 laying down the Union Customs Code (OJ L 269, 10.10.2013, p. 1).

    ( 2 ) Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on food additives (OJ L 354, 31.12.2008, p. 16).

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