11.7.2000 Official Journal of the European Communities L171/11 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1474/2000 of 10 July 2000 determining the reduced amounts of agricultural components and additional duties applicable from 1 July 2000 to imports into the Community of certain goods covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 under an Interim Agreement between the European Union and Israel THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of 6 December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2491/ 98 (%), and in particular Article 7 thereof, Whereas: (1)  Pending the entry into force of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the Euro- pean Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the State of Israel, of the other part, signed in Brussels on 20 November 1995, an Interim Agreement between the European Community and the European Coal and Steel Community, of the one part, and the State of Israel, of the other part, on trade and accompa- nying measures was signed on 18 December 1995 (}) and entered into force on 1 January 1996. This Agree- ment provides within the quota limits for reductions in the agricultural component for certain processed agricul- tural products. (2)  Council Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 of 25 July 1994 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain products originating in Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Malta, Morocco, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Tunisia and Turkey, and providing detailed rules for extending and adapting these tariff quotas (%), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 563/2000 (°), opened the quotas within which certain processed agricultural products originating in Israel are granted a reduction in the agricultural compo- nents. The reduced agricultural components and addi- tional duties must be fixed. (3)  Commission Regulation (EC) No 1460/96 (%), amended by Regulation (EC) No 2495/97 (), establishes detailed rules for the application of preferential trade arrange- ments applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products, referred to in Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 3448/93, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 From 1 July 2000, the reduced agricultural components applic- able to imports of goods covered by Regulation (EC) No 3448/ 93 for which a reduction in the agricultural component is provided for in the Interim Agreement concluded with Israel and the corresponding reduced additional duties shall be fixed in the Annexes to this Regulation. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. It shall apply from 1 July 2000. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 10 July 2000. () O L 318, 20.12.1993, p. 18. () O] L 309, 19.11.1998, p. 28. () O] L 71, 20.3.1996, p. 1. (% O] L 199, 2.8.1994, p. 1. For the Commission Erkki LIIKANEN Member of the Commission () O] L 68, 16.3.2000, p. 46. (% O] L 187, 26.7.1996, p. 18. () O] L 343, 13.12.1997, p. 18.