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2008/973/EC: Commission Decision of 15 December 2008 amending Council Directive 2002/56/EC as regards the date laid down in Article 21(3) until which Member States are authorised to extend the validity of decisions concerning equivalence of seed potatoes from third countries (notified under document number C(2008) 8135) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-12-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: marketing, originating product, potato, seedling, third country

L 345/90

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

23.12.2008

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 15 December 2008

amending Council Directive 2002/56/EC as regards the date laid down in Article 21(3) until which
Member States are authorised to extend the validity of decisions concerning equivalence of seed
potatoes from third countries

(notified under document number C(2008) 8135)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/973/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 2002/56/EC of 13 June
2002 on the marketing of seed potatoes (1), and in particular
the second subparagraph of Article 21(3) thereof,

(3)

(4)

(5)

Since this work still has not been completed and as a
new marketing season will start by the end of the year
2008,
is necessary to authorise Member States to
extend the validity of their national equivalence decisions.

it

Directive 2002/56/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

The measures provided for
in this Decision are in
Standing
accordance with
the
Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agri­
culture, Horticulture and Forestry,

opinion

the

of

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Directive 2002/56/EC provides that, with effect
from
certain dates, Member States may no longer determine
for themselves the equivalence of seed potatoes harvested
in third countries with seed potatoes harvested within the
Community and complying with that Directive.

However, as work to establish a Community equivalence
for seed potatoes from all the third countries concerned
had not been completed, Directive 2002/56/EC permitted
Member States to extend until 31 March 2008 the
validity of equivalence decisions which they had already
taken for seed potatoes from certain third countries not
covered by a Community equivalence. This date was
chosen by reference to the end of
the period where
seed potatoes are placed on the market.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

In the
subparagraph of Article 21(3) of Directive
2002/56/EC, ‘31 March 2008’ is replaced by ‘31 March 2011’.

first

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 15 December 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 193, 20.7.2002, p. 60.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1248/2008 of 15 December 2008 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
Date: 2008-12-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: citrus fruit, common agricultural policy, export price, fruit vegetable, pip fruit

16.12.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 337/1

(Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is obligatory)

I

REGULATIONS

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1248/2008

of 15 December 2008

establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and
vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Whereas:

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),

Regulation (EC) No 1580/2007 lays down, pursuant to the
outcome of the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations,
the criteria whereby the Commission fixes the standard values
for imports from third countries, in respect of the products and
periods stipulated in Annex XV, Part A thereto,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1580/2007
of 21 December 2007 laying down implementing rules for
Council Regulations (EC) No 2200/96, (EC) No 2201/96 and
(EC) No 1182/2007 in the fruit and vegetable sector (2), and in
particular Article 138(1) thereof,

The standard import values referred to in Article 138 of Regu­
lation (EC) No 1580/2007 are fixed in the Annex hereto.

This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 December 2008.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 15 December 2008.

For the Commission

Jean-Luc DEMARTY
Director-General for Agriculture and
Rural Development

(1) OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 350, 31.12.2007, p. 1.

L 337/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

16.12.2008

Standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables

ANNEX

CN code

0702 00 00

0707 00 05

0709 90 70

0805 10 20

0805 20 10

0805 20 30, 0805 20 50, 0805 20 70,
0805 20 90

0805 50 10

0808 10 80

0808 20 50

Third country code (1)

Standard import value

(EUR/100 kg)

MA
TR
ZZ

JO
MA
TR
ZZ

MA
TR
ZZ

AR
BR
CL
MA
TR
ZA
ZZ

MA
TR
ZZ

CN
HR
IL
TR
ZZ

MA
TR
ZZ

CA
CN
MK
US
ZZ

CN
TR
US
ZZ

82,0
101,7
91,9

167,2
56,0
103,0
108,7

106,6
137,6
122,1

18,1
44,6
52,1
76,3
81,3
43,4
52,6

71,9
72,0
72,0

49,8
54,2
75,7
55,0
58,7

64,0
55,3
59,7

82,7
81,3
34,6
109,3
77,0

41,0
104,0
108,6
84,5

(1) Nomenclature of countries laid down by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1833/2006 (OJ L 354, 14.12.2006, p. 19). Code ‘ZZ’ stands

for ‘of other origin’.