Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 286/2013 of 22 March 2013 on transitional measures to be adopted in respect of trade in agricultural products on the occasion of the accession of Croatia
Date: 2013-03-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Croatia, accession to the European Union, agricultural levy, agricultural surplus, common organisation of markets, transitional period (EU)




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26.3.2013   


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Official Journal of the European Union


L 86/7








            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 286/2013
of 22 March 2013
         
on transitional measures to be adopted in respect of trade in agricultural products on the occasion of the accession of Croatia


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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


Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of Croatia, and in particular Article 3(4) thereof,


Having regard to the Act of Accession of Croatia, and in particular Article 41 thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Transitional measures should be adopted in order to avoid the risk of deflection of trade, affecting the common organisation of agricultural markets due to the accession of Croatia to the European Union on 1 July 2013.












(2)


Trade deflections liable to disrupt the market organisations often involve products moved artificially with a view to benefit from enlargement of the Union and do not form part of the normal stocks of the acceding State concerned. Accumulation of such surplus quantities can also give rise to distortion of competition likely to affect the proper functioning of the common organisation of the markets. Surplus stocks may also result from national production. Provisions should, therefore, be made for effective, proportionate, and deterrent charges at the amount of the difference between import duties applicable in Croatia before accession and the import duties applicable in the Union increased with 20 %, to be levied on surplus stocks in Croatia.












(3)


It is necessary to prevent goods in respect of which export refunds were paid before 1 July 2013 from benefiting from a second export refund when exported to third countries after 30 June 2013.












(4)


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





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1

Scope

This Regulation shall apply to products set out in the Annex.


Article 2

Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation ‘products’ means agricultural products and/or goods not included in Annex I to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.


Article 3

Charges on holders of products in free circulation


1.   Without prejudice to Section 3(a) of Annex IV to the Act of Accession, and where stricter legislation does not apply at national level, Croatia shall levy charges on holders of surplus stocks at 1 July 2013 of products in free circulation.


2.   In order to determine the surplus stock of each holder, Croatia shall take into account:






(a)


averages of stocks available in the period from 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2013;










(b)


the pattern of trade in the period from 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2013;










(c)


the circumstances in which stocks were built up.




The notion ‘surplus stocks’ applies to products imported into or originating from Croatia and to such products outside the customs territory of Croatia but intended for the market in Croatia.
The recording of the stocks shall be performed on the basis of the Combined Nomenclature applicable on 1 July 2013.


3.   The amount of the charge referred to in paragraph 1 shall, for each product concerned, be equal to the amount by which the import duty applicable in the Union in accordance with Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (1), including any applicable additional duty on 30 June 2013, exceeds the import duty applicable in Croatia on that date, plus 20 % of that amount. The revenue of the charge collected by national authorities shall be assigned to the national budget of Croatia.


4.   Croatia shall, without delay, carry out an inventory of stocks available as on 1 July 2013. To this end, it shall use a system for identifying holders of surplus stocks based on a risk analysis taking account of the following criteria:






(a)


type of activity of the holder;










(b)


capacity of storage facilities;










(c)


level of activity.




Croatia shall notify the Commission any measures it has implemented prior to its accession, to avoid any speculative stock-piling due to the accession, in particular to monitor and track down import flows for products with high risk of stock-piling, by 1 July 2013.
Croatia shall notify the Commission of the quantity of products in surplus stocks, except of those quantities in public stocks as referred to in Article 4, by 31 March 2014.


5.   Where a CN code covers products for which the import duty referred to in paragraph 3 is not the same, the inventory of stocks as referred to in paragraph 4 shall be made for each product or group of products subject to a different import duty.



Article 4

Census of public stocks

By 1 October 2013 at the latest, Croatia shall communicate the list and the quantities of goods which are in its public stocks as referred to in Section 3 of Annex IV to the Act of Accession.


Article 5

National security stocks

The stocks as referred to in Article 3(4) and Article 4 shall not include national security stocks which may possibly have been constituted by Croatia. Croatia shall inform the Commission of all changes made to national security stocks together with the conditions governing the changes for the purposes of establishing the Union supply balance.


Article 6

Measures in the event of non-payment of charges

If any Member State suspects that the charges provided for in Article 3 have not been paid in respect of a product, it shall inform Croatia so as to enable it to take appropriate measures.


Article 7

Proof of non-payment of refunds

Products for which the declaration of export to third countries is accepted by Croatia during the period from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014 may qualify for an export refund if such refund has been fixed in accordance with Article 164 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 (2) provided that it is established that no export refund has already been paid in respect of those products or their constituents.


Article 8

No double payment of market support measures

Any product for which an export refund has been paid shall not be eligible for any intervention measure or aid as laid down in Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 (3).


Article 9

Entry into force and applicability

This Regulation shall enter into force subject to and on the date of the entry into force of the Treaty of Accession of Croatia.
It shall apply until 30 June 2015.




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 22 March 2013.


For the Commission


The President

José Manuel BARROSO
            





(1)  
            OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1.

(2)  
            OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.

(3)  
            OJ L 209, 11.8.2005, p. 1.




ANNEX

LIST OF PRODUCTS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 1







CN code


Description




0201 


Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled




0202 


Meat of bovine animals, frozen




0203 21 


Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen:




– Frozen:




– – Carcases and half-carcases




0203 22 


– – Hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in




0203 29 


– – Other




0204 


Meat of sheep or goats, fresh, chilled or frozen




0206 10 


Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen:




– Of bovine animals, fresh or chilled




0206 29 


– – Other




0207 12 


Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 0105 , fresh, chilled or frozen




– Of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus





– – Not cut in pieces, frozen




0207 14 


– – Cuts and offal, frozen




0207 25 


– Of turkeys




– – Not cut in pieces, frozen




0207 27 


– – Cuts and offal, frozen




0210 


Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal




0402 10 


Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:




– In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a fat content, by weight, not exceeding 1,5 %




0402 21 


– In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a fat content, by weight, exceeding 1,5 %;




– – Not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter




0402 29 


– – Other




0405 


Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads




0406 


Cheese and curd




0703 20 00 


Garlic, fresh or chilled




0711 51 00 


Mushrooms of the genus Agaricus, provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption




0811 10 11 


Strawberries, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen, whether or not containing sugar or other sweetening matter,




– – containing added sugar or other sweetening matter




– – – with a sugar content exceeding 13 % by weight




0811 10 19 


Strawberries, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen, whether or not containing sugar or other sweetening matter,




– – containing added sugar or other sweetening matter




– – – other, with a sugar content not exceeding 13 % by weight




0811 10 90 


Strawberries, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen, whether or not containing sugar or other sweetening matter,




– other than containing added sugar or other sweetening matter




1001 


Wheat and meslin




1002 


Rye




1003 


Barley




1004 


Oats




1005 


Maize (corn)




1006 10 


Rice in the husk (paddy or rough)




1006 20 


Husked (brown) rice




1006 30 


Semi-milled or wholly milled rice, whether or not polished or glazed




1006 40 00 


Broken rice




1007 


Grain sorghum




1008 


Buckwheat, millet and canary seed; other cereals




1101 00 


Wheat or meslin flour




1102 


Cereal flours other than of wheat or meslin




1103 


Cereal groats, meal and pellets




1104 


Cereal grains otherwise worked (for example, hulled, rolled, flaked, pearled, sliced or kibbled), except rice of heading 1006 ; germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground




1107 


Malt, whether or not roasted




1108 


Starches; inulin




1109 00 00 


Wheat gluten, whether or not dried




1602 


Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood




2003 10 


Mushrooms of the genus Agaricus, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid




2008 30 55 


Citrus fruit, otherwise prepared or preserved, not containing added spirit but containing added sugar, in immediate packings of a net content exceeding 1 kg:




– – – – Mandarins (including tangerines and satsumas); clementines, wilkings and other similar citrus hybrids




2008 30 75 


Citrus fruit, otherwise prepared or preserved, not containing added spirit but containing added sugar, in immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 1 kg:




– – – – Mandarins (including tangerines and satsumas); clementines, wilkings and other similar citrus hybrids




Ex 2008 30 90 


Mandarins (including tangerines and satsumas); clementines, wilkings and other similar citrus hybrids




– – – Not containing added sugar




2008 70 92 


Peaches, including nectarines;




– – – Not containing added spirit and sugar, in immediate packings of a net content of 5 kg or more




2204 30 


– Other grape must




2207 


– Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80 % vol or higher; ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength




2208 90 91 


– – Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80 % vol, in containers holding:




– – – 2 litres or less




2208 90 99 


– – – More than 2 litres