
Article 1 
This Regulation shall apply to products set out in the Annex.
Article 2 
For the purposes of this Regulation ‘products’ means agricultural products and/or goods not included in Annex I to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
Article 3 

1. Without prejudice to Section 3(a) of Annex IV to the Act of Accession, and where stricter legislation does not apply at national level, Croatia shall levy charges on holders of surplus stocks at 1 July 2013 of products in free circulation.
2. In order to determine the surplus stock of each holder, Croatia shall take into account:
(a) averages of stocks available in the period from 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2013;
(b) the pattern of trade in the period from 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2013;
(c) the circumstances in which stocks were built up.The notion ‘surplus stocks’ applies to products imported into or originating from Croatia and to such products outside the customs territory of Croatia but intended for the market in Croatia.The recording of the stocks shall be performed on the basis of the Combined Nomenclature applicable on 1 July 2013.
3. The amount of the charge referred to in paragraph 1 shall, for each product concerned, be equal to the amount by which the import duty applicable in the Union in accordance with Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, including any applicable additional duty on 30 June 2013, exceeds the import duty applicable in Croatia on that date, plus 20 % of that amount. The revenue of the charge collected by national authorities shall be assigned to the national budget of Croatia.
4. Croatia shall, without delay, carry out an inventory of stocks available as on 1 July 2013. To this end, it shall use a system for identifying holders of surplus stocks based on a risk analysis taking account of the following criteria:
(a) type of activity of the holder;
(b) capacity of storage facilities;
(c) level of activity.Croatia shall notify the Commission any measures it has implemented prior to its accession, to avoid any speculative stock-piling due to the accession, in particular to monitor and track down import flows for products with high risk of stock-piling, by 1 July 2013.Croatia shall notify the Commission of the quantity of products in surplus stocks, except of those quantities in public stocks as referred to in Article 4, by 31 March 2014.
5. Where a CN code covers products for which the import duty referred to in paragraph 3 is not the same, the inventory of stocks as referred to in paragraph 4 shall be made for each product or group of products subject to a different import duty.
Article 4 
By 1 October 2013 at the latest, Croatia shall communicate the list and the quantities of goods which are in its public stocks as referred to in Section 3 of Annex IV to the Act of Accession.
Article 5 
The stocks as referred to in Article 3(4) and Article 4 shall not include national security stocks which may possibly have been constituted by Croatia. Croatia shall inform the Commission of all changes made to national security stocks together with the conditions governing the changes for the purposes of establishing the Union supply balance.
Article 6 
If any Member State suspects that the charges provided for in Article 3 have not been paid in respect of a product, it shall inform Croatia so as to enable it to take appropriate measures.
Article 7 
Products for which the declaration of export to third countries is accepted by Croatia during the period from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014 may qualify for an export refund if such refund has been fixed in accordance with Article 164 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 provided that it is established that no export refund has already been paid in respect of those products or their constituents.
Article 8 
Any product for which an export refund has been paid shall not be eligible for any intervention measure or aid as laid down in Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005.
Article 9 
This Regulation shall enter into force subject to and on the date of the entry into force of the Treaty of Accession of Croatia.
It shall apply until 30 June 2015.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 22 March 2013.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
ANNEX
CN code Description
0201 Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled
0202 Meat of bovine animals, frozen
0203 21 Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen:
– Frozen:
– – Carcases and half-carcases
0203 22 – – Hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in
0203 29 – – Other
0204 Meat of sheep or goats, fresh, chilled or frozen
0206 10 Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen:
– Of bovine animals, fresh or chilled
0206 29 – – Other
0207 12 Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 0105, fresh, chilled or frozen
– Of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus
– – Not cut in pieces, frozen
0207 14 – – Cuts and offal, frozen
0207 25 – Of turkeys
– – Not cut in pieces, frozen
0207 27 – – Cuts and offal, frozen
0210 Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal
0402 10 Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:
– In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a fat content, by weight, not exceeding 1,5 %
0402 21 – In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a fat content, by weight, exceeding 1,5 %;
– – Not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
0402 29 – – Other
0405 Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads
0406 Cheese and curd
0703 20 00 Garlic, fresh or chilled
0711 51 00 Mushrooms of the genus Agaricus, provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption
0811 10 11 Strawberries, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen, whether or not containing sugar or other sweetening matter,
– – containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
– – – with a sugar content exceeding 13 % by weight
0811 10 19 Strawberries, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen, whether or not containing sugar or other sweetening matter,
– – containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
– – – other, with a sugar content not exceeding 13 % by weight
0811 10 90 Strawberries, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen, whether or not containing sugar or other sweetening matter,
– other than containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
1001 Wheat and meslin
1002 Rye
1003 Barley
1004 Oats
1005 Maize (corn)
1006 10 Rice in the husk (paddy or rough)
1006 20 Husked (brown) rice
1006 30 Semi-milled or wholly milled rice, whether or not polished or glazed
1006 40 00 Broken rice
1007 Grain sorghum
1008 Buckwheat, millet and canary seed; other cereals
1101 00 Wheat or meslin flour
1102 Cereal flours other than of wheat or meslin
1103 Cereal groats, meal and pellets
1104 Cereal grains otherwise worked (for example, hulled, rolled, flaked, pearled, sliced or kibbled), except rice of heading 1006; germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground
1107 Malt, whether or not roasted
1108 Starches; inulin
1109 00 00 Wheat gluten, whether or not dried
1602 Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood
2003 10 Mushrooms of the genus Agaricus, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid
2008 30 55 Citrus fruit, otherwise prepared or preserved, not containing added spirit but containing added sugar, in immediate packings of a net content exceeding 1 kg:
– – – – Mandarins (including tangerines and satsumas); clementines, wilkings and other similar citrus hybrids
2008 30 75 Citrus fruit, otherwise prepared or preserved, not containing added spirit but containing added sugar, in immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 1 kg:
– – – – Mandarins (including tangerines and satsumas); clementines, wilkings and other similar citrus hybrids
Ex20083090 Mandarins (including tangerines and satsumas); clementines, wilkings and other similar citrus hybrids
– – – Not containing added sugar
2008 70 92 Peaches, including nectarines;
– – – Not containing added spirit and sugar, in immediate packings of a net content of 5 kg or more
2204 30 – Other grape must
2207 – Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80 % vol or higher; ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength
2208 90 91 – – Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80 % vol, in containers holding:
– – – 2 litres or less
2208 90 99 – – – More than 2 litres