Commission Regulation (EC) No 1525/2002 of 26 August 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 1899/97 laying down rules for the application in the poultrymeat and egg sectors of the arrangements under the Europe Agreements with central and east European countries provided for by Council Regulations (EC) No 1727/2000, (EC) No 2290/2000, (EC) No 2433/2000, (EC) No 2434/2000, (EC) No 2435/2000 and (EC) No 2851/2000 and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 2699/93 and (EC) No 1559/94
Date: 2002-08-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Central and Eastern European countries, agreement (EU), egg, import licence, poultrymeat, tariff quota

L 229/10

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

27.8.2002

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1525/2002

of 26 August 2002

amending Regulation (EC) No 1899/97 laying down rules for the application in the poultrymeat
and egg sectors of the arrangements under the Europe Agreements with central and east European
countries provided for by Council Regulations (EC) No 1727/2000, (EC) No 2290/2000, (EC) No
2433/2000, (EC) No 2434/2000, (EC) No 2435/2000 and (EC) No 2851/2000 and repealing Regula-
tions (EEC) No 2699/93 and (EC) No 1559/94

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1408/2002 of 29
July 2002 establishing concessions in the form of Community
tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and providing for
an adjustment, as an autonomous and transitional measure, of
certain agricultural concessions provided for in the Europe
Agreement with Hungary (1), and in particular Article 1(3)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1899/97 (2), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1043/2001 (3),
lays
down the rules for applying the arrangements provided
for in the Europe Agreements in the poultrymeat and
egg sectors.

Council Regulation (EC) No 1408/2002 provides for the
direct management on entry into the territory of the
European Union of quotas of certain products in the
poultrymeat and egg sectors originating in Hungary at a
reduced rate of customs duty.

(3)

As a result, management of those quotas by means of
licences should be discontinued.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1899/97 is amended as follows:

1.

in Article 1, the first paragraph is replaced by the following:

‘All imports into the Community under the arrangements
provided for by Regulations (EC) No 2290/2000, (EC) No
2433/2000, (EC) No 2434/2000, (EC) No 2435/2000 and
(EC) No 2851/2000 of products covered by Annex I to this
Regulation shall be subject to presentation of an import
licence.’;

2. part A of Annex I is deleted.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 July 2002.

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

Done at Brussels, 26 August 2002.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 205, 2.8.2002, p. 9.
(2) OJ L 267, 30.9.1997, p. 67.
(3) OJ L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 24.