
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2017/754 of 28 April 2017 opening and providing for the management of Union tariff quotas for certain agricultural and processed agricultural products originating in Ecuador 

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 laying down the Union Customs Code, and in particular Article 58(1) thereof,
Whereas:

(1) By Decision (EU) 2016/2369 (‘the Decision’), the Council authorised the signing, on behalf of the Union, of the Protocol of Accession (‘the Protocol’) to the Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Colombia and Peru (‘the Agreement’), of the other part, to take account of the accession of Ecuador to the Agreement and provided for the provisional application of the Protocol from 1 January 2017.

(2) The Agreement stipulates that customs duties on imports into the Union of goods originating in Ecuador are to be reduced or eliminated in accordance with the tariff elimination schedule in Annex I to the Agreement. Annex I provides that, for certain goods originating in Ecuador, the reduction or elimination of customs duties is granted within tariff quotas.

(3) The tariff quotas set out in subsection 3 to Section B of Appendix 1 of Annex I to the Agreement should be managed by the Commission on the basis of the chronological order of dates of acceptance of customs declarations for release for free circulation in accordance with Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447.

(4) In order to ensure the smooth application and management of the quota system granted under the Protocol, this Regulation should apply from the same date as that of the provisional application of the Protocol.

(5) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1 
Union tariff quotas are opened for goods originating in Ecuador as set out in the Annex.
Article 2 
The tariff quotas set out in the Annex shall be managed in accordance with Articles 49 to 54 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447.
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2017.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
ANNEX

Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording of the description of the products in the fifth column of the table is to be considered as having no more than an indicative value.
The preferential scheme is determined, within the context of this Annex, by the scope of the CN codes set out in the third column of the table as applicable at the time of adoption of this Regulation. Where ex CN codes are indicated, the preferential scheme is to be determined by application of the CN codes and corresponding descriptions in the fifth column of the table taken together.

Order No  CN code TARIC subdivision Description of products Quota period Quota volume (in tonnes net weight unless otherwise specified) Tariff quota duty
09.7525  0703 20 00  Garlic, fresh or chilled 1.1-31.12 500 0
09.7526  0710 40 00  Sweetcorn, uncooked or cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, frozen 1.1-31.12 300 0
2004 90 102005 80 00  Sweetcorn (Zea Mays var. Saccharata), prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid
09.7527  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 1.1-31.12 100 0
2003 10 202003 10 30  Mushrooms of the genus Agaricus, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid
09.7528  0711 90 30  Sweetcorn provisionally preserved, e.g. by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions, but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption 1.1-31.12 400 0
2001 90 30  Sweetcorn (Zea Mays var. Saccharata), prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid
2008 99 85  Maize (corn), prepared or preserved, not containing added spirit or added sugar (excl. sweetcorn (Zea Mays var. Saccharata))
09.7529  1005 90 00  Maize (excl. seed) 1.1-31.12 37 000 0
1102 20  Maize (corn) flour
09.7530  1006 10 301006 10 501006 10 711006 10 791006 201006 301006 40  Rice (at exclusion of rice in the husk, for sowing) 1.1-31.12 5 000 0
09.7531  1108 14 00  Manioc (cassava) starch 1.1-31.12 3 000 0
09.7532  1701 131701 14  Raw cane sugar not containing added flavouring or colouring 1.1-31.12 15 000 0
09.7533  1701 911701 99  Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form, other than raw sugar not containing added flavouring or colouring matter 1.1-31.12 10 000 tonnes expressed in raw sugar equivalent 0
 1702 30  Glucose in solid form and glucose syrup, not containing fructose or containing in the dry state less than 20 % by weight of fructose
 1702 40 90  Glucose in solid form and glucose syrup, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter, and containing in the dry state at least 20 % but less than 50 % by weight of fructose (excl. isoglucose and invert sugar)
 1702 50  Chemically pure fructose in solid form
 1702 90 301702 90 501702 90 711702 90 751702 90 791702 90 801702 90 95  Other sugars (excluding lactose and lactose syrups, maple sugar and maple syrup, glucose and glucose syrup, fructose and fructose syrups and chemically pure maltose), including invert sugar and other sugar and sugar syrup blends containing in the dry state 50 % by weight of fructose
ex 1704 90 99 9199 Other sugar confectionery, not containing cocoa, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)
 1806 10 301806 10 90  Cocoa powder, containing 65 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose
ex 1806 20 95 90 Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa, in blocks, slabs or bars weighing more than 2 kg or in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form, in containers or immediate packings of a content exceeding 2 kg, containing less than 18 % by weight of cocoa butter (excl. cocoa powder, chocolate flavour coating and chocolate milk crumb), containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)
ex 1901 90 99 36 Other food preparations, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)
ex 2006 00 31 90 Cherries, preserved by sugar (drained, glacé or crystallised), containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)
ex 2006 00 38 1989 Vegetables, fruit, nuts, fruit-peel and other parts of plants (excluding ginger, cherries, tropical fruit and tropical nuts), preserved bysugar (drained, glacé or crystallised), containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)
ex 2007 91 10 90 Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or nut purée and fruit or nut pastes, obtained by cooking, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter (excluding homogenised preparations), containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)
ex 2007 99 20 90
ex 2007 99 31 9599
ex 2007 99 33 9599
ex 2007 99 35 9599
ex 2007 99 39 0204061719242730343740444752567585
ex 2009 11 11 1999 Fruit or vegetable juice, of a value not exceeding EUR 30 per 100 kg net weight, with an added sugar content exceeding 30 % by weight
 2009 11 91 
ex 2009 19 11 29395979
 2009 19 91 
ex 2009 29 11 1999
 2009 29 91 
ex 2009 39 11 1999
 2009 39 512009 39 91 
ex 2009 49 11 1999
 2009 49 91 
ex 2009 81 112009 81 51 90
ex 2009 89 11 1999
ex 2009 89 35 29395979
 2009 89 612009 89 86 
ex 2009 90 11 90 Mixtures of juices, of a value not exceeding EUR 30 per 100 kg net weight, with an added sugar content exceeding 30 % by weight
ex 2009 90 21 1999
 2009 90 312009 90 712009 90 94 
ex 2101 12 98 92 Preparations with a basis of coffee, tea or maté, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose
ex 2101 20 98 85
ex 2106 90 98 263334385355 Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose
ex 3302 10 29 10 Preparations based on odoriferous substances, containing all flavouring agents characterising a beverage, of a kind used in the drink industries, of an actual alcoholic strength by volume not exceeding 0,5 %, containing, by weight, 1,5 % or more of milkfat, 5 % or more of glucose or starch, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose
09.7534  2208 40 51  Rum with a content of volatile substances other than ethyl and methyl alcohol equal to or exceeding 225 grams per hectolitre of pure alcohol (with a 10 % tolerance), in containers holding more than 2 litres 1.1-31.12 250 hectolitres 0
2208 40 99  Rum, in containers holding more than 2 litres, of a value not exceeding EUR 2 per litre of pure alcohol



