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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1238/2014 of 19 November 2014 amending Regulation (EU) No 59/2011 as regards tariff            quotas for wines originating in Serbia         

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# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1238/2014                     

# of 19 November 2014

# amending Regulation (EU) No 59/2011 as regards tariff quotas for wines originating in Serbia

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing                           a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No                           234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007(1), and in particular Articles 184 and 187 thereof,                        

Whereas:

(1)The Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and                              Serbia, of the other part (‘the SAA’), was signed in Luxembourg on 29 April 2008 and entered into force on 1 September 2013.

(2)The Protocol to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the                              one part, and the Republic of Serbia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the                              European Union(2) (‘the Protocol’) was signed on 25 June 2014. Its signature on behalf of the European Union and its Member States has been                              authorised by Council Decision 2014/517/EU(3) and its conclusion on behalf of the European Atomic Energy Community has been approved by Council Decision 2014/518/Euratom(4). The Protocol has been provisionally applied with effect from 1 August 2014.

(3)Article 7 of the Protocol and Annex III thereto provide for changes to the existing tariff quotas for wines originating in                              Serbia with effect from 1 August 2014.

(4)In accordance with Article 11 of the Protocol, for the year 2014 the volumes of the new tariff quotas and the increases of                              the volumes of existing tariff quotas are to be calculated as a *pro rata* of the basic annual volumes specified in the Protocol, taking into account the part of the period elapsed before 1 August                              2014.

(5)To implement the tariff quotas for wine laid down in the Protocol, it is necessary to adapt Commission Regulation (EU) No                              59/2011(5).

(6)Regulation (EU) No 59/2011 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(7)Since the Protocol applies from 1 August 2014, this Regulation should apply from the same date and enter into force on the                              day of its publication.

(8)The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for the Common Organisation                              of Agricultural Markets,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

# Article 1U.K.

The Annex to Regulation (EU) No 59/2011 is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

# Article 2U.K.

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

It shall apply from 1 August 2014.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 19 November 2014.

*For the Commission*                            

*The President*                            

Jean-Claude Juncker                            

## ANNEXU.K.

### “‘ANNEXTariff quotas for wines originating in Serbia imported into the Union

1

OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 671.                           

2

OJ L 233, 6.8.2014, p. 3.                           

3

Council Decision 2014/517/EU of 14 April 2014 on the signing, on behalf of the European Union and its Member States, and provisional                              application of the Protocol to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member                              States, of the one part, and the Republic of Serbia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of                              Croatia to the European Union (OJ L 233, 6.8.2014, p. 1).                           

4

Council Decision 2014/518/Euratom of 14 April 2014 approving the conclusion, by the European Commission, on behalf of the                              European Atomic Energy Community, of the Protocol to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities                              and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Serbia, of the other part, to take account of the accession                              of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union (OJ L 233, 6.8.2014, p. 20).                           

5

Commission Regulation (EU) No 59/2011 of 25 January 2011 opening and providing for the administration of Union tariff quotas                              for wines originating in the Republic of Serbia (OJ L 22, 26.1.2011, p. 1).