Legal provisions of COM(2014)322 - Common rules for exports (codification) - Main contents
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dossier | COM(2014)322 - Common rules for exports (codification). |
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document | COM(2014)322 |
date | March 11, 2015 |
Contents
- CHAPTER I - BASIC PRINCIPLE
- Article 1
- CHAPTER II - UNION INFORMATION AND CONSULTATION PROCEDURE
- Article 2
- Article 3
- Article 4
- CHAPTER III - PROTECTIVE MEASURES
- Article 5
- Article 6
- Article 7
- CHAPTER IV - TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS
- Article 8
- Article 9
- Article 10
- Article 11
- Article 12
- Article 13
CHAPTER I - BASIC PRINCIPLE
Article 1
CHAPTER II - UNION INFORMATION AND CONSULTATION PROCEDURE
Article 2
Article 3
2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.
3. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 8 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011, in conjunction with Article 5 thereof, shall apply.
Article 4
CHAPTER III - PROTECTIVE MEASURES
Article 5
2. The European Parliament, the Council and the Member States shall be notified of the measures taken. Such measures shall take effect immediately.
3. The measures may be limited to exports to certain countries or to exports from certain regions of the Union. They shall not affect products already on their way to the Union frontier.
4. Where intervention by the Commission has been requested by a Member State, the Commission shall take a decision pursuant to paragraph 1 within a maximum of five working days of the date of receipt of such request.
5. Where the Commission has acted pursuant to paragraph 1 of this Article, it shall, not later than 12 working days following the date of entry into force of the measure which it has taken, decide whether to adopt appropriate measures as provided for in Article 6. If, at the end of six weeks following the date of entry into force of the measure, no measures have been adopted, the measure in question shall be deemed revoked.
Article 6
(a) | to prevent a critical situation from arising owing to a shortage of essential products, or to remedy such a situation; |
(b) | to allow international undertakings entered into by the Union or all the Member States to be fulfilled, in particular those relating to trade in primary products. |
2. The measures referred to in paragraph 1 may be limited to exports to certain countries or to exports from certain regions of the Union. They shall not affect products already on their way to the Union frontier.
3. When quantitative restrictions on exports are introduced, account shall be taken in particular of:
(a) | the volume of goods exported under contracts concluded on normal terms and conditions before the entry into force of a protective measure within the meaning of this Chapter and notified by the Member State concerned to the Commission in conformity with its national laws; and |
(b) | the need to avoid jeopardising the achievement of the aim pursued in introducing quantitative restrictions. |
Article 7
(a) | examine the effects of the measure; |
(b) | ascertain whether the application of the measure is still necessary. |
Where the Commission considers that the application of the measure is still necessary, it shall inform the Member States accordingly.
2. Where the Commission considers that any measure provided for in Article 5 or 6 should be revoked or amended, it shall act in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 3(2).
CHAPTER IV - TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 8
Member States shall inform the Commission of measures they intend to adopt. The measures adopted shall be communicated by the Commission to the Council and other Member States.
Article 9
Article 10
Article 11
However, in the case of products covered by such instruments, Article 5 of this Regulation shall not apply to those in respect of which the Union rules on trade with third countries make provision for the application of quantitative export restrictions. Article 4 shall not apply to those products in respect of which such rules require the production of a licence or other export document.
Article 12
References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex III.
Article 13
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.