Brussels, 4.3.2024

COM(2024) 96 final

ANNEX

to the

Proposal for a

COUNCIL DECISION

on the signing, on behalf of the European Union, and provisional application of the Agreement between the European Union, Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Kingdom of Norway on an EEA Financial Mechanism for the period May 2021 - April 2028, the Agreement between the Kingdom of Norway and the European Union on a Norwegian Financial Mechanism for the period May 2021 - April 2028, the Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway and the Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and Iceland


ATTACHMENT III

ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY AND THE REPUBLIC OF ICELAND



THE EUROPEAN UNION

and

ICELAND

HAVING REGARD to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Iceland signed on 22 July 1972, and to the existing arrangements for trade in fish and fishery products between Iceland and the Community,

HAVING REGARD to the Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and Iceland concerning special provisions applicable for the period 2014-2021 to imports into the Union of certain fish and fishery products, and in particular Article 1 thereof,

HAVE DECIDED TO CONCLUDE THIS PROTOCOL:



ARTICLE 1

1.The special provisions applicable to imports into the European Union of certain fish and fishery products originating in Iceland are laid down in this Protocol and the Annex thereto. The annual duty free tariff quotas are set out in the Annex to this Protocol. These tariff quotas shall be applicable from the day on which the provisional application of this Protocol becomes effective, according to procedures laid down in paragraph 3 of Article 4, until 30 April 2028.

2.At the end of this period, the Contracting Parties will assess the need to maintain the special provisions referred to in paragraph 1 and, if necessary, review the quota levels while taking into account all relevant interests.

ARTICLE 2

1.The tariff quotas shall be opened on the day on which the provisional application of this Protocol becomes effective, according to procedures laid down in paragraph 3 of Article 4.

2.The volumes of the tariff quotas are set out in the Annex to this Protocol. The first tariff quota shall be available from the date of provisional application of this Protocol until 30 April 2024. From 1 May 2024 onwards, subsequent tariff quotas shall be allocated annually from 1 May to 30 April until the end of the period referred to in Article 1 of this Protocol.

3.The tariff quota volumes covering the period from 1 May 2021 until the provisional application this Protocol shall be proportionally allocated and made available for the rest of the period referred to in Article 1 of this Protocol.

4.In case tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 are not exhausted during the period referred to in Article 1, and in case a subsequent protocol establishing duty-free tariff quotas for the same products is not provisionally applied, imports from Iceland can be made for the remaining accumulated quota volume of those tariff quotas for up to two years following the end of the period referred to in Article 1, but not longer than provisional application of a subsequent protocol establishing duty-free tariff quotas for the same products.

Article 3

The rules of origin applicable for the tariff quotas listed in the Annex to this Protocol shall be those set out in Protocol 3 to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and Iceland signed on 22 July 1972.

ARTICLE 4

1.This Protocol shall be ratified or approved by the Parties in accordance with their own procedures. The instruments of ratification or approval shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union.

2.It shall enter into force on the first day of the second month after the last instrument of ratification or approval has been deposited.

3.Pending the completion of the procedures referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, this Protocol shall be applied on a provisional basis from the first day of the third month following the deposit of the last notification to this effect.

ARTICLE 5

This Protocol, drawn up in a single original, in the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Icelandic languages, the text in each of these texts being equally authentic, shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, which will remit a certified copy to each of the Parties.

Done at Brussels, this....of 2024.

For the European Union

For the Republic of Iceland



Annex

SPECIAL PROVISIONS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 1 OF THE PROTOCOL

In addition to the existing permanent duty free tariff quotas, the European Union shall open the following annual duty free tariff quotas for products originating in Iceland:

CN code

Description of products

Annual (1.5-30.4) tariff quota volume in net weight unless otherwise specified 1

0303 51 00

Frozen herrings “clupea harengus, clupea pallasii” 2

400 tonnes

0306 51 00

Frozen Norway lobsters “nephrops norvegicus”, even smoked, whether in shell or not, incl. lobsters in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water

100 tonnes

0304 49 50

Fresh or chilled fillets of redfish “sebastes spp.”

2 500 tonnes

1604 19 92

1604 20 90

Preparations of cod and other fish

2 000 tonnes

0302 23 00

0302 24 00

0302 29

Fresh or chilled

Sole (Solea spp.),

Turbots (Psetta maxima),

Megrim (Lepidorhombus spp.) and other flat fish, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat,

5 500 tonnes

Ex 0302 59 90

Fish of the families bregmacerotidae, euchlichthyidae, gadidae, macrouridae, melanonidae, merlucciidae, moridae and muraenolepididae,

0302 82 00

Rays and skates (Rajidae),

0302 89 50

Monkfish (Lophius spp.),

0302 89 90

0302 32 00

0303 39 85

Ex 0303 59 90

Ex 0303 69 90

0303 82 00

0303 89 90

0303 99 00

03 04 43 00

Ex 0304 44 90

0304 46

0304 49 10

0304 49 90

0304 95 10

Other fresh or chilled fish, n.e.s.

Frozen plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)

Frozen flatfish

Frozen Indian mackerels

Frozen fish of the families bregmacerotidae, euchlichthyidae, gadidae, macrouridae, melanonidae, merlucciidae, moridae and muraenolepididae

Frozen rays and skates (Rajidae)

Frozen fish, n.e.s.

Frozen fish fins, heads, tails, maws and other edible fish offal

Fresh or chilled fillets of flat fish (Pleuronectidae, Bothidae, Cynoglossidae, Soleidae, Scophthalmidae and Citharidae)

Fresh or chilled fillets of fish of the families bregmacerotdae, euchlichthyidae, gadidae, macrouridae, melanonidae, merlucciidae, moridae and muraenolepididae

Fresh or chilled fillets of toothfish

Fresh or chilled fillets of freshwater fish

Fresh or chilled fillets of other fish, n.e.s.

Frozen surimi

0305 39 10

Fillets of salmon salted or in brine, but not smoked

50 tonnes

0305 42 00

Smoked herring

0305 69 50

Salmon only salted or in brine

0305 41 00

Smoked salmon, including fillets

0305 72 00

0305 79 00

0305 43 00

0305 49 80

1604 11 00

1604 20 10

1605 62 00

Fish heads, tails and maws, smoked, dried, salted or in brine

Fish fins and other edible fish offal, smoked, dried, salted or in brine

Smoked trout (Salmo trutta, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus clarki, Oncorhynchus aguabonita, Oncorhynchus gilae, Oncorhynchus apache and Oncorhynchus chrysogaster)

Other smoked fish

Prepared or preserved sea cucumbers

Prepared or preserved sea urchins

1 950 tonnes

0302 22 00

0302 59 20

0304 49 10

0304 52 00

0304 89 10

0305 69 80

0304 82 90

0302 59 40

0305 53 90

0303 14 20

0303 14 90

0304 82 10

0302 14 00

0303 13 00

0304 41 00

0304 81 00

Fresh or chilled plaice (“pleuronectes platessa”)

Fresh or chilled whiting (“merlangius merlangus”)

Fresh or chilled fillets of freshwater fish, n.e.s.

Fresh or chilled meat, whether or not minced, of Salmonidae

Frozen fillets of freshwater fish, n.e.s.

Other fish, only salted or in brine

Frozen fillets of trout “salmo trutta, oncorhynchus mykiss, oncorhynchus”

Fresh or chilled ling “molva spp.”

Dried fish of the families Bregmacerotidae, Euclichthyidae, Gadidae, Macrouridae, Melanonidae, Merlucciidae, Moridae and Muraenolepididae, other than cod

Frozen trout “oncorhynchus mykiss”, with heads and gills on, gutted

Frozen trout “salmo trutta, oncorhynchus mykiss, oncorhynchus”, frozen fillets of trout “oncorhynchus mykiss”, weighing > 400 grammes each

Fresh or chilled Atlantic salmon “salmo salar” and Danube salmon

Frozen Atlantic salmon “salmo salar” and Danube salmon “hucho hucho”

Fresh or chilled fillets of Pacific salmon “Oncorhynchus nerka, Oncorhynchus”

Frozen fillets of Pacific salmon “Oncorhynchus nerka, Oncorhynchus”

2 500 tonnes

(1)    Quantities shall be added in accordance with Article 2 paragraph 3 of this Protocol.
(2)    The benefit of the tariff quota shall not be granted to goods declared for release for free circulation during the period 15 February to 15 June.