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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-2081/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eur/2015/2081",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2081 of 18 November 2015 opening and providing for the administration of import tariff quotas for certain cereals originating in Ukraine",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-2081",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2081\nof 18 November 2015\nopening and providing for the administration of import tariff quotas for certain cereals originating in Ukraine\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving 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 1234/2007, and in particular Article 187(a) and (c) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nBy Council Decision No 2014/668/EU, the Council authorised the signature, on behalf of the European Union, and provisional application of the Association Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, on the one hand, and Ukraine, on the other. Title IV of the Agreement provides, in particular, for the reduction or removal of customs duties on goods from Ukraine in accordance with Annex I-A to the Agreement. Annex I-A to the Agreement provides, in particular, for the opening of tariff quotas for imports of certain cereals into the EU. Title IV of and Annex I-A to the Agreement shall apply provisionally from 1 January 2016.\n(2)\nConsequently, tariff quotas for imports of cereals should be opened as from 2016. In addition, the Commission should administer some of these tariff quotas according to the method referred to in Article 184(2)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.\n(3)\nTo ensure that imports of cereals originating in Ukraine within these tariff quotas are orderly and not speculative, they should be made subject to the issue of import licences. Therefore Commission Regulations (EC) No 1301/2006, (EC) No 1342/2003 and (EC) No 376/2008 should apply, without prejudice to any derogations provided for by this Regulation.\n(4)\nTo ensure the proper management of these quotas, deadlines for the submission of import licence applications should be laid down and the information to be included in applications and licences should be specified.\n(5)\nIn the interests of efficient administration, when notifying the Commission, Member States should use the information systems provided for in Commission Regulation (EC) No 792/2009.\n(6)\nCommission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1006/2011 replaced the CN codes of the cereals referred to in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 with new codes that differ from the codes referred to in the Association Agreement. The Annex to this Regulation should therefore refer to the new CN codes.\n(7)\nThe measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 671."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Council Decision 2014/668/EU of 23 June 2014 on the signing, on behalf of the European Union, and provisional application of the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, on the one hand, and Ukraine, on the other, as regards Title III (with the exception of the provisions relating to the treatment of third-country nationals legally employed as workers in the territory of the other Party) and Titles IV, V, VI and VII thereof, as well as the related Annexes and Protocols (OJ L 278, 20.9.2014, p. 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006 of 31 August 2006 laying down common rules for the administration of import tariff quotas for agricultural products managed by a system of import licences (OJ L 238, 1.9.2006, p. 13)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1342/2003 of 28 July 2003 laying down special detailed rules for the application of the system of import and export licences for cereals and rice (OJ L 189, 29.7.2003, p. 12)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 376/2008 of 23 April 2008 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of import and export licences and advance fixing certificates for agricultural products (OJ L 114, 26.4.2008, p. 3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 792/2009 of 31 August 2009 laying down detailed rules for the Member States' notification to the Commission of information and documents required for the implementation of the common organisation of the markets, the direct payments regime, the promotion of agricultural products and the regimes applicable to the outermost regions and the smaller Aegean islands (OJ L 228, 1.9.2009, p. 3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1006/2011 of 27 September 2011 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (OJ L 282, 28.10.2011, p. 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1)."
    }
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