Commission Regulation (EU) 2024/2166 of 20 August 2024 on the introduction and management of tariff-rate quotas for honey resulting from Regulation (EU) 2024/1392 of the European Parliament and of the Council on temporary trade-liberalisation measures supplementing trade concessions applicable to Ukrainian products under the Association Agreement between the Union and Ukraine
Date: 2024-08-20
Institutions: Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission
Subjects: Ukraine, association agreement (EU), honey, import (EU), liberalisation of trade, originating product, tariff quota








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2024/2166


21.8.2024







            COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2024/2166
of 20 August 2024
         
on the introduction and management of tariff-rate quotas for honey resulting from Regulation (EU) 2024/1392 of the European Parliament and of the Council on temporary trade-liberalisation measures supplementing trade concessions applicable to Ukrainian products under the Association Agreement between the Union and Ukraine


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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


Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2024/1392 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 (1), and in particular Article 4(7), first subparagraph, points (a) and (b), thereof,


After informing the Committee on Safeguards,

Whereas:







(1)


By Regulation (EU) 2024/1392, the European Parliament and the Council adopted temporary trade-liberalisation measures supplementing trade concessions applicable to Ukrainian products. Article 1(1), point (b), of that Regulation suspended all tariff-rate quotas established under Annex I-A to 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 provided that the products covered by those quotas were to be admitted for importation into the Union from Ukraine without any customs duties.












(2)


Article 4(7) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1392 provides for an automatic safeguard measure for eggs, poultry, sugar, oats, maize, groats and honey that is to be activated if the cumulative import volumes of any of those products since 1 January 2024 in a specific period reach the respective arithmetic mean of import volumes recorded in the period from 1 July to 31 December 2021, in 2022 and in 2023.












(3)


Cumulative import volumes of honey since 1 January 2024 have reached the respective arithmetic mean referred to in Article 4(7) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1392, which is higher than the volume of the corresponding tariff-rate quota suspended in accordance with Article 1(1), point (b), of that Regulation. Therefore, the suspended tariff-rate quota with the order number 09.6701 should be reintroduced until 31 December 2024 and a tariff-rate quota equal to five twelfths of that arithmetic mean should be introduced from 1 January 2025.












(4)


The tariff-rate quota set out in the Annex to this Regulation should be managed based on the chronological order of the dates of acceptance of the customs declarations for release for free circulation of honey in accordance with the rules for the management of tariff-rate quotas laid down in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 (2).












(5)


In accordance with Article 4(8) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1392, the quantity imported during the calendar year 2024 should be taken into account in the management of the tariff-rate quota with the order number 09.6701 until 31 December 2024.












(6)


In order to act within the deadline set out in Article 4(7) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1392, this Regulation should enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.












(7)


Regulation (EU) 2024/1392 applies until 5 June 2025, therefore this Regulation should apply until the same date,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
The tariff-rate quota with the order number 09.6701, suspended by virtue of Article 1(1), point (b), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1392, is reintroduced until 31 December 2024.


Article 2
The tariff-rate quota set out in the Annex is introduced from 1 January 2025 in accordance with Article 4(7), point (b), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1392, and shall apply within the quantitative limit set out in that Annex as regards the products listed therein.


Article 3
The tariff-rate quota set out in the Annex shall be managed by the Union in accordance with the chronological order of dates of acceptance of customs declarations for release for free circulation of honey as laid down in Articles 49 to 54 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447.


Article 4
To benefit from a tariff-rate quota set out in the Annex, the products shall comply with the rules of origin of products provided for in Protocol I to 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.


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




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 20 August 2024.


For the Commission


The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L, 2024/1392, 29.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1392/oj.

(2)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 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 of the Council laying down the Union Customs Code (OJ L 343, 29.12.2015, p. 558, ELI: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2015/2447/oj).




ANNEX






Order number


09.6730




Product description


Honey




CN codes


0409 




Origin


Ukraine




Quantity


18 507 320  kg net weight




Tariff quota period


1 January 2025 to 5 June 2025




Tariff quota sub-periods


Not applicable




Proof of origin


Yes. Claim for preferential treatment in accordance with Protocol I to the Association Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part




In-quota customs duty


EUR 0







ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2166/oj
ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition)