Commission Regulation (EC) No 2332/2003 of 30 December 2003 derogating from Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 as regards the period for lodging applications for licences to import milk products under quotas
Date: 2003-12-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: derogation from EU law, import licence, milk, milk product, quantitative restriction, trading operation

L 346/12

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Official Journal of the European Union

31.12.2003

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2332/2003

of 30 December 2003

derogating from Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 as regards the period for lodging applications for
licences to import milk products under quotas

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Com-
munity,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk
and milk products (1), and in particular Articles 26(3) and 29(1)
thereof,

(4)

(5)

Whereas:

Pending finalisation of the procedures for the adoption
and publication of those provisions, and in the interests
of legal certainty, it is necessary to postpone the period
for lodging applications provided for in Article 14(1) of
Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 and to derogate from
that Article.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Milk and Milk Products,

(1)

(2)

(3)

Chapter I of Title 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No
2535/2001 of 14 December 2001 laying down detailed
rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/
1999 as regards the import arrangements for milk and
milk products and opening tariff quotas (2) provides for,
inter alia, the breakdown of the quantities to be imported
in each six-month period under certain tariff quotas and
the periods for lodging the relevant import licence appli-
cations.

According to Article 14(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2535/
2001, import licence applications may be lodged only
during the first 10 days of each six-month period.

It is intended that, in January 2004, the opening of the
quotas referred to in Chapter I of Title 2 of that Regu-
lation for the WTO year (1 July to 30 June) should be
limited to the quantities for four rather than six months,
so that operators in the new Member States which are to
join the Community on 1 May 2004 may have access to
an additional tranche of these quotas, to be allocated in
May 2004, equal to two months' quota.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

By way of derogation from Article 14(1) of Regulation (EC) No
2535/2001, for the period 1 January to 30 April 2004, import
licence applications for the quotas referred to in Annex I. A,
Annex I. B, points 5 and 6, Annex I. F and Annex I. H of that
Regulation may be lodged only during the period 12 to 16
January 2004.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 January 2004.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 December 2003.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48; Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1787/2003 (OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 121).

(2) OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 29; Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 2012/2003 (OJ L 297, 15.11.2003, p. 19).