Commission Regulation (EC) No 861/2008 of 2 September 2008 repealing Regulation (EC) No 634/2008 laying down the reduced agricultural components and the additional duties applicable to imports into the Community of certain goods containing milk products covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 from Switzerland
Date: 2008-09-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, Switzerland, agricultural product, agro-industry, import, milk product, originating product

3.9.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 236/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 861/2008

of 2 September 2008

repealing Regulation (EC) No 634/2008 laying down the reduced agricultural components and the
additional duties applicable to imports into the Community of certain goods containing milk
products covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 from Switzerland

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of
6 December 1993 laying down the
arrangements
applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of
agricultural products (1), and in particular Article 7 thereof,

trade

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

By the Agreement between the European Community
and the Swiss Confederation (2) of 26 October 2004,
Protocol 2 to the Agreement between the European
Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation of
replaced by a new Protocol 2
22 July 1972 was
concerning certain processed agricultural products.
In
the EC–Switzerland
implementation of
its Decision No 1/2008 (3),
Joint Committee, by
amended the domestic reference prices from 1 February
2008 resulting in the imposition of duties on imports
into the Community of certain goods containing milk
products covered by Regulation (EC) No 3448/93.

this Protocol,

Consequently the reduced agricultural components and
the additional duties applicable to imports into the
Community of certain goods containing milk products
were laid down in Commission Regulation (EC) No
634/2008 (4).

In implementation of Protocol 2 the EC–Switzerland
its Decision No 2/2008 (5),
Joint Committee, by
amended the domestic reference prices from 1 August
2008, with the result
the price compensation
that
measures referred to in Article 3(3) of the Protocol are
fixed at zero. Consequently, from that date, import duties
into the
will no longer be payable on imports
Community of certain goods containing milk products
covered by Regulation (EC) No 3448/1993 from Swit­
zerland.

Regulation (EC) No 634/2008 should accordingly be
repealed.

Since the reference prices as amended in accordance with
Protocol 2 are applicable from 1 August 2008,
the
measure provided for in this Regulation should apply
from the same date,

(4)

(5)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 634/2008 is repealed.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 August 2008.

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

Done at Brussels, 2 September 2008.

For the Commission

Günter VERHEUGEN
Vice-President

(1) OJ L 318, 20.12.1993, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 23, 26.1.2005, p. 19.
(3) OJ L 69, 13.3.2008, p. 34.
(4) OJ L 176, 4.7.2008, p. 3.

(5) Not yet published in the OJ.