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            COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 885/2004

of 26 April 2004         

adapting Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Regulations (EC) No 1334/2000, (EC) No 2157/2001, (EC) No 152/2002, (EC) No 1499/2002, (EC) No 1500/2003 and (EC) No 1798/2003, Decisions No 1719/1999/EC, No 1720/1999/EC, No 253/2000/EC, No 508/2000/EC, No 1031/2000/EC, No 163/2001/EC, No 2235/2002/EC and No 291/2003/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, and Council Decisions 1999/382/EC, 2000/821/EC, 2003/17/EC and 2003/893/EC in the fields of free movement of goods, company law, agriculture, taxation, education and training, culture and audiovisual policy and external relations, by reason of the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to the Treaty on the accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic to the European Union (1) (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Treaty of Accession’), and in particular Article 2(3) thereof,

Having regard to the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded (2) (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Act of Accession’), and in particular Article 57 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulations (EC) No 2003/2003, (EC) No 1334/2000, (EC) No 2157/2001, (EC) No 152/2002, (EC) No 1499/2002, (EC) No 1500/2003, and (EC) No 1798/2003 and Decisions No 1719/1999/EC, No 1720/1999/EC, No 253/2000/EC, No 508/2000/EC, No 1031/2000/EC, No 163/2001/EC, No 2235/2002/EC, No 291/2003/EC, 1999/382/EC, 2000/821/EC, 2003/17/EC and 2003/893/EC are amended as set out in the Annex of this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force only subject to and on the date of the entry into force of the Treaty of Accession.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 26 April 2004.

For the Council

B. COWEN            

The President

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(1)OJ L 236, 23.9.2003, p. 17.

(2)OJ L 236, 23.9.2003, p. 33.

(3)OJ L 304, 21.11.2003, p. 1.

(4)OJ L 159, 30.6.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 149/2003 (OJ L 30, 5.2.2003, p. 1).

(5)OJ L 294, 10.11.2001, p. 1.

(6)OJ L 25, 29.1.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by the 2003 Act of Accession.

(7)OJ L 227, 23.8.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1445/2003 (OJ L 206, 15.8.2003, p. 1).

(8)OJ L 216, 28.8.2003, p. 1.

(9)OJ L 264, 15.10.2003, p. 1.

(10)OJ L 203, 3.8.1999, p. 1. Decision as amended by Decision No 2046/2002/EC (OJ L 316, 20.11.2002, p. 4).

(11)OJ L 203, 3.8.1999, p. 9. Decision as amended by Decision No 2045/2002/EC (OJ L 316, 20.11.2002, p. 1).

(12)OJ L 28, 3.2.2000, p. 1. Decision as amended by Decision No 451/2003/EC (OJ L 69, 13.3.2003, p. 6).

(13)OJ L 63, 10.3.2000, p. 1.

(14)OJ L 117, 18.5.2000, p. 1.

(15)OJ L 26, 27.1.2001, p. 1.

(16)OJ L 341, 17.12.2002, p. 1.

(17)OJ L 43, 18.2.2003, p. 1.

(18)OJ L 146, 11.6.1999, p. 33. Decision as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1).

(19)OJ L 336, 30.12.2000, p. 82.

(20)OJ L 8, 14.1.2003, p. 10. Decision as amended by Decision 2003/403/EC (OJ L 141, 7.6.2003, p. 23).

(21)OJ L 333, 20.12.2003, p. 84.

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ANNEX

I.   FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS

A.   FERTILISERS

Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 relating to fertilisers.

B.   HORIZONTAL AND PROCEDURAL MEASURES

II.   COMPANY LAW

Council Regulation (EC) No 2157/2001 of 8 October 2001 on the Statute for a European company (SE).

III.   AGRICULTURE

PHYTOSANITARY LEGISLATION

Council Decision 2003/17/EC of 16 December 2002 on the equivalence of field inspections carried out in third countries on seed-producing crops and on the equivalence of seed produced in third countries.

In Annex I, the entries for the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia are deleted.

IV.   TAXATION

V.   EDUCATION AND TRAINING

VI.   CULTURE AND AUDIOVISUAL POLICY

VII.   EXTERNAL RELATIONS

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