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Commission Regulation (EC) No 1759/2003 of 6 October 2003 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
Date: 2003-10-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: citrus fruit, fruit vegetable, grape, import price, pip fruit, stone fruit

7.10.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 253/1

I

(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1759/2003

of 6 October 2003

establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and
vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

(2)

In compliance with the above criteria,
the standard
import values must be fixed at the levels set out in the
Annex to this Regulation,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 of
21 December 1994 on detailed rules for the application of the
import arrangements
last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1947/2002 (2), and in parti-
cular Article 4(1) thereof,

fruit and vegetables (1), as

for

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Whereas:

(1)

Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 lays down, pursuant to the
outcome of the Uruguay Round multilateral trade nego-
tiations, the criteria whereby the Commission fixes the
standard values for imports from third countries,
in
respect of the products and periods stipulated in the
Annex thereto.

The standard import values referred to in Article 4 of Regula-
tion (EC) No 3223/94 shall be fixed as indicated in the Annex
hereto.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 October 2003.

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

Done at Brussels, 6 October 2003.

For the Commission

J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ

Agriculture Director-General

(1) OJ L 337, 24.12.1994, p. 66.
(2) OJ L 299, 1.11.2002, p. 17.

L 253/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

7.10.2003

to the Commission Regulation of 6 October 2003 establishing the standard import values for determining the
entry price of certain fruit and vegetables

ANNEX

CN code

0702 00 00

0707 00 05

0709 90 70

0805 50 10

0806 10 10

0808 10 20, 0808 10 50, 0808 10 90

0808 20 50

Third country code (1)

Standard import value

(EUR/100 kg)

052
060
068
096
999

052
999

052
999

052
382
388
524
528
999

052
064
999

060
388
400
508
512
720
800
804
999

052
064
999

95,4
89,1
88,6
72,9
86,5

94,9
94,9

98,3
98,3

85,7
58,3
72,6
35,4
59,4
62,3

83,3
114,9
99,1

39,5
74,6
84,4
103,4
101,9
35,0
197,2
106,2
92,8

113,2
48,3
80,8

(1) Country nomenclature as fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2020/2001 (OJ L 273, 16.10.2001, p. 6). Code ‘999’ stands for

‘of other origin’.
WRITTEN QUESTION E-2933/03 by Cristiana Muscardini (UEN) to the Commission. Limits on total concentration of DDT in fish.
Date: 2003-10-06
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: World Health Organisation, fish, foodstuffs legislation, harmonisation of standards, health legislation, lake, plant health product, trade restriction

20.3.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 70 E/169

(2004/C 70 E/177)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2933/03

by Cristiana Muscardini (UEN) to the Commission

(6 October 2003)

Subject: Limits on total concentration of DDT in fish

As the Commission will certainly know, the DDT emergency in Lago Maggiore has resulted in all
commercial fishing being banned since 1996, causing severe damage to the fishing trade and the tourist
economy in the area. The closure of the insecticide manufacturing plants in the second half of 1996 failed
to solve the problem, since the ban on fishing in the Italian part of the lake has continued. The total DDT
levels found in some species of fish, some of which command extremely high prices, exceed the maximum
concentrations provided for in Italian law. In the Swiss part of the lake, on the other hand, these species
may be caught and sold, since the legal thresholds are 10 to 20 times higher than in Italy. The same
disparity is to be found with all the EU countries which have set total DDT permissible content limits. This
means that fish that may be caught and eaten in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands cannot be caught
and eaten in Italy.

Given the above, can the Commission state:

1. whether it would agree that this situation constitutes a distortion of free trade in and production of a

foodstuff that is available over wide area?

2. whether it would agree that it should propose that the Member States set uniform threshold values for
DDT in fish, possibly based on the permissible doses for humans set by the WHO (the method used
by Switzerland when it set its own limits in 1995)?

3. whether a request has been made in this connection by the Italian Government?

4. what stage has been reached in the procedure, if such a request has been made?

5. whether, if such a request has not been made, it is prepared to submit appropriate proposals?

Answer given by Mr Byrne on behalf of the Commission

(17 November 2003)

The Commission has no evidence to support the hypothesis that the situation in Lago Maggiore described
by the Honourable Member constitutes a distortion to intra-community trade.

The Commission agrees that it would be desirable that Member States use similar methodology when
setting permissible residue limits at national level for undesirable substances in fish. This could be based on
the methodology described by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The Commission is not aware of any request from the Italian Government in this regard.

The Commission has no plans at this time to submit proposals.

Moreover, the Commission would like to refer the Honourable Member to the answer given to the written
question E-1460/98 from Umberto Bossi (1).

(1) OJ C 13, 20.1.1999.