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10.7.2014 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 201/18
COUNCIL DECISION
of 8 July 2014
on a position to be taken, on behalf of the European Union, within the Sub-committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures set up by the Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Colombia and Peru, of the other part, as regards the adoption of its Rules of Procedure
(2014/443/EU)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 207(4), in conjunction with Article 218(9), thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
Whereas:
(1) On 19 January 2009, the Council authorised the Commission to negotiate a multiparty trade agreement on behalf of the European Union and its Member States with the Member countries of the Andean Community.
(2) These negotiations have been concluded and the Trade Agreement between the European Union its Member States, of the one part, and Colombia and Peru, of the other part (‘the Agreement’) (1) was signed in Brussels on 26 June 2012.
(3) Pursuant to its Article 330(3) of the Agreement, the Agreement has been provisionally applied with Peru since 1 March 2013 and with Colombia since 1 August 2013, subject to its conclusion at a later date.
(4) Article 103 of the Agreement establishes a Sub-committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (‘SPS Sub-committee’), which shall ensure and monitor the implementation of Chapter 5 of the Agreement, relating to Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures, and consider any matter that could affect compliance with the provisions of this Chapter. The SPS Sub-committee shall adopt its working procedures at its first meeting.
(5) The Union should determine the position to be taken with regard to the adoption of the Rules of Procedure of the SPS Sub-committee,
The position to be taken on behalf of the Union within the Sub-committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (‘SPS Sub-committee’), set up by the Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Colombia and Peru, of the other part, as regards the adoption of the Rules of Procedure of the SPS Sub-committee, shall be based on the draft decision of the EU-Colombia-Peru SPS Sub-committee annexed to this Decision.
Minor technical corrections to the draft decision of the EU-Colombia-Peru SPS Sub-committee may be agreed to by the representatives of the Union in the SPS Sub-committee, without further decision of the Council.
This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.
COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1854/93 of 9 July 1993 altering, for the 1993/94, marketing year, the adjustment aid and additional aid to the sugar refining industry
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the markets in the sugar sector (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1548/93 (2), and in particular the seventh indent of Article 9 (6) thereof,
Whereas Article 9 (4b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 provides that during the 1993/94 marketing years adjustment aid of ECU 0,08 per 100 kilograms of sugar expressed as white sugar is to be granted as an intervention measure to the Community's  preferential raw cane sugar refining industry; whereas, as provided for in those provisions, additional aid equal to that amount is to be granted during the same period for the refining of raw cane sugar produced in the French overseas departments;
Whereas the fourth subparagraph of Article 9 (4b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 provides that the adjustment aid and the additional aid referred to above may be altered in respect of a given marketing year in the light in particular of the storage levy  fixed for that year; whereas the storage levy for the 1993/94 marketing year was fixed by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1710/93 (3) at ECU 3,50 per 100 kilograms of white sugar; whereas this amount is higher than that applicable for the 1992/93  marketing year;
Whereas account should, however, be taken in the alteration in the aid in question that has already been made for the 1990/91, 1991/92 and 1992/93 marketing years in order to neutralize the effect of successive storage levy reductions on the refining  margin for the 1993/94 marketing year;
Whereas these provisions must apply from the beginning of the 1993/94 marketing year on 1 July 1993;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Sugar,
The amounts of the adjustment aid and of the additional aid provided for respectively in the second and third subparagraphs of Article 9 (4b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be fixed at ECU 0,58 per 100 kilograms of sugar expressed as  white sugar for the 1993/94 marketing year.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply with effect from 1 July 1993.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
19.2.2014 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 48/6
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 152/2014
of 18 February 2014
establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (1),
Having regard to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 of 7 June 2011 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 in respect of the fruit and vegetables and processed fruit and vegetables sectors (2), and in particular Article 136(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 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 XVI, Part A thereto.
