8.8.1995
EN
Official Journal of the European Communities
L 187/14
COUNCIL DECISION
of 24 July 1995
on the conclusion of an Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway consequent on the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union
(95/312/EC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 113 in conjunction with Article 228 (2) first sentence thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas the Commission has negotiated on behalf of the Community an Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway ( 1 ) , signed in Brussels on 14 May 1973, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union;
Whereas this Additional Protocol should be approved,
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
Article 1
The Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway consequent on the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union is hereby approved on behalf of the Community.
The text of the Additional Protocol is attached to this Decision.
Article 2
The President of the Council is hereby authorized to designate the person empowered to sign the Additional Protocol in order to bind the Community.
Done at Brussels, 24 July 1995.
For the Council
The President
P. SOLBES MIRA
( 1 ) OJ No L 171, 27. 6. 1973, p. 2 .
ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE AGREEMENT
between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway consequent on the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union
THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY,
of the one part,
and
THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY
of the other part,
HAVING REGARD to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway signed in Brussels on 14 May 1973, hereinafter called the ‘Agreement’,
HAVING REGARD to the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union on 1 January 1995,
CONSIDERING that in order to maintain trade flows between Norway on the one hand and the new Member States on the other hand, it is necessary to make adjustments to the arrangements to trade in fishery products between Norway and the Community,
HAVE DECIDED to determine by common accord the adjustments to the Agreement consequent on the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union, AND TO CONCLUDE THIS PROTOCOL:
Article 1
The text of the Agreement, the Annexes and Protocols, which form an integral part thereof, the Final Act and the declarations annexed thereto shall be drawn up in the Finnish and Swedish languages and those texts shall be authentic in the same way as the original texts. The Joint Committee shall approve the Finnish and Swedish texts.
Article 2
The special provisions applicable to imports into the Community of certain fishery products originating in Norway are laid down in Annex I to this Protocol.
Article 3
The provisions of Protocol 3 concerning the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation shall be amended in accordance with Annex II to this Protocol.
Article 4
The Annexes to this Protocol form an integral part thereof. This Protocol forms an integral part of the Agreement.
Article 5
This Protocol shall be approved by the Contracting Parties in accordance with their own procedures. It shall enter into force on 1 July 1995, provided that the Contracting Parties have notified each other before that date that the procedures necessary to this end have been completed. After that date, the Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following such notification.
Article 6
This Protocol is drawn up in duplicate, in the Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Norwegian languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.
Hecho en Bruselas, el veinticinco de julio de mil novecientos noventa y cinco.
Udfærdiget i Bruxelles, den femogtyvende juli nitten hundrede og femoghalvfems.
Geschehen zu Brüssel am fünfundzwanzigsten Juli neunzehnhundertfünfundneunzig.
Έγινε στις Βρυξέλλες, στις είκοσι πέντε Ιουλίου χίλια εννιακόσια ενενήντα πέντε.
Done at Brussels, on the twenty-fifth day of July in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-five.
Fait à Bruxelles, le vingt-cinq juillet mil neuf cent quatre-vingt-quinze.
Fatto a Bruxelles, addì venticinque luglio millenovecentonovantacinque.
Gedaan te Brussel, de vijfentwintigste juli negentienhonderd vijfennegentig.
Feito em Bruxelas, em vinte e cinco de Julho de mil novecentos e noventa e cinco.
Tehty Brysselissä kahdentenakymmenentenäviidentenä päivänä heinäkuuta vuonna tuhat yhdeksänsataayhdeksänkymmentäviisi.
Som skedde i Bryssel den tjugofemte juli nittonhundranittiofem.
Utferdiget i Brussel den 25. juli 1995.
