Commission Regulation (EC) No 1914/2003 of 30 October 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 1488/2001 laying down rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 as regards the placement of certain quantities of certain basic products listed in Annex I to the Treaty establishing the European Community under the inward processing arrangements without prior examination of the economic conditions
Date: 2003-10-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: inward processing, primary product, quantitative restriction

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1914/2003

of 30 October 2003

amending Regulation (EC) No 1488/2001 laying down rules for the application of Council Regula-
tion (EC) No 3448/93 as regards the placement of certain quantities of certain basic products listed
in Annex I to the Treaty establishing the European Community under the inward processing
arrangements without prior examination of the economic conditions

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of 6
December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable
to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural
products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2580/
2000 (2), and in particular the third subparagraph of Article
11(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 11(1) of Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 provides
that the economic conditions set out in Article 117(c) of
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October
1992 establishing the Community Customs Code (3), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2700/2000 of the
European Parliament and of the Council (4), are to be
considered fulfilled for the admission of certain quanti-
ties of certain basic products under the inward proces-
sing arrangements for use in the manufacture of goods.
that provision,
The detailed rules for application of
making it possible to determine the basic agricultural
products
inward processing
arrangements and check and plan the quantities thereof,
are to be adopted in accordance with Article 16 of Regu-
lation (EC) No 3448/93.

to be admitted under

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/2001 (5), should
be amended to clarify that, for determining the basic
agricultural products
inward
processing arrangements and for checking and planning
the quantities thereof, the procedures set out in Article
16 of Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 are applicable.

to be admitted under

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee on horizontal questions concerning trade in
processed agricultural products not listed in Annex I to
the Treaty,

(1) OJ L 318, 20.12.1993, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 298, 25.11.2000, p. 5.
(3) OJ L 302, 19.10.1992, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 311, 12.12.2000, p. 17.
(5) OJ L 196, 20.7.2001, p. 9.

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1488/2001 is amended as follows:

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

‘2.
If the estimated amount needed for refunds exceeds
the funds available, the quantities of the various products, as
identified by their eight-digit Combined Nomenclature code,
in accordance with Article 11(1) of
shall be determined,
Regulation (EC) No 3448/93, with the aid of the balance.’

2. In Article 22,
following:

the second paragraph is replaced by the

‘Where the amount of refunds due is estimated to be greater
than the financial
resources available, and taking into
account the quantities already granted with certificates and
the unused quantities of which the Commission has been
informed in accordance with Article 25 of this Regulation,
the remaining quantity available for each basic product shall
be determined in accordance with Article 11(1) of Regula-
tion (EC) No 3448/93. That quantity shall be the subject of
a second publication in the Official Journal of the European
Union by no later than 31 January of each year and of a
third publication by no later than 31 May of each year.’

3. Article 24 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 24

Emergency issue of IP certificates

Throughout the budget year, taking into account the quanti-
ties already granted with certificates and the unused quanti-
ties of which the Commission has been informed in accor-
dance with Article 25 of this Regulation, the remaining
quantity available for each basic product identified by its
eight-digit nomenclature code may, as a matter of urgency,
be determined in accordance with Article 11(1) of Regula-
tion (EC) No 3448/93. That quantity shall be published in
the Official Journal of the European Union. The provisions of
Article 23(2) to (5) of this Regulation shall apply.’

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 30 October 2003.

For the Commission

Erkki LIIKANEN

Member of the Commission