Commission Regulation (EC) No 756/2007 of 29 June 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 on detailed rules for the application of the import arrangements for fruit and vegetables
Date: 2007-06-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: customs regulations, customs territory (EU), fresh fruit, fresh vegetable, import, reference price

30.6.2007

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 756/2007

of 29 June 2007

amending Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 on detailed rules for the application of

the import

arrangements for fruit and vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 of 28
October 1996 on the common organisation of the market in
fruit and vegetables (1), and in particular Article 32(2) thereof,

Whereas:

Commission Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 of 21
December 1994 on detailed rules for the application of
fruit and vegetables (2)
the import arrangements
cross-refers to certain provisions of Articles 173 to
176 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of
2 July 1993 laying down provisions for the implemen-
tation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 estab-
lishing the Community Customs Code (3).

for

Those provisions have however been deleted by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 215/2006 of 8
February 2006 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93
the implementation of
for
laying down provisions
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the
Community Customs Code and amending Regulation
(EC) No 2286/2003 (4).

(1)

(2)

(3)

2454/93, potentially outdated unit prices should no
longer be used in the framework of
the entry price
system.

Since the modifications to Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93
legal
applied from 19 May 2006,
certainty, those amendments should also apply as from
that date.

in the interest of

Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 contains a
should be
list of
amended to include
in
Bulgaria and Romania.

representative markets. That

representative markets

the

list

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Management
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for Fresh Fruit and Vegetables,

(5)

(6)

(7)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 is amended as follows:

1.

in Article 2(2),
replaced by the following:

the second and third subparagraphs are

‘They shall be reduced by the following amounts:

In the interests of legal certainty it is therefore necessary
to amend Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 to make the
its continued smooth
necessary changes
operation.

to ensure

(a) a marketing margin of 15 % for the marketing centres of
London, Milan and Rungis and of 8 % for other
marketing centres, and

(4)

The prices of fruit and vegetables change rapidly, and in
to Regulation (EEC) No
line with the amendments

(b) costs of
territory.

transport and insurance within the customs

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 47/2003 (OJ L 7, 11.1.2003,
p. 64).

(2) OJ L 337, 24.12.1994, p. 66. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 386/2005 (OJ L 62, 9.3.2005, p. 3).

(3) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 214/2007 (OJ L 62, 1.3.2007, p. 6).

(4) OJ L 38, 9.2.2006, p. 11.

the costs of

to the third subparagraph,

freight and insurance to be deducted
For
pursuant
the Member States
may fix standard amounts for deduction. Such standard
amounts and the methods for calculating them shall be
made known to the Commission immediately.’;

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2.

in Article 3, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

— Austria: Vienna-Inzersdorf,

The following shall be deemed to be representative

‘1.
markets:

— Poland: Ozarów Mazowiecki-Bronisze, Poznan,

— Belgium and Luxemburg: Brussels,

— Bulgaria: Sofia,

— Czech Republic: Prague,

— Denmark: Copenhagen,

— Germany: Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Cologne, Berlin,

— Estonia: Tallinn,

— Ireland: Dublin,

— Portugal: Lisbon, Porto,

— Romania: Bucharest, Constanța,

— Slovenia: Ljubljana,

— Slovakia: Bratislava,

— Finland: Helsinki,

— Sweden: Helsingborg, Stockholm,

— United Kingdom: London.’

— Greece: Athens, Thessaloniki,

3.

in Article 4, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:

— Spain: Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Bilbao, Zaragoza,

Valencia,

— France: Paris-Rungis, Marseille, Rouen, Dieppe, Perpignan,

Nantes, Bordeaux, Lyon, Toulouse,

— Italy: Milan,

— Cyprus: Nicosia,

— Latvia: Riga,

— Lithuania: Vilnius,

— Hungary: Budapest,

— Malta: Attard,

‘2. Where a standard value is established for the products
and for the periods of application given in Part A of the
Annex,
in accordance with this Regulation, the unit price
within the meaning of Article 152(1)(a)a of Regulation
(EEC) No 2454/93 shall not apply. It shall be replaced by
the standard import value referred to in paragraph 1.’;

4. In Article 4, paragraph 5 is replaced by the following:

‘5.
Notwithstanding paragraph 1, with effect from the first
day of the periods of application set out in Part A of the
Annex, where it has not been possible to calculate a standard
import value, no standard import value shall be applicable.’

Article 2

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

— Netherlands: Rotterdam,

Points 1, 3 and 4 of Article 1 shall apply from 19 May 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 29 June 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission