Commission Regulation (EC) No 225/2003 of 5 February 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 2125/95 as regards the list of competent Chinese authorities for issuing certificates of origin and duplicates for preserved mushrooms
Date: 2003-02-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: China, certificate of origin, customs regulations, mushroom-growing, originating product, preserved product

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 225/2003

of 5 February 2003

amending Regulation (EC) No 2125/95 as regards the list of competent Chinese authorities for
issuing certificates of origin and duplicates for preserved mushrooms

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 of 28
October 1996 on the common organisation of the markets in
processed fruit and vegetable products (1), as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 453/2002 (2), and in particular
Article 15(1) thereof,

applying to release preserved mushrooms from China
for free circulation in the European Community. In order
to ensure that imports continue to run smoothly, this
option should be provided for until 31 May 2003.

(3)

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

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

By a note verbale of 5 December 2002, the Chinese
authorities sent the Commission a complete update of
the list of Chinese authorities competent for issuing the
certificates of origin and duplicates required for the
release for free circulation of preserved mushrooms
originating in that third country, as referred to in Article
10(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2125/95 of 6
September 1995 opening and providing for the adminis-
tration of tariff quotas for preserved mushrooms (3), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1286/2002 (4).
Annex II of that Regulation should be amended as a
result.

In the same note the Chinese authorities asked the
Commission to accept temporarily the use of certificates
or origin or duplicates bearing the stamps and signatures
of the authorities referred to in Annex II of Regulation
(EC) No 2125/95, as amended by Regulation (EC) No
1286/2002, in parallel to the certificates of origin and
duplicates bearing the new stamps and signatures, when

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 2125/95 is replaced by the
Annex hereto.

Article 2

Until 31 May 2003, an importer may submit, when applying
to release preserved mushrooms originating in China into free
circulation in the Community, certificates of origin and dupli-
cates bearing the stamps and signatures of the Chinese authori-
ties listed in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2125/95 as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1286/2002.

Article 3

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

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

Done at Brussels, 5 February 2003.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 29.
(2) OJ L 72, 14.3.2002, p. 9.
(3) OJ L 212, 7.9.1995, p. 16.
(4) OJ L 179, 9.7.2002, p. 21.

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX II

List of competent Chinese authorities for issuing the certificates of origin and duplicates referred to in Article 10(1):
— General Administration of Quality Supervision
— Entry-exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau of the People's Republic of China in:

Beijing

Shanxi

Inner Mongolia

Hebei

Liaoning

Jilin

Shandong

Zhejiang

Anhui

Hubei

Guangdong

Xiamen

Jiangxi

Zhuhai

Sichuan

Chongqing

Yunnan

Guizhou

Shaanxi

Gansu

Qinghai

Tibet

Fujian

Shenzhen

Ningxia

Tianjin

Shanghai

Ningbo

Jiangsu

Guangxi

Heilongjiang

Hainan

Henan

Xinjiang

Hunan’