Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/605 of 19 April 2016 opening and providing for the administration of a temporary tariff quota for olive oil originating in Tunisia and amending Regulation (EC) No 1918/2006

Regulations (EC) No 1345/2005, (EC) No 1301/2006 and (EC) No 376/2008 and Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1918/2006 shall apply, unless this Regulation provides otherwise.

1 An annual duty free tariff quota, bearing order number No 09.4033 (‘the temporary quota’), is opened, for 2016 and 2017, in relation to imports into the Union of virgin olive oil falling within CN codes 15091010 and 15091090, wholly obtained in Tunisia and transported directly from that country to the Union, subject to the conditions laid down in this Regulation. The volume of the temporary quota shall be 35000 tons per year.

2 The temporary quota shall be made available only after the entire annual quota, bearing order number No 09.4032, provided for in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1918/2006 has been allocated.

3 The temporary quota shall be opened from 1 January each year. However, for the year 2016, the temporary quota shall be opened from the entry into force of this Regulation until 31 December 2016.

Licence applications for the temporary quota shall be admissible from the first Monday or the first Tuesday following the entry into force of the implementing act suspending the lodging of applications for the quota bearing order number No 09.4032. In respect of 2016, licence applications for the temporary quota shall be admissible from the first Monday or the first Tuesday following the entry into force of this Regulation.

In Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1918/2006, the second sentence is deleted.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.