Council Regulation (EU) 2022/2057 amending Regulation (EU) 2020/1706 opening and providing for the management of autonomous Union tariff quotas for certain fishery products for the 2021-2023 period

Summary:

Regulation (EU) 2022/2057 - adopted by the Council of the European Union on 13 October 2022 - introducing amendments to Regulation (EU) 2020/1706 opening and providing for the management of autonomous Union tariff quotas for certain fishery products for the 2021-2023 period. This is a text with EEA relevance.

Further information:

Regulation (EU) 2020/1706 set out the conditions concerning the management of autonomous tariff quotas for certain fisheries products for the period between 2021 and 2023. This Regulation amends it by reducing or suspending import duties for a number of fishery products within tariff quotas of an appropriate volume. It also defines which processing operations allow the use of the tariff quotas and which do not.

In July 2021, Regulation (EU) 2020/1706 was amended by adding new autonomous quotas due to the expiry of bilateral protocols with Norway and Iceland. These were set to expire on 31 October 2022. As negotiations of new bilateral protocols were not concluded before that date, it also became necessary to extend the validity of the quotas until the end of the application of the Regulation 2020/1706.

The draft law was tabled by the European Commission on 31 August 2022. The Act was adopted by the Council of the European Union on 13 October 2022, and published in the Official Journal on 26 October 2022.

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EUR-LEX: COM(2022)429: Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Council Regulation (EU) 2020/1706 opening and providing for the management of autonomous Union tariff quotas for certain fishery products for the period 2021-2023 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=COM:2022:429:FIN

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