Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1015/2014 of 22 July 2014 amending Annexes II and III to Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences, and repealing Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 154/2013

• CELEX: Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1015/2014
• Articles: 3

Article 1 Amendments toRegulation (EU) No 978/2012

Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 is amended as follows:

1.

In Annex II, the following countries and the corresponding alphabetical codes are removed from columns A and B, respectively:

CO

Colombia

CR

Costa Rica

GT

Guatemala

SV

El Salvador

HN

Honduras

NI

Nicaragua

PA

Panama

PE

Peru

TM

Turkmenistan

2.

Annex III is amended as follows:

(a)

the following country and the corresponding alphabetical code is removed from columns A and B, respectively:

EC

Ecuador

(b)

the following countries and the corresponding alphabetical codes are removed from columns A and B, respectively:

CR

Costa Rica

GT

Guatemala

SV

El Salvador

PA

Panama

PE

Peru

Article 2 Repeal

Delegated Regulation (EU) No 154/2013 is repealed with effect from 1 January 2014.

In derogation from Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1421/2013, the repeal shall take effect on 23 February 2014 as regards Azerbaijan and Iran.

Article 3 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 .

Article 1(1) shall apply from 1 January 2016.

Article 1(2)(a) shall apply from 1 January 2015.

Article 1(2)(b) shall apply from 1 January 2016.