Council Regulation (EU) 2016/1051 of 24 June 2016 amending Regulation (EU) No 1387/2013 suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on certain agricultural and industrial products
Council Regulation (EU) 2016/1051of 24 June 2016amending Regulation (EU) No 1387/2013 suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on certain agricultural and industrial productsTHE 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 140 products that are not currently listed in the Annex to Council Regulation (EU) No 1387/2013Council Regulation (EU) No 1387/2013 of 17 December 2013 suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on certain agricultural and industrial products and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1344/2011 (OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 201)..(2)It is no longer in the interest of the Union to maintain the suspension of autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on six of the products that are currently listed in the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 1387/2013.(3)It is necessary to modify the conditions of 46 suspensions, currently listed in the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 1387/2013 in order to take into account technical product developments, economic trends on the market and further scrutiny of classification and to carry out linguistic adaptations. The modified conditions refer to changes of the product description, classification, duty rates or end-use requirement. The suspensions in respect of which modifications are necessary should be deleted from the list of suspensions in the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 1387/2013, and the modified suspensions should be inserted into that list.(4)In the interest of clarity, the endnote indicating a newly introduced measure or a measure with amended conditions listed in the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 1387/2013 should be deleted and the entries modified by this Regulation should be marked with an asterisk.(5)Regulation (EU) No 1387/2013 should therefore be amended accordingly.(6)As the changes regarding the suspensions for the products concerned provided for in this Regulation have to apply from 1 July 2016, this Regulation should enter into force as a matter of urgency. In addition, in order to adequately ensure the benefit of the suspension classified under TARIC code 7616991030, the newly inserted TARIC code 8708999750 should apply from 1 January 2016,HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: