Commission Regulation (EC) No 2263/2004 of 28 December 2004 fixing the standard values to be used in calculating the financial compensation and the advance pertaining thereto in respect of fishery products withdrawn from the market during the 2005 fishing year
Date: 2004-12-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU aid, animal nutrition, financial equalisation, fishery product, food processing

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2263/2004

of 28 December 2004

fixing the standard values to be used in calculating the financial compensation and the advance
pertaining thereto in respect of fishery products withdrawn from the market during the 2005
fishing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 of 17
December 1999 on the common organisation of the markets in
fishery and aquaculture products (1), and in particular Article
21(5) and (8) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

financial
Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 provides for
compensation to be paid to producer organisations
which withdraw, on certain conditions,
the products
listed in Annex I(A) and (B)
to that Regulation. The
amount of
such financial compensation should be
reduced by standard values in the case of products
intended for purposes other than human consumption.

specifies

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2493/2001 of 19
December 2001 on the disposal of certain fishery
been withdrawn from the
products which have
market (2)
the
products withdrawn from the market. The value of
such products should be fixed at a standard level for
each of these modes of disposal, taking into account
the average revenues which may be obtained from such
disposal in the various Member States.

the ways of disposing of

Under Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EC) No
2509/2000 of 15 November 2000 laying down
detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation
(EC) No 104/2000 as regards granting financial compen-
sation for withdrawals of certain fishery products (3),
special rules provide that, where a producer organisation
or one of its members puts its products up for sale in a
is
Member State other than the country in which it

that body responsible

recognised,
for granting the
financial compensation must be informed. This body is
the one in the Member State in which the producer
organisation is recognised. The standard value deductible
should therefore be the value applied in that Member
State.

(4)

(5)

The same method of calculation should be applied to
advances on financial compensation as provided for in
Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 2509/2000.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the 2005 fishing year, the standard values to be used in
calculating financial compensation and associated advances for
fishery products withdrawn from the market by producer orga-
nisations
than human
consumption, as referred to in Article 21(5) of Regulation
(EC) No 104/2000, are set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

and intended for purposes other

Article 2

The standard value to be deducted from financial compensation
and associated advances shall be that applied in the Member
State in which the producer organisation is recognised.

Article 3

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 January 2005.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 December 2004.

For the Commission

Joe BORG
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 17, 21.1.2000, p. 22.
(2) OJ L 337, 20.12.2001, p. 20.
(3) OJ L 289, 16.11.2000, p. 11.

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ANNEX

Standard values

Use of products withdrawn from the market

EUR/tonne

1. Use following processing into meal (animal feed):

(a) herring of the species Clupea harengus and mackerel of the species Scomber scombrus and Scomber

Japonicus:
— Denmark and Sweden
— United Kingdom
— other Member States
— France

(b) shrimps of the species Crangon crangon and deep-water prawns (Pandalus borealis):

— Denmark and Sweden
— other Member States

(c) other products:
— Denmark
— Sweden, Portugal and Ireland
— United Kingdom
— other Member States

2. Use fresh or preserved (animal feed)

(a) sardines of the species Sardina pilchardus and anchovies (Engraulis spp.)

— all Member States

(b) other products:
— Sweden
— France
— other Member States

3. Use as bait
— France
— other Member States

4. Use for purposes other than animal feed

70

50

17

1

0

10

40

17

28

1

8

0

30

38

50

10

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