{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-228/article-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-228/article-29.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/228",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 228/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 March 2013 laying down specific measures for agriculture in the outermost regions of the Union and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 247/2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-228",
  "path": "article/29",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Exemption of tobacco from customs duties",
  "text": "1. No customs duties shall be applied to direct imports into the Canary Islands of raw and semi-manufactured tobacco falling, respectively, within:\n(a) CN code 2401; and\n(b) the following subheadings:\n2401 10 Tobacco, not stemmed/stripped,\n2401 20 Tobacco, partly or wholly stemmed/stripped,\nex 2401 20 Outer coverings for cigars presented on supports, in reels for the manufacture of tobacco,\n2401 30 Tobacco waste,\nex 2402 10 Unfinished cigars without wrapping,\nex 2403 10 Cigarette rag (finished mixtures of tobacco for the manufacture of cigarettes, cigars, cheroots and cigarillos),\nex 2403 91 Homogenised or reconstituted tobacco, whether or not put up in sheets or strips,\nex 2403 99 Expanded tobacco.\nThe exemption provided for in the first subparagraph is granted by means of the certificates referred to in Article 12.\nThis exemption applies to the products referred to in the first subparagraph, meant to be processed in the Canary Islands in order to produce manufactured products ready for smoking, subject to an annual import limit of 20 000 tonnes of raw stripped tobacco equivalent.\n2. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts regarding the measures necessary to implement paragraph 1 and more specifically the measures for introducing the exemption from import duties in respect of tobacco in the Canary Islands. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 34(2).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/228/article/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:47.841100+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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