Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/254 of 18 February 2021 amending Implementing Regulations (EU) 2020/761 and (EU) 2020/1988 and Regulations (EC) No 218/2007 and (EC) No 1518/2007 as regards imports of products originating in the United Kingdom and excluding those products from the tariff quotas with ongoing quota periods

Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 218/2007 is amended as follows:

(1) in point (a), the words (erga omnes) are replaced by the words (all third countries except the United Kingdom);

(2) in point (b), the words (erga omnes) are replaced by the words (all third countries except the United Kingdom).

Article 4

Amendment to Regulation (EC) No 1518/2007

In Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1518/2007, the words (erga omnes) are replaced by the words (all third countries except the United Kingdom).

Article 5

Tariff quotas with ongoing quota periods

1. As of 1 January 2021, licences shall not be issued for products originating in the United Kingdom under the tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 whose quota period is ongoing on 1 January 2021. As of the same date, products originating in the United Kingdom shall not enter under the tariff quotas referred to in Article 2.

1. As regards imports into the Union from the United Kingdom on the basis of licenses under the tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 issued before 1 January 2021 that include the United Kingdom as a country of origin and whose quota period is ongoing on 1 January 2021 and which Member States do not place under release for free circulation in accordance with the Agreement, the respective securities lodged shall be released at the request of the operators concerned.

Article 6

Entry into force and application

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 January 2021.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 18 February 2021.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula von der Leyen