Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2908 of 12 October 2023 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards the volumes of food preparations, processed shrimp of the species Pandalus borealis and certain plywood of coniferous species that may be imported under tariff quotas 09.0013, 09.0047, 09.0088 and 09.0096

The table to Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 is amended as follows: (a) in the row for serial number 09.0013, in the column headed ‘Quota volume’, the volume ‘482648 m3’ is replaced by ‘448500 m3’; (b) in the row for serial number 09.0047, in the column headed ‘Quota volume’, the volume ‘474 tonnes’ is replaced by ‘500 tonnes’; (c) in the row for serial number 09.0088, in the column headed ‘Quota volume’, the volume ‘702 tonnes’ is replaced by ‘783 tonnes’; (d) in the row for serial number 09.0096, in the column headed ‘Quota volume’, the volume ‘831 tonnes’ is replaced by ‘1286 tonnes’.

1 The volumes available for the remainder of the tariff quota periods that are ongoing on 22 December 2023 shall be the difference between the quota volumes as amended by this Regulation and the quota volumes already allocated before that date.

2 In the case of an increase of the volume, if, on 22 December 2023, the quotas applicable on 21 December 2023 were exhausted, the new quota volumes available shall be allocated to operators following the chronological order of the acceptance dates of their customs declarations for release for free circulation. Operators who imported their goods out of quota before 22 December 2023 shall be reimbursed, on their request and to the extent that the balance of the tariff quotas so permits, the difference in duty already paid.

3 In the case of a decrease of the volume, if, on 22 December 2023 for the quota applicable on 21 December 2023, a volume higher than the quota volume as amended by this Regulation has been released for free circulation, operators shall not be required to pay any additional duty for the in-quota volumes imported exceeding the new available volume.

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