Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1319 of 15 May 2024 on the derogations from the originating products rules laid down in the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and New Zealand that apply within the limits of annual quotas for certain products from New Zealand

The derogations set out in Appendix 3-B-1 of the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and New Zealand (‘the Agreement’) shall apply within the limits of the quotas set out in the Annex to this Regulation as regards the products listed therein.

The quotas set out in the Annex to this Regulation shall be managed in accordance with Articles 49 to 54 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447.

To benefit from a quota set out in the Annex to this Regulation, the products shall be accompanied by a statement on origin made out by the exporter certifying that they satisfy the conditions laid down in Appendix 3-B-1 to the Agreement and when made out pursuant to Table 1 of Appendix 3-B-1 to the Agreement, it shall contain the statement ‘Origin Quota – Product originating in accordance with Appendix 3-B-1’ or, when made out pursuant to Table 2 of Appendix 3-B-1 to the Agreement, it shall contain the statement ‘Origin quotas – Product originating in accordance with Appendix 3-B-1, caught by the foreign chartered vessel [name of vessel] in the Exclusive Economic Zone of New Zealand under fishing permit number [permit number]’.

1 For quotas with order numbers 09.7914, 09.7915, 09.7916 as referred to in the Annex to this Implementing Regulation, if more than 80 % of an origin quota assigned to a product is used during a calendar year, the origin quota allocation will be increased for the following calendar year.

2 The increase referred to in paragraph 1 shall be of 10 % of the origin quota assigned to the product in the previous calendar year.

3 The growth provision set out in Table 2 of the Appendix 3-B-1 to Annex 3-B to the Agreement shall apply for the first time after the expiry of the first complete calendar year following the entry into force of the Agreement and shall be applied for three years in total within the first six complete calendar years after the date of entry into force of this Agreement.

4 Any increase in the origin quota volume shall be implemented in the first quarter of the subsequent calendar year.

This Regulation enters into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 1 May 2024.