Commission Regulation (EC) No 1333/2002 of 23 July 2002 derogating from Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards the import of milk and milk products and opening tariff quotas
Date: 2002-07-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: extra-EU trade, import licence, intra-EU trade, milk, milk product, tariff quota

24.7.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 195/15

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1333/2002

of 23 July 2002

derogating from Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 laying down detailed rules for applying Council
Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards the import of milk and milk products and opening tariff
quotas

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk
and milk products (1), as last amended by Commission Regula-
tion (EC) No 509/2002 (2), and in particular Article 26(3)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

The Lithuanian authorities have informed the Commis-
sion of the introduction of additional veterinary checks
to ensure that the skimmed-milk powder for export to
the Community under quota No 09.4554 as provided
for in Council Regulation (EC) No 2766/2000 of 14
December 2000 establishing certain concessions in the
form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural
products and providing for an adjustment, as an autono-
mous and transitional measure, of certain agricultural
concessions provided for in the Europe Agreement with
Lithuania (3) complies with the conditions laid down in
Council Directive 92/46/EEC of 16 June 1992 laying
down the health rules for the production and placing on
the market of raw milk, heat-treated milk and milk-based
products (4), and Council Directive 96/23/EC of 29 April

1996 on measures to monitor certain substances and
residues thereof in live animals and animal products (5).
In view of the difficulties that this causes for importers
holding licences whose validity expires on or before 30
June 2002,
those licences should be
extended.

the validity of

(2)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Milk and Milk Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Notwithstanding Article 16(3) of Commission Regulation (EC)
No 2535/2001 (6), the term of validity of the import licences
issued during the first six months of 2002 for imports of
products covered by quota No 09.4554, listed in Annex I(B)(9)
to that Regulation, shall expire on 30 September 2002.

Article 2

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, 23 July 2002.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48.
(2) OJ L 79, 22.3.2002, p. 15.
(3) OJ L 321, 19.12.2000, p. 8.
(4) OJ L 268, 14.9.1992, p. 1.

(5) OJ L 125, 23.5.1996, p. 10.
(6) OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 29.