2012/825/EU: Commission Decision of 20 December 2012 terminating the anti-subsidy proceeding concerning imports of bioethanol originating in the United States of America and terminating the registration of such imports imposed by Regulation (EU) No 771/2012

The anti-subsidy proceeding on imports of bioethanol, sometimes referred to as “fuel ethanol”, 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, as well as 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) currently falling within CN codes ex22071000, ex22072000, ex22089099, ex27101211, ex27101215, ex27101221, ex27101225, ex27101231, ex27101241, ex27101245, ex27101249, ex27101251, ex27101259, ex27101270, ex27101290, ex38140010, ex38140090, ex38200000 and ex38249097 and originating in the United States of America, is hereby terminated.

Customs authorities are hereby directed to cease the registration of imports carried out pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EU) No 771/2012. No countervailing duty shall be collected on the imports thus registered.

Regulation (EU) No 771/2012 is hereby repealed.

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