COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2024/1726

of 18 June 2024

on the introduction of tariff quota for oats 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 confirmed the EU’s support for Ukraine by renewing the temporary trade-liberalisation measures supplementing trade concessions applicable to Ukrainian products for yet another year. Article 1(1), point (b), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1392 suspended all tariff-rate quotas established under Annex I-A to the Association Agreement 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 a product since 1 January 2024 reach the respective arithmetic mean of import volumes of that product recorded in the period from 1 July to 31 December 2021, in 2022 and in 2023.

(3) Cumulative import volumes of oats since 1 January 2024 have reached the respective arithmetic mean referred to in Article 4(7) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1392, which is lower than the volume of the corresponding tariff-rate quota suspended in accordance with Article 1(1), point (b), of that Regulation. Therefore, that suspended tariff-rate quota with the order number 09.6703 should be reintroduced henceforth and until 31 December 2024. The same tariff-rate quota with the order number 09.6703 should be introduced from 1 January 2025.

(4) 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 that tariff quota until 31 December 2024.

(5) 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

(6) 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 09.6703, 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 with the order number 09.6703, suspended by virtue of Article 1(1), point (b), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1392, is introduced from 1 January 2025.

Article 3

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, 18 June 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

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1726/oj

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