Chapter VII, Section II, Article 34 · Regulation (EU) 2026/1395

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1.When imports of products falling under Combined Nomenclature codes 100610, 100620 and 100630 originating in a beneficiary country exceed, cumulatively and at any point in a calendar year, the annual import volumes established for each beneficiary country in accordance with the methodology specified in paragraph 4, by at least 45 %, the Commission shall:

(a)suspend, with immediate effect, the tariff preferences for imports of those products originating in the beneficiary country concerned for the remainder of the calendar year; and

(b)introduce, for the duration of the following calendar year, a tariff-rate quota for imports of those products originating in the beneficiary country concerned.

The tariff-rate quota referred to in point (b) of the first subparagraph shall be equal to the annual import volume from the beneficiary country concerned established for the year in which the suspension referred to in point (a) of the first subparagraph took effect, in accordance with the methodology specified in paragraph 4. Only imports within the tariff-rate quota referred to in point (b) of the first subparagraph shall continue to benefit from the tariff preferences.

2.Paragraph 1 shall not apply to beneficiary countries with a share for products falling under Combined Nomenclature codes 100610, 100620 and 100630 considered cumulatively, not exceeding 6 % of total Union imports.

3.The Commission shall adopt implementing acts establishing, in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 48(2), the arrangements for monitoring the import volumes, for suspending the tariff preferences, and for applying this Article. The first of those implementing acts shall apply from 1 January 2027.

4.For the calendar year 2027, the import volumes for each beneficiary country referred to in paragraph 1 shall be determined by the arithmetic mean of the annual import volumes of the Union originating in each beneficiary country between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2024. By 31 December 2027 and by 31 December every year thereafter, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 48(2) to specify the import volumes referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article and applicable for the following calendar year, on the basis of the arithmetic mean of the annual import volumes of the Union originating in each beneficiary country during the ten preceding calendar years, based on the most recent available data.

5.The report on the application of this Regulation provided for in Article 49, second paragraph, shall include an assessment of the need for, and the functioning of, the mechanism set out in this Article.

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beneficiary countries
means countries benefitting from any of the preferential arrangements under the GSP;
Common Customs Tariff duties
means the customs duties specified in Part Two of Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, except those duties established as part of tariff quotas;
complaint
means a complaint submitted to the Commission through the Single Entry Point (SEP).
countries
means countries and territories that have a customs administration;
effective implementation
means the integral implementation of the undertakings and obligations undertaken under the relevant conventions, thus ensuring fulfilment of the principles, objectives and rights guaranteed in the relevant conventions in the beneficiary country’s entire territory, including in any areas of that territory that the beneficiary country has designated as a special economic zone or an export processing zone;
enhanced engagement
means a continuous process aiming to facilitate and incentivise beneficiary countries to make progress in the implementation of the conditions set out in this Regulation, or to address shortcomings in respecting the principles of the relevant conventions;
interested parties
includes those parties involved in the production, distribution or sale of the imported products referred to in paragraph 1 and of like products or directly competing products.
least-developed countries
means least-developed countries designated as such by the UN;
like product
means a product which is identical, that is to say alike in all respects, to the product under consideration, or, in the absence of such a product, another product which, although not alike in all respects, has characteristics closely resembling those of the product under consideration.
plan of action
means a list of measures provided by a GSP+ requesting country to effectively implement the relevant conventions;
preferential market access arrangement
means preferential access to the Union market through a trade agreement, either provisionally applied or in force, or through autonomous preferences granted by the Union;
Sensitive/non-sensitive
refers to the products included in the standard GSP (Article 6).
standard GSP beneficiary countries
means countries benefitting from the standard GSP as listed in Annex I and identified as such in column C thereof;

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