(1)

Council Regulation (EU) No 267/2012 (2) gives effect to the measures provided for in Decision 2010/413/CFSP.

(2)

On 12 February 2015, the Council adopted Decision (CFSP) 2015/236 (3) amending Decision 2010/413/CFSP in order to extend, until 30 June 2015, the exemption provided for in Article 20(14) of that Decision concerning acts and transactions carried out with regard to listed entities in so far as necessary for the execution of obligations provided for in contracts concluded before 23 January 2012 or in ancillary contracts necessary for the execution of such obligations where the supply of Iranian crude oil and petroleum products or the proceeds derived from their supply are for the reimbursement of outstanding amounts with respect to contracts concluded before 23 January 2012 to persons or entities within the territories of Member States or under their jurisdiction, where those contracts specifically provide for such reimbursements.

(3)

That measure falls within the scope of the Treaty and regulatory action at the level of the Union is therefore necessary in order to implement it, in particular with a view to ensuring its uniform application by economic operators in all Member States.

(4)

Regulation (EU) No 267/2012 should therefore be amended accordingly,

(1)

On 23 March 2012, the Council adopted Regulation (EU) No 267/2012.

(2)

By its judgment of 12 December 2013 in Case T-58/12, the General Court of the European Union annulled the Council's decision to include Gholam Golparvar, Ghasem Nabipour, Mansour Eslami, Mohamad Talai, Mohammad Fard, Alireza Ghezelayagh, Hassan Zadeh, Mohammad Pajand, Ahmad Sarkandi, Seyed Rasool and Ahmad Tafazoly on the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures set out in Annex IX to Regulation (EU) No 267/2012.

(3)

Gholam Golparvar should be included again on the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures, on the basis of a new statement of reasons.

(4)

By its judgment of 3 July 2014 in Case T-565/12, the General Court of the European Union annulled the Council's decision to include National Iranian Tanker Company on the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures set out in Annex IX to Regulation (EU) No 267/2012.

(5)

National Iranian Tanker Company should be included again on the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures, on the basis of a new statement of reasons.

(6)

Regulation (EU) No 267/2012 should therefore be amended accordingly,

(1)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 720/2014 (2) has laid down an allocation coefficient to be applied to the quantities of import rights applied for for the period 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015 under the tariff quota opened by Commission Regulation (EC) No 431/2008 (3) for frozen meat of bovine animals.

(2)

Following the publication of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 720/2014, the United Kingdom informed the Commission of an administrative error which led to the notification of a quantity higher than the quantity actually applied for. Taking into account the actual quantity applied for results in the increase of the allocation coefficient and of the import rights to be allocated to all operators concerned.

(3)

Implementing Regulation (EU) No 720/2014 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(4)

Rules should be established regarding the allocation of the resulting additional import rights to the operators.

(5)

Given the need to allocate the additional import rights as soon as possible, this Regulation should enter into force on the day following that of its publication,

(1)

Commission Directive 2009/37/EC (2) included copper compounds as active substance in Annex I to Council Directive 91/414/EEC (3), under the condition that the Member States concerned ensure that the notifier at whose request copper compounds were included in that Annex provides further confirmatory information on the risk from inhalation and on the risk assessment for non-target organisms and for soil and water.

(2)

Active substances included in Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC are deemed to have been approved under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 and are listed in Part A of the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 (4).

(3)

The notifier submitted additional information taking the form of studies on the risk from inhalation and on the risk assessment for non-target organisms and for soil and water to the rapporteur Member State France within the time period provided for its submission.

(4)

France assessed the additional information submitted by the notifier. It submitted its assessment, in the form of an addendum to the draft assessment report, to the other Member States, the Commission and the European Food Safety Authority, hereinafter 'the Authority', on 8 June 2012.

(5)

The Commission consulted the Authority which presented its opinion on the risk assessment of copper compounds on 22 May 2013 (5).

(6)

The Commission invited the notifier to submit its comments on the review report for copper compounds.

(7)

In the light of the additional information provided by the notifier, the Commission considered that the further confirmatory information required had not been fully provided and that, in particular, the specific provision of row 277 of Part A of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011, concerning monitoring programmes for contamination by copper, is not sufficient to conclude on the environmental risk assessment.

(8)

It is confirmed that the active substance copper compounds is to be deemed to have been approved under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009. It is, in particular, appropriate to require that the notifier presents to the Commission, the Authority and the Member States a monitoring programme for areas where the contamination of soil and water (including sediments) by copper is a concern or may become one, in order to verify whether further limitations of use are necessary to prevent any unacceptable environmental effect. The results of that monitoring programme should also be presented.

(9)

The maximum levels for certain heavy metals, as set in row 277 of Part A of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011, were by mistake set with wrong measurement unit from those set in the respective FAO specifications. The maximum level set in the Annex to that Implementing Regulation should therefore be corrected.

(10)

The Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(11)

Member States should be provided with time to amend or withdraw authorisations for plant protection products containing copper compounds.

(12)

For plant protection products containing copper compounds, where Member States grant any grace period in accordance with Article 46 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, this period should expire at the latest 18 months after the entry into force of this Regulation.

(13)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,

(1)

Article 416(3) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 requires institutions to report assets as liquid assets where they meet certain conditions. In accordance with the third subparagraph of that Article, the condition that the assets are eligible collateral for standard liquidity operations of a central bank in a Member State or the central bank of a third country, may be waived for liquid assets held to meet liquidity outflows in a currency in which there is an extremely narrow definition of central bank eligibility.

(2)

In recognition of the importance that Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 places on central bank eligibility in the qualification of an asset as liquid, the list of currencies in which there is an extremely narrow definition of central bank eligibility needs to be limited to those currencies where central bank eligibility is confined to central government debt and debt issued by the central bank and does not extend to any other assets which comprise liquid assets in accordance with the additional requirements set out in Articles 416 and 417 of that Regulation.

(3)

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has carried out an assessment based on the best available knowledge supplied by Member States' competent authorities on central bank eligibility in a given currency. In the case of Bulgaria, the assessment indicated that the central bank does not extend liquidity to institutions except in extreme circumstances. Upon the emergence of a liquidity risk that may affect the stability of the banking system, the Bulgarian National Bank may extend to a solvent bank lev denominated credits with maturity no longer than three months, provided they are fully collateralised by gold, foreign currency or other such highly liquid assets. Consequently, the Bulgarian lev should be considered as a currency with an extremely narrow definition of central bank eligibility.

(4)

This Regulation is based on the draft implementing technical standards submitted by EBA to the Commission.

(5)

EBA has conducted open public consultations on the draft implementing technical standards on which this Regulation is based, analysed the potential related costs and benefits and requested the opinion of the Banking Stakeholder Group established in accordance with Article 37 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2),

(1)

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 (2) provides a possibility for means of transport to be temporarily imported into the customs territory of the Union and used by natural persons in that territory under certain conditions.

(2)

Recent incidents have indicated misuse of the temporary importation of means of transport.

(3)

An amendment to Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 is necessary in order to exclude the possibility of such misuse.

(4)

In order to avoid customs debts being incurred because of lack of information on the new provisions, a period of time should be allowed for Member States and the Commission to inform the public about the new legal situation.

(5)

Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(6)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee,

(1)

Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 lays down, pursuant to the outcome of the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations, the criteria whereby the Commission fixes the standard values for imports from third countries, in respect of the products and periods stipulated in Annex XVI, Part A thereto.

(2)

The standard import value is calculated each working day, in accordance with Article 136(1) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011, taking into account variable daily data. Therefore this Regulation should enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union,

(1)

On 26 July 2010, the Council adopted Decision 2010/413/CFSP.

(2)

Decision 2010/413/CFSP allows for, inter alia, the execution of obligations provided for in contracts concluded before 23 January 2012 or in ancillary contracts necessary for the execution of such obligations where the supply of Iranian crude oil and petroleum products or the proceeds derived from their supply are for the reimbursement of outstanding amounts with respect to contracts concluded before 23 January 2012 to persons or entities within the territories of Member States or under their jurisdiction, where those contracts specifically provide for such reimbursements.

(3)

Decision 2010/413/CFSP also provides that the asset freeze measures set out in that Decision do not apply to acts and transactions carried out with regard to entities listed in Annex II to that Decision insofar as necessary for the execution, until 31 December 2014, of the relevant obligations.

(4)

The Council considers that that exemption should be extended until 30 June 2015.

(5)

Further action by the Union is needed in order to implement measures provided for in this Decision.

(6)

By its judgment of 12 December 2013 in Case T-58/12, the General Court of the European Union annulled the Council's decision to include Gholam Golparvar, Ghasem Nabipour, Mansour Eslami, Mohamad Talai, Mohammad Fard, Alireza Ghezelayagh, Hassan Zadeh, Mohammad Pajand, Ahmad Sarkandi, Seyed Rasool and Ahmad Tafazoly on the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures set out in Annex II to Decision 2010/413/CFSP.

(7)

Gholam Golparvar should be included again on the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures, on the basis of a new statement of reasons.

(8)

By its judgment of 3 July 2014 in Case T-565/12, the General Court of the European Union annulled the Council's decision to include National Iranian Tanker Company on the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures set out in Annex II to Decision 2010/413/CFSP.

(9)

National Iranian Tanker Company should be included again on the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures, on the basis of a new statement of reasons.

(10)

Decision 2010/413/CFSP should therefore be amended accordingly,

(1)

In light of shortcomings identified by audits carried out by the Commission in India in 2010 and 2013, and the high number of interceptions of harmful organisms on certain plants and plant products of Indian origin at that time, the import of five commodities, which were most frequently intercepted because of the presence of harmful organisms, including plants other than seeds of Mangifera L., was prohibited by Commission Implementing Decision 2014/237/EU (2).

(2)

The audit carried out by the Commission in India from 2 to 12 September 2014 showed significant improvements in the phytosanitary export certification system of that country.

(3)

Furthermore, India has provided assurances that appropriate technical measures are available to ensure that the export of plants of Mangifera L. other than seeds originating in India is free from harmful organisms.

(4)

In this context it has been concluded that the risk of introduction of harmful organisms into the Union through the import of plants of Mangifera L. other than seeds can be reduced to an acceptable level if those appropriate measures are taken.

(5)

Therefore Implementing Decision 2014/237/EU should be amended accordingly to allow the introduction into the Union territory of plants of Mangifera L. other than seeds from India.

(6)

The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,

1.

Article 1 is replaced by the following:

2.

The following Article 1a is inserted: