Regulation (EU) 2022/111 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 January 2022 amending Regulation (EU) 2019/216 as regards the Union tariff rate quota for high-quality beef from Paraguay
Date: 2022-01-25
Institutions: Council of the European Union, European Parliament
Subjects: Paraguay, World Trade Organisation, beef, fresh meat, frozen product, import (EU), originating product, product quality, refrigerated product, tariff quota








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            REGULATION (EU) 2022/111 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
         
of 25 January 2022
         
amending Regulation (EU) 2019/216 as regards the Union tariff rate quota for high-quality beef from Paraguay


THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 207(2) thereof,


Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,


After transmission of the draft legislative act to the national parliaments,


Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (1),

Whereas:







(1)


Following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the ‘United Kingdom’) from the Union, the Union and the United Kingdom notified the other Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that their current market access levels will be maintained by apportioning the Union’s tariff rate quotas between the Union and the United Kingdom. The methodology for that apportionment, as well as the EU-27 volumes, are laid down in Regulation (EU) 2019/216 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2).












(2)


The Union’s tariff rate quotas that are not part of the Union’s schedule of concessions and commitments should not be apportioned.












(3)


Council Regulation (EC) No 1149/2002 (3) opened an import tariff quota of 1 000 tonnes, expressed in product weight, of high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef. Despite not being part of the WTO schedule of the Union, that tariff quota was incorrectly apportioned by Regulation (EU) 2019/216, thus reducing its volume with application as of 1 January 2021. The original volume of that tariff quota should therefore be restored.












(4)


Regulation (EU) 2019/216 should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
In Part A of the Annex to Regulation (EU) 2019/216, the following row is deleted:












‘High quality meat of bovine animals, fresh, chilled or frozen


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094455


71,1  %


711’







Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 25 January 2022.


For the European Parliament


The President

R. METSOLA
            



For the Council


The President

C. BEAUNE
            





(1)  Position of the European Parliament of 14 December 2021 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and decision of the Council of 11 January 2022.

(2)  Regulation (EU) 2019/216 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 January 2019 on the apportionment of tariff rate quotas included in the WTO schedule of the Union following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union, and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 (OJ L 38, 8.2.2019, p. 1).

(3)  Council Regulation (EC) No 1149/2002 of 27 June 2002 opening an autonomous quota for imports of high-quality beef (OJ L 170, 29.6.2002, p. 13).