Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1671 of 6 June 2024 laying down the arrangements for monitoring the import volumes referred to in Article 4(7) of Regulation 2024/1392
Date: 2024-06-06
Institutions: Directorate-General for Trade and Economic Security, European Commission
Subjects: Russo-Ukrainian issue, Ukraine, agricultural product, association agreement (EU), customs formalities, import (EU), liberalisation of trade, originating product, tariff exemption, tariff quota








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2024/1671


6.6.2024







            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2024/1671
of 6 June 2024
         
laying down the arrangements for monitoring the import volumes referred to in Article 4(7) of Regulation 2024/1392


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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


Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2024/1392 (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 on temporary trade-liberalisation measures supplementing trade concessions applicable to Ukrainian products under the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part, and in particular Article 4(7),


After consulting the Committee on Safeguards and Common Rules for exports in accordance with the advisory procedure in Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2),

Whereas:







(1)


Following Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression against Ukraine since 24 February 2022, in order to support the Ukrainian economy, the European Union introduced by Regulation (EU) 2022/870 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3) trade-liberalisation measures supplementing trade concessions applicable to Ukrainian products under the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part (the ‘Association Agreement’ (4)). These trade-liberalisation measures have been renewed by Regulation (EU) 2023/1077 (5) and Regulation (EU) 2024/1392. In particular, Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1392 (‘the Regulation’) provides, inter alia, for the suspension of all the tariff-rate quotas established under Annex I-A to the Association Agreement. It also provides that the products covered by those quotas are to be admitted for importation into the Union from Ukraine without any customs duties.












(2)


The EU’s support to Ukraine has been confirmed with the prolongation of the trade liberalisation measures for yet another year. At the same time, there is a particularly precarious situation in the Union markets for poultry, eggs, sugar, oats, maize, groats and honey (‘the products’) that can harm Union agricultural producers if imports from Ukraine were to increase.












(3)


Accordingly, Article 4(7) of Regulation introduced an automatic safeguard concerning these products, which provides for the reintroduction of the tariff-rate quota suspended by Article 1(1), point (b), of the Regulation if certain import volumes are exceeded.












(4)


In order to monitor those import volumes, Article 4(7) of the Regulation empowered the Commission to adopt an implementing act laying down necessary the arrangements.












(5)


To allow for appropriate and timely, easily accessible and transparent monitoring of import volumes for economic operators, the Commission should make imports of these products subject to the customs formality set out in Article 49 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2015/2447 (6). In particular, the declaration of an order number would be mandatory.












(6)


For transparency purposes, the Annex to this implementing Regulation sets out the relevant arithmetic means of import volumes referred to in Article 4(7) of the Regulation.












(7)


This Implementing Regulation has been adopted in accordance with Article 5(4) of the Regulation,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
The import of the products originating in Ukraine listed in the Annex to this Regulation shall be subject to the customs formality set out in Article 49 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2015/2447.


Article 2
The relevant arithmetic means of import volumes referred to in Article 4(7) of the Regulation are listed in the Annex to this Regulation.


Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall apply from the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union until 5 June 2025.




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 6 June 2024.


For the Commission


The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L, 2024/1392, 29.5.2024.

(2)  Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13).

(3)  Regulation (EU) 2022/870 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2022 on temporary trade-liberalisation measures supplementing trade concessions applicable to Ukrainian products under the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part (OJ L 152, 3.6.2022, p. 103).

(4)  
            OJ L 161, 29.5.2014, p. 3.

(5)  Regulation (EU) 2023/1077 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 May 2023 on temporary trade-liberalisation measures supplementing trade concessions applicable to Ukrainian products under the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part (OJ L 144, 5.6.2023, p. 1).

(6)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2015/2447 of 24 November 2015 laying down detailed rules for implementing certain provisions of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council of 9 October 2013 laying down the Union Customs Code (OJ L 343, 29.12.2015, p. 558).




ANNEX










Description


Order number


Goods codes


Tariff-rate quotas established under Annex I-A to the Association Agreement in tonnes


Arithmetic mean of import volumes recorded in the period from 1 July to 31 December 2021, in 2022 and in 2023 in tonnes


5 /12 of arithmetic mean of import volumes recorded in the period from 1 July to 31 December 2021, in 2022 and in 2023 in tonnes




Poultry


09.6740


0207 11 30 
0207 11 90 
0207 12 
0207 13 10 
0207 13 20 
0207 13 30 
0207 13 50 
0207 13 60 
0207 13 70 
0207 13 99 
0207 14 10 
0207 14 20 
0207 14 30 
0207 14 50 
0207 14 60 
0207 14 70 
0207 14 99 
0207 24 
0207 25 
0207 26 10 
0207 26 20 
0207 26 30 
0207 26 50 
0207 26 60 
0207 26 70 
0207 26 80 
0207 26 99 
0207 27 10 
0207 27 20 
0207 27 30 
0207 27 50 
0207 27 60 
0207 27 70 
0207 27 80 
0207 27 99 
0207 41 30 
0207 41 80 
0207 42 
0207 44 10 
0207 44 21 
0207 44 31 
0207 44 41 
0207 44 51 
0207 44 61 
0207 44 71 
0207 44 81 
0207 44 99 
0207 45 10 
0207 45 21 
0207 45 31 
0207 45 41 
0207 45 51 
0207 45 61 
0207 45 81 
0207 45 99 
0207 51 10 
0207 51 90 
0207 52 90 
0207 54 10 
0207 54 21 
0207 54 31 
0207 54 41 
0207 54 51 
0207 54 61 
0207 54 71 
0207 54 81 
0207 54 99 
0207 55 10 
0207 55 21 
0207 55 31 
0207 55 41 
0207 55 51 
0207 55 61 
0207 55 81 
0207 55 99 
0207 60 05 
0207 60 10 
ex 0207 60 21 
0207602110 
0207 60 31 
0207 60 41 
0207 60 51 
0207 60 61 
0207 60 81 
0207 60 99 
0210 99 39 
1602 31 
1602 32 
1602 39 21 


2 TRQs: 70 000 +20 000 


137 042,80 


57 101,17 




Eggs and albumins


09.6741


0407 21 00 
0407 29 10 
0407 90 10 
0408 11 80 
0408 19 81 
0408 19 89 
0408 91 80 
0408 99 80 
3502 11 90 
3502 19 90 
3502 20 91 
3502 20 99 


2 TRQs: 3 000  tonnes in shell egg equivalent and 3 000  tonnes in net weight


23 188,96 


9 662,07 




Sugar


09.6742


1701 12 
1701 91 
1701 99 
1702 20 10 
1702 90 30 
1702 90 50 
1702 90 71 
1702 90 75 
1702 90 79 
1702 90 80 
1702 90 95 


20 070 


262 652,68 


109 438,62 




Honey


096743


0409 


6 000 


44 417,56 


18 507,32 




Maize


09.6744


1005 90 
1102 20 10 
1102 20 90 
1103 13 10 
1103 13 90 
1103 20 40 
1104 23 40 
1104 23 98 


650 000 


11 155 449,04 


4 648 103,77 




Oats


09.6745


1004 


4 000 


2 440,56 


1 016,90 




Groats, pellets, grains, etc


09.6746


ex 1103 19 20 
1103192010 
1103 19 90 
1103 20 90 
1104 19 10 
1104 19 50 
1104 19 61 
1104 19 69 
1104 29 04 
1104 29 05 
1104 29 08 
ex 1104 29 17 
1104291790 
ex 1104 29 30 
1104293090 
1104 29 51 
1104 29 59 
1104 29 81 
1104 29 89 
1104 30 


7 800 


20 648,24 


8 603,43 







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