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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 on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 207(4) in conjunction with Article 218(5) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
Whereas:
(1) In view of the economic importance for the Union of imports of raw wood and the importance that the Russian Federation has for the Union as a supplier of raw wood, the Commission has negotiated with the Russian Federation commitments by the latter to reduce or eliminate its currently applied export duties, including for raw wood.
(2) These commitments, which are to become part of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Schedule of Concessions of the Russian Federation upon its accession to the WTO, include tariff-rate quotas for the export of specified types of coniferous wood, a share of which has been allocated to exports to the Union.
(3) In the context of the negotiations regarding the accession of the Russian Federation to the WTO, the Commission has negotiated, on behalf of the Union, an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the Russian Federation relating to the administration of tariff-rate quotas applying to exports of wood from the Russian Federation to the European Union (‘the Agreement’).
(4) As foreseen in the Agreement, the Union and the Russian Federation have negotiated detailed technical modalities on the management of the tariff-rate quotas, which are contained in a Protocol on technical modalities pursuant to the Agreement (‘the Protocol’).
(5) The Agreement and the Protocol should be signed.
(6) In view of the need to ensure the implementation of the necessary management system for the tariff-rate quotas applying to exports of wood from the Russian Federation to the Union as from the date of accession of the Russian Federation to the WTO, the Agreement and the Protocol should be applied on a provisional basis from that date, pending the completion of the procedures for their conclusion.
(7) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of the provisions of the Agreement and the Protocol regarding the management of the tariff-rate quotas applying to exports of wood from the Russian Federation to the Union, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission. Those powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by the Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (1).
(8) The examination procedure should be used for the adoption of implementing acts regarding the management in the Union of tariff-rate quotas applying to exports of wood from the Russian Federation, given that those acts are acts relating to the common commercial policy and therefore fall under point (iv) of Article 2(2)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
The texts of the Agreement and the Protocol are attached to this Decision.
2. Where reference is made to this Article, Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.
(1) OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13.
(2) The date from which the Agreement and the Protocol will be provisionally applied will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union by the General Secretariat of the Council.
(1) OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13.
(2) The date from which the Agreement and the Protocol will be provisionally applied 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/2012/105(1)/oj