Article 1
Open ↗Regulation (EU) No 19/2013 is amended as follows: (1) The title is replaced by the following: ‘Regulation (EU) No 19/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2013 implementing the bilateral safeguard clause and the stabilisation mechanism for bananas of the Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Columbia, Peru and Ecuador, of the other part’. (2) In point (a) of Article 1, Article 2(1), Article 4(4), Article 5(6) and (11), Article 6(1), Article 7(1), Article 9(1) and Article 11, the words ‘Colombia or Peru’ are replaced by ‘Colombia, Ecuador or Peru’. (3) In Article 1, point (h) is replaced by the following: ‘(h) “transitional period” means 10 years from the respective date of application of the Agreement for products for which the Tariff Elimination Schedules for goods originating in Colombia, Ecuador or Peru, as set out in Subsections 1, 2 and 3 of Section B of Appendix 1 (Elimination of Customs Duties) of Annex I to the Agreement (Tariff Elimination Schedules), provide for a tariff elimination period of less than 10 years, or the tariff elimination period plus three years for products for which those Tariff Elimination Schedules provide for a tariff elimination period of 10 or more years; the transitional period shall be applicable to Ecuador from the date of application of the Agreement.’. (4) In Article 3(1), (3) and (4) and Article 13(4), the words ‘Colombia and Peru’ are replaced by ‘Colombia, Ecuador and Peru’. (5) In Article 15, paragraphs 1 and 2 are replaced by the following: ‘1. For bananas originating in Colombia, Ecuador or Peru falling under heading 0803 90 10 of the Combined Nomenclature (fresh bananas, excluding plantains) and listed under the staging category “BA” in the Tariff Elimination Schedule in the case of Colombia and Peru and staging category “SP1” in the Tariff Elimination Schedule in the case of Ecuador under the heading 0803 00 19, a stabilisation mechanism shall apply until 31 December 2019. 2. A separate annual trigger import volume is set for imports of products referred to in paragraph 1, as indicated in the second, third and fourth columns of the table in the Annex. Once the trigger volume for Colombia, Ecuador or Peru is met during the corresponding calendar year, the Commission shall, in accordance with the urgency procedure referred to in Article 14(4), adopt an implementing act by which it shall either temporarily suspend the preferential customs duty applied to products of the corresponding origin during that same year for a period of time not exceeding three months, and not going beyond the end of the calendar year, or determine that such suspension is not appropriate. 2a. When import volumes reach 80 % of the trigger import volume, as indicated in the Annex to this Regulation, for one or more of the parties to the Agreement, the Commission shall formally alert the European Parliament and the Council in writing. At the same time, the Commission shall transmit to the European Parliament and the Council the relevant information on the trends in bananas and import statistics concerning the imports from the countries subject to the stabilisation mechanism and their relevant thresholds, in order to anticipate import trends over the rest of the calendar year.’. (6) The Annex is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.