Commission Regulation (EC) No 2302/2003 of 29 December 2003 derogating from Regulation (EC) No 192/2002 laying down detailed rules for issuing import licences for sugar and sugar and cocoa mixtures with ACP/OCT or EC/OCT cumulation of origin
Date: 2003-12-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, EU Member State, confectionery product, import licence, originating product, overseas countries and territories, sugar

L 342/4

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

30.12.2003

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2302/2003

of 29 December 2003

derogating from Regulation (EC) No 192/2002 laying down detailed rules for issuing import
licences for sugar and sugar and cocoa mixtures with ACP/OCT or EC/OCT cumulation of origin

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Decision 2001/822/EC of 27
November 2001 on the association of the overseas countries
and territories with the European Community (1), and in par-
ticular Article 6(4) of Annex III thereto,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 192/2002 (2) lays down
detailed rules for issuing import licences for products
falling within CN Chapter 17 and CN codes 1806 10 30
and 1806 10 90 with ACP/OCT or EC/OCT cumulation
of origin.

In view of the enlargement of the European Union on 1
May 2004, a derogation should be made, for 2004, from
the timetable for the submission of applications laid
down in that Regulation to enable economic operators
in the new Member States to participate in imports of
these products from the date of accession. To the same
end, it is also necessary to lay down a maximum quan-
tity available on 1 January 2004 for the first period of
submission of applications, corresponding to one third
the maximum annual quantity laid down in the
of
second subparagraph of Article 6(4) of Annex III to
Decision 2001/822/EC,

Article 1

1.
For 2004, by derogation from Article 3(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 192/2002, import licence applications shall relate to a
quantity of not less than 25 tonnes and not more than the
quantity laid down in paragraph 3 for the period of submission
of applications for the month of January, and the quantity
available for the subsequent periods of submission of applica-
tions.

For 2004, by derogation from Article 6(1) of Regulation
2.
(EC) No 192/2002, licence applications shall be submitted to
the competent authorities of the Member States in the first five
working days of January, May, July and October 2004.

For 2004, by derogation from Article 6(3) of Regulation
3.
(EC) No 192/2002, where licence applications submitted in the
first five working days of January 2004 exhaust or exceed
9 333 tonnes, the Commission shall fix the single reducing
coefficient to be applied to each of the applications submitted
within 10 working days of the closing date for submitting
licence applications.

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 29 December 2003.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 314, 30.11.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 55.