Commission Regulation (EC) No 1081/2008 of 4 November 2008 repealing Regulation (EEC) No 2968/79 laying down detailed rules for the provision of administrative assistance in connection with the export of soft ripened cow’s milk cheeses eligible for special treatment on import into a non-member country and Regulation (EEC) No 1552/80 laying down detailed rules for the provision of administrative assistance in connection with the export of certain cheeses eligible for special treatment on import into Australia
Date: 2008-11-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Australia, United States, certificate of origin, cows’ milk cheese, export licence, international trade, repeal, soft cheese, third country

L 296/4

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

5.11.2008

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1081/2008

of 4 November 2008

repealing Regulation (EEC) No 2968/79 laying down detailed rules
the provision of
administrative assistance in connection with the export of soft ripened cow’s milk cheeses
eligible for special treatment on import into a non-member country and Regulation (EEC) No
1552/80 laying down detailed rules for the provision of administrative assistance in connection
with the export of certain cheeses eligible for special treatment on import into Australia

for

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of
22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agri­
cultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agri­
cultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (1), and in particular
Article 172(2) in conjunction with Article 4 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Article 172(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, which
has repealed Council Regulation (EEC) No 2931/79 (2) as
from 1 January 2008, provides that when agricultural
in accordance with
products are exported which may,
agreements concluded by the Community, benefit from
a special treatment on importation into a third country if
certain conditions are respected,
the competent auth­
orities of the Member States have to, on request and
issue a document certifying
after appropriate checks,
that the conditions have been met. In accordance with
that Regulation, Commission Regulations
(EEC) No
2968/79 (3) and (EEC) No 1552/80 (4) require exporters
to present a certificate attesting that the cheese complies
with the definition provided for in those Regulations, in
order to benefit from free and unlimited access respect­
ively in the USA and in Australia.

import by visual examination and laboratory analysis of
samples and that the certificate referred to in Article 1 of
Regulation (EEC) No 2968/79 is no longer required.

In the same context the Australian competent authorities
have confirmed that, in order to allow free of any quan­
titative
certain types of
Community cheeses referred to in Article 1 of Regulation
(EEC) No 1552/80, they will no longer require the cer­
tificate of identity and origin.

import of

restrictions

the

Regulations (EEC) No 2968/79 and (EEC) No 1552/80
should therefore be repealed.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Management
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural
Markets,

(3)

(4)

(5)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EEC) No 2968/79 and (EEC) No 1552/80 are
repealed.

Article 2

(2)

The USA competent import authorities have confirmed
that they verify the classification of those cheeses on

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

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

Done at Brussels, 4 November 2008.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 334, 28.12.1979, p. 8.
(3) OJ L 336, 29.12.1979, p. 25.
(4) OJ L 153, 21.6.1980, p. 23.