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REGULATION (EU) 2025/13 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 19 December 2024
on the collection and transfer of advance passenger information for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime, and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/818
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 133 in conjunction with the first sentence of Article 300(3) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) The Council authorised the Commission on 28 March 2007 to open negotiations with the Swiss Confederation with a view to negotiating an agreement amending the Agreement of 21 November 1990 between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation on the simplification of inspections and formalities in respect of the carriage of goods (1) (hereinafter referred to as ‘the 1990 Agreement’).
(2) The Commission and the Swiss Confederation have negotiated an amendment to the 1990 Agreement, which has the effect, inter alia, of extending its scope to include customs security. The substance of the 1990 Agreement should be incorporated in a new consolidated Agreement.
(3) The new consolidated Agreement should be approved.
(4) Pending the completion of the internal procedures of the Contracting Parties, the new consolidated Agreement should apply provisionally from 1 July 2009, the date on which the customs security measures introduced in 2005 and 2006 respectively by the amendments to the Community Customs Code (2) and its Implementing Provisions (3) become applicable.
(5) The Community’s representation on the Joint Committee set up under the new consolidated Agreement and the internal procedures necessary for the proper working of that Agreement should be established,
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
The text of the Agreement is attached to this Decision.
The Commission is authorised to agree on a later date for provisional application of the Agreement in accordance with Article 33(3) thereof.
The Community position on matters on which the Joint Committee is empowered to take decisions under Articles 19(4) and (5) and 21(2) where modifications to Annexes I and II to the Agreement are concerned, shall be adopted by the Commission.
The Commission is authorised to take the necessary measures provided for in Articles 22 and 29 of the Agreement in order to ensure the equivalence of the Contracting Parties’ customs security measures.
If, on the date of implementation of the relevant Community legislation, the Joint Committee has not reached a decision on an amendment to the Agreement and the provisional application of the new provisions is not possible, the Commission shall notify the Swiss Confederation of the suspension of Chapter III of the Agreement in accordance with Article 29(2) thereof.
(1) OJ L 116, 8.5.1990, p. 19.
(2) Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing the Community Customs Code (OJ L 302, 19.10.1992, p. 1).
(3) 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).
(4) The date of entry into force of the Agreement will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union by the General Secretariat of the Council.
(1) OJ L 116, 8.5.1990, p. 19.
(2) Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing the Community Customs Code (OJ L 302, 19.10.1992, p. 1).
(3) 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).
(4) The date of entry into force of the Agreement will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union by the General Secretariat of the Council.
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2009/556/oj