Commission Regulation (EC) No 1686/2003 of 25 September 2003 amending the Annexes to Council Regulation (EC) No 2501/2001 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the period from 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2004
Date: 2003-09-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: generalised preferences, originating product, third country

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1686/2003

of 25 September 2003

amending the Annexes to Council Regulation (EC) No 2501/2001 applying a scheme of generalised
tariff preferences for the period from 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2004

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2501/2001 of 10
December 2001 applying a scheme of generalised tariff prefer-
ences for the period from 1 January 2002 to 31 December
2004 (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 814/2003 (2),
and in particular Article 35 thereof,

(3)

(4)

statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs
Tariff (4) includes data affecting the list in Annex IV to
Regulation (EC) No 2501/2001. These Regulations
entered into force on 1 January 2003.

The lists in Annexes I and IV to Regulation (EC) No
2501/2001 should therefore be amended accordingly,
with effect from 1 January 2003.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Generalised Prefer-
ences Committee,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Article 35 of Regulation (EC) No 2501/2001 lays down
the procedure for updating the Annexes to the Regula-
tion to take account of amendments to the Combined
Nomenclature or changes in the international status or
classification of countries or territories.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1779/2002 of 4
October 2002 on the nomenclature of countries and
territories for the external trade statistics of the Commu-
nity and statistics of trade between Member States (3)
includes data affecting the list in Annex I to Regulation
(EC) No 2501/2001. Commission Regulation (EC) No
1832/2002 of 1 August 2002 amending Annex I to
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annexes I and IV to Regulation (EC) No 2501/2001 are
amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 January 2003.

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

Done at Brussels, 25 September 2003.

For the Commission

Pascal LAMY

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 346, 31.12.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 116, 13.5.2003, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 269, 5.10.2002, p. 6.

(4) OJ L 290, 28.10.2002, p. 1.

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ANNEX

Annex I, page 17, first column:

the code: ‘TP’

for East Timor is replaced by: ‘TL’.

Annex IV, page 23, first column and the corresponding description:

for: ‘0302 11 90

Other trout’,

read: ‘0302 11 20
0303 11 80

Trout other than of the species Oncorhynchus apache and Oncorhynchus chrysogaster’;

Annex IV, page 24, first column and the corresponding description:

for: ‘0303 21 90

Other trout’,

read: ‘0303 21 20
0303 21 80

Trout other than of the species Oncorhynchus apache and Oncorhynchus chrysogaster’;

Annex IV, page 24, first column:

for: ‘0304 10 11’,

read: ‘0304 10 15
0304 10 17’;

Annex IV, page 25, first column:

for: ‘0304 20 11’,

read: ‘0304 20 15
0304 20 17’;

Annex IV, page 33, first column and the corresponding description:

for: ‘1209 91

Vegetable seeds’,

read: ‘ex 1209 91

Vegetable seeds other than products of code 1209 91 30’;

Annex IV, page 33, first column and corresponding description, columns G and D:

After ‘ex 1209 91’ insert ‘1209 91 30 Salad beet seed or beetroot seed (Beta vulgaris var. conditiva)’, an ‘S’ in column G and
an ‘X’ in column D;

Annex IV, page 41, first column:

delete ‘2309 90 93’ and the corresponding description;

Annex IV, page 41, first column:

for: ‘2309 90 95
2309 90 97’,

read: ‘2309 90 95
2309 90 99’.