Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1835 of 27 June 2024 amending Implementing Regulations (EU) 2020/761, (EU) 2020/1988 and (EU) 2023/2834 as regards tariff measures for certain agricultural products originating in or exported directly or indirectly from Belarus and Russia, and as regards the conversion rates for rice

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having 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 ¹, and in particular Article 187 thereof,

Whereas:

• (1) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/761 ² lays down the rules for the management of import and export tariff quotas for agricultural products managed by a system of import and export licences and provides for specific rules for that management.

• (2) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1988 ³ lays down the rules for the administration of import tariff quotas designed to be used following the chronological order of dates of acceptance of customs declarations (‘first come, first served’ principle).

• (3) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2834 ⁴ lays down the rules as regards imports in the sectors of rice, cereals, sugar and hops.

• (4) In accordance with Council Regulation (EU) 2024/1652 ⁵, tariff measures have been introduced in order to prevent certain agricultural products (cereals, oilseeds and derived products) from Russia from continuing to enter the Union market on terms that are equally favourable to those applied to those products from other non-preferential origins.

• (5) The same tariff measures should be taken simultaneously in respect of Belarus in order to prevent imports to the Union from Russia from being diverted through Belarus, given its close political and economic ties with Russia, should the Union tariffs on imports of relevant goods from Belarus remain unchanged.

• (6) It is appropriate to reflect those tariff measures in Implementing Regulations (EU) 2020/761, (EU) 2020/1988 and (EU) 2023/2834.

• (7) Further to the additional CN codes for rice introduced by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1998 ⁶, corresponding conversion rates for these CN codes should be fixed.

• (8) The Commission should, between the fixing of two import duties, publish the factors taken into account for those calculations in its website, to provide stakeholders with transparency in the cereals import duty calculations, while reducing the administrative burden on the Commission.

• (9) Implementing Regulations (EU) 2020/761, (EU) 2020/1988 and (EU) 2023/2834 should therefore be amended accordingly.

• (10) Regulation (EU) 2024/1652 enters into force on 1 July 2024. In order to ensure the effective management and timely application of the tariff measures for agricultural products concerned, this Regulation should enter into force on the day following that of its publication and should apply from 1 July 2024.

• (11) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for the Common Organisation of the Agricultural Markets,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Amendments to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/761

Annex II to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/761 is amended as follows:

• (1) the box ‘Origin’ of the tables referring to tariff quotas with order numbers 09.4120, 09.4121, 09.4122, 09.4131, and 09.4133 is replaced by the following:

• (2) the box ‘Origin’ of the table referring to tariff quotas with order number 09.4125 is replaced by the following:

Article 2

Amendments to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1988

In Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1988, the box ‘Origin’ of the tables referring to tariff quotas with order numbers 09.0138, 09.2903, 09.2905, 09.0071, 09.0072, 09.0073, 09.0074, 09.0075, 09.0076, and 09.0070 is replaced by the following:

Article 3

Amendments to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2834

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2834 is amended as follows:

• (1) in Article 1, paragraphs 2 and 3 are replaced by the following:

‘2.   The conversion rate between husked rice and milled rice shall be as follows:

	Husked rice	Milled rice
Round-grained rice	1	0,775
Medium-grained or long-grained rice	1	0,69
Other rice	1	0,7325

1. The conversion rate between milled rice and semi-milled rice shall be as follows:

	Milled rice	Semi-milled rice
Round-grained rice	1	1,065
Medium-grained or long-grained rice	1	1,072
Other rice	1	1,06849 ’

• (2) in Article 15, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

‘1.   By way of derogation to the rates of import duty in the Common Customs Tariff, the import duty on cereal products falling within CN codes 1001 11 00, 1001 19 00, ex 1001 91 20 (common wheat seed), ex 1001 99 00 (high-quality common wheat other than seed), 1002 10 00, 1002 90 00, 1005 10 90, 1005 90 00, 1007 10 90 and 1007 90 00 shall be equal to the intervention price on importation, increased by 55 %, minus the CIF import price determined in accordance with Article 16(1) applicable to the consignment in question. However, that import duty may not exceed the conventional rate of duty as determined on the basis of the Combined Nomenclature. This paragraph is not applicable to cereal products originating in or exported directly or indirectly from Belarus and Russia for which the rates of import duty in the Common Customs Tariff apply.’

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• (3) in Article 16(2), the third subparagraph is replaced by the following:

‘The amount of the fixed import duty and the factors used for their calculation shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Between the fixing of two duties, the Commission shall publish the factors taken into account for the calculation on the Commission’s website.’.

Article 4

Entry into force and application

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 July 2024.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 27 June 2024.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/1835/oj

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