Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2179 of 13 December 2019 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 481/2012 as regards the country allocation of the tariff rate quota for high-quality beef and derogating from that Implementing Regulation for the quota year 2019/2020
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2179of 13 December 2019amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 481/2012 as regards the country allocation of the tariff rate quota for high-quality beef and derogating from that Implementing Regulation for the quota year 2019/2020THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 671., and in particular Article 187 thereof,Whereas:(1)Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 481/2012Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 481/2012 of 7 June 2012 laying down rules for the management of a tariff quota for high-quality beef (OJ L 148, 8.6.2012, p. 9). lays down rules for the management of an autonomous tariff rate quota for the import of high-quality beef opened by Council Regulation (EC) No 617/2009Council Regulation (EC) No 617/2009 of 13 July 2009 opening an autonomous tariff quota for imports of high-quality beef (OJ L 182, 15.7.2009, p. 1)..(2)The European Union and the United States of America concluded an Agreement on the country allocation of the tariff rate quota for high-quality beef provided for by Regulation (EC) No 617/2009 (hereafter "the Agreement") on 5 December 2019Council Decision (EU) 2019/2073 of 5 December 2019 on the conclusion of the Agreement between the United States of America and the European Union on the Allocation to the United States of a Share in the Tariff Rate Quota for High Quality Beef referred to in the Revised Memorandum of Understanding Regarding the Importation of Beef from Animals Not Treated with Certain Growth-Promoting Hormones and Increased Duties Applied by the United States to Certain Products of the European Union (2014) (OJ L 316, 6.12.2019, p. 1).. All substantial suppliers in the tariff rate quota agreed to the country allocation provided for by the Agreement.(3)Article 2(3) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 481/2012 sets out the rules for the addition of the unused balances of the drawings on the sub-tariff quotas to subsequent quarterly sub-tariff quotas. The Agreement provides that any unused quantities from the sub-periods preceding, in that quota year, the first day of the first year of the implementation period of the Agreement shall be added, in proportion to the shares in the overall volume of the tariff rate quota, to the quantities available in the first sub-period of the first year of the implementation period. Consequently, a derogation from Article 2(3) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 481/2012 should be provided for the distribution of the unused quantities from the sub-periods preceding the first day of the first year of the implementation period of the Agreement.(4)It is therefore necessary to amend Implementing Regulation (EU) No 481/2012 in the light of the Agreement.(5)Article 2 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 481/2012 provides that the tariff quota is to be managed in accordance with Articles 308a and 308b and Article 308c(1) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code (OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1).. Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 was repealed by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/481Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/481 of 1 April 2016 repealing Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code (OJ L 87, 2.4.2016, p. 24). with effect from 1 May 2016. For the sake of clarity, references to Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 should be replaced by references to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 of 24 November 2015 laying down detailed rules for implementing certain provisions of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the Union Customs Code (OJ L 343, 29.12.2015, p. 558)..(6)Implementing Regulation (EU) No 481/2012 should therefore be amended accordingly.(7)This Regulation should apply from the date of entry into force of the Agreement. This Regulation should therefore enter into force as a matter of urgency.(8)The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for the Common Organisation of the Agricultural Markets,HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: