Import of agricultural products originating in Turkey. Codification

PURPOSE: to codify Council Regulation (EC) No 779/98 on the import into the Community of agricultural products originating in Turkey.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation (EU) 2015/753 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2015 on the import into the Union of agricultural products originating in Turkey.

CONTENT: in the interests of clarity and rationality, this Regulation undertook a codification of Council Regulation (EC) No 779/98 of 7 April 1998 on the import into the Community of agricultural products originating in Turkey, repealing Regulation (EEC) No 4115/86 and amending Regulation (EC) No 3010/95.

The new Regulation will supersede the various acts incorporated in it; it fully preserves the content of the acts being codified and hence does no more than bring them together with only such formal amendments as are required by the codification exercise itself.

Decision No 1/98 of the EC-Turkey Association Council establishes the system of preferences applicable to imports into the Union of agricultural products originating in Turkey.

In the case of products for which Union regulations require a certain import price to be observed, the application of the preferential tariff system shall be subject to the observance of that price. The same goes for certain fishery products.

The Regulation sets out uniform conditions for the implementation of this system. Implementing powers are conferred on the Commission in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council (examination procedure).

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 8.6.2015. Regulation (EC) No 779/98 is repealed.