Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/3164of 18 December 2024amending Council Regulation (EC) No 992/95 as regards Union tariff quotas for certain fish and fishery products originating in Norway

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/3164 of 18 December 2024 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 992/95 as regards Union tariff quotas for certain fish and fishery products originating in Norway THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 992/95 of 10 April 1995, opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and fishery products originating in Norway OJ L 101, 4.5.1995, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/1995/992/oj. , and in particular Article 5(1), point (b), thereof, Whereas: (1) In 2024, an Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway was concluded concerning special provisions applicable to imports into the Union of certain fish and fishery products originating in Norway Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway (OJ L, 2024/2600, 8.10.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/prot/2024/2600/oj). . (2) The Annex to the Additional Protocol provides for duty-free tariff quotas for release for free circulation in the Union as set out in Regulation (EC) No 992/95. (3) The Additional Protocol enters provisionally into force on 1 January 2025 as this is the first day of the third month after the last instrument of ratification has been deposited in accordance with its Article 5.2. This Regulation should therefore apply from the same date. (4) The annual tariff quotas set out in the Additional Protocol cover the period from 1 May 2021 to 30 April 2028. The unused tariff quota volumes covering the period from 1 May 2021 until 31 December 2024 are to be proportionally allocated for the period 1 January 2025 to 30 April 2025 and after that annually from 1 May to 30 April each year until the end of the period. (5) The Additional Protocol provides for the transfer of the unused accumulated quota volumes of such tariff quotas for a period of up to two years following the end of its application but no longer than the provisional application of any subsequent protocol establishing duty-free quotas for the same products. (6) The tariff quotas are to 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 the rules for the management of tariff quotas laid down in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 of 24 November 2015 laying down detailed rules for implementing certain provisions of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the Union Customs Code (OJ L 343, 29.12.2015, p. 558, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2015/2447/oj). . (7) Regulation (EC) No 992/95 should therefore be amended accordingly. (8) In order to ensure that the tariff quotas are available as of the date of the provisional entry into force of the Additional Protocol, the tariff quotas provided for in this Regulation should apply from 1 January 2025. This Regulation should therefore enter into force as a matter of urgency.

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

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 992/95 is amended as follows: (1) In Article 2, the following paragraph is added: The tariff quotas with order numbers 09.0860 to 09.0871 shall cover the period from 1 May 2021 to 30 April 2028. In case these tariff quotas are not exhausted during this period and in case any subsequent protocol establishing duty-free tariff quotas for the same products is not provisionally applied, imports from Norway can be made for the remaining accumulated quota volume of those quotas for up to two years following the end of this application period but not longer than the provisional application of any subsequent protocol establishing duty-free tariff quotas for the same products.; (2) in Annex I after order number 09.0820, the text in the Annex to this Regulation is added.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 1 January 2025. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 18 December 2024. For the Commission The President Ursula von der Leyen

Annex

ANNEX Order NoCN codeTARIC sub-divisionDescription of productsQuota periodQuota volume (in tonnes net weight unless otherwise specified)Quota duty (%)09.086003035100Herring (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii), frozen, excluding livers and roes 1From 1.1.2025 to 30.4.2025175000From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.202652500From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.202752500From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.20285250009.086103035590Frozen jack and horse mackerel Trachurus spp. (excl. atlantic horse mackerel and chilean jack mackerel)From 1.1.2025 to 30.4.20253500003035990Frozen Indian mackerels Rastrelliger spp., seerfishes Scomberomorus spp., jacks, crevalles Caranx spp., silver pomfrets Pampus spp., pacific saury Cololabis saira, scads Decapterus spp., capelin Mallotus villosus, bonitos Sarda spp., marlins, sailfishes and spearfish IstiophoridaeFrom 1.5.2025 to 30.4.20261050003036990Frozen fish of the families Bregmacerotidae, Euclichthyidae, Gadidae, Macrouridae, Melanonidae, Merlucciidae, Moridae and Muraenolepididae (excl. cod, haddock, coalfish, hake, alaska pollack, blue whitings, Boreogadus saida, whiting, pollack, blue grenadier and ling)From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.20271050003038200Frozen rays and skates RajidaeFrom 1.5.2027 to 30.4.20281050003038990Frozen fish, n.e.s. 09.08620304860010Frozen fillets of herring Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasiiFrom 1.1.2025 to 30.4.202545500003049923Frozen flaps and meat whether or not minced of herring Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasiiFrom 1.5.2025 to 30.4.2026136500ex03044990Fresh or chilled fillets of herringFrom 1.5.2026 to 30.4.202713650003045950Fresh or chilled flaps of herringFrom 1.5.2027 to 30.4.202813650009.086303091000Flours, meals and pellets of fish, fit for human consumptionFrom 1.1.2025 to 30.4.20257000From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.20262100From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.20272100From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.20282100Net drained weight009.0864

16041291 16041299 Herring, spiced and/or vinegar-cured, in brineFrom 1.1.2025 to 30.4.202519600From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.202658800From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.202758800From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.20285880009.0865 16052110 16052190 16052900 Shrimps and prawns, peeled and frozen, prepared or preservedFrom 1.1.2025 to 30.4.202549000From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.202614700From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.202714700From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.202814700 09.086616041100Prepared or preserved salmon, whole or in pieces, but not mincedFrom 1.1.2025 to 30.4.20258750From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.20262625From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.20272625From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.2028262509.086703054100Smoked salmon, including fish fillets, other than edible fish offalFrom 1.1.2025 to 30.4.202517500From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.20265250From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.20275250From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.2028525009.0868 03061699 03061793 Frozen Pandalidae shrimpsFrom 1.1.2025 to 30.4.20257000From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.20262100From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.20272100From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.2028210009.0869 03021900 03022200 03024390 03025920 03025930 03028115 03028931 03029100 03029900 Fresh or chilled fish and fish offalFrom 1.1.2025 to 30.4.202535700From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.202610710From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.202710710From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.202810710 09.0870 03031900 03035390 03038931 03038939 03039190 03039900 Frozen fish and fish offalFrom 1.1.2025 to 30.4.202547950From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.202614385From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.202714385From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.20281438509.0871 03045200 03047300 03049921 03049999 Fresh, chilled or frozen fillets of fishFrom 1.1.2025 to 30.4.202525200From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.20267560From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.20277560From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.20287560