Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/481
of 1 April 2016
repealing Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing the Community Customs Code, and in particular Articles 247 to 249 thereof,
OJ L 302, 19.10.1992, p. 1.
Whereas:
(1) Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council lays down the Union Customs Code and applies from 1 May 2016. That Regulation replaces Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 with effect from 1 May 2016. It also confers powers on the Commission to adopt delegated acts in order to supplement certain non-essential elements of the Union Customs Code and to adopt implementing acts to provide uniform conditions for its implementation.
Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 laying down the Union Customs Code (OJ L 269, 10.10.2013, p. 1).
(2) The Commission has exercised its delegated powers by adopting Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446. The Commission has exercised its implementing powers by adopting Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447. Both those Regulations are also to apply from 1 May 2016.
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446 of 28 July 2015 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards detailed rules concerning certain provisions of the Union Customs Code (OJ L 343, 29.12.2015, p. 1).
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 of 24 November 2015 laying down detailed rules for implementing certain provisions of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the Union Customs Code (OJ L 343, 29.12.2015, p. 558).
(3) Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93, which lays down provisions for the implementation of Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92, becomes redundant from the date of application of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 and should therefore be repealed with effect from that date.
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code (OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1).
(4) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 is repealed.
Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 May 2016.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 1 April 2016.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude Juncker