Commission Regulation (EC) No 1812/2003 of 15 October 2003 amending and correcting Regulation (EC) No 43/2003 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulations (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001 and (EC) No 1454/2001 as regards aid for the local production of crop products in the outermost regions of the European Union
Date: 2003-10-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid to agriculture, crop production, marketing, peripheral region

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1812/2003

of 15 October 2003

amending and correcting Regulation (EC) No 43/2003 laying down detailed rules for applying
Council Regulations (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001 and (EC) No 1454/2001 as regards aid
for the local production of crop products in the outermost regions of the European Union

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1452/2001 of 28
June 2001 introducing specific measures for certain agricultural
products for the French overseas departments, amending Direc-
tive 72/462/EEC and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 525/77
and (EEC) No 3763/91 (Poseidom) (1), and in particular Article
12(4) and Article 15(7) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1453/2001 of 28
June 2001 introducing specific measures for certain agricultural
products for the Azores and Madeira and repealing Regulation
(EEC) No 1600/92 (Poseima) (2), and in particular Article 5(3)
thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1454/2001 of 28
June 2001 introducing specific measures for certain agricultural
products for the Canary Islands and repealing Regulation (EEC)
No 1601/92 (Poseican) (3), as last amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1922/2002 (4),

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(EC) No 43/2003 (5),

as
Commission Regulation
amended by Regulation (EC) No 995/2003 (6), lays down
the conditions for the grant of local marketing aid and
aid for marketing outside the production region and
fixes the amount of that aid for the products referred to
in Articles 12(1) and Article 15(1) of Regulation (EC) No
1452/2001.

Approved operators wishing to participate in the scheme
to support local marketing of fruit and vegetables must
make the undertakings referred to in Article 42(2) of the
said Regulation.
In order to make provision for the
accounting practices of such operators, changes should
be made to the documents that are required to be held
for purposes of checks by the competent authorities.

As regards marketing aid outside the production region,
provision should be made for a derogation for pink
peppercorns falling within CN code 0910. This product's
characteristics are such that it cannot satisfy the parcel
identification requirement
laid down in the annual
contract, since it is not cultivated but gathered in the
wild.

(1) OJ L 198, 21.7.2001, p. 11.
(2) OJ L 198, 21.7.2001, p. 26.
(3) OJ L 198, 21.7.2001, p. 45.
(4) OJ L 293, 29.10.2002, p. 11.
(5) OJ L 7, 11.1.2003, p. 25.
(6) OJ L 144, 12.6.2003, p. 3.

(4)

(5)

(6)

CN code 0705 includes lettuce and chicory. Annex II to
lettuce but,
Regulation (EC) No 43/2003 includes
because of a material error, does not include chicory,
which is part of the same code item.

Regulation (EC) No 43/2003 should therefore be
amended accordingly to correct this error.

The measures laid down in this Regulation are in accor-
dance with the opinions of all the management commit-
tees concerned,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 43/2003 is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 42(2)(b) is replaced by the following:

‘(b) keep separate stock accounts or any other document
for purposes of
same guarantees

the

providing
checking.’

2. Article 46(2)(d) is replaced by the following:

‘(d) the references and areas of the parcels on which the
products are grown and, in the case of producer orga-
nisations,
the name and address of each grower
concerned; the parcel references need not be communi-
cated in the case of pink peppercorns falling within CN
code 0910;’

Article 2

In Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 43/2003, the description of
the products of CN code 0705 in column II is corrected as
follows:

‘0705

Lettuces and chicory’

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Article 2 shall apply from 1 January 2003.

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

Done at Brussels, 15 October 2003.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission