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 Czech 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 CZECH 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 Czech 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 Czech 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 4 May 2000 and 6 June 2002.

(5) From the one side, the Council decided, by virtue of Council Regulation (EC) No 2433/2000 of 17 October 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 Czech 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 Czech Republic took legislative provisions to apply, as from the same date, the equivalent Czech 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 Czech Republic as set out in Annexes A(a) and A(b) to this Protocol and the arrangements for import into the Czech 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 Czech 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 Czech 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 Czech languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.

Hecho en Bruselas, el veintitrés de abril del dos mil tres./Udfærdiget i Bruxelles den treogtyvende april to tusind og tre./Geschehen zu Brüssel am dreiundzwanzigsten April zweitausendunddrei./Έγινε στις Βρυξέλλες, στις είκοσι τρεις Απριλίου δύο χιλιάδες τρία./Done at Brussels on the twenty-third day of April in the year two thousand and three./Fait à Bruxelles, le vingt-trois avril deux mille trois./Fatto a Bruxelles, addì ventitré aprile duemilatre./Gedaan te Brussel, de drieëntwintigste april tweeduizenddrie./Feito em Bruxelas, em vinte e três de Abril de dois mil e três./Tehty Brysselissä kahdentenakymmenentenäkolmantena päivänä huhtikuuta vuonna kaksituhattakolme./Som skedde i Bryssel den tjugotredje april tjugohundratre./Dáno v Bruselu dne dvacátého tretího dubna roku dva tisíce tri.

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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(1) OJ L 360, 31.12.1994, p. 2.

(2) OJ L 341, 16.12.1998, p. 3.

(3) OJ L 280, 4.11.2000, p. 1.

ANNEX A(a)

Custom duties on imports applicable in the Community to products originating in the Czech Republic and listed below shall be abolished

CN code(1)

0101 10 90

0101 90 30

0101 90 90

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0105 19

0106 19 10

0106 39 10

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0206 90 91

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0208 20 00

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0208 50 00

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0601

0602

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0604

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1515 29

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2001 90 20

2001 90 50

2001 90 70

2001 90 75

2001 90 85

2001 90 91

2002

2003

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2005 90 50

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2006 00 99

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2007 99 10

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2008 11 96

2008 11 98

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2008 30 59

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2009 41 10

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2009 79 30

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2009 80 50

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2009 80 79

2009 80 88

2009 80 89

2009 80 95

2009 80 96

2009 80 97

2009 80 99

2009 90 19

2009 90 29

2009 90 39

2009 90 41

2009 90 49

2009 90 51

2009 90 59

2009 90 73

2009 90 79

2009 90 95

2009 90 96

2009 90 97

2009 90 98

2302 50 00

2306 90 19

2308 00 90

(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 Czech 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 Czech 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 Czech authorities in order to enable them to correct the situation.

4. At the request of either the Community or the Czech 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)

Custom duties on imports applicable in the Czech Republic to products originating in the Community and listed below shall be abolished

Czech customs code(1)

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2002 90 31

2002 90 39

2002 90 91

2002 90 99

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2005 90 80

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2008 20 39

2008 20 51

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2008 20 91

2008 20 99

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2008 30 31

2008 30 39

2008 30 51

2008 30 55

2008 30 59

2008 30 71

2008 30 75

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2008 30 90

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2008 70

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2008 99 41

2008 99 51

2009 50 10

2009 50 90

2009 61

2009 71

2009 79 19

2009 79 30

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2009 80 50

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2009 80 71

2009 80 73

2009 80 79

2009 80 88

2009 80 89

2009 80 96

2009 80 97

2009 80 99

2009 90 19

2009 90 29

2009 90 39

2009 90 51

2009 90 59

2009 90 95

2009 90 96

2009 90 97

2009 90 98

(1) As defined in Decree of the Government of the Czech Republic No 480/2001 on the Customs Tariff of the Czech Republic.

ANNEX B(b)

Imports into the Czech 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 Czech Republic on reciprocal preferential trade concessions for certain wines

1. Imports into the Community of the following products originating in the Czech 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 Czech Republic.

3. Imports into the Czech Republic of the following products originating in the Community shall be subject to the concessions set out below:

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4. The Czech 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 Czech Republic, which has been produced in accordance with the rules governing the oenological practices and processes in conformity with the Czech 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 shall ensure that the benefits granted reciprocally are not called into question by other measures.

9. Consultations are to take place at the request of either Contracting Party on any problem relating to the way this Agreement operates.

10. 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 Czech 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).