(2) The standard import value is calculated each working day, in accordance with Article 136(1) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011, taking into account variable daily data. Therefore this Regulation should enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union,
The standard import values referred to in Article 136 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 are fixed in the Annex to this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 746/93 of 17 March 1993 on the granting of aid to encourage the formation and facilitate the operation of producer organizations as provided for in Regulations (EEC) No 1035/72 and (EEC) No 1360/78 in Portugal
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Articles 42 and 43 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (1),
Whereas the achievement of the Single Market requires the removal of all barriers to trade not only between the Member States of the Community as constituted on 31 December 1985 but also, to the greatest possible extent, between those Member States and  Spain and Portugal; whereas it consequently involves the prior abolition of a large number of mechanisms protecting the Spanish and Portuguese market on a temporary basis;
Whereas, in view of the situation, the particular delay observed in Portugal in setting up producer organizations makes it appropriate to reinforce measures to encourage their formation and facilitate their operation as provided for in Council  Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit and vegetables (2) and by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1360/78 of 19 June 1978 on producer groups and associations thereof (3); whereas such an intensification  of measures is likely, on the one hand, to facilitate endeavours to organize Portuguese agriculture to meet the increased competition from other Member States and, on the other hand, to facilitate, in Portugal, the exercise of duties allocated by the  common agricultural policy to the producer organizations,
Aid intended to encourage the setting up and to facilitate the functioning of producer organizations provided for in Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 on producer groups and associations thereof provided for in Regulation (EEC) No  1360/78 shall be granted to Portugal in compliance with the following specific provisions:
(a) the percentages set out in Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, Article 14 (1), first indent, and (EEC) No 1360/78, Article 10 (a) (2) first indent shall be increased to: 10, 10, 8, 6 and 4 %;
(b) the percentages set out in Regulation (EEC) No 1360/78, Article 10 (3) (a) shall be increased to 100, 80 and 40 %;
(c) the global amount set out in Article 10 (3) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1360/78 shall be increased to ECU 120 000.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1275/1999
of 17 June 1999
fixing for the 1999/2000 marketing year the minimum price to be paid to producers for peaches and the amount of production aid for peaches in syrup and/or natural fruit juice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 of 28 October 1996 on the common organisation of the markets in processed fruit and vegetable products(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2199/97(2), and in particular Articles 3(3) and 4(9) thereof,
(1) Whereas the minimum price and the production aid for the 1999/2000 marketing year should be fixed on the basis of Articles 3 and 4 of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 taking account of the guarantee threshold introduced by Article 5 of that Regulation above which the aid is reduced;
(2) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Products Processed from Fruit and Vegetables,
For the 1999/2000 marketing year:
(a) the minimum price referred to in Aricle 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 shall be EUR 28,368 per 100 kg net from the producer for peaches intended for the production of peaches in syrup and/or natural fruit juice;
(b) the production aid referred to in Article 4 of that Regulation shall be EUR 6,103 per 100 kg net for peaches in syrup and/or natural fruit juice.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply with effect from 15 June 1999.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
17.11.2005 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 300/39
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1873/2005
of 16 November 2005
fixing the export refunds on eggs applicable from 17 November 2005
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2771/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organisation of the market in eggs (1), and in particular the third subparagraph of Article 8(3) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 2771/75 provides that the difference between prices on the world market for the products listed in Article 1(1) of that regulation and prices for those products on the Community market may be covered by an export refund.
(2) It follows from applying these rules and criteria to the present situation on the market in eggs that the refund should be fixed at an amount which would permit Community participation in world trade and would also take account of the nature of these exports and their importance at the present time.
(3) The present market situation in certain third countries and that regarding competition makes it necessary to fix a refund differentiated by destination for certain products in the egg sector.
(4) Article 21 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 800/1999 of 15 April 1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of the system of export refunds on agricultural products (2), stipulates that no refund is granted if the products are not of sound and fair marketable quality on the date on which the export declaration is accepted. In order to ensure uniform application of the rules in force, it should be stated that, in order to qualify for the refund, the egg products listed in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 2771/75 must bear the health mark laid down in Council Directive 89/437/EEC of 20 June 1989 on hygiene and health problems affecting the production and the placing on the market of egg products (3).
(5) The negotiations within the framework of the Europe Agreements between the European Community and Romania and Bulgaria aim in particular to liberalise trade in products covered by the common organisation of the market concerned. For these two countries export refunds should therefore be abolished. That abolition should not, however, lead to a differentiated refund for exports to other countries.
(6) The Management Committee for Poultrymeat and Eggs has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its chairman,
The codes of products for which, when they are exported, the export refund referred to in Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 2771/75 is granted and the amount of that refund shall be as shown in the Annex hereto.
