Council Regulation (EU) 2023/2720 of 27 November 2023 opening and providing for the management of the Union autonomous tariff quotas for certain fishery products for the 2024–2026 period

Import duties on the products listed in the Annex shall be suspended or reduced to fall within the tariff quotas at the rates, for the periods and up to the amounts indicated therein.

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

The tariff quotas shall be subject to end-use customs supervision in accordance with Article 254 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council .

1 The suspension or reduction of import duties shall apply only to products intended for human consumption.

2 The tariff quotas shall not be available for products whose processing is carried out at retail or catering level.

3 The tariff quotas shall not be available for products intended solely for one or more of the following operations: (a) cleaning, gutting, tailing and heading; (b) cutting; (c) repacking of frozen individually quick-frozen (IQF) fillets; (d) sampling and sorting; (e) labelling; (f) packing; (g) chilling; (h) freezing; (i) deep-freezing; (j) defrosting; (k) glazing; (l) thawing; and (m) separation.

4 Notwithstanding paragraph 3, the tariff quotas shall be available for products intended for one or more of the following operations: (a) dicing; (b) cutting into rings and cutting into strips for materials under CN codes ex03074335, ex03074391, ex03074392 and ex03074399; (c) filleting; (d) production of flaps; (e) cutting of frozen blocks; (f) splitting of frozen interleaved fillet and cephalopod blocks to obtain individual fillets; (g) slicing for materials under CN codes ex03036611, ex03036612, ex03036613, ex03036619, ex03038970 and ex03038990; (h) treatment by packaging gases as defined in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council for products under CN codes 03061699 (TARIC subdivision 20 and 30), 03061792 (TARIC subdivision 20), 03061799 (TARIC subdivision 10), 03063590 (TARIC subdivisions 12, 14, 92 and 93), 03063690 (TARIC subdivisions 20 and 30), 16052190 (TARIC subdivisions 45, 55 and 62) and 16052900 (TARIC subdivisions 50, 55 and 60); (i) dividing the frozen product or subjecting the frozen product to heat treatment to enable the removal of internal waste material for materials under CN codes 03061110 (TARIC subdivision 10), 03061190 (TARIC subdivision 20) and 03063100 (TARIC subdivision 10); (j) pasteurisation under CN codes 03052000 and 16043200; (k) cleaning in case this operation is the only one that can be performed on a particular good and the cleaning is necessary to obtain the product acceptable for human consumption (fish roe from headings 0302, 0303 and 0305; shrimps from heading 0306; frozen fish, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat, of the species Gadus morhua for processing under CN code 03036310, of the species Merluccius, excluding Merluccius merluccius, for processing under CN codes 03036611, 03036612, 03036613 and 03036619, and of the species Theragra chalcogramma for processing under CN code 03036700); and (l) modified atmosphere packaging under CN code 16054000.

5 The tariff quotas shall not be available to products originating from Russia or Belarus. For the purpose of establishing the origin of products under the quotas, non-preferential rules of origin shall apply in accordance with Article 60 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013.

The Commission and the customs authorities of the Member States shall cooperate closely to ensure the proper management and control of the application of this Regulation.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2026.