
Article 1 

1. In order to implement the Agreement between the European Union and the Russian Federation relating to the administration of tariff-rate quotas applying to exports of wood from the Russian Federation to the Union and the Protocol on technical modalities pursuant to that Agreement, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts laying down detailed rules on the method of allocating quota authorisations pursuant to paragraph 2 of Article 5 of the Protocol and laying down any other provisions necessary for the management, by the Union, of the quantities of the tariff-rate quotas allocated to exports to the Union. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 2(2).
2. The implementing acts referred to in paragraph 1 shall maintain the legal effects of the transitional measures taken pursuant to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 498/2012.
Article 2 

1. The Commission shall be assisted by the Wood Committee established by Article 5 of Decision 2012/105/EU. That committee shall be a committee within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011. The Wood Committee may examine any matter relating to the application of the Agreement and the Protocol, raised by the Commission or at the request of a Member State.
2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day 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, 12 December 2012.
For the European Parliament
The President
M. SCHULZ
For the Council
The President
A. D. MAVROYIANNIS