COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) No 552/2012
of 21 June 2012
amending Regulation (EU) No 1344/2011 suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on certain agricultural, fishery and industrial products
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 31 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
Whereas:
(1)
It is in the interest of the Union to suspend totally the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on a certain number of products currently not listed in the Annex to Council Regulation (EU) No 1344/2011 (1).
(2)
Six products with TARIC codes 2914390020, 2918300050, 3206110020, 3815120020, 3815120030 and 8302420080, which are currently listed in the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 1344/2011 should be deleted because it is no longer in the interest of the Union to maintain the suspension of autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties for those products.
(3)
It is necessary to modify the product description of the product with CN code 2819 10 00 and the products with TARIC codes 2914199040, 2914700050, 2922498510, 3815199010, 3919900051, 3920102891, 3920510030, 3920910093, 8529909250 and 9401908010 in the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 1344/2011 in order to take account of technical product developments and economic trends on the market. Moreover, the existing TARIC codes 2009419270, 2009897992 and 8505199031 should be changed. In addition, for the product with TARIC code 3904400091 double classification is considered necessary.
(4)
Those suspensions, for which technical modifications are necessary should be deleted from the list of suspensions in the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 1344/2011 and should be reinserted in that list with new product descriptions, or new CN or TARIC codes.
(5)
In view of their temporary nature, the suspensions listed in Annex I should be reviewed systematically, at the latest five years after their application or renewal. Moreover, closure of certain suspensions should be warranted at any time, as a result of a proposal of the Commission on the basis of a review carried out on initiative of the Commission or on request of one or more Member States if the suspensions are no longer in the Union’s interest to be maintained or due to technical product developments, to changed circumstances or to economic trends on the market.
(6)
Since the suspensions laid down in this Regulation should take effect from 1 July 2012, this Regulation should apply from that date and should enter into force immediately upon its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
(7)
Regulation (EU) No 1344/2011 should therefore be amended accordingly,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The Annex to Regulation (EU) No 1344/2011 is amended as follows:
(1)
the rows for the products listed in Annex I to this Regulation are inserted;
(2)
the rows for the products for which the CN and TARIC codes are set out in Annex II to this Regulation are deleted.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 July 2012.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Luxembourg, 21 June 2012.