COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1340/97 of 11 July 1997 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 1808/95 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT and certain other Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural, industrial and fisheries products and establishing the detailed provisions for adapting these quotas
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1808/95 of 24 July 1995 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT and certain other Community tariff quotas for certain industrial, agricultural and fisheries products and establishing the detailed provisions for adapting these quotas (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2016/96 (2), and in particular Articles 9 and 10 thereof,
Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1808/95 opened Community tariff quotas in respect of a number of agricultural, industrial and fisheries products under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT);
Whereas Council Decision No 97/360/EC of 24 March 1997 on the elimination of duties on certain spirituous beverages (3), provides for amendment of the list of WTO tariff quotas to be opened by the European Community, by adding a tariff quota for rum and taffia of a certain value, from 1 July 1997 until 1 January 2003, when the duty is reduced to zero;
Whereas Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1808/95 should be amended accordingly by inserting the products listed in the Annex to this Regulation;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The tariff quota referred to in the Annex to this Regulation shall be added to Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 1808/95.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force the day after its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply with effect from 1 July 1997.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 11 July 1997.