Considerations on COM(2023)263 - Amendment of Regulation (EU) 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(2023)263 - Amendment of Regulation (EU) 2021/2283 opening and providing for the management of autonomous tariff quotas of the Union for ...
document COM(2023)263
date June 16, 2023
 
(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) 2021/22831. 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 autonomous tariff quotas with order numbers 09.2561, 09.2562 and 09.2857 at zero duty rates for appropriate quantities of those products.

(3) As it is no longer in the Union's interest to maintain the tariff quotas with order numbers 09.2581 and 09.2672, they should be closed.

(4) Regulation (EU) 2021/2283 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(5) 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 of 13 December 2011 concerning autonomous tariff suspensions and quotas2, the changes provided for in this Regulation regarding the tariff quotas for the products concerned should apply from 1 July 2023. This Regulation should therefore enter into force as a matter of urgency.