Commission Regulation (EC) No 1074/2004 of 4 June 2004 laying down transitional measures in the processed fruit and vegetables sector for the application of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1535/2003 by reason of the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the European Union
Date: 2004-06-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: accession to the European Union, aid system, derogation from EU law, fruit vegetable, transitional period (EU), vegetable product

5.6.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 198/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1074/2004

of 4 June 2004

laying down transitional measures in the processed fruit and vegetables sector for the application of
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1535/2003 by reason of the accession of the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the European
Union

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia, and in particular the first paragraph of
Article 41 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

and processors

should be adopted to allow
Transitional measures
producers
in the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta,
the new
Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia (hereinafter
Member States)
from the provisions of
to benefit
Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 of 28 October
1996 on the common organisation of the markets in
processed fruit and vegetable products (1).

According to Articles 10 and 12 of Commission Regu-
lation (EC) No 1535/2003 of 29 August 2003 laying
down detailed rules for applying Regulation (EC) No
2201/96 as
for products
processed from fruit and vegetables (2), certain infor-

aid scheme

regards

the

mation concerning tomatoes has
submitted
before 31 March each year. This deadline should be
postponed for the new Member States for 2004, the
original date being too early to complete the necessary
administrative procedures.

to be

(3)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Products Processed from Fruit and Vege-
tables,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

By way of derogation from the second paragraph of Article 10
and the second subparagraph of Article 12(2) of Regulation (EC)
No 1535/2003, in the case of tomatoes, in the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia, for the 2004/2005 marketing year, the
information referred to in the first paragraph of Article 10 and
in Article 12(1) of that Regulation shall be sent at least ten days
before deliveries are to commence and by 15 July 2004 at the
latest.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

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

Done at Brussels, 4 June 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 29. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 386/2004 (OJ L 64, 2.3.2004,
p. 9).

(2) OJ L 218, 30.8.2003, p. 14. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 444/2004 (OJ L 72, 11.3.2004, p. 54).