Commission Regulation (EC) No 1369/98 of 29 June 1998 amending Regulation (EEC) No 904/90 laying down detailed rules for the application of the arrangements applicable to imports of certain pigmeat products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP) or in the overseas countries and territories (OCT), in order to implement the Agricultural Agreement concluded during the Uruguay Round of negotiations
Date: 1998-06-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, GATT, customs duties, import, overseas countries and territories, pigmeat

L 185/14

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Official Journal of the European Communities

30. 6. 98

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1369/98

of 29 June 1998

amending Regulation (EEC) No 904/90 laying down detailed rules for the
application of the arrangements applicable to imports of certain pigmeat
products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP) or in the
overseas countries and territories (OCT), in order to implement the Agricultural
Agreement concluded during the Uruguay Round of negotiations

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 of
22 December 1994 on the adjustments and transitional
arrangements required in the agriculture sector in order to
implement agreements concluded during the Uruguay
last
Round of multilateral
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1340/98 (2), and in par-
ticular Article 3(1) thereof,

trade negotiations (1),

as

in order to take account of existing import
Whereas,
arrangements in the pigmeat sector and those resulting
from the Agricultural Agreement concluded during the
Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, trans-
itional measures are needed to adjust
the preferential
concessions in the form of exemption from the import
duty for certain pigmeat products from the ACP States;

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 904/90 (3), as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1207/97 (4), lays
down detailed rules for the application of preferential
conditions in the form of a reduction in the import levy
for pigmeat quotas; whereas, since the levies are being
replaced by customs duties from 1 July 1995, transitional
adjustments to these rules have been made;

the period for

Whereas
transitional
measures was extended until 30 June 1999 by Regulation
(EC) No 3290/94; whereas the adjustments should be
extended over the period concerned;

the adoption of

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Pigmeat,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In Regulation (EEC) No 904/90 the word ‘levy’
is
replaced by the words ‘customs duty’ each time that it
appears.

Article 2

into force on the day
This Regulation shall enter
following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

It shall apply from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 1999.

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

Done at Brussels, 29 June 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 349, 31. 12. 1994, p. 105.
(2) OJ L 184, 27. 6. 1998, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 93, 10. 4. 1990, p. 23.
(4) OJ L 170, 28. 6. 1997, p. 33.