Commission Regulation (EC) No 902/2002 of 30 May 2002 approving operations to check conformity with the marketing standards applicable to fresh fruit and vegetables carried out in the Czech Republic prior to import into the European Community
Date: 2002-05-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Czechia, fresh fruit, fresh vegetable, import, marketing standard, product quality

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 902/2002

of 30 May 2002

approving operations to check conformity with the marketing standards applicable to fresh fruit
and vegetables carried out in the Czech Republic prior to import into the European Community

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 of 28
October 1996 on the common organisation of the market in
fruit and vegetables (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
545/2002 (2), and in particular Article 10 thereof,

on Standardisation of Perishable Produce and Quality
Development of the United Nations Economic Commis-
sion for Europe (UNECE), and, until recently, the OECD
Scheme for the Application of International Standards
for Fruit and Vegetables.

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Fresh Fruit and Vegetables,

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1148/2001 of 12 June
2001 on checks on conformity to the marketing stan-
dards applicable to fresh fruit and vegetables (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 2379/2001 (4),
lays
down that
the Commission may approve checking
operations performed by certain third countries which
so request prior to import
in
compliance with the conditions laid down in Article 7 of
Regulation (EC) No 1148/2001.

into the Community,

On 11 October 2001 the Czech authorities sent the
for the approval of checking
Commission a request
operations performed by the ČZPI (Czech Agricultural
and Food Inspectorate) under the responsibility of the
Ministry of Agriculture. This states that the ČZPI has the
necessary staff, equipment and facilities to carry out
checks, that it uses methods equivalent to those referred
to in Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 1148/2001 and
that the fresh fruit and vegetables checked by the ČZPI
and then exported from the Czech Republic to the
Community meet the Community marketing standards.

The information sent by the Member States to the
Commission shows that, in the period 1997 to 2000,
the incidence of non-conformity with marketing stan-
dards among imports of fresh fruit and vegetables from
the Czech Republic was very low.

For a number of years representatives of the Czech
inspection body have been regular participants at
various seminars and training activities organised by
different Member States. They have also regularly partici-
pated in international efforts to agree marketing stan-
dards for fruit and vegetables, such as the Working Party

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 84, 28.3.2002, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 156, 13.6.2001, p. 9.
(4) OJ L 321, 6.12.2001, p. 15.

Article 1

Checks on conformity with marketing standards carried out by
the Czech Republic on fresh fruit and vegetables from the
Czech Republic are hereby approved in accordance with Article
7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1148/2001.

Article 2

Details of the official authority in the Czech Republic, under
whose responsibility the checking operations are performed,
and the inspection body in charge of carrying out those checks,
as referred to in Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1148/2001,
are given in Annex I to this Regulation.

Article 3

The certificates referred to in the second subparagraph of
Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1148/2001, issued following
the checks referred to in Article 1 of this Regulation, must be
drawn up on forms in conformity with the model given in
Annex II to this Regulation.

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the 20th day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.

It shall apply from the date of publication in the C series of the
Official Journal of the European Communities of the notice referred
to in Article 7(8) of Regulation (EC) No 1148/2001, relating to
the establishment of administrative cooperation between the
European Community and the Czech Republic.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 May 2002.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

Official authority referred to in Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1148/2001:

ANNEX I

Ministry of Agriculture
Directorate for Food Production
Tĕšnov 17
CZ-117 05 Prague
Tel.: (420-2) 21 81 22 24
Fax: (420-2) 22 31 41 17
Email: fruveg@mze.cz

Inspection body referred to in Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1148/2001:

ČZPI (Česká zemĕdĕlská a potravinářská inspekce ústřední
Czech Agricultural and Food Inspectorate
Kvĕtná 15
CZ-603 00 Brno
Tel.: (420-5) 43 54 02 03/02 49
Fax: (420-5) 43 54 02 02

inspektorát)

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ANNEX II