Council Regulation (EU) 2021/2283 of 20 December 2021 opening and providing for the management of autonomous tariff quotas of the Union for certain agricultural and industrial products, and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1388/2013

1 For the agricultural and industrial products listed in the Annex, autonomous tariff quotas of the Union (‘quotas’) shall be opened.

2 Within the quotas referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, the Common Customs Tariff duties referred to in Article 56(2), point (c), of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council are suspended for the quota periods, at the quota duty rates and up to the quota volumes indicated in the Annex to this Regulation.

3 Paragraphs 1 and 2 do not apply to any mixtures, preparations or products made up of different components containing products listed in the Annex.

The quotas referred to in Article 1 of this Regulation shall be managed by the Commission in accordance with Articles 49 to 54 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447.

Where a customs declaration for release for free circulation is lodged for products for which supplementary units have been provided in the Annex, the exact quantity of the products imported shall be entered in that declaration using the supplementary unit set out in the Annex.

Regulation (EU) No 1388/2013 is repealed.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 1 January 2022.