Rządowy projekt ustawy o ratyfikacji Umowy o udziale Republiki Bułgarii i Rumunii w Europejskim Obszarze Gospodarczym, podpisanej w Brukseli dnia 25 lipca 2007.

ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL
TO THE AGREEMENT
BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
AND THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY
CONSEQUENT ON THE ACCESSION OF
THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA AND ROMANIA
TO THE EUROPEAN UNION

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THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY

and

THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY

HAVING REGARD to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the
Kingdom of Norway signed on 14 May 1973, hereinafter called the "Agreement", and to the
existing arrangements for trade in fish and fishery products between Norway and the Community,

HAVING REGARD to the accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania to the
European Union,

HAVING REGARD to the Agreement on the Participation of the Republic of Bulgaria and
Romania in the European Economic Area,

HAVING REGARD to the existing regime for trade in fish and fishery products between Norway
and Republic of Bulgaria and Romania,

HAVE DECIDED to determine by common accord the adjustments to the Agreement consequent
Republic of Bulgaria and Romania on the accession of to the European Union,

AND TO CONCLUDE THIS PROTOCOL,
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ARTICLE 1

The text of the Agreement, the Annexes and Protocols, which form an integral part thereof, the
Final Act and the declarations annexed thereto shall be drawn up in Bulgarian and Romanian
languages and those texts shall be authentic in the same way as the original texts. The Joint
Committee shall approve the Bulgarian and Romanian texts.


ARTICLE 2

The special provisions applicable to imports into the Community of certain fish and fishery
products originating in Norway are laid down in this Protocol.

The tariff quotas provided for in Article 3 of this Protocol shall be implemented for the period from
1 January 2007 to 30 April 2009. The quota levels referred to in Article 3 shall be reviewed by the
end of that period taking into account all relevant interests. The quota levels for 2007 shall not be
effectively reduced because the enlargement of the European Economic Area did not take place on
1 January 2007. The tariff quota volumes for 2009 shall be reduced according to their application
until 30 April 2009.

The rules of origin applicable for the tariff quotas shall be those set out in Protocol No 3 to the
Agreement.

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ARTICLE 3

The Community shall open the following new additional annual duty free tariff quotas:

–
Mackerel of the species Scomber scombrus or Scomber japonicus, frozen
(CN Code 0303 74 30):
9 300 tonnes

– Herrings
(Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii), frozen

(CN Code 0303 51 00):
1 800 tonnes

–
Fillets and flaps of herring (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii), frozen

(CN Codes 0304 29 75 and 0304 99 23):
600 tonnes

–
Other fish, frozen (CN Code 0303 79 98): 2 200 tonnes

– Other
salmonidae, frozen (CN Code 0303 29 00): 2 000 tonnes

–
Shrimps and prawns, peeled and frozen

(CN Codes ex1605 20 10, ex1605 20 91 and ex1605 20 99): 2 000 tonnes


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ARTICLE 4

The Community shall lift the condition "for industrial manufacture", and thereby the end-user
requirement, on the tariff quotas that were opened in 2004 for frozen mackerel (order Nos 09.0760,
09.0763 and 09.0778), frozen herrings (order No 09.0752) and frozen flaps of herring
(order No 09.0756). Correspondingly, the requirement for human consumption of the products
under the same tariff quotas shall be removed.

The existing duty free tariff quota for frozen peeled shrimps and prawns with order No 09.0758
shall be available for CN codes ex1605 20 10, ex1605 20 91 and ex1605 20 99.

For the period of 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008, the Community shall merge the two
existing duty free tariff quotas for frozen peeled shrimps and prawns (order Nos. 09.0745 and
09.0758) and the additional new duty free tariff quota of 2 000 tonnes for which provision is made
under Article 3, and it shall make the merged tariff quota available for CN Codes ex1605 20 10,
ex1605 20 91 and ex1605 20 99.

From 1 January 2009, the two existing tariff quotas for frozen peeled shrimps and prawns with
order No 09.0758 (2 500 tonnes) and with order No 09.0745 (5 500 tonnes) and the new additional
duty free tariff quota of 2 000 tonnes will apply as three separate tariff quotas and will be made
available for CN codes ex1605 20 10, ex1605 20 91 and ex1605 20 99.

As of 15 June 2008, the Community shall merge the sub-periods related to the existing three tariff
quotas for mackerel (order Nos 09.0760, 09.0763 and 09.0778) into one single period of 15 June
to 14 February.
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