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Article 3Amendments to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1988#
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1988 is amended as follows:
(1)in Article 4, the following paragraph 4a is inserted:‘4a.This paragraph applies to tariff rate quotas opened in accordance with the Interim Agreement on Trade between the European Union, and the Common market of the South, the Argentine Republic, the Federal Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Oriental Republic of Uruguay. The products imported under these tariff rate quotas shall be accompanied by an official document issued by the Mercosur States, the model of which is laid down in the Notice of the European Commission [2026/874]note.This document may be issued electronically in accordance with the ELAN1L-TCDOC data model. In this case, during the transitional period Articles 72a to 72d would apply.note
(2)in Chapter II, Section 2a is inserted as follows:‘SECTION 2aSUGARArticle 13aFor sugar tariff quota with order number 09.0879, all of the following requirements shall apply:
(a)release for free circulation in the Union shall be subject to the end-use procedure for refining referred to in Article 210 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013;
(b)by way of derogation from Article 239 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446note, the obligation to refine shall not be transferred to another legal or natural person;
(c)refining shall take place within a period of 180 days from the release of the sugar for free circulation in the Union.
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(3)Annexes I and II are amended in accordance with Annex II to this Implementing Regulation.
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