REGULATION (EU) 2025/2014 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 16 December 2025 amending Regulation (EU) 2024/823 on exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association Process

Article 2(3) and Article 10 of Regulation (EU) 2024/823 provide for conflicting mechanisms for the suspension of benefits and should therefore be amended, in order to create legal certainty,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EU) 2024/823 is amended as follows:

(1)

Article 2 is amended as follows:

(a)

the title is replaced by the following:

‘Conditions for entitlement to, and related suspension of, the preferential arrangements’

;

(b)

in paragraph 1, point (c) is replaced by the following:

‘(c)

the involvement of beneficiary parties in effective administrative cooperation with the Union, including as required for the verification of evidence of origin, in order to prevent any risk of fraud; and’

;

(c)

in paragraph 2, the second subparagraph is deleted;

(d)

the following paragraph is added:

‘4. In the event of non-compliance by a beneficiary party with paragraph 1, point (d), of this Article, the Commission may suspend, in whole or in part, the entitlement of a beneficiary party concerned to benefits under this Regulation, pursuant to Article 6.’

;

(2)

in Article 3, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:

‘2. Notwithstanding other provisions of this Regulation, in particular Article 10, given the particular sensitivity of the agricultural markets, where imports of agricultural products cause serious disturbance to Union markets and their regulatory mechanisms, the Commission may adopt appropriate measures by means of implementing acts. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 8(3).’

;

(3)

Article 10 is amended as follows:

(a)

the title is replaced by the following:

‘Other temporary suspension measures’

;

(b)

in paragraph 1, first subparagraph, the introductory part is replaced by the following:

‘1. Where the Commission finds that there is sufficient evidence of fraud or that there is a massive increase in imports into the Union above the level of normal production and export capacity, it may take measures to suspend in whole or in part the arrangements provided for in this Regulation for a period of three months, provided that it has first:’

;

(4)

in Article 12, the second paragraph is replaced by the following:

‘It shall apply until 31 December 2030.’.

Article 2

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

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

Done at Strasbourg, 16 December 2025.

For the European Parliament

The President

R. METSOLA

For the Council

The President

M. BJERRE

(1) Position of the European Parliament of 13 November 2025 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and decision of the Council of 8 December 2025.

(2) Regulation (EU) 2024/823 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 February 2024 on exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association process (OJ L, 2024/823, 6.3.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/823/oj).

(3) Regulation (EU) 2024/1449 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 on establishing the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans (OJ L, 2024/1449, 24.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1449/oj).

(1) This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with the UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.

(4) Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and Kosovo, of the other part (OJ L 71, 16.3.2016, p. 3, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/agree_internation/2016/342/oj).

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025/2014/oj

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