Commission Regulation (EC) No 409/2003 of 5 March 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 2879/2000 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 2702/1999 on measures to provide information on, and to promote, agricultural products in third countries
Date: 2003-03-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU aid, agricultural product, consumer information, foodstuff, sales promotion, third country

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 409/2003

of 5 March 2003

amending Regulation (EC) No 2879/2000 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regula-
tion (EC) No 2702/1999 on measures to provide information on, and to promote, agricultural
products in third countries

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2702/1999 of 14
December 1999 on measures to provide information on, and
to promote, agricultural products in third countries (1), and in
particular Articles 5 and 11 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

For the purpose of implementing measures forming part
of the programmes referred to in Article 7(1) of Regula-
tion (EC) No 2702/1999, Article 9(1) of Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2879/2000 (2), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1854/2002 (3), lays down 30 April
of each year as the deadline for Member States to notify
the Commission of programmes and implementing
bodies.

Given the low uptake of the funding available under
support measures for information and promotion in
previous applications, the bodies concerned should be
permitted to present new programmes of measures twice
a year.

The list of target markets should be revised to take
account of the coming enlargement of the Union. In
view of the date for the adoption of programmes in
2003,
those countries due to join the Union the
following year should be removed from the list.

The list of products that may be covered by promotional
measures in third countries should be revised. The list
should be extended to cover fibre flax, past promotional
measures for which have been evaluated positively.

(5)

(6)

Regulation (EC) No 2879/2000 should consequently be
amended.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Joint Meeting of
Management Committees — Promotion of Agricultural
Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 2879/2000 is hereby amended as follows.

1. Article 9 is amended as follows:

(a) in paragraph 1, the first sentence is replaced by the

following:
‘No later than 15 June and 15 December of each year,
the Member States shall send the Commission the provi-
sional list of programmes and implementing bodies they
have selected and a copy of each programme.’;

(b) in the first subparagraph of paragraph 3, ‘30 September’

is replaced by ‘15 September and 28 February’.

2. The Annex is replaced by the Annex hereto.

Article 2

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 March 2003.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 327, 21.12.1999, p. 7.
(2) OJ L 333, 29.12.2000, p. 63.
(3) OJ L 280, 18.10.2002, p. 7.

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX

List of third-country markets in which promotional measures may be carried out

— Switzerland

— Norway

— Romania

— Bulgaria

— Russia

— Japan

— China

— South Korea

— South-east Asia

— India

— Middle East

— North Africa

— Republic of South Africa

— North America

— Latin America

— Australia and New Zealand

List of products which may be covered by promotional measures in third countries

— Fresh, chilled and frozen beef, veal and pigmeat; food preparations based on these products

— Quality poultrymeat

— Cheese and yoghurt

— Olive oil and table olives

— Table wines with a geographical indication. Quality wines psr

— Spirit drinks with a geographical indication or a reserved traditional description

— Fresh and processed fruit and vegetables

— Products processed from cereals and rice

— Fibre flax’