Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1909 of 24 September 2025 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the suspension for the years 2026-2028 of certain tariff preferences granted to certain GSP beneficiary countries

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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

Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 (1), and in particular Article 8(3) thereof,

After consulting the Generalised Preferences Committee, within the meaning of Article 39 of Regulation (EU) No 978/2012,

Whereas:

(1) Pursuant to Article 8(1) of Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 the tariff preferences of the general arrangement of the generalised scheme of preferences (GSP) are to be suspended in respect of products of a GSP section originating in a GSP beneficiary country when the average value of Union imports of such products over three consecutive years from that GSP beneficiary country exceeds the thresholds listed in Annex VI of that Regulation.

(2) In accordance with Article 8(2) of Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 and based on trade statistics concerning calendar years 2018-2020, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1039 (2), as amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2780 (3), established the list of product sections for which the tariff preferences were suspended from 1 January 2023 until 31 December 2025.

(3) Pursuant to Article 8(3) of Regulation (EU) No 978/2012, the Commission is to review that list, every three years, and adopt an implementing act to suspend or re-establish the tariff preferences.

(4) The revised list should apply for a period of three years as of 1 January 2026, or, if Regulation (EU) No 978/2012, pursuant to Article 43 of that Regulation, expires before 31 December 2028, until the date of expiry of that Regulation. The list is based on trade statistics concerning calendar years 2021-2023, as available on 1 September 2024 and takes into account imports from GSP beneficiary countries listed in Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 978/2012, as applicable on that date. However, for the purposes of these calculations, in accordance with Article 8(4) of Regulation (EU) No 978/2012, the value of imports originating from GSP beneficiaries which, as from 1 January 2026, no longer benefit from the tariff preferences under point (b) of Article 4(1) of that Regulation is not taken into account,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The tariff preferences referred to in Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 are suspended in respect of the GSP beneficiary countries concerned, listed in Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 978/2012, for the list of products of GSP sections set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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 January 2026 until 31 December 2028, or, if Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 expires before 31 December 2028, until the date of expiry of that Regulation.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 September 2025.

For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN

(1) OJ L 303, 31.10.2012, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2012/978/oj.

(2) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1039 of 29 June 2022 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the suspension for the year 2023 of certain tariff preferences granted to certain GSP beneficiary countries (OJ L 173, 30.6.2022, p. 58, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2022/1039/oj).

(3) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2780 of 14 December 2023 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1039 as regards the extension of the suspension of certain tariff preferences granted to certain GSP beneficiary countries (OJ L, 2023/2780, 15.12.2023, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/2780/oj).