Commission Regulation (EC) No 1900/2004 of 29 October 2004 fixing the weighting coefficients to be used in calculating the Community market price for pig carcases for the 2004/2005 marketing year
Date: 2004-10-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common organisation of markets, market prices, pigmeat

30.10.2004

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 328/69

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1900/2004

of 29 October 2004

fixing the weighting coefficients to be used in calculating the Community market price for pig
carcases for the 2004/2005 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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

Whereas:

The Community market price for pig carcases, as referred
to in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75, must
be established by weighting the prices recorded in each
Member State by coefficients expressing the relative size
of the pig population of each Member State.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

In view of the results of the census of December 2003,
new weighting coefficients
the
2004/2005 marketing year and Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1075/2003 (3) should be repealed.

should be

for

set

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The weighting coefficients referred to in Article 4(2) of Regu-
lation (EEC) No 2759/75 shall be as specified in the Annex
hereto.

Article 2

Regulation (EC) No 1075/2003 is hereby repealed.

Article 3

These coefficients should be determined on the basis of
the number of pigs counted at
the beginning of
December
in accordance with Council
each year
Directive 93/23/EEC of 1 June 1993 on the statistical
surveys to be carried out on pig production (2).

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 July 2004.

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

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

Regulation (EC) No 258/2004 (OJ L 44, 14.2.2004, p. 14).

(2) OJ L 149, 21.6.1993, p. 1. Directive last amended by Regulation of
the European Parliament and of the Council (EC) No 1882/2003 (OJ
L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1).

(3) OJ L 155, 24.6.2003, p. 9. Regulation amended, not yet published.

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ANNEX

Weighting coefficients to be used in calculating the Community market price for pig carcases for the 2004/2005
marketing year

(Article 4(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75)

Belgium

Czech Republic

Denmark

Germany

Estonia

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Cyprus

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Hungary

Malta

Netherlands

Austria

Poland

Portugal

Slovenia

Slovakia

Finland

Sweden

United Kingdom

4,2

2,2

8,5

17,4

0,2

0,6

15,7

10,0

1,1

6,0

0,3

0,3

0,7

0,1

3,1

0,1

7,1

2,1

12,1

1,5

0,4

0,9

0,9

1,3

3,2