Regulation (EU) No 1218/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2012 concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and Brazil pursuant to Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions with respect to processed poultry meat provided for in the EU Schedule annexed to GATT 1994, and of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and Thailand pursuant to Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions with respect to processed poultry meat provided for in the EU Schedule annexed to GATT 1994, and amending and supplementing Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

• CELEX: Regulation (EU) No 1218/2012
• Articles: 4

Article 1

In Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, Part Two of Annex I (‘Schedule of Customs Duties’) shall be amended with the duties shown in the Annex to this Regulation.

The autonomous duties shall be set at the level of the conventional duties.

Article 2

In Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, Annex 7 of Section III of Part Three (‘WTO tariff quotas to be opened by the Competent Community Authorities’) of Annex I shall be amended with the tariff quotas and supplemented with the volumes and duties shown in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

It shall apply from the date of entry into force of the Agreements.

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording for the description of the products is to be considered as having no more than an indicative value, the concessions being determined, within the context of this Annex, by the coverage of the CN codes as they exist at the time of adoption of this Regulation.

Part Two

Schedule of Customs Duties

CN code

Description

Duty rate (autonomous and conventional)

1602 32 11

Processed chicken meat, uncooked, containing 57 % or more by weight of poultry meat or offal

2 765  EUR/tonne

1602 32 30

Processed chicken meat, containing 25 % or more but less than 57 % by weight of poultry meat or offal

2 765  EUR/tonne

1602 32 90

Processed chicken meat, containing less than 25 % by weight of poultry meat or offal

2 765  EUR/tonne

1602 39 21

Processed duck, geese, guinea fowl meat, uncooked, containing 57 % or more by weight of poultry meat or offal

2 765  EUR/tonne

1602 39 29

Processed duck, geese, guinea fowl meat, cooked, containing 57 % or more by weight of poultry meat or offal

2 765  EUR/tonne

1602 39 85

Processed duck, geese, guinea fowl meat, containing less than 57 % by weight of poultry meat or offal

2 765  EUR/tonne

Part Three

Tariff Annexes

CN code

Description

Duty rate

1602 32 11

Processed chicken meat, uncooked, containing 57 % or more by weight of poultry meat or offal

Open a tariff quota of 16 140 tonnes, of which 15 800 tonnes shall be allocated to Brazil

In-quota rate: 630 EUR/tonne

1602 32 30

Processed chicken meat, containing 25 % or more but less than 57 % by weight of poultry meat or offal

Open a tariff quota of 79 705 tonnes, of which 62 905 tonnes shall be allocated to Brazil and 14 000 tonnes to Thailand

In-quota rate: 10,9 %

1602 32 90

Processed chicken meat, containing less than 25 % by weight of poultry meat or offal

Open a tariff quota of 2 865 tonnes, of which 295 tonnes shall be allocated to Brazil and 2 100 tonnes to Thailand

In-quota rate: 10,9 %

1602 39 21

Processed duck, geese, guinea fowl meat, uncooked, containing 57 % or more by weight of poultry meat or offal

Open a tariff quota of 10 tonnes for Thailand

In-quota rate: 630 EUR/tonne

1602 39 29

Processed duck, geese, guinea fowl meat, cooked, containing 57 % or more by weight of poultry meat or offal

Open a tariff quota of 13 720 tonnes, of which 13 500 tonnes shall be allocated to Thailand

In-quota rate: 10,9 %

ex 1602 39 85

Processed duck, geese, guinea fowl meat, containing 25 % or more but less than 57 % by weight of poultry meat or offal

Open a tariff quota of 748 tonnes, of which 600 tonnes shall be allocated to Thailand

In-quota rate: 10,9 %

ex 1602 39 85

Processed duck, geese, guinea fowl meat, containing less than 25 % by weight of poultry meat or offal

Open a tariff quota of 725 tonnes, of which 600 tonnes shall be allocated to Thailand

In-quota rate: 10,9 %

The exact tariff description of the EU WTO Schedule shall apply to all tariff lines and quotas above.