Commission Regulation (EC) No 1186/2002 of 2 July 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 94/2002 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 2826/2000 on information and promotion actions for agricultural products on the internal market
Date: 2002-07-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural product, sales promotion, single market, trade information

L 173/4

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

3.7.2002

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1186/2002

of 2 July 2002

amending Regulation (EC) No 94/2002 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation
(EC) No 2826/2000 on information and promotion actions for agricultural products on the internal
market

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2826/2000 of 19
December 2000 on information and promotion actions for
agricultural products on the internal market (1), and in parti-
cular Article 12 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 94/2002 (2), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 434/2002 (3), lays down
detailed rules for applying Regulation (EC) No 2826/
2000.

Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 94/2002 specifies certain
details of the procedure for examination and approval by
the Commission of programmes drawn up by trade
federations and interbranch organisations.

Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 94/2002 specifies certain
details of the procedure for examination and approval by
the Commission of programmes submitted by Member
States where Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 2826/2000
is applied.

For reasons of clarity and legal security, provision should
be made for the above procedures to include a decision
to be taken by the Commission on which programmes
are eligible under the indicative budgets referred to in
Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 94/2002.

As a result, Article 7(3) and Article 8 of Regulation (EC)
No 94/2002 should be adapted.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the joint
accordance with the opinion delivered at
meeting of the management committees on agricultural
product promotion,

Article 1

Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 94/2002 is replaced by the
following:

‘3.
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After checking the programmes on the final
referred to in the third subparagraph of Article 6(3) of
Regulation (EC) No 2826/2000,
the Commission shall
decide which programmes it can part-finance under the
indicative budgets given in Annex III to this Regulation no
later than 14 August 2002 the first time and no later than
15 November thereafter.

joint management
The Commission shall notify the
committees provided for in Article 13 of Regulation (EC)
No 2826/2000 of its decision.’

Article 2

The last sentence of Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 94/2002 is
replaced by the following:

‘The Commission shall decide which programmes it can
part-finance under the indicative budgets given in Annex III
to this Regulation no later than 30 September 2002 the
first time and no later than 15 December thereafter.

The Commission shall notify the
committees of its decision.’

joint management

Article 3

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

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

Done at Brussels, 2 July 2002.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 328, 21.12.2000, p. 2.
(2) OJ L 17, 19.1.2002, p. 20.
(3) OJ L 67, 9.3.2002, p. 6.