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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eur/2019/999",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EU) 2019/999 of 13 June 2019 amending Regulation (EU) No 1387/2013 suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on certain agricultural and industrial products",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-999",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Regulation (EU) 2019/999\nof 13 June 2019\namending Regulation (EU) No 1387/2013 suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on certain agricultural and industrial products\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 31 thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the European Commission,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nIn order to ensure a sufficient and uninterrupted supply of certain agricultural and industrial products which are unavailable in the Union and thereby avoid any disturbances on the market for those products, autonomous Common Customs Tariff (‘CCT’) duties on those products have been suspended by Council Regulation (EU) No 1387/2013. Those products can be imported into the Union at reduced or zero duty rates.\n(2)\nThe Union production of 97 products that are not listed in the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 1387/2013 is inadequate or non-existent. It is therefore in the interest of the Union to suspend totally the autonomous CCT duties on those products.\n(3)\nIt is necessary to modify the conditions for the suspension of autonomous CCT duties for 47 products listed in the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 1387/2013 in order to take into account technical product developments and economic trends on the market.\n(4)\nIt is no longer in the interest of the Union to maintain the suspension of autonomous CCT duties for 26 of the products that are listed in the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 1387/2013. The suspensions for those products should therefore be deleted. Moreover, with a view to promoting integrated battery production in the Union and in accordance with the communication from the Commission entitled ‘Europe on the Move — Sustainable Mobility for Europe: safe, connected, and clean’, the suspensions for 20 additional products listed in that Annex should be withdrawn. Furthermore, another 50 suspensions should be deleted from that Annex as a result of the implementation of the agreement in the form of the Declaration on the Expansion of Trade in Information Technology Products, which reduced the duty rate for the products concerned to zero.\n(5)\nRegulation (EU) No 1387/2013 should therefore be amended accordingly.\n(6)\nIn order to avoid any interruption of the application of the autonomous suspension scheme and to comply with the guidelines set out in the communication from the Commission concerning autonomous tariff suspensions and quotas, the changes provided for in this Regulation regarding the tariff suspensions for the products concerned should apply from 1 July 2019. This Regulation should therefore enter into force as a matter of urgency,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Council Regulation (EU) No 1387/2013 of 17 December 2013 suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on certain agricultural and industrial products and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1344/2011 (OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 201)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 161, 18.6.2016, p. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ C 363, 13.12.2011, p. 6."
    }
  ],
  "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."
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