Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/254 of 18 February 2021 amending Implementing Regulations (EU) 2020/761 and (EU) 2020/1988 and Regulations (EC) No 218/2007 and (EC) No 1518/2007 as regards imports of products originating in the United Kingdom and excluding those products from the tariff quotas with ongoing quota periods

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/761 is amended as follows: (1) Annex II is amended as follows: (a) the box ‘Origin’ of the tables referring to TRQs with order numbers 09.4131, 09.4133, 09.4120, 09.4121 and 09.4122 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except the United Kingdom’ (b) the box ‘Origin’ of the table referring to TRQ with order number 09.4125 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except the United States of America, Canada and the United Kingdom’ (2) Annex III is amended as follows: (a) the box ‘Origin’ of the tables referring to TRQs with order numbers 09.4138, 09.4148, 09.4166 and 09.4168 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except the United Kingdom’ (b) the box ‘Origin’ of the table referring to TRQ with order number 09.4119 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except India, Pakistan, Thailand, United States of America, and the United Kingdom’ (c) the box ‘Origin’ of the table referring to TRQ with order number 09.4130 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except Australia, Thailand, United States of America, and the United Kingdom’ (d) the box ‘Origin’ of the table referring to TRQ with order number 09.4154 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except Australia, Guyana, Thailand, United States of America, and the United Kingdom’ (3) in Annex IV, the box ‘Origin’ of the table referring to TRQ with order number 09.4320 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except the United Kingdom’ (4) in Annex VI, the box ‘Origin’ of the table referring to TRQ with order number 09.4287 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except China, Argentina and the United Kingdom’ (5) in Annex VII, the box ‘Origin’ of the table referring to TRQ with order number 09.4286 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except China and the United Kingdom’ (6) in Annex VIII, the box ‘Origin’ of the table referring to TRQ with order number 09.4003 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except the United Kingdom’ (7) in Annex IX, the box ‘Origin’ of the table referring to TRQ with order number 09.4595 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except the United Kingdom’ (8) in Annex X, the box ‘Origin’ of the table referring to TRQ with order number 09.4038 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except the United Kingdom’ (9) in Annex XI, the box ‘Origin’ of the tables referring to TRQs with order numbers 09.4401 and 09.4402 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except the United Kingdom’ (10) Annex XII is amended as follows: (a) the box ‘Origin’ of the tables referring to TRQs with order numbers 09.4067, 09.4068, 09.4069, 09.4070 and 09.4422 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except the United Kingdom’ (b) the tables referring to TRQs with order numbers 09.4213, 09.4216, 09.4260 and 09.4412 are amended as follows: (i) the box ‘Origin’ is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except Brazil, Thailand and the United Kingdom’ (ii) the box ‘Specific entries to be made on the licence application and on the licence’ is replaced by the following: ‘Specific entries to be made on the licence application and on the licenceLicences shall contain in Section 24 the statement “Not to be used for products originating in Brazil, Thailand and the United Kingdom”’ (c) the table referring to TRQ with order number 09.4218 is amended as follows: (i) the box ‘Origin’ is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except Brazil and the United Kingdom’ (ii) the box ‘Specific entries to be made on the licence application and on the licence’ is replaced by the following: ‘Specific entries to be made on the licence application and on the licenceLicences shall contain in Section 24 the statement “Not to be used for products originating in Brazil and the United Kingdom”’ (d) the tables referring to TRQs with order numbers 09.4263, 09.4264 and 09.4265 are amended as follows: (i) the box ‘Origin’ is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except Thailand and the United Kingdom’ (ii) the box ‘Specific entries to be made on the licence application and on the licence’ is replaced by the following: ‘Specific entries to be made on the licence application and on the licenceLicences shall contain in Section 24 the statement “Not to be used for products originating in Thailand and the United Kingdom”’

Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1988 is amended as follows: (1) the box ‘Origin’ of the tables referring to TRQs with order numbers 09.0138, 09.0132, 09.0135, 09.2903, 09.2905, 09.0071, 09.0072, 09.0073, 09.0074, 09.0075, 09.0076, 09.0089, 09.0070, 09.0043, 09.0083, 09.0139,, 09.0056, 09.0057, 09.0041, 09.0039, 09.0058, 09.0094, 09.0059, 09.0060, 09.0061, 09.0062, 09.0063, 09.0040, 09.0025, 09.0027, 09.0033, 09.0092, 09.0093, 09.0035, 09.0144, 09.0161 (sub-tariff quota of 09.0144), 09.0162 (sub-tariff quota of 09.0144), 09.0145, 09.0163 (sub-tariff quota of 09.0145), 09.0164 (sub-tariff quota of 09.0145), 09.0113, 09.0114, 09.0115, 09.0147, 09.0148, 09.0149, 09.0150, 09.0151, 09.0152, 09.0153, 09.0159 (sub-tariff quota of 09.0153), 09.0160 (sub-tariff quota of 09.0153), 09.0118, 09.0119, 09.0120, 09.0121, 09.0122, 09.0123, 09.2178, 09.2179, 09.2016, 09.2181, 09.2019, 09.0154 and 09.0055 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except the United Kingdom’ (2) the box ‘Origin’ of the table referring to TRQ with order number 09.0128 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginThird countries which are members of the WTO except China, Thailand, Indonesia and the United Kingdom’ (3) the box ‘Origin’ of the table referring to TRQs with order number 09.0131 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except China and the United Kingdom’ (4) the box ‘Origin’ of the table referring to TRQs with order number 09.0142 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except Argentina and the United Kingdom’ (5) the box ‘Origin’ of the tables referring to TRQs with order numbers 09.2171, 09.2175 and 09.2015 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll WTO members except Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Uruguay, Chile, Greenland, Iceland and the United Kingdom’ (6) the box ‘Origin’ of the tables referring to TRQs with order numbers 09.0156 and 09.0158 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except Brazil and the United Kingdom’ (7) the box ‘Origin’ of the table referring to TRQs with order number 09.0157 is replaced by the following: ‘OriginAll third countries except Brazil, Thailand and the United Kingdom’

Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 218/2007 is amended as follows: (1) in point (a), the words ‘(erga omnes)’ are replaced by the words ‘(all third countries except the United Kingdom)’; (2) in point (b), the words ‘(erga omnes)’ are replaced by the words ‘(all third countries except the United Kingdom)’.

In Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1518/2007, the words ‘(erga omnes)’ are replaced by the words ‘(all third countries except the United Kingdom)’.

1 As of 1 January 2021, licences shall not be issued for products originating in the United Kingdom under the tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 whose quota period is ongoing on 1 January 2021. As of the same date, products originating in the United Kingdom shall not enter under the tariff quotas referred to in Article 2.

2 As regards imports into the Union from the United Kingdom on the basis of licenses under the tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 issued before 1 January 2021 that include the United Kingdom as a country of origin and whose quota period is ongoing on 1 January 2021 and which Member States do not place under release for free circulation in accordance with the Agreement, the respective securities lodged shall be released at the request of the operators concerned.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 1 January 2021.