Considerations on COM(2022)188 - Amendment of Regulation 2021/2283 opening and providing for the management of autonomous tariff quotas of the Union for certain agricultural and industrial products

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dossier COM(2022)188 - Amendment of Regulation 2021/2283 opening and providing for the management of autonomous tariff quotas of the Union for ...
document COM(2022)188 EN
date May  5, 2022
 
(1) In order to ensure a sufficient and uninterrupted supply of certain agricultural and industrial products which are produced in insufficient quantities in the Union and thereby avoid any disturbances on the market for those products, autonomous tariff quotas were opened by Council Regulation (EU) 2021/2283 4 . Within those tariff quotas, products can be imported into the Union at reduced or zero duty rates.

(2) As it is in the Union's interest to ensure an adequate supply of certain industrial products and having regard to the fact that identical, equivalent or substitute products are not produced in sufficient quantities within the Union, it is necessary to open new tariff quotas with order numbers 09.2819, 09.2839, 09.2855, 09.2857 and 09.2702 at zero duty rates for appropriate quantities of those products.

(3) As the scope of the tariff quotas with order numbers 09.2583 and 09.2876 has become inadequate to fulfil the needs of the economic operators in the Union, the description of the products covered by those quotas should be amended. The indication of the applicable TARIC code for those products should therefore be modified.

(4) As it is no longer in the Union's interest to maintain the tariff quotas with order numbers 09.2637, 09.2679 and 09.2740, they should be closed.

(5) Taking into account the amendments to be made and for the sake of clarity, the Annex to Regulation (EU) 2021/2283 should be replaced.

(6) In order to avoid any interruption in the application of the tariff quota scheme and to comply with the guidelines set out in the Communication from the Commission concerning autonomous tariff suspensions and quotas 5 , the changes provided for in this Regulation regarding the tariff quotas for the products concerned should apply from 1 July 2022. This Regulation should therefore enter into force as a matter of urgency.