Commission Regulation (EC) No 2153/2002 of 3 December 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 1599/97 laying down detailed rules for the application of the system of minimum import prices for certain soft fruits originating in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Date: 2002-12-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Baltic States, Central and Eastern Europe, customs formalities, import policy, import price, minimum price, soft fruit

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2153/2002

of 3 December 2002

amending Regulation (EC) No 1599/97 laying down detailed rules for the application of the system
of minimum import prices for certain soft fruits originating in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania,
Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Management
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for Products Processed from Fruit and Vege-
tables,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2290/2000 of 9
October 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 Bulgaria (1), and in particular Article
1(3) thereof, and the corresponding provisions of the Council
Regulations and Decisions relating to the Baltic states and the
other central and eastern European countries concerned,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

At the close of the recent trade negotiations between the
Community, on the one hand, and Latvia and Lithuania
on the other, the system of minimum import prices for
imports into the Community of certain soft fruits origi-
nating in these third countries for processing were
amended. The new provisions of this system are set out
in the appendix to Annex C(b) to Council Regulation
(EC) No 1361/2002 (2) for Lithuania and the appendix
to Annex C(b) to Council Regulation (EC) No 1362/
2002 (3) for Latvia.

For reasons of clarity and legal certainty, the minimum
import prices currently set out in the Annex to Commis-
sion Regulation (EC) No 1599/97 (4), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 538/2000 (5), should no longer be
shown in that Annex. It is, however, necessary to indi-
cate the Community legislation under which these prices
are fixed. Depending on the third country in question,
this may be a Council regulation establishing conces-
sions 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 the country concerned, or the relevant
provisions of the Europe Agreement with that country.

(3)

Regulation (EC) No 1599/97 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

(1) OJ L 262, 17.10.2000, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 198, 27.7.2002, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 198, 27.7.2002, p. 13.
(4) OJ L 216, 8.8.1997, p. 63.
(5) OJ L 65, 14.3.2000, p. 11.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1599/97 is hereby amended as follows:

1. The second sentence of Article 1 is

replaced by the

following:

‘Each declaration may cover only goods of one and the same
origin falling within a single combined nomenclature code
and, in the case of frozen products, a single Taric code as
shown in Annex I.’

2. Article 3 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 3

For each lot and each origin concerned, during the
1.
completion of the customs import formalities with a view
to release for free circulation,
the competent authorities
shall make a comparison of the value shown in the customs
declaration and the minimum import price shown, for the
in the Community legislation, as
product
referred to in Annex II, applicable to the imports in ques-
tion.

in question,

2. Where the value shown in the customs declaration is
below the applicable minimum price referred to in para-
graph 1, a countervailing charge shall be levied equal to the
difference between that value and the minimum price.’

3. Article 5(1) is replaced by the following:

‘1.
For the products listed in Annex I hereto, Member
States shall communicate to the Commission the quantities
put into free circulation and their values, broken down by
origin and CN code and, for frozen products, by Taric code.’

4. The Annex is replaced by the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 3 December 2002.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

List of products subject to the system of minimum import prices

CN code

Taric code

Description

ex 0810 10 00

ex 0810 20 10

ex 0810 30 10

ex 0810 30 30

0810 10 00 10

0810 20 10 10

0810 30 10 10

0810 30 30 10

Strawberries for processing

Raspberries for processing

Blackcurrants for processing

Redcurrants for processing

ex 0811 10 11

0811 10 11 10

0811 10 11 90

ex 0811 10 19

0811 10 19 10

0811 10 19 90

ex 0811 10 90

0811 10 90 10

0811 10 90 90

ex 0811 20 19

0811 20 19 11

0811 20 19 19

ex 0811 20 31

0811 20 31 10

0811 20 31 90

ex 0811 20 39

0811 20 39 10

0811 20 39 90

ex 0811 20 51

0811 20 51 10

0811 20 51 90

Strawberries, frozen, containing added sugar or other sweet-
ening matter with a sugar content exceeding 13 % by weight;
whole

Strawberries, frozen, containing added sugar or other sweet-
ening matter with a sugar content exceeding 13 % by weight;
other

Strawberries, frozen, containing added sugar or other sweet-
ening matter with a sugar content not exceeding 13 % by
weight; whole

Strawberries, frozen, containing added sugar or other sweet-
ening matter with a sugar content not exceeding 13 % by
weight; other

Strawberries, frozen, containing no added sugar or other
sweetening matter; whole

Strawberries, frozen, containing no added sugar or other
sweetening matter; other

Raspberries, frozen, containing added sugar or other sweet-
ening matter with a sugar content not exceeding 13 % by
weight; whole

Raspberries, frozen, containing added sugar or other sweet-
ening matter with a sugar content not exceeding 13 % by
weight; other

Raspberries,
sweetening matter; whole

frozen, containing no added sugar or other

Raspberries,
sweetening matter; other

frozen, containing no added sugar or other

Blackcurrants, frozen, containing no added sugar or other
sweetening matter; without stalk

Blackcurrants, frozen, containing no added sugar or other
sweetening matter; other

Redcurrants,
sweetening matter; without stalk

frozen, containing no added sugar or other

Redcurrants,
sweetening matter; other

frozen, containing no added sugar or other

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ANNEX II

Community legislation referred to in Article 3(1)

Third country of origin

Relevant Community legislation

Bulgaria

Hungary

Poland

Romania

Slovakia

Annex to Annex A(b) to Council Regulation (EC) No 2290/2000 of 9 October
2000 (OJ L 262, 17.10.2000, p. 1)

Appendix of Annex A(b) to Council Regulation (EC) No 1408/2002 of 29 July
2002 (OJ L 205, 2.8.2002, p. 9)

Annex to Annex VIII to the Europe Agreement attached to Decision 93/743/EC,
ECSC, Euratom of the Council and of the Commission of 13 December 1993 (OJ
L 348, 31.12.1993, p. 1), as amended by the Protocol attached to Council
Decision 2002/63/EC of 23 October 2001 (OJ L 27, 30.1.2002, p. 1)

Annex to Annex A(b) to Council Regulation (EC) No 2435/2000 of 17 October
2000 (OJ L 280, 4.11.2000, p. 17)

Annex to Annex A(b) to Council Regulation (EC) No 2434/2000 of 17 October
2000 (OJ L 280, 4.11.2000, p. 9)

Czech Republic

Annex to Annex A(b) to Council Regulation (EC) No 2433/2000 of 17 October
2000 (OJ L 280, 4.11.2000, p. 1)

Estonia

Latvia

Lithuania

Annex to Annex C(b) to Council Regulation (EC) No 1151/2002 of 27 June 2002
(OJ L 170, 29.6.2002, p. 15)

Annex to Annex C(b) to Council Regulation (EC) No 1362/2002 of 22 July 2002
(OJ L 198, 27.7.2002, p. 13)

Annex to Annex C(b) to Council Regulation (EC) No 1361/2002 of 22 July 2002
(OJ L 198, 27.7.2002, p. 1).’