Fisheries products originating in Ceuta: administration of a Community tariff quota

OBJECTIVE: to adjust for 1996 and thereafter the arrangements applying to Ceuta for certain fishery products originating in that island and at the same time to open zero duty Community tariff quotas for those products. COMMUNITY MEASURE: Council Regulation (EC) No 1822/96. SUBSTANCE: Article 3(2) of Protocol No 2 to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal stipulates that certain fishery products originating in Ceuta and Melilla shall qualify for exemption from customs duties when imported into the Community within the limits of Community tariff quotas. Following a reasoned request from the Spanish authorities to open a tariff quota for some of Ceuta's agricultural products, a new economically profitable sector in this region where marine fisheries had considerably declined, the Council decided to open a quota for 1996 and thereafter for these specific products. The fisheries products for which a zero-rated duty is provided are as follows, within the limits of the associated Community tariff quotas: . live fry and juveniles of sea bream and bass: 2.500.000 units, . sea bass and sea bream: 100 tons Application of the quota duty is subject to compliance with the rules laid down for the common organization of the markets and, in particular, equal and continuous access to the quota for all Community importers. DATE OF ENTRY INTO FORCE: 24 September 1996. �