Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1319 of 15 May 2024 on the derogations from the originating products rules laid down in the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and New Zealand that apply within the limits of annual quotas for certain products from New Zealand

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1319
• Articles: 6

Article 1

The derogations set out in Appendix 3-B-1 of the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and New Zealand (‘the Agreement’) shall apply within the limits of the quotas set out in the Annex to this Regulation as regards the products listed therein.

Article 2

The quotas set out in the Annex to this Regulation shall be managed in accordance with Articles 49 to 54 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447.

Article 3

To benefit from a quota set out in the Annex to this Regulation, the products shall be accompanied by a statement on origin made out by the exporter certifying that they satisfy the conditions laid down in Appendix 3-B-1 to the Agreement and when made out pursuant to Table 1 of Appendix 3-B-1 to the Agreement, it shall contain the statement ‘Origin Quota – Product originating in accordance with Appendix 3-B-1’ or, when made out pursuant to Table 2 of Appendix 3-B-1 to the Agreement, it shall contain the statement ‘Origin quotas – Product originating in accordance with Appendix 3-B-1, caught by the foreign chartered vessel [name of vessel] in the Exclusive Economic Zone of New Zealand under fishing permit number [permit number]’.

Article 4

1.   For quotas with order numbers 09.7914, 09.7915, 09.7916 as referred to in the Annex to this Implementing Regulation, if more than 80 % of an origin quota assigned to a product is used during a calendar year, the origin quota allocation will be increased for the following calendar year.

2.   The increase referred to in paragraph 1 shall be of 10 % of the origin quota assigned to the product in the previous calendar year.

3.   The growth provision set out in Table 2 of the Appendix 3-B-1 to Annex 3-B to the Agreement shall apply for the first time after the expiry of the first complete calendar year following the entry into force of the Agreement and shall be applied for three years in total within the first six complete calendar years after the date of entry into force of this Agreement.

4.   Any increase in the origin quota volume shall be implemented in the first quarter of the subsequent calendar year.

Article 5

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

It shall apply from 1 May 2024.

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the scope of the preferential scheme shall be determined, within the context of this Annex, by the CN codes as set out in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87  ( 1 ) , and by the product description in the third column of Table 1 and the third column of Table 2 in this Annex, taken together.

Table 1

Quota order number

CN code

Product description

Quota period

Annual quota (EUR)

09.7911

5903

Textile fabrics impregnated, coated, covered, or laminated with plastics, other than those of heading 5902

From 1.5.2024 to 31.12.2024 and for each year thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12

562 000

09.7912

Chapter 61

Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted

From 1.5.2024 to 31.12.2024 and for each year thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12

1 200 000

09.7913

Chapter 62

Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted

From 1.5.2024 to 31.12.2024 and for each year thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12

1 000 000

Table 2

Quota order number

CN codes

Product description

Quota period

Annual quota (net weight in kilograms)

09.7914

0303 54

Frozen mackerel ( Scomber scombrus, Scomber australasicus, Scomber japonicus )

From 1.5.2024 to 31.12.2024 and for each year thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12

500 000

0303 55

Frozen jack and horse mackerel ( Trachurus spp.)

09.7915

0303 66

Frozen hake

From 1.5.2024 to 31.12.2024 and for each year thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12

5 500 000

0303 68

Frozen blue whiting

0303 69

Frozen fish of the families bregmacerotidae, euclichthyidae, gadidae, macrouridae, melanonidae, merlucciidae, moridae and muraenolepididae (excl. cod, haddock, coalfish, hake, alaska pollock and blue whiting)

0303 89

Frozen fish, not elsewhere specified.

09.7916

0307 43

Cuttle fish and squid, frozen, whether in shell or not

From 1.5.2024 to 31.12.2024 and for each year thereafter from 1.1 to 31.12

8 000 000

( 1 )   Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff ( OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1 , ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/1987/2658/oj ).