Tariff quotas for certain meat and cereal products: alignment of Regulation with the TFEU (Commission delegated and implementing powers)

2011/0445(COD)

PURPOSE: to align the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 774/94 with the new rules of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) (Commission delegated and implementing powers).

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation (EU) No 252/2014 of the European Parliament and the Council  amending Regulation (EU) No 774/94 as regards the implementing and delegated powers to be conferred on the Commission.

CONTENT: this amendment aims to align the powers conferred on the Commission under Regulation (EC) No 774/94 on the new rules of the TFEU which introduced a distinction between the delegated powers (Article 290) and the implementing powers of the Commission (Article 291).

Council Regulation (EC) No 774/94 provides for the administration of certain Community tariff quotas for high-quality beef, and for pigmeat, poultrymeat, wheat and meslin, and brans, sharps and other residues.

The amending Regulation delegates to the Commission the power to adopt acts in respect of the adoption of amendments to that Regulation, should the volumes and other conditions of quota arrangements be adjusted, in particular by a Council decision to conclude an agreement with one or more third countries.

The power to adopt delegated acts shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of five years (renewable) from 9 April 2014. The European Parliament or the Council may raise objections in regard to a delegated act within two months of notification of that act (this period may be extended by two months).

The Regulation also confers implementing powers on the Commission in order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 774/94 in respect of the rules necessary for the quota arrangements referred to in that Regulation. In this context, the Commission shall be assisted by the Committee for the Common Organisation of the Agricultural Markets established by Article 229 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 09/04/2014.