However, in order to qualify for the refund, products falling within the scope of Chapter XI of the Annex to Directive 89/437/EEC must also satisfy the health marking conditions laid down in that Directive.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 November 2005.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
COUNCIL DECISION
of 21 December 1999
on the provisional application of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters amending the Agreements between the European Community and the People's Republic of China on trade in textile products
(1999/876/EC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 133, in conjunction with Article 300(2), first sentence thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas:
(1) the Commission has negotiated on behalf of the Community an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the People's Republic of China amending the Agreement between the European Community and the People's Republic of China on trade in textile products, as last amended by the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters initialled on 20 November 1998 and amending the Agreement between the European Community and the People's Republic of China initialled on 19 January 1995 on trade in textile products not covered by the MFA bilateral Agreement on trade in textile products;
(2) the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters should be applied on a provisional basis from 1 January 2000 pending the completion of the procedures necessary for its conclusion, subject to reciprocal provisional application of the Agreement by the People's Republic of China,
The Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the People's Republic of China initialled in Beijing on 6 December 1999 amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the People's Republic of China on trade in textile products as last amended by an Agreement initialled on 20 November 1999 and amending the Agreement between the European Community and the People's Republic of China initialled on 19 January 1995 on trade in textile products not covered by the MFA bilateral Agreement shall be applied on a provisional basis from 1 January 2000 pending its formal conclusion and subject to reciprocal provisional application of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters by the People's Republic of China.
The text of the Agreement in the Form of an Exchange of Letters is attached to this Decision.
This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 392/2003
of 28 February 2003
fixing the import duties in the cereals sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 of 30 June 1992 on the common organisation of the market in cereals(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1666/2000(2),
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1249/96 of 28 June 1996 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 as regards import duties in the cereals sector(3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1900/2002(4), and in particular Article 2(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 provides that the rates of duty in the Common Customs Tariff are to be charged on import of the products referred to in Article 1 of that Regulation. However, in the case of the products referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article, the import duty is to be equal to the intervention price valid for such products on importation and increased by 55 %, minus the cif import price applicable to the consignment in question. However, that duty may not exceed the rate of duty in the Common Customs Tariff.
(2) Pursuant to Article 10(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92, the cif import prices are calculated on the basis of the representative prices for the product in question on the world market.
(3) Regulation (EC) No 1249/96 lays down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 as regards import duties in the cereals sector.
(4) The import duties are applicable until new duties are fixed and enter into force. They also remain in force in cases where no quotation is available for the reference exchange referred to in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1249/96 during the two weeks preceding the next periodical fixing.
(5) In order to allow the import duty system to function normally, the representative market rates recorded during a reference period should be used for calculating the duties.
(6) Application of Regulation (EC) No 1249/96 results in import duties being fixed as set out in the Annex to this Regulation,
The import duties in the cereals sector referred to in Article 10(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 shall be those fixed in Annex I to this Regulation on the basis of the information given in Annex II.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March 2003.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
31.10.2013 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 289/1
COUNCIL DECISION
of 22 October 2013
concerning the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Armenia on the facilitation of the issuance of visas
(2013/628/EU)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular point (a) of Article 77(2), in conjunction with point (a) of the second subparagraph of Article 218(6), thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
Having regard to the consent of the European Parliament,
Whereas:
(1) In accordance with Council Decision 2013/2/EU (1), the Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Armenia on the facilitation of the issuance of visas (‘the Agreement’) was signed on 17 December 2012, subject to its conclusion at a later date.
(2) The Agreement should be approved.
(3) This Decision constitutes a development of the provisions of the Schengen acquis in which the United Kingdom does not take part, in accordance with Council Decision 2000/365/EC of 29 May 2000 concerning the request of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to take part in some of the provisions of the Schengen acquis
 (2); the United Kingdom is therefore not taking part in its adoption and is not bound by it or subject to its application.
(4) This Decision constitutes a development of the provisions of the Schengen acquis in which Ireland does not take part, in accordance with Council Decision 2002/192/EC of 28 February 2002 concerning Ireland’s request to take part in some of the provisions of the Schengen acquis
 (3); Ireland is therefore not taking part in its adoption and is not bound by it or subject to its application.
(5) In accordance with Articles 1 and 2 of Protocol No 22 on the position of Denmark, annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Denmark is not taking part in the adoption of this Decision and is not bound by it or subject to its application,
The Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Armenia on the facilitation of the issuance of visas is hereby approved on behalf of the Union.
The text of the Agreement is attached to this Decision.
The President of the Council shall, on behalf of the Union, give the notification provided for in Article 14(1) of the Agreement (4).
This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its adoption.