Legal provisions of COM(2025)229 - Amendment of Regulation 2024/823 on exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association Process - Main contents
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| dossier | COM(2025)229 - Amendment of Regulation 2024/823 on exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to ... |
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| document | COM(2025)229  |
| date | May 14, 2025 |
Article 1
1. Article 2 is amended as follows:
(a)the title is replaced by the following:
‘Conditions for entitlement to and related suspension of the preferential arrangements’;
(b)Article 2(1), point (c) is replaced by the following:
‘(c) the involvement of beneficiary parties in effective administrative cooperation, including as required for the verification of evidence of origin, with the Union in order to prevent any risk of fraud; and’;
(c)Article 2(2) is replaced by the following:
‘Without prejudice to the conditions laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article, entitlement to benefit from the preferential arrangements referred to in Article 1 shall be subject to the readiness of the beneficiary parties to engage in effective economic reforms and in regional cooperation with other countries involved in the Stabilisation and Association process, in particular through the establishment of free trade areas in accordance with Article XXIV of the GATT 1994 and other relevant WTO provisions.’;
(d)Article 2(4) is added:
‘In the event of non-compliance by a beneficiary party with paragraph 1 point (d), the Commission may suspend, in whole or in part, the entitlement of a beneficiary party concerned to benefits under this Regulation, pursuant to Article 6.’
2. Article 3(2) is replaced by the following:
‘2. Notwithstanding other provisions of this Regulation, in particular Article 10, given the particular sensitivity of the agricultural markets, where imports of agricultural products cause serious disturbance to Union markets and their regulatory mechanisms, the Commission may adopt appropriate measures by means of implementing acts. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 8(3).’
3. Article 10 is replaced by the following:
‘Article 10
Other temporary suspension measures
1. Where the Commission finds that there is sufficient evidence of fraud or that there is a massive increase in imports into the Union above the level of normal production and export capacity, it may take measures to suspend in whole or in part the arrangements provided for in this Regulation for a period of three months, provided that it has first:
(a)informed the Western Balkans Implementation Committee;
(b)called on the Member States to take such precautionary measures as are necessary in order to safeguard the Union’s financial interests or to secure compliance by the beneficiary parties with Article 2(1);
(c)published a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union stating that there are grounds for reasonable doubts about the application of the preferential arrangements or compliance with Article 2(1) by the beneficiary party concerned which may call into question its right to continue enjoying the benefits granted by this Regulation.
The measures referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph shall be adopted by means of implementing acts. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 8(3).
2. Upon the conclusion of the period of suspension, the Commission shall decide either to terminate the provisional suspension measure or to extend the suspension measure in accordance with paragraph 1.’
4. In Article 12, the second paragraph is replaced by the following:
‘It shall apply until 31 December 2030.’
Article 2
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.