Commission Regulation (EC) No 1893/2004 of 29 October 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 815/2004 laying down transitional measures as regards exports of milk and milk products pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 174/1999, by reason of the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the European Union
Date: 2004-10-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: accession to the European Union, export refund, milk, milk product, transitional period (EU)

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1893/2004

of 29 October 2004

amending Regulation (EC) No 815/2004 laying down transitional measures as regards exports of
milk and milk products pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 174/1999, 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,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

for an
Commission Decision 2004/700/EC provides
the provisions of Article 3 of Decision
extension of
2004/280/EC until 30 April 2005.
is appropriate
therefore to further extend the provisions of Article 1
of Regulation (EC) No 815/2004.

It

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

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 815/2004 should be amended
accordingly.

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,

(5)

In order to avoid any inconsistency for operators, this
Regulation should apply as from 1 September 2004.

Whereas:

(6)

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

(1)

(2)

Commission Decision 2004/280/EC of 19 March 2004
laying down transitional measures for the marketing of
certain products of animal origin obtained in the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary,
Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia (1) (hereinafter the
new Member States) provides for measures to facilitate
the transition from the existing regime in the new
Member States to that resulting from the application of
the Community veterinary legislation. According to
Article 3 of
shall
authorise, from 1 May to 31 August 2004, the trade
in products which are obtained before the accession
in the new Member States,
date in establishments
authorised to export milk products to the Community,
provided that the products bear the Community export
health mark of
the establishment concerned and are
accompanied by a document which certifies that they
were produced in conformity with that Decision.

that Decision, Member States

Regulation

Commission

No
Consequently,
815/2004 (2) provided that products, which meet
the
requirements of Article 3 of Decision 2004/280/EC
and are authorised to be traded for the period from 1
May to 31 August 2004, should be eligible for an export
refund.

(EC)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 815/2004 is amended as follows:

1. In the first paragraph of Article 1, the date ‘31 August 2004’

is replaced by the date ‘30 April 2005’.

2. In the second paragraph of Article 2, the date ‘31 August

2004’ is replaced by the date ‘30 April 2005’.

Article 2

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

(1) OJ L 87, 25.3.2004, p. 60. Decision amended by Decision

2004/700/EC (OJ L 318, 19.10.2004, p. 21).

(2) OJ L 153, 30.4.2004, p. 17. Corrected version in OJ L 231,

30.6.2004, p. 14.

It shall apply to export declarations accepted from 1 September
2004 to 30 April 2005.

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

Done at Brussels, 29 October 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission