Commission Regulation (EC) No 185/2004 of 2 February 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 94/2002 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 2826/2000 on information and promotion actions for agricultural products on the internal market
Date: 2004-02-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU financing, agricultural product, consumer information, sales promotion, single market

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 185/2004

of 2 February 2004

amending Regulation (EC) No 94/2002 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation
(EC) No 2826/2000 on information and promotion actions for agricultural products on the internal
market

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(7)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the joint
accordance with the opinion delivered at
meeting of the management committees on agricultural
product promotion,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2826/2000 of 19
December 2000 on information and promotion actions for
agricultural products on the internal market (1), and in particu-
lar Article 12 thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas:

Article 1

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 94/2002 (2)
provides for the drawing up of
themes and
products
for which information and/or promotion
measures may be carried out.

lists of

Council Regulation (EC) No 1907/1990 of 26 June
eggs (3)
1990 on certain marketing standards
requires, inter alia, that eggs for human consumption be
marked with a code indicating the producer and
allowing identification of the type of farming, as from 1
January 2004.

for

It would be useful to inform consumers about these new
rules on the marking of eggs.

Eggs
for human consumption should therefore be
included in the list of products which may be covered
by information and/or promotion measures, and general
guidelines should be defined for the campaigns to be
carried out in this sector.

transmitting and approving the first

Taking account of the date for drawing up these guide-
lines, it will not be possible to comply with the dates set
for
series of
programmes presented in 2004 for eggs intended for
human consumption.
In view of the need to inform
consumers as soon as possible, a special deadline should
be set for transmitting and approving that first series.

(6)

Regulation (EC) No 94/2002 should be amended accord-
ingly.

(1) OJ L 328, 23.12.2000, p. 2.
(2) OJ L 17, 19.1.2002, p. 20. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 497/2003 (OJ L 74, 20.3.2003, p. 4).

(3) OJ L 173, 6.7.1990, p. 5. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 2052/2003 (OJ L 305, 22.11.2003, p. 1).

Regulation (EC) No 94/2002 is hereby amended as follows:

1.

in the second subparagraph of Article 5(1), the following is
added:

‘The first series of programmes relating to eggs for human
consumption to be submitted in 2004 shall be received by
the Member State concerned no later than 29 February
2004.’;

2. Article 7 is amended as follows:

(a) in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1,

the

following is added:

‘The first series of programmes relating to eggs for
human consumption to be submitted in 2004 shall be
notified to the Commission no later than 31 March
2004.’;

(b) in the second subparagraph of paragraph 3,

the

following is added:

‘The first series of programmes relating to eggs intended
for human consumption to be submitted in 2004 shall
be decided on by the Commission no later than 31 May
2004.’;

3.

in Annex I(b), the following indent is added:

‘— Eggs for human consumption.’

4. The text contained in the Annex to this Regulation is added

to Annex III.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the third 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, 2 February 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

‘EGGS FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION

1. OVERALL ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION

From 1 January 2004, eggs intended for human consumption shall be stamped on the shell with a code identifying
the producer and the system employed to rear the laying hens. This code shall be composed of a number identifying
the farming method (0 = organic, 1 = free range, 2 = barn, 3 = cage), the ISO code of the Member State where the
production centre is situated and a number allocated to the production centre by the relevant authority.

2. GOALS

— To inform the consumer of the new standards for marking eggs and fully explain the meaning of the code

printed on eggs.

— To provide information on egg-production systems by means of the code printed on eggs.

— To provide information about existing traceability systems.

3. TARGET GROUPS

— Consumers and distributors.

— Opinion leaders.

4. MAIN MESSAGES

— To publicise and explain the new code printed on eggs in compliance with Directive 2002/4/EC, and the charac-

teristics of the different categories of eggs to which this code refers.

5. MAIN CHANNELS

— Electronic channel (website, etc.).

— Printed material (brochures, leaflets, etc.).

— Information at sales points.

— Advertising in the press and in food magazines, women's magazines etc.

— Relations with the media.

6. DURATION OF THE PROGRAMME

12 to 24 months.

7. INDICATIVE BUDGET

EUR 4 million.’