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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-624/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eur/2013/624",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 624/2013 of 27 June 2013 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards a new tariff quota of the Union bound in GATT for food preparations not elsewhere specified or included, allocated to the United States of America",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 624/2013\nof 27 June 2013\namending Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards a new tariff quota of the Union bound in GATT for food preparations not elsewhere specified or included, allocated to the United States of America\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 of 17 December 1999 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT and certain other Community tariff quotas and establishing detailed rules for adjusting the quotas, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1808/95, and in particular the first indent of Article 9(1)(b) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nBy Decision 2013/125/EU, the Council has approved the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the United States of America pursuant to Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions in the schedules of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania in the course of their accession to the European Union.\n(2)\nThe Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the United States of America provides for a new annual tariff quota for food preparations.\n(3)\nRegulation (EC) No 32/2000 opened and provided for the administration of Union tariff quotas bound in GATT designed to be used following the chronological order of dates of acceptance of customs declarations.\n(4)\nTo verify the origin of the products, account should be taken of the control measures introduced by the competent authorities of the United States, and the certificate of origin issued by those authorities should be required on import in accordance with Articles 55 to 65 of Commission 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.\n(5)\nTo implement the new annual tariff quota for which provision is made in the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters, it is necessary to amend Regulation (EC) No 32/2000.\n(6)\nAs the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the United States of America pursuant to Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions in the schedules of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania in the course of their accession to the European Union will enter into force on 1 July 2013, this Commission Implementing Regulation should apply from the same date.\n(7)\nThe measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 5, 8.1.2000, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 69, 13.3.2013, p. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1."
    }
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