THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 of 9 April 2001 providing for the management of Community tariff quotas and of reference quantities for products eligible for preferences by virtue of agreements with certain Mediterranean countries and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1981/94 and (EC) No 934/95, and in particular Article 5(1)(b) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
By Decision (EU) 2017/768, the Council authorised the signing, on behalf of the European Union and its Member States, and provisional application of a Protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Arab Republic of Egypt, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union (‘the Protocol’).
(2)
The text of the Protocol, which is attached to Decision (EU) 2017/768, provides for an increase of the volume of the Union tariff quota applicable to fresh strawberries originating in Egypt for release for free circulation in the Union.
(3)
It is necessary to amend Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 in order to implement the increase of the tariff quota laid down in the Protocol.
(4)
The increase of the tariff quota should apply from 1 July 2013 when the Protocol becomes provisionally applicable in accordance with its Article 8(3) and pending its entry into force.
(5)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee,
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