Regulation (EU) 2016/401 implementing the anti-circumvention mechanism provided for in the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Georgia, of the other part

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to incorporate the anti-circumvention mechanism foreseen in the EU-Georgia Association Agreement into European Union law. PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council. BACKGROUND: the EU-Georgia Association Agreement was signed on 27 June 2014 and has been provisionally applied from 1 September 2014. The Agreement includes a so-called anti-circumvention mechanism , which provides for the possibility to reintroduce the most favoured nation customs duty rate when imports of certain agricultural goods from Georgia exceed a given threshold without due justification of their exact origin. The Committee on International Trade adopted the report by Gabrielius LANDSBERGIS (EPP, LT) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council implementing the anti-circumvention mechanism providing for the temporary suspension of tariff preferences of the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Georgia, of the other part. The committee recommended that the European Parliament’s position, adopted at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure, should amend the Commission proposal so as to state that the report which is presented annually, shall, inter alia, include information about the application of the anti-circumvention mechanism. The European Parliament adopted by 623 votes to 9, with 60 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council implementing the anti-circumvention mechanism providing for the temporary suspension of tariff preferences of the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Georgia, of the other part. Parliament’s position, adopted at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure, amended the Commission proposal so as to state that the report which is presented annually on the application and implementation of this Regulation shall, inter alia, include information about the application of the anti-circumvention mechanism. PURPOSE: to implement the anti-circumvention mechanism provided for in the Association Agreement between the EU and Georgia. LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation (EU) 2016/401 of the European Parliament and of the Council implementing the anti-circumvention mechanism provided for in the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Georgia, of the other part. CONTENT: the EU-Georgia Association Agreement was signed on 27 June 2014 and has been provisionally applied from 1 September 2014. The Agreement includes an anti-circumvention mechanism, which provides for the possibility of reintroducing the most favoured nation customs duty rate when imports of certain agricultural goods from Georgia exceed a given threshold without due justification of their…