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Commission Regulation (EC) No 2299/2003 of 23 December 2003 determining the world market price for unginned cotton
Date: 2003-12-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: cotton, world market price

24.12.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 340/53

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2299/2003

of 23 December 2003

determining the world market price for unginned cotton

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Protocol 4 on cotton, annexed to the Act of
Accession of Greece, as last amended by Council Regulation
(EC) No 1050/2001 (1),

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1051/2001 of 22
May 2001 on production aid for cotton (2), and in particular
Article 4 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

In accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No
1051/2001, a world market price for unginned cotton is
to be determined periodically from the price for ginned
cotton recorded on the world market and by reference
to the historical relationship between the price recorded
for ginned cotton and that calculated for unginned
cotton. That historical relationship has been established
in Article 2(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1591/
2001 of 2 August 2001 (3), as amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1486/2002 (4). Where the world market price
cannot be determined in this way, it is to be based on
the most recent price determined.

(2)

In accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No
1051/2001, the world market price for unginned cotton
is to be determined in respect of a product of specific
characteristics and by reference to the most favourable

offers and quotations on the world market among those
considered representative of the real market trend. To
that end, an average is to be calculated of offers and
European
recorded on one or more
quotations
exchanges for a product delivered cif to a port in the
Community and coming from the various supplier coun-
tries considered the most representative in terms of
there is provision for
international
adjusting the criteria for determining the world market
price for ginned cotton to reflect differences justified by
the quality of the product delivered and the offers and
quotations concerned. Those adjustments are specified in
Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1591/2001.

trade. However,

(3)

The application of the above criteria gives the world
market price for unginned cotton determined herein-
after,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The world price for unginned cotton as referred to in Article 4
of Regulation (EC) No 1051/2001 is hereby determined as
equalling EUR 31,982/100 kg.

This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 December 2003.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 23 December 2003.

For the Commission

J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ

Agriculture Director-General

(1) OJ L 148, 1.6.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 148, 1.6.2001, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 210, 3.8.2001, p. 10.
(4) OJ L 223, 20.8.2002, p. 3.
Commission communication in the framework of the implementation of Council Directive 90/396/EEC of 29 June 1990 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to appliances burning gaseous fuels (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-12-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, approximation of laws, gas appliance, safety standard

C 313/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

23.12.2003

Commission communication in the framework of the implementation of Council Directive
90/396/EEC of 29 June 1990 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to
appliances burning gaseous fuels (1)

(2003/C 313/02)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(Publication of titles and references of European harmonised standards under the Directive)

ESO (1)

Reference

Title of the Harmonised Standards

CEN

EN 30-1-1:1998/A2:2003

Domestic cooking appliances burning gas — Part 1-1: Safety — General

CEN

EN 30-1-3:2003

Domestic cooking appliances burning gas — Part 1-3: Safety — Appliances
having a glass ceramic hotplate

CEN

EN 297:1994/A6:2003

Gas-fired central heating boilers — Type B11 and B11BS boilers, fitted with
atmospheric burners of nominal heat input not exceeding 70 kW

Warning: The presumption of conformity, conferred by standard EN 437 of 1993 published in Official Journal of the
European Union C 216, 17 July 1997, ends from the date of this publication.

CEN

EN 437:2003

Test gases — Test pressures — Appliance categories

CEN

EN 509:1999/A1:2003

Decorative fuel-effect gas appliances

CEN

EN 613:2000/A1:2003

Independent gas-fired convection heaters

CEN

EN 12067-1:1998/A1:2003

Gas/air ratio controls for gas burners and gas burning appliances — Part 1:
Pneumatic types

(1) ESO: European standardisation organisations:

— CEN: rue de Stassart 36, B-1050 Brussels; tel. (32-2) 550 08 11, fax (32-2) 550 08 19 (http://www.cenorm.be)
— Cenelec: rue de Stassart 35, B-1050 Brussels; tel. (32-2) 519 68 71, fax (32-2) 519 69 19 (http://www.cenelec.org)
— ETSI: 650, route des Lucioles, F-06921 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, tel. (33-4) 92 94 42 00, fax (33-4) 93 65 47 16 (http://www.etsi.org).

NOTE:

— Any information concerning the availability of the standards can be obtained either from the European
standardisation organisations or from the national standardisation bodies (2) of which the list is
annexed to the European Parliament and Council Directive 98/34/EC (3) amended by the Directive
98/48/EC (4);

— Publication of the references in the Official Journal of the European Union does not imply that the

standards are available in all the Community languages.

— Further Harmonised Standards relating to appliances burning gaseous fuels have been published in
previous editions of the Official Journal of the European Union. A complete updated list can be found on
the Europa-Server in the Internet at:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/newapproach/standardization/harmstds/reflist/appligas.html

(1) OJ L 196, 26.7.1990, p. 15.
(2) http://www.cenorm.be/aboutcen/whatis/membership/members.htm
(3) OJ L 204, 21.7.1998, p. 37.
(4) OJ L 217, 5.8.1998, p. 18.