Regulation (EU) No 510/2014 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

Article 5 Additional import duties intended to prevent or counteract adverse effects on the Union market

1. The Commission may adopt implementing acts, determining the processed agricultural products listed in Annex IV to which, when imported subject to the rate of duty laid down in the Common Customs Tariff, an additional import duty is to apply. Those implementing acts shall only be adopted in order to prevent or counteract adverse effects on the Union market which may result from such imports and if:

(a) the imports are made at a price below the level notified by the Union to the WTO (‘the trigger price’); or

(b) the volume of imports in any year exceeds a certain level (‘the trigger volume’).

Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 44(2).

2. Additional import duties shall not be imposed in accordance with paragraph 1 where the imports are unlikely to disturb the Union market, or where the effects of such additional import duties would, in view of the intended objective, be disproportionate.

3. For the purposes of paragraph 1(a), import prices shall be determined on the basis of the c.i.f. import prices of the consignment under consideration.

C.i.f. import prices shall be checked against the representative prices for the product on the world market or on the Union import market for that product.

The representative prices shall be determined at regular intervals on the basis of data collected under the Community surveillance system established pursuant to Article 308d of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/1993(1).

4. The trigger volume shall be based on market access opportunities defined as imports as a percentage of the corresponding domestic consumption during the three years preceding the year in which the adverse effects referred to in paragraph 1 arise or seem likely to arise.

5. The Commission may adopt implementing acts containing measures necessary for the application of this Article, in particular those concerning the time limits for proving the import price and for submitting documentary evidence. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 44(2).

6. The Commission may adopt implementing acts without applying the procedure referred to in Article 44(2) or (3), as regards the products identified in accordance with paragraph 1:

(a) fixing the representative prices and trigger volumes for the purposes of applying additional import duties;

(b) fixing the level of the additional import duties in accordance with the rules set out in international agreements concluded or provisionally applied by the Union in accordance with the TFEU.

7. The Commission shall publish the trigger prices referred to in paragraph 1(a) in the Official Journal of the European Union.

(1)

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code (OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1).