REGULATION (EU) 2025/1153 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 5 June 2025 suspending certain provisions of Regulation (EU) 2015/478 as regards imports of Ukrainian products into the Union

Article 1

Trade-liberalisation measures

The application of Article 2, Articles 4 to 7, Articles 9 to 17 and Articles 19, 20 and 21 of Regulation (EU) 2015/478 shall be suspended with regard to imports into the Union of products originating in Ukraine.

Article 2

Temporary suspension

The Commission may adopt implementing acts to suspend the application of this Regulation in respect of a specific product originating in Ukraine for a period that shall not exceed 12 months, if imports of that product increase to a level that contributes significantly to the serious injury or threat of serious injury to Union producers of like or directly competing products. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 3(2).

Article 3

Committee procedure

1. The Commission shall be assisted by the Committee on Safeguards established by Article 3(1) of Regulation (EU) 2015/478. That Committee shall be a committee within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011.

1. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.

Article 4

Entry into force and application

This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 June 2025.

It shall apply from 6 June 2025 until 5 June 2028.

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

Done at Brussels, 5 June 2025.

For the European Parliament

The President

R. METSOLA

For the Council

The President

A. SZŁAPKA

(1) Position of the European Parliament of 8 May 2025 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and decision of the Council of 5 June 2025 (not yet published in the Official Journal).

(2)

OJ L 161, 29.5.2014, p. 3, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/agree_internation/2014/295/oj.

(3) Council Decision 2014/668/EU of 23 June 2014 on the signing, on behalf of the European Union, and provisional application of 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, as regards Title III (with the exception of the provisions relating to the treatment of third-country nationals legally employed as workers in the territory of the other Party) and Titles IV, V, VI and VII thereof, as well as the related Annexes and Protocols (OJ L 278, 20.9.2014, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2014/668/oj).

(4) Regulation (EU) 2015/478 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2015 on common rules for imports (OJ L 83, 27.3.2015, p. 16, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2015/478/oj).

(5) 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 Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2011/182/oj).

(6) Regulation (EU) 2024/1392 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 on temporary trade-liberalisation measures supplementing trade concessions applicable to Ukrainian products under 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 (OJ L, 2024/1392, 29.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1392/oj).

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025/1153/oj

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