Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1777 of 14 September 2023 introducing retrospective Union surveillance of imports of renewable ethanol for fuel

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1777
• Articles: 3

Article 1

1.   The imports of renewable ethanol for fuel listed in the Annex to this Regulation shall be subject to retrospective Union surveillance in accordance with Regulations (EU) 2015/478 and (EU) 2015/755.

2.   The classification of the products covered by this Regulation is based on TARIC. The origin of the products covered by this Regulation shall be determined in accordance with Article 60 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council  ( 5 ) .

Article 2

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

This Regulation shall apply from the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union and shall remain in force for three years.

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX List of products subject to retrospective Union surveillance

ANNEX

List of products subject to retrospective Union surveillance

The product concerned subject to retrospective surveillance is renewable ethanol for fuel, i.e. ethyl alcohol produced from agricultural products (as listed in Annex I to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union), denatured or undenatured, excluding products with a water content of more than 0,3 % (m/m) measured according to the standard EN 15376, but including ethyl alcohol produced from agricultural products (as listed in Annex I to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) contained in blends with gasoline with an ethyl alcohol content of more than 10 % (v/v) intended for fuel uses. The product concerned also covers ethyl alcohol produced from agricultural products (as listed in Annex I to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) contained in Ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE).

The product scope is exclusively limited to renewable ethanol used for fuel applications. Thus, synthetic ethanol and renewable ethanol destined to applications other than fuel, i.e. industrial and beverage use, is not covered.

The product concerned currently falls under the following CN and TARIC codes:

CN Codes

TARIC Code extensions

ex 2207 10 00

11

ex 2207 20 00

11

ex 2208 90 99

11

ex 2710 12 21

10

ex 2710 12 25

10

ex 2710 12 31

10

ex 2710 12 41

10

ex 2710 12 45

10

ex 2710 12 49

10

ex  27101250

10

ex 2710 12 70

10

ex 2710 12 90

10

ex 2909 19 10

10

ex 3814 00 10

10

ex 3814 00 90

70

ex 3820 00 00

10

ex 3824 99 92

66