Commission Regulation (EC) No 366/2004 of 27 February 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 2259/2003 as regards the available quantity for which import licence applications for certain pigmeat products may be lodged for the period 1 to 30 April 2004
Date: 2004-02-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bulgaria, Romania, import licence, originating product, pigmeat, quantitative restriction

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 366/2004

of 27 February 2004

amending Regulation (EC) No 2259/2003 as regards the available quantity for which import licence
applications for certain pigmeat products may be lodged for the period 1 to 30 April 2004

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 of the Council
the
of 29 October 1975 on the common organisation of
market in pigmeat (1),

Having regard to Council Decision 2003/18/EC of 19
December 2002 on the conclusion of a Protocol adjusting the
trade aspects of the Europe Agreement establishing an associa-
tion between the European Communities and their Member
States, of the one part, and Romania, of the other part, to take
account of the outcome of negotiations between the Parties on
new mutual agricultural concessions (2),

pigmeat provided for under the arrangements established
by Decisions 2003/18/EC and 2003/286/EC under fair
conditions compared with those applicable to the
existing Member States. Economic operators in those
countries must be given the possibility therefore of parti-
cipating fully in those quotas upon accession.

(2)

In order not to create disturbance on the market before
and after 1 May 2004, the timetable for the tranches
provided for products originating in Bulgaria and
Romania in 2004 has been altered and the allocation of
quantities adjusted by Commission Regulation (EC) No
333/2004 of 26 February 2004 (5). It is therefore neces-
sary to amend Commission Regulation (EC) No 2259/
2003 of 22 December 2003 determining the extent to
which applications lodged in December 2003 for import
licences for certain pigmeat products under the regime
provided for by the Agreements concluded by the Com-
munity with the Republic of Poland, the Republic of
the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria and
Hungary,
Romania can be accepted (6),

Having regard to Council Decision 2003/286/EC of 8 April
2003 on the conclusion of a Protocol adjusting the trade
aspects of the Europe Agreement establishing an association
between the European Communities and their Member States,
of the one part, and the Republic of Bulgaria, of the other part,
to take account of the outcome of negotiations between the
Parties on new mutual agricultural concessions (3),

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1898/97 of
29 September 1997 laying down rules of application in the
pigmeat sector for the arrangements under the Europe Agree-
ments with Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania,
Poland and Hungary (4), and in particular Article 4(4) thereof,

Whereas:

Regulation (EC) No 2259/2003 is hereby amended as follows:

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

‘2.
For the period 1 to 30 April 2004, applications for
import licences for products originating in Bulgaria and
Romania may be lodged pursuant to Regulation (EC) No
1898/97 for the total quantity referred to in Annex II.’

(b) Annex II is replaced by the text contained in the Annex to

this Regulation.

(1)

The accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus,
Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and
Slovakia to the European Union on 1 May 2004 should
enable those countries to qualify for the tariff quotas for

(1) OJ L 282, 1.11.1975, p. 1, regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1365/2000 (OJ L 156, 29.6.2000, p. 5).

(2) OJ L 8, 14.1.2003, p. 18.
(3) OJ L 102, 24.4.2003, p. 60.
(4) OJ L 267, 30.9.1997, p. 58, regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1467/2003 (OJ L 210, 20.8.2003, p. 11).

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March 2004.

(5) OJ L 60, 27.2.2004, p. 12.
(6) OJ L 336, 21.12.2003, p. 10.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 February 2004.

For the Commission

J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ

Agriculture Director-General

ANNEX

‘ANNEX II

Total quantity of products originating in Bulgaria and Romania available for the period
1 to 30 April 2004
(tonnes)

2 490

918,8

1 763,8

12 968,8’

Group

B1

15

16

17