
Article 1 

1. The Customs authorities are hereby directed, pursuant to Article 24(5) of Regulation (EC) No 597/2009, to take the appropriate steps to register the imports into the Union of bioethanol, sometimes referred to as ‘fuel ethanol’, i.e. ethyl alcohol produced from agricultural products (as listed in Annex I to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union), denatured or undenatured, excluding products with a water content of more than 0,3 % (m/m) measured according to the standard EN 15376, as well as ethyl alcohol produced from agricultural products (as listed in Annex I to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) contained in blends with gasoline with an ethyl alcohol content of more than 10 % (v/v) currently falling within CN codes ex 2207 10 00, ex 2207 20 00, ex 2208 90 99, ex 2710 12 11, ex 2710 12 15, ex 2710 12 21, ex 2710 12 25, ex 2710 12 31, ex 2710 12 41, ex 2710 12 45, ex 2710 12 49, ex 2710 12 51, ex 2710 12 59, ex 2710 12 70, ex 2710 12 90, ex 3814 00 10, ex 3814 00 90, ex 3820 00 00 and ex 3824 90 97 (TARIC codes 2207 10 00 11, 2207 20 00 11, 2208 90 99 11, 2710 12 11 10, 2710 12 15 10, 2270 12 21 10, 2710 12 25 10, 2710 12 31 10, 2710 12 41 10, 2710 12 45 10, 2710 12 49 10, 2710 12 51 10, 2710 12 59 10, 2710 12 70 10, 2710 12 90 10, 3814 00 90 70, 3820 00 00 10 and 3824 90 97 67) and originating in the United States of America. Registration shall expire nine months following the data of entry into force of this Regulation.The declarant shall indicate on the customs declaration the proportion in the blend, by weight, of the total content of ethyl alcohol produced from agricultural products (as listed in Annex I to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) (bioethanol content).
2. All interested parties are invited to make their views known in writing, to provide supporting evidence or to request to be heard within 20 days from the date of publication of this Regulation.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
The Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 23 August 2012.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO