Commission Regulation (EC) No 1925/2002 of 28 October 2002 derogating from Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards the import arrangements for milk and milk products and opening tariff quotas
Date: 2002-10-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: extra-EU trade, import licence, intra-EU trade, milk, milk product, quantitative restriction, tariff quota

L 293/18

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

29.10.2002

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1925/2002

of 28 October 2002

derogating from Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 laying down detailed rules for applying Council
Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards the import arrangements for 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 29(1)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

the milk powder for export

The Lithuanian authorities have informed the Commis-
sion of the introduction of additional veterinary checks
to ensure that
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 autonomous 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), as last amended by Directive 94/71/EC (5),
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 (6). In view
of the difficulties that this causes for importers holding

licences issued during the first six months of 2002, the
validity period was extended by three months to 30
September 2002 by Commission Regulation (EC) No
1333/2002 (7) derogating from Regulation (EC) No
2535/2001 (8), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1667/2002 (9). Given that these difficulties persist and,
furthermore, that the veterinary checks carried out by
the Lithuanian authorities led to the temporary suspen-
sion of certain operators from the possibility to export
dairy products, the validity of the import licences should
exceptionally be extended further up to 31 January
2003.

(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 Regulation (EC) No 2535/
2001, 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 31 January 2003.

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, 28 October 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 368, 31.12.1994, p. 33.
(6) OJ L 125, 23.5.1996, p. 10.

(7) OJ L 195, 24.7.2002, p. 15.
(8) OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 29.
(9) OJ L 252, 20.9.2002, p. 8.