(1)

By Regulation (EU) 2024/1392, the European Parliament and the Council adopted temporary trade-liberalisation measures supplementing trade concessions applicable to Ukrainian products. Article 1(1), point (b), of that Regulation suspended all tariff-rate quotas established under Annex I-A to the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part and provided that the products covered by those quotas were to be admitted for importation into the Union from Ukraine without any customs duties.

(2)

Article 4(7) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1392 provides for an automatic safeguard measure for eggs, poultry, sugar, oats, maize, groats and honey that is to be activated if the cumulative import volumes of any of those products since 1 January 2024 in a specific period reach the respective arithmetic mean of import volumes recorded in the period from 1 July to 31 December 2021, in 2022 and in 2023.

(3)

Cumulative import volumes of sugar since 1 January 2024 have reached the respective arithmetic mean referred to in Article 4(7) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1392, which is higher than the volume of the corresponding tariff-rate quota suspended in accordance with Article 1(1), point (b), of that Regulation. Therefore, the suspended tariff-rate quota with the order number 09.6704 should be reintroduced until 31 December 2024 and a tariff-rate quota equal to five twelfths of that arithmetic mean should be introduced from 1 January 2025.

(4)

The tariff-rate quota set out in the Annex to this Regulation should be managed based on the chronological order of the dates of acceptance of the customs declarations for release for free circulation of sugar in accordance with the rules for the management of tariff-rate quotas laid down in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 (2).

(5)

In accordance with Article 4(8) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1392, the quantity imported during the calendar year 2024 should be taken into account in the management of those tariff-rate quotas until 31 December 2024.

(6)

In order to act within the deadline set out in Article 4(7) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1392, this Regulation should enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

(7)

Regulation (EU) 2024/1392 applies until 5 June 2025, therefore this Regulation should apply until the same date,