Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/904 of 25 March 2024 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards the extension of the Union’s tariff quotas for jute and coconut-fibre products
Date: 2024-03-25
Institutions: Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission
Subjects: common customs tariff, import (EU), jute, nut, originating product, tariff nomenclature, tariff quota, tariff reduction, textile fibre








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2024/904


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            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2024/904
of 25 March 2024
         
amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards the extension of the Union’s tariff quotas for jute and coconut-fibre products


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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


Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 of 17 December 1999 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT and certain other Community tariff quotas and establishing detailed rules for adjusting the quotas, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1808/95 (1), and in particular Article 9(1), point (b), second indent, thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Since the introduction of autonomous zero-duty Union’s tariff quotas for specific quantities of jute and coconut-fibre products by Regulation (EC) No 32/2000, as a result of the entry into force of the generalised scheme of preferences (GSP) in 1995, the tariff quotas have been repeatedly extended. The last extension ran until 31 December 2023.












(2)


As the period of application of Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) is extended beyond 31 December 2023 by virtue of Regulation (EU) 2023/2663 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3), the tariff quota arrangement for jute and coconut-fibre products should be extended accordingly.












(3)


Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 should therefore be amended accordingly.












(4)


For reasons of legal certainty, and in order to ensure the continued use of the tariff quotas, this Regulation should enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union and should apply from 1 January 2024.












(5)


The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
The fifth column (‘Quota period’) of the table in Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 is amended as follows:






(1)


the text for serial number 09.0107 is replaced by the following:

                              ‘from 1 January to 31 December each year until 31 December 2027
                              ’;










(2)


the text for serial number 09.0109 is replaced by the following:

                              ‘from 1 January to 31 December each year until 31 December 2027
                              ’;










(3)


the text for serial number 09.0111 is replaced by the following:

                              ‘from 1 January to 31 December each year until 31 December 2027
                              ’.






Article 2
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 January 2024.




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 25 March 2024.


For the Commission


The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 5, 8.1.2000, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2000/32/oj.

(2)  Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 (OJ L 303, 31.10.2012, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2012/978/oj).

(3)  Regulation (EU) 2023/2663 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 November 2023 amending Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences (OJ L, 2023/2663, 27.11.2023, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2663/oj).


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/904/oj
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