The Customs Tariff (Preferential Trade Arrangements and Tariff Quotas) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021

Amendment of the Customs (Tariff Quotas) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

2.—(1) The Customs (Tariff Quotas) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1)—

(a)after the definition of “processed” insert—

“quota close date” has the meaning given in regulation 7 as regards the quotas listed in the Quota Table;”;

(b)after the definition of “quota number” insert—

“quota open date” has the meaning given in regulation 7 as regards the quotas listed in the Quota Table;;

(c)in the definition of “Quota Table”, for the words from “entitled” to the end substitute “entitled “Tariff Quotas, version 2.1” dated 8th June 2021”.

(3) In regulation 6, insert the following after paragraph (2)—

(2A) Where more than one figure is entered in column 5 of the Quota Table as the quota volume applying to the quota period in the corresponding row—

(a)the first figure is the quota volume that applied immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations and which continues in effect until the expiry in 2021 of the quota period concerned;

(b)the second figure is the quota volume that applies with effect from the next quota open date following the expiry of the quota period referred to in sub-paragraph (a)..

(1)

S.I. 2020/1432; as amended by S.I. 2020/1657 and S.I. 2021/382 and 527.