{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-1957/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eur/2017/1957",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1957 of 26 October 2017 opening and providing for the administration of Union tariff quotas for certain fish and fishery products originating in KosovoThis designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-1957",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1957\nof 26 October 2017\nopening and providing for the administration of Union tariff quotas for certain fish and fishery products originating in Kosovo\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to Regulation (EU) 2017/355 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 February 2017 on certain procedures for applying the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and Kosovo of the other part, and in particular Article 2 thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nThe Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and Kosovo, of the other part (‘the SAA’) was signed on 27 October 2015 and entered into force on 1 April 2016.\n(2)\nArticle 31 of the SAA and the Annex IV to the SAA lay down the arrangements applicable to the import into the Union of fish and fishery products. Under those provisions, imports into the Union of trout and carp originating in Kosovo within certain tariff quotas are to benefit from exemptions from customs duties.\n(3)\nTo implement the provisions of the SAA on fish and fishery products, it is necessary to open and administer the annual tariff quotas for trout and carp for the year 2016 and the following years.\n(4)\nThe tariff quotas should be managed by the Commission on the basis of the chronological order of dates of acceptance of customs declarations for release for free circulation in accordance with Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447.\n(5)\nThe measures laid down in this Regulation should apply from the date of entry into force of the SAA. This Regulation should therefore enter into force as a matter of urgency.\n(6)\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": "This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 57, 3.3.2017, p. 59."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 71, 16.3.2016, p. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Commission 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)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "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."
}