
Article 1 

1. The release for free circulation in the Union of renewable ethanol for fuel listed in Annex to this Regulation shall be subject to retrospective Union surveillance in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2015/478 and Regulation (EU) 2015/755.
2. The classification of the products covered by this Regulation is based on TARIC. The origin of the products covered by this Regulation shall be determined in accordance with Article 60 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall apply from the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union and shall remain in force for one year.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 3 November 2020.
For the Commission
The President
Ursula VON DER LEYEN
ANNEX

The product concerned subject to retrospective surveillance is renewable ethanol for fuel, 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, but including 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) intended for fuel uses. The product concerned also covers ethyl alcohol produced from agricultural products (as listed in Annex I to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) contained in Ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE).
The product scope is exclusively limited to renewable ethanol used for fuel applications. Thus, synthetic ethanol and renewable ethanol destined to applications other than fuel, i.e. industrial and beverage use, is not covered by this request.
The product concerned currently falls under the following CN and TARIC codes:

CN CODES TARIC CODE EXTENSIONS
ex 2207 10 00 11
ex 2207 20 00 11
ex 2208 90 99 11
ex 2710 12 21 10
ex 2710 12 25 10
ex 2710 12 31 10
ex 2710 12 41 10
ex 2710 12 45 10
ex 2710 12 49 10
ex 2710 12 50 10
ex 2710 12 70 10
ex 2710 12 90 10
ex 3814 00 10 10
ex 3814 00 90, 70
ex 3820 00 00 10
ex 3824 99 92 66