Considerations on COM(2024)502 -

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dossier COM(2024)502 - .
document COM(2024)502
date October 31, 2024
 
(1) In order to ensure a sufficient supply of certain agricultural and industrial products which are not produced in the Union and thereby avoid any disturbances on the market for those products, Common Customs Tariff duties of the type referred to in Article 56(2), point (c), of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council0 (‘CCT duties’) on those products have been suspended by Council Regulation (EU) 2021/22780. As a result, the products listed in the Annex to Regulation (EU) 2021/2278 can be imported into the Union at reduced or zero duty rates without any limitation as regards their quantity.

(2) The Union production of certain products that are currently not listed in the Annex to Regulation (EU) 2021/2278 is inadequate to meet the specific requirements of the user industries in the Union. As it is in the interest of the Union to ensure an adequate supply of products meeting those requirements, and having regard to the fact that identical, equivalent or substitute products are not produced in sufficient quantities within the Union, it is necessary to grant a complete suspension of the CCT duties on such products.

(3) With a view to promoting integrated battery production in the Union, a partial suspension of the CCT duties should be granted in respect of certain products related to battery production that are currently not listed in the Annex to Regulation (EU) 2021/2278, the Union production of which is inadequate to meet the specific requirements of the user industries in the Union. The date for the mandatory review of those suspensions should be 31 December 2025, in order for that review to take into account the short-term evolution of the battery production sector in the Union.

(4) It is necessary to amend the product description, classification, or end-use requirement for certain products listed in the Annex to Regulation (EU) 2021/2278 in order to take into account technical product developments and economic trends in the market.

(5) The Commission has reviewed certain CCT duty suspensions for products listed in the Annex to Regulation (EU) 2021/2278 in accordance with Article 2(2) of that Regulation. As it is in the interest of the Union to maintain the suspensions for certain of those products, new dates should be set for their next mandatory review.

(6) It is no longer in the interest of the Union to maintain the suspension of CCT duties for certain products listed in the Annex to Regulation (EU) 2021/2278. The suspensions for those products should therefore be deleted from that Annex, with effect from 1 January 2025.

(7) Regulation (EU) 2021/2278 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(8) In order to avoid any interruption in the application of the autonomous tariff suspension scheme and to comply with the guidelines set out in the Communication from the Commission of 13 December 2011 concerning autonomous tariff suspensions and quotas0, the changes provided for in this Regulation regarding the tariff suspensions for the products concerned should apply from 1 January 2025. This Regulation should therefore enter into force as a matter of urgency.