Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 416/2014 of 23 April 2014 opening and providing for the administration of import tariff quotas for certain cereals originating in Ukraine

Opening and providing for the administration of the tariff quotas

Article 1

1.   The import tariff quotas for certain products originating in Ukraine and listed in the Annex to this Regulation are open until 31 October 2014. 2.   The rate of import duty within the tariff quotas referred to in paragraph 1 is set at EUR 0 per tonne. 3.   Regulations (EC) No 376/2008, (EC) No 1301/2006 and (EC) No 1342/2003 shall apply, save as otherwise provided for in this Regulation.

Rules for issuing import licences

Article 2

1.   Notwithstanding Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, applicants may not submit more than one import licence application per serial number and per week. Where applicants submit more than one application, none of those applications shall be admissible and the securities lodged when the applications were submitted shall be forfeited to the Member State concerned. Import licence applications shall be submitted to the competent authorities of the Member States each week no later than Friday at 13.00 (Brussels time). Such applications may not be submitted after 13.00 (Brussels time) on Friday 17 October 2014. 2.   Each import licence application shall indicate a quantity in kilograms (whole numbers) which may not exceed the total quantity of the quota in question. 3.   Import licences shall be issued on the fourth working day following the notification referred to in Article 4(1). 4.   Section 8 of the import licence application and the import licence shall contain the name ‘Ukraine’ and ‘Yes’ shall be marked with a cross. The licences are valid solely for products originating in Ukraine.

Validity of import licences

Article 3

In accordance with Article 22(2) of Regulation (EC) No 376/2008, the period of validity of the import licence shall be calculated from the actual date of issue. The period of validity of the import licence is the period defined in Article 6(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1342/2003. In any event, the period of validity expires on 31 October 2014 at the latest.

Communications

Article 4

1.   No later than 18.00 (Brussels time) on the Monday following the week in which the import licence application was submitted, the Member States shall send to the Commission, by electronic means, a notification showing, by serial number, each application with the origin of the product and the quantity applied for, including ‘nil’ notifications. 2.   Member States shall communicate to the Commission, by electronic means, on the day of issue of the import licences, the information on the licences issued as referred to in Article 11(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, with the total quantities for which import licences have been issued.

Entry into force

Article 5

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

ANNEXSupplementary provisions

ANNEX Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording for the description of the products is to be considered as having no more than an indicative value, the preferential scheme being determined, within the context of this Annex, by the coverage of the CN codes. When the CN code is preceded by ‘ex’, the application of the preferential scheme is determined on the basis of the CN code and the description of the product. Order No CN code Product description Quantity 09.4306 1001 99 (00) spelt, common wheat and meslin, other than seed 950 000 tonnes 1101 00 (15-90) common wheat flour and spelt flour, meslin flour 1102 90 (90) cereal flour other than wheat, meslin, rye, maize, barley, oat, rice 1103 11 (90) groats and meal of common wheat and spelt 1103 20 (60) wheat pellets 09.4307 1003 90 (00) barley, other than seed 250 000 tonnes 1102 90 (10) barley flour ex 1103 20 (25) barley pellets 09.4308 1005 90 (00) maize other than seed 400 000 tonnes 1102 20 (10-90) maize flour 1103 13 (10-90) groats and meal of maize 1103 20 (40) maize pellets 1104 23 (40-98) worked grains of maize