Commission Regulation (EC) No 341/2005 of 25 February 2005 amending Regulations (EC) No 1432/94 and (EC) No 1458/2003, as regards the maximum quantity to which licence applications for import of pigmeat must relate
Date: 2005-02-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: import licence, pigmeat, tariff quota

L 53/28

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

26.2.2005

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 341/2005

of 25 February 2005

amending Regulations (EC) No 1432/94 and (EC) No 1458/2003, as regards the maximum quantity
to which licence applications for import of pigmeat must relate

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(2)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 of 29
October 1975 on the common organisation of the market in
pigmeat (1), and in particular Article 11(1) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 774/94 of 29
March 1994 opening and providing for the administration of
certain Community tariff quotas for high-quality beef, and for
pigmeat, poultrymeat, wheat and meslin, and brans, sharps and
other residues (2), and in particular Article 7 thereof,

(3)

(4)

The utilisation of
the two import quotas has been
generally low in recent years and the fixing of a relatively
low maximum quantity to which a licence application
must relate may have been a discouraging factor.
In
order to facilitate trade of pigmeat under those two
import quotas it is necessary to increase that maximum
quantity.

Regulations (EC) No 1432/94 and (EC) No 1458/2003
should therefore be amended accordingly.

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

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1095/96 of 18
June 1996 on the implementation of the concessions set out in
schedule CXL drawn up in the wake of the conclusion of the
GATT XXIV: 6 negotiations (3), and in particular Article 1
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1432/94 of 22 June
1994 laying down detailed rules for the application in
the pigmeat sector of the import arrangements provided
for in Council Regulation (EC) No 774/94 opening and
providing for the administration of certain Community
tariff quotas for pigmeat and certain other agricultural
products (4)
and Commission Regulation (EC) No
1458/2003 of 18 August 2003 opening and providing
for the administration of a tariff quota in the pigmeat
sector (5) opened import quotas for pigmeat and laid
down precise conditions governing access by traders to
those quotas.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In Article 3(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1432/94, the rate of ‘10 %’
is replaced by ‘20 %’.

Article 2

In Article 4(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1458/2003, the rates of
‘10 %’ are replaced by ‘20 %’.

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 to licence applications lodged as from 1 March
2005.

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

Done at Brussels, 25 February 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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

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

(2) OJ L 91, 8.4.1994, p. 1. Regulation amended by Commission Regu-

lation (EC) No 2198/95 (OJ L 221, 19.9.1995, p. 3).

(3) OJ L 146, 20.6.1996, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 156, 23.6.1994, p. 14. Regulation last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 2083/2004 (OJ L 360, 7.12.2004, p. 12).

(5) OJ L 208, 19.8.2003, p. 3. Regulation amended by Regulation (EC)

No 2083/2004.