
Article 1 

1. From 1 January to 31 December of each year or for the periods shown in Annex I, the customs duties applicable to the products referred to in this Regulation shall be suspended or reduced to the levels indicated for each product, within the limit of the Community tariff quota shown for each product.
2. Imports of products referred to in Annex I under Order Nos 09.0703 and 09.0711 shall not qualify for the tariff quotas unless the free-at-frontier price established by the Member States in accordance with Article 22 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 of 17 December 1992 on the common organization of the market in fishery and aquaculture products is at least equal to any reference price which has been fixed by the Community for the products or categories of products in question.
3. The Protocol on the definition of the concept of originating products and on methods of administrative cooperation annexed to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway shall apply.
Article 2 
The tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 shall be administered by the Commission, which may take any appropriate administrative measures in order to ensure efficient administration.
Article 3 
If an importer presents in a Member State a declaration of entry into free circulation including a request for preferential benefit for a product covered by this Regulation, and if this declaration is accepted by the customs authorities, the Member State concerned shall draw, from the quota volume by means of notification to the Commission, a quantity corresponding to those needs.
The requests for drawing, with the indication of the date of acceptance of the said declarations, must be communicated to the Commission without delay.
The drawings are granted by the Commission on the basis of the date of acceptance of the declaration of entry into free circulation by the customs authorities of the Member State concerned, to the extent that the available balance so permits.
If a Member State does not use the quantities drawn, it shall return them as soon as possible to the corresponding quota volume.
If the quantities requested are greater than the available balance of the quota volume, allocation shall be made on a pro rata basis with respect to the requests. Member States shall be informed thereof by the Commission.
Article 4 
Each Member State shall guarantee importers of the products in question equal and continuous access to the quotas as long as the balance of the corresponding quota volume allows.
Article 5 

1. The provisions necessary for the application of this Regulation, in particular:
(a) the amendments and technical adaptations, in so far as necessary, arising from amendments of the combined nomenclature and Taric codes; and
(b) the necessary adaptations of volume, periods and quota duties arising from decisions adopted by the Council; shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 6 (2).
2. The provisions adopted pursuant to paragraph 1 do not authorize the Commission to:
— carry over preferential quantities from one quota period to another,
— amend the timetables laid down in the Agreements,
— transfer quantities from one quota to another,
— open and administer quotas resulting from new agreements.
Article 6 

1. The Commission shall be assisted by the Customs Code Committee set up by Article 247 of Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92.
2. The representative of the Commission shall submit to the Committee a draft of the measures to be taken. The Committee shall deliver its opinion on the draft within a time limit which the chairman may lay down according to the urgency of the matter. The opinion shall be delivered by the majority laid down in Article 148 (2) of the Treaty in the case of decisions which the Council is required to adopt on a proposal from the Commission. The votes of the representatives of the Member States within the Committee shall be weighted in the manner set out in that Article. The chairman shall not vote.The Commission shall adopt the measures, which apply immediately. However, if these measures are not in accordance with the opinion of the Committee, they shall be communicated by the Commission to the Council forthwith. In that event:
— the Commission shall defer application of the measures which it has decided for three months from the date of such communication,
— the Council, acting by qualified majority, may take a different decision within the period referred to in the previous indent.
3. The Committee may examine any question concerning the application of this Regulation which is raised by its chairman either on his own initiative or at the request of a Member State.
Article 7 
Member States and the Commission shall cooperate closely in order to ensure that this Regulation is complied with.
Article 8 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply from 1 January 1995 for the whole period of validity of the Agreements in the form of exchanges of letters with Norway, approved respectively by Decisions 86/557/EEC and 93/737/EC.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Luxembourg, 10 April 1995.
For the Council
The President
A. JUPPÉ
ANNEX I

Order No CN code Description Amount of quotas (tonnes) Quota duty (%)
09.0701 ex 1504 20 10ex 1504 30 19ex 1516 10 90 Oils and fats of marine animals, other than whale oil and sperm oil, in packings of a net capacity of more than 1 kg 1 000 8,5
0305 Fish, dried, salted, or in brine; smoked fish, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process; fish meal fit for human consumption:  
– Dried fish, whether or not salted but not smoked:  
0305 51 – – Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus):  
09.0703 ex 0305 51 90 – – – Dried, slated: 13 250 0
– Excluding cod of the species Gadus macrocephalus
0305 59 – – Other:
– – – Fish of the species Boreogadus saida:
0305 59 19 – – – – Dried, salted:From 1 April to 31 December
Prepared or preserved fish, including caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs: 400 5,8
ex 1604 13 90 – – – Other:
– – – – Sardinella; brisling or sprats excluding raw fillets merely coated with batter or breadcrumbs, whether or not prefried in oil, deep-frozen
– – – – Other:
1604 19 92 – – – – – Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus)
09.0711 ex 1604 19 93 – – – – – Coalfish (Pollachius virens), excluding smoked coalfish
1604 19 94 – – – – – Hake (Merluccius spp., Urophycis spp.)
1604 19 95 – – – – – Alaska pollack (Theragra chalcogramma) and pollack (Pollachius pollachius)
1604 19 98 – – – – – Other
ex 1604 20 90 Fish other than herring and smoked saithe:
– Other than mackerel
– Mackarel (scomber australasicus) 10
09.0751 ex 0704 10 10 Cauliflowers, fresh or chilled, from 1 August to 31 October 2 000 0
09.0753 ex 0704 90 90 Broccoli, fresh or chilled, from 1 July to 31 October 1 000 0
09.0755 ex 0704 90 90 China cabbages, fresh or chilled, from 1 July to end February 3 000 0
09.0757 0809 20 510809 20 590809 20 610809 20 69ex 0809 20 71ex 0809 20 79 Cherries, fresh, from 16 July to 31 August 600 0
09.0759 ex 0809 40 30ex 0809 40 40ex 0809 40 90 Plums and sloes, fresh, from 1 September to 15 October 600 0
09.0761 ex 0810 10 10 Strawberries, fresh, from 15 July to 31 July 750 0
09.0762 ex 0810 10 90 Strawberries, fresh, from 1 August to 15 September 750 0


ANNEX II
Order No CN codes Taric codes
09.0701 ex 1504 20 10 1504 20 10*90
ex 1504 30 19 1504 30 19*90
ex 1516 10 90 1516 10 90*11
09.0703 ex 0305 51 90 0305 51 90*10
*20
ex 1604 13 90 1604 13 90*91
*99
09.0711 ex 1604 19 93 1604 19 93*90
ex 1604 20 90 1604 20 90*30
*40
*90
09.0751 ex 0704 10 10 0704 10 10*30
09.0753 ex 0704 90 90 0704 90 90*13
09.0755 ex 0704 90 90 0704 90 90*92
*94
*97
09.0757 ex 0809 20 71 0809 20 71*10
ex 0809 20 79 0809 20 79*11
0809 20 79*19
09.0759 ex 0809 40 30 0809 40 30*51
*52
*53
*54
*55
*56
ex 0809 40 40 0809 40 40*20
ex 0809 40 90 0809 40 90*50
09.0761 ex 0809 10 10 0810 10 10*60
*80
09.0762 ex 0810 10 90 0810 10 90*12
*14