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
For Kongeriket Norge
ANNEX I
LIST OF PRODUCTS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 2
(Products originating in Norway for which the Community grants tariff quotas)
CN code
Description
Quotas (in tonnes)
1
0302 11 00
Trout, fresh or chilled
500
0303 21 00
Trout, frozen
2
0302 12 00
Salmon, fresh or chilled
6 100
3
0303 10 00
Pacific salmon, frozen
580
ex 0303 22 00
Atlantic salmon, frozen
4
0304 10 13
Salmon fillets, fresh or chilled
610
0304 20 13
Salmon fillets, frozen
5
0302 19 00
Other salmonidae, fresh or chilled
670
0303 29 00
Other salmonidae, frozen
6
0302 69 45
Ling, fresh or chilled
370
7
0302 22 00
Plaice, fresh or chilled
250
0302 23 00
Sole, fresh or chilled
0302 29 10
0302 29 90
Flat fish, fresh or chilled
0303 39 10
0303 39 20
0303 39 30
0303 39 80
Flat fish, frozen
0302 69 65
Hake, fresh or chilled
0302 69 81
Monkfish, fresh or chilled
0302 69 86
0302 69 87
0302 69 91
0302 69 92
0302 69 93
0302 69 96
Saltwater fish, fresh or chilled
8
0304 90 35
0304 90 38
0304 90 39
Frozen meat of cod and of fish of the species Boreogadus saida
500
0304 90 41
Frozen coalfish meat
0304 90 45
Frozen haddock meat
0304 90 47
0304 90 49
Frozen hake meat
0304 90 59
Frozen meat of blue whiting
0304 90 61
0304 90 65
ex 0304 90 97
Frozen meat of saltwater fish, excluding mackerel
9
0302 40 90
Herrings, fresh or chilled, from 16 June to 14 February
800
0302 50 90
Herrings, frozen, from 16 June to 14 February
10
0302 64 90
Mackerel, fresh or chilled, from 16 June to 14 February
260
11
0303 74 19
Mackerel, frozen, from 16 June to 14 February
100
12
0302 69 31
0302 69 33
Redfish, fresh or chilled
130
0303 79 35
0303 79 37
Redfish, frozen
13
0304 10 19
Fillets of other freshwater fish, fresh or chilled
110
0304 10 19
Fillets of other freshwater fish, frozen
14
0304 10 33
0304 10 35
0304 10 38
Fillets of saltwater fish, fresh or chilled
180
15
0304 10 92
0304 10 93
0304 10 98
Meat of saltwater fish, fresh or chilled
130
16
0304 20 21
0304 20 29
Frozen fillets of cod and of fish of the species Boreogadus saida
9 000
0304 20 31
Frozen coalfish fillets
0304 20 33
Frozen haddock fillets
0304 20 57
0304 20 59
Frozen hake fillets
0304 20 71
Frozen plaice fillets
0304 20 85
0304 20 87
0304 20 91
0304 20 96
Frozen fillets of saltwater fish
0304 20 35
0304 20 37
Frozen redfish fillets
0304 20 83
Frozen monkfish fillets
17
ex 0305 20 00
Livers and roes, dried, salted or in brine, but not smoked
1 900
18
0305 41 00
Smoked salmon
450
19
0305 42 00
Smoked herring
140
0305 49 10
Smoked Greenland halibut
0305 49 20
Smoked Atlantic halibut
0305 49 30
Smoked mackerel
0305 49 40
Smoked trout
0305 49 50
Smoked eels
0305 49 90
Other smoked fish
20
0305 69 90
Other fish, salted but not dried or smoked and fish in brine
250
21
0305 61 00
Herrings, salted but not dried or smoked and herrings in brine
1 440
22
0306 13 10
Pandalidae shrimps, frozen
950
0306 19 30
Norway lobsters, frozen
23
ex 0306 23 10
Pandalidae shrimps, not frozen, boiled on board
800
24
ex 0306 23 10
Pandalidae shrimps, not frozen, for processing
900
0306 29 30
Norway lobsters, not frozen
25
1604 11 00
Prepared or preserved salmon, whole or in pieces
170
26
1604 12 91
1604 12 99
Prepared or preserved herrings, whole or in pieces
3 000
27
1604 13 90
Prepared or preserved sardinella, brisling or sprats, whole or in pieces
180
28
1604 15 11
1604 15 19
Prepared or preserved mackerel, whole or in pieces
130
29
1604 19 92
1604 19 93
1604 19 94
1604 19 95
1604 19 98
Prepared or preserved mackerel, whole or in pieces
5 500
1604 20 90
Prepared or preserved meat of other fish
30
1604 20 10
Prepared or preserved salmon meat
300
31
1605 20 10
1605 20 91
1605 20 99
Shrimps and prawns, prepared or preserved
5 500 peeled frozen 1 000 other
32
2301 20 00
Flours, meals and pellets, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
28 000
33
1605 10 00
Crab, prepared or preserved
50
These tariff quotas apply from 1 January to 31 December each year, except for 1995 when they will apply from 1 July to 31 December 1995. For the amount indicated for each product group, Community imports originating in Norway can be released for free circulation at 0 % import duty.
ANNEX II
The following text shall be inserted in Appendix II of Protocol 3:
‘HS heading No
Description of product
Working or processing carried out on non-originating materials that confers originating status
(1)
(2)
(3) or (4)
ex Chapter 3
Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
Manufacture in which all the materials of Chapter 3 used must be wholly obtained
1604
Prepared or preserved fish, caviare and caviare substitutes prepared from fish eggs
Manufacture in which all the fish or fish eggs must be wholly obtained
ex 1605
Crustaceans and molluscs, prepared or preserved
Manufacture in which all the crustaceans or molluscs must be wholly obtained
ex 2301
Whale meal; flours, meals and pellets of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
Manufacture in which all the materials of Chapter 3 used must be wholly obtained’