Considerations on COM(2014)375 - Procedures for applying the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Albania (codification)

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dossier COM(2014)375 - Procedures for applying the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Albania (codification).
document COM(2014)375 EN
date June  8, 2015
 
table>(1)Council Regulation (EC) No 1616/2006 (2) has been substantially amended (3). In the interests of clarity and rationality, that Regulation should be codified.
(2)A Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Albania, of the other part (4) (‘SAA’), was signed in Luxembourg on 12 June 2006 and entered into force on 1 April 2009.

(3)It is necessary to lay down the procedures for applying certain provisions of the SAA.

(4)The SAA stipulates that fishery products originating in Albania may be imported into the Union at a reduced customs duty, within the limits of tariff quotas. It is therefore necessary to lay down provisions regulating the management of those tariff quotas.

(5)Where trade defence measures become necessary, they should be adopted in accordance with the general provisions laid down in Regulation (EU) 2015/478 of the European Parliament and of the Council (5), Regulation (EU) 2015/479 of the European Parliament and of the Council (6), Council Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 (7) or, as the case may be, Council Regulation (EC) No 597/2009 (8).

(6)Where a Member State provides information to the Commission on a possible fraud or failure to provide administrative cooperation, the relevant Union legislation shall apply, in particular Council Regulation (EC) No 515/97 (9).

(7)For the purposes of implementing the relevant provisions of this Regulation the Commission should be assisted by the Customs Code Committee established by Article 285 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (10).

(8)The implementation of the bilateral safeguard clauses of the SAA requires uniform conditions for the adoption of safeguard and other measures. Those measures should be adopted in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council (11).

(9)The Commission should adopt immediately applicable implementing acts where, in duly justified cases relating to exceptional and critical circumstances arising within the meaning of Article 39(4) of the SAA, imperative grounds of urgency so require,