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32010R1255 | Commission Regulation (EU) No 1255/2010 of 22 December 2010 laying down detailed rules for the application of the import tariff quotas for ‘baby beef’ products originating in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia
| 28.12.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 342/1
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1255/2010
of 22 December 2010
laying down detailed rules for the application of the import tariff quotas for ‘baby beef’ products originating in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia
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), and in particular Article 144(1) and Article 148, in conjunction with Article 4 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) The Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Croatia, of the other part, approved by Council and Commission Decision 2005/40/EC, Euratom (2), the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part, approved by Council and Commission Decision 2004/239/EC, Euratom (3), the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Montenegro of the other part, approved by Council and Commission Decision 2010/224/EU, Euratom (4), the Interim Agreement with Bosnia and Herzegovina, approved by Council Decision 2008/474/EC of 16 June 2008 concerning the signing and conclusion of an Interim Agreement on trade and trade-related matters between the European Community, of the one part, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, of the other part (5), and the Interim Agreement with the Republic of Serbia, approved by Council Decision 2010/36/EC of 29 April 2008 concerning the signing and conclusion of an Interim Agreement on trade and trade-related matters between the European Community, of the one part, and the Republic of Serbia, of the other part (6), lay down annual preferential tariff quotas for ‘baby beef’ of 9 400 tonnes, 1 650 tonnes, 800 tonnes, 1 500 tonnes and 8 700 tonnes respectively.
(2) Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2248/2001 of 19 November 2001 on certain procedures for applying the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Croatia, of the other part and for applying the Interim Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Croatia (7) and Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 153/2002 of 21 January 2002 on certain procedures for applying the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part, and for applying the Interim Agreement between the European Community and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (8) provide that detailed rules for the implementation of concessions on ‘baby beef’ should be laid down.
(3) In order to verify the compliance with the quota conditions, imports under the quotas of ‘baby beef’ should be subject to the presentation of a certificate of authenticity attesting that the goods originate from the issuing country and that they correspond exactly to the definition established in the respective agreement. A model should also be established for the certificates of authenticity and detailed rules laid down for their use.
(4) The quotas concerned should be managed through the use of import licences. To this end, Commission Regulation (EC) No 376/2008 of 23 April 2008 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of import and export licences and advance fixing certificates for agricultural products (9) and Commission Regulation (EC) No 382/2008 of 21 April 2008 on rules of application for import and export licences in the beef and veal sector (10) should be applicable subject to this Regulation.
(5) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006 of 31 August 2006 laying down common rules for the administration of import tariff quotas for agricultural products managed by a system of import licences (11) lays down in particular detailed provisions on applications for import licences, the status of applicants, the issue of licences and the notifications by the Member States to the Commission. That Regulation limits the period of validity of licences to the last day of the import tariff quota period. The provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006 should apply to import licences issued pursuant to this Regulation, without prejudice to additional conditions or derogations laid down in this Regulation.
(6) In order to ensure proper management of imports of the products concerned, import licences should be issued subject to verification, in particular of entries on certificates of authenticity.
(7) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets,
1. The following tariff quotas are hereby opened yearly for the period from 1 January to 31 December:
(a) 9 400 tonnes of ‘baby beef’, expressed in carcase weight, originating in Croatia;
(b) 1 500 tonnes of ‘baby beef’, expressed in carcase weight, originating in Bosnia and Herzegovina;
(c) 1 650 tonnes of ‘baby beef’, expressed in carcase weight, originating in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia;
(d) 8 700 tonnes of ‘baby beef’, expressed in carcase weight, originating in Serbia;
(e) 800 tonnes of ‘baby beef’, expressed in carcase weight, originating in Montenegro.
The quotas referred to in the first subparagraph shall bear the order Nos 09.4503, 09.4504, 09.4505, 09.4198 and 09.4199 respectively.
For the purposes of attributing those quotas, 100 kilograms live weight shall be equivalent to 50 kilograms carcase weight.
2. The customs duty applicable under the quotas referred to in paragraph 1 shall be 20 % of the ad valorem duty and 20 % of the specific duty as laid down in the Common Customs Tariff.
3. Importation under the quotas referred to in paragraph 1 shall be reserved for certain live animals and certain meat falling within the following CN codes, referred to in Annex III to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement concluded with Croatia, in Annex III to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement concluded with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, in Annex II to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement concluded with Montenegro, in Annex II to the Interim Agreement with Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Annex II to the Interim Agreement with Serbia:
— ex 0102 90 51, ex 0102 90 59, ex 0102 90 71 and ex 0102 90 79,
— ex 0201 10 00 and ex 0201 20 20,
— ex 0201 20 30,
— ex 0201 20 50.
Chapter III of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006 and Regulations (EC) No 376/2008 and (EC) No 382/2008 shall apply, save as otherwise provided for in this Regulation.
1. Section 8 of import licence applications and import licences shall show the country of origin and the mention ‘yes’ shall be marked by a cross. Licences shall be subject to the obligation to import from the country indicated.
Section 20 of import licence applications and licences shall show one of the entries listed in Annex I.
2. The original of the certificate of authenticity drawn up in accordance with Article 4 plus a copy thereof shall be presented to the competent authority together with the application for the first import licence relating to the certificate of authenticity.
Certificates of authenticity may be used for the issue of more than one import licence for quantities not exceeding that shown on the certificate. Where more than one licence is issued in respect of a certificate, the competent authority shall:
(a) endorse the certificate of authenticity to show the quantity attributed;
(b) ensure that the import licences delivered in respect of that certificate are issued on the same day.
3. The competent authorities may issue import licences only after they are satisfied that all the information on the certificate of authenticity corresponds to that received each week from the Commission for the imports concerned. The licences shall be issued immediately thereafter.
1. All applications for imports licences under the quotas referred to in Article 1 shall be accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the authorities of the exporting country listed in Annex II to this Regulation attesting that the goods originate in that country and that they correspond to the definition given, as the case may be, in Annex III to the Stabilisation and Association Agreements with Croatia, Annex III to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Annex II to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Montenegro, Annex II to the Interim Agreement with Bosnia and Herzegovina or Annex II to the Interim Agreement with Serbia.
2. Certificates of authenticity shall be made out in one original and two copies, to be printed and completed in one of the official languages of the Union, in accordance with the relevant model in Annexes III to VII for the exporting countries concerned. They may also be printed and completed in the official language or one of the official languages of the exporting country.
The competent authorities of the Member State in which the import licence application is submitted may require a translation of the certificate to be provided.
3. The original and copies of the certificate of authenticity may be typed or handwritten. In the latter case, they shall be completed in black ink and in block capitals.
The certificate forms shall measure 210 × 297 mm. The paper used shall weigh not less than 40 g/m2. The original shall be white, the first copy pink and the second copy yellow.
4. Each certificate shall have its own individual serial number followed by the name of the issuing country.
The copies shall bear the same serial number and the same name as the original.
5. Certificates shall be valid only if they are duly endorsed by an issuing authority listed in Annex II.
6. Certificates shall be deemed to have been duly endorsed if they state the date and place of issue and if they bear the stamp of the issuing authority and the signature of the person or persons empowered to sign them.
1. The issuing authorities listed in Annex II shall:
(a) be recognised as such by the exporting country concerned;
(b) undertake to verify entries on the certificates;
(c) undertake to forward to the Commission at least once a week any information enabling the entries on the certificates of authenticity to be verified, in particular with regard to the number of the certificate, the exporter, the consignee, the country of destination, the product (live animals/meat), the net weight and the date of signature.
2. The list in Annex II shall be revised by the Commission where the requirement referred to in paragraph 1(a) is no longer met, where an issuing authority fails to fulfil one or more of the obligations incumbent on it or where a new issuing authority is designated.
Certificates of authenticity and import licences shall be valid for 3 months from their respective dates of issue.
The exporting country concerned shall provide to the Commission specimens of the stamp imprints used by their issuing authorities and the names and signatures of the persons empowered to sign certificates of authenticity. The Commission shall communicate that information to the competent authorities of the Member States.
1. By way of derogation from the second subparagraph of Article 11(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, Member States shall notify to the Commission:
(a) no later than 28 February of the following year, the quantities of products, including nil returns, for which import licences were issued in the previous import tariff quota period;
(b) no later than 30 April of the following year, the quantities of products, including nil returns, covered by unused or partly used import licences and corresponding to the difference between the quantities entered on the back of the import licences and the quantities for which they were issued.
2. No later than 30 April of the following year, Member States shall notify the Commission the quantities of products, which were actually released for free circulation during the preceding import tariff quota period.
3. The notifications referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article shall be made as indicated in Annexes VIII, IX and X to this Regulation and the product categories indicated in Annex V of Regulation (EC) No 382/2008 shall be used.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2011.
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32005R1658 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1658/2005 of 10 October 2005 determining the world market price for unginned cotton
| 11.10.2005 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 266/56
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1658/2005
of 10 October 2005
determining the world market price for unginned cotton
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Protocol 4 on cotton, annexed to the Act of Accession of Greece, as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1050/2001 (1),
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1051/2001 of 22 May 2001 on production aid for cotton (2), and in particular Article 4 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) In accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1051/2001, a world market price for unginned cotton is to be determined periodically from the price for ginned cotton recorded on the world market and by reference to the historical relationship between the price recorded for ginned cotton and that calculated for unginned cotton. That historical relationship has been established in Article 2(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1591/2001 of 2 August 2001 laying down detailed rules for applying the cotton aid scheme (3). Where the world market price cannot be determined in this way, it is to be based on the most recent price determined.
(2) In accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1051/2001, the world market price for unginned cotton is to be determined in respect of a product of specific characteristics and by reference to the most favourable offers and quotations on the world market among those considered representative of the real market trend. To that end, an average is to be calculated of offers and quotations recorded on one or more European exchanges for a product delivered cif to a port in the Community and coming from the various supplier countries considered the most representative in terms of international trade. However, there is provision for adjusting the criteria for determining the world market price for ginned cotton to reflect differences justified by the quality of the product delivered and the offers and quotations concerned. Those adjustments are specified in Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1591/2001.
(3) The application of the above criteria gives the world market price for unginned cotton determined hereinafter,
The world price for unginned cotton as referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1051/2001 is hereby determined as equalling 21,485 EUR/100 kg.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 October 2005.
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32010L0003 | Commission Directive 2010/3/EU of 1 February 2010 amending, for the purpose of adaptation to technical progress, Annexes III and VI to Council Directive 76/768/EEC concerning cosmetic products
| 2.2.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 29/5
COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2010/3/EU
of 1 February 2010
amending, for the purpose of adaptation to technical progress, Annexes III and VI to Council Directive 76/768/EEC concerning cosmetic products
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Directive 76/768/EEC of 27 July 1976 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to cosmetic products (1), and in particular Article 8(2) thereof,
After consulting the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety,
Whereas:
(1) The Scientific Committee on Consumer Products (SCCP), subsequently replaced by the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) by Commission Decision 2008/721/EC (2), concluded in its opinion of 15 April 2008 that Ethyl Lauroyl Arginate HCl is safe for the consumers, when used up to a maximum authorised concentration of 0,8 % in soap, anti-dandruff shampoos, and non-spray deodorants. It should therefore be included in Annex III to Directive 76/768/EEC.
(2) The SCCP concluded in the same opinion that Ethyl Lauroyl Arginate HCl is safe for the consumers, when used up to a maximum authorised concentration of 0,4 % as a preservative in cosmetic products. However, the Committee considered that it should not be used in lip products, oral products and spray due to mucosal and respiratory tract irritation potential. It should therefore be included along with these restrictions in Annex VI to Directive 76/768/EEC.
(3) Directive 76/768/EEC should therefore be amended accordingly.
(4) The measures provided for in this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Cosmetic Products,
Annexes III and VI to Directive 76/768/EEC are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Directive.
1. Member States shall adopt and publish, by 1 September 2010 at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions.
They shall apply those provisions from 1 March 2011.
When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.
2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.
This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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32000R1354 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1354/2000 of 27 June 2000 fixing the weighting coefficients to be used in calculating the Community market price for pig carcases and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1466/1999
| Commission Regulation (EC) No 1354/2000
of 27 June 2000
fixing the weighting coefficients to be used in calculating the Community market price for pig carcases and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1466/1999
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organisation of the market in pigmeat(1), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden and by Regulation (EC) No 3290/94(2), and in particular Article 4(6) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) The Community market price for pig carcases, as referred to in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75, must be established by weighting the prices recorded in each Member State by coefficients expressing the relative size of the pig population of each Member State. These coefficients should be determined on the basis of the number of pigs counted at the beginning of December each year in accordance with Council Directive 93/23/EEC of 1 June 1993 concerning surveys of pig production to be made by the Member States(3), as amended by Directive 97/77/EC(4).
(2) In view of the results of the census of December 1999 the weighting coefficients fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1466/1999(5) should be adjusted.
(3) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Pigmeat,
The weighting coefficients referred to in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 shall be as specified in the Annex hereto.
Regulation (EC) No 1466/1999 is hereby repealed.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply from 1 July 2000.
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31987R1540 | Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1540/87 of 22 may 1987 amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3626/82 on the implementation in the Community of the Convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora
| COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 0000/87 of 22 May 1987 amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3626/82 on the implementation in the Community of the Convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3626/82 of 3 December 1982 on the implementation in the Community of the Convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora(1) as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1422/87(2), and in particular Article 4 thereof,
Whereas, since the adoption of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2384/85(3), amendments have been made to Appendices I, II and III to the Convention;
Whereas alterations of a taxonomic nature were made in respect of certain species; whereas Appendices I, II and III to Annex A to Regulation (EEC) No 3626/82 should now be amended to incorporate the amendments and alterations accepted by the Member States, parties to the above-
mentioned Convention, and part 2 of Annex C to that Regulation should be altered;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on the Convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora,
Regulation (EEC) No 3626/82 is hereby amended as follows:
1.Annex A is amended af follows:
(a)In the Interpretation of Appendices I and II, "Botswana 2000" is added to point 7-110.
(b)In Appendix II, under FLORA, CACTACEAE
ii)CACTACEAE spp (*) +213 3
deletion of the annotation '+213'
ii)deletion of Rhipsalis spp 4.
(c)Appendix III is replaced by the Annex to this Regulation.
2.In Annex C, part 2, under CARNIVORA, Felidae, the following species are deleted:
Felis pajeros,
Lynx lynx,
Lynx pardinus
and the following species are inserted:
Felis canadensis,
Felis colocolo,
Felis iriomotensis,
Felis lynx,
Felis pardina
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
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31996R1373 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1373/96 of 16 July 1996 temporarily adapting the special arrangements for imports of rice laid down in Regulations (EEC) No 2942/73, (EEC) No 999/90 and (EEC) No 862/91 for the purpose of implementing the Agreement on Agriculture concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations
| COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1373/96 of 16 July 1996 temporarily adapting the special arrangements for imports of rice laid down in Regulations (EEC) No 2942/73, (EEC) No 999/90 and (EEC) No 862/91 for the purpose of implementing the Agreement on Agriculture concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 of 22 December 1994 on the adjustments and transitional arrangements required in the agriculture sector in order to implement the agreements concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations (1), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1193/96 (2), and in particular Article 3 (1) thereof,
Whereas Council Regulations (EEC) No 1250/77 of 17 May 1977 concerning imports of rice from the Arab Republic of Egypt (3), (EEC) No 715/90 of 5 March 1990 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural products and certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products originating in the ACP States or in the overseas countries and territories (OCT) (4), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 619/96 (5), and (EEC) No 3491/90 of 26 November 1990 on imports of rice originating in Bangladesh (6) provide for the reduction of the levy applicable to imports into the Community of rice from certain countries up to certain maximum quantities provided that the countries concerned levy an export charge;
Whereas Commission Regulations (EEC) No 2942/73 (7), (EEC) No 999/90 (8), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2123/95 (9), and (EEC) No 862/91 (10), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2123/95, lay down detailed rules for the application of the said special arrangements;
Whereas pursuant to the Agreement on Agriculture concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, the Community is to replace variable levies by fixed customs duties from 1 July 1995; whereas this could prevent application of the special arrangements; whereas it is therefore necessary, pending the conclusion of new agreements with the countries in question, to make transitional adjustments to the abovementioned Commission Regulations while maintaining the essential parts of the arrangements concerned;
Whereas levies are now replaced by customs duties and the reductions granted to third countries must be applied to the customs duties applicable from 1 July; whereas, in order not to prejudice the interests of the exporter countries, it is also necessary to replace the reduction of the component designed to protect the Community industry by a fixed reduction of the import duty;
Whereas the rates of duty set out in the common customs tariff for imports of husked rice falling within CN code 1006 20 and milled rice falling within CN code 1006 30 are those applicable on the date referred to in Article 67 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing the Community Customs Code (11);
Whereas, to ensure the correct application of the arrangements involving the collecting of an export charge, the import duty must be fixed in advance; whereas, therefore, the possibility of fixing the applicable duty on the date of submission of the import licence application should be maintained;
Whereas the security provided for in Article 10 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1162/95 (12), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1029/96 (13), to cover imports carried out with advance fixing should be increased;
Whereas Regulation (EC) No 2123/95 lays down temporary measures until 30 June 1996 to facilitate the transition from the abovementioned special import arrangements;
Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1193/96 extends the period for transitional measures until 30 June 1997; whereas the measures provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2123/95 should be extended until 30 June 1997;
Whereas, however, Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86 (14), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3130/91 (15), on imports of rice of the long-gain aromatic Basmati variety applies until 30 June 1996; whereas it is therefore no longer necessary to provide for transitional measures for these arrangements;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Rice,
Regulation (EEC) No 2942/73 is hereby amended as follows:
1. Article 1 is replaced by the following:
'Article 1
The amount by which the customs duties fixed pursuant to Article 12 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 (*) are to be reduced pursuant to Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1250/77 (*) shall be fixed at the latest on the 10th day of the month preceding the quarter in which it is to apply.
The reference period referred to in the said Article 1 shall be the quarter preceding the month in which the amount is fixed.
(*) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1.
(**) OJ No L 146, 14. 6. 1977, p. 9.`;
2. in Article 3 (2), 'levy` is replaced by 'customs duty applicable`.
Regulation (EEC) No 999/90 is hereby amended as follows:
1. Article 1 is replaced by the following:
'Article 1
The customs duties referred to in Article 12 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 shall be calculated every two weeks by the Commission as follows:
- the duty applicable to imports of paddy rice falling within CN codes 1006 10 21 to 1006 10 98 shall be equal to the customs duties set out in the Common Customs Tariff less 50 %, less ECU 4,34,
- the duty applicable to imports of husked rice falling within CN code 1006 20 shall be equal to the duty fixed pursuant to Article 12 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 less 50 %, less ECU 4,34,
- the duty applicable to imports of milled rice falling within CN code 1006 30 shall be equal to the duty fixed pursuant to Article 12 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 less ECU 16,78, less 50 %, less ECU 6,52,
- the duty applicable to imports of broken rice falling within CN code 1006 40 00 shall be equal to the duty set out in the Common Customs Tariff less 50 %, less ECU 3,62.`;
2. Article 3 (2) is replaced by the following:
'2. The licence shall carry an obligation to import from the country of origin indicated. The import duty shall be that applicable on the date of submission of the licence application. The amount shall be adjusted on the basis of the difference between the intervention price applicable during the month of the licence application and that applicable on the date of release into free circulation, the difference being increased by:
- 80 % in the case of husked Indica rice,
- 163 % in the case of milled Indica rice,
- 88 % in the case of husked Japonica rice,
- 167 % in the case of milled Japonica rice.
The rice referred to in Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1573/95 (*) shall be considered to be Indica and Japonica rice.
(*) OJ No L 150, 1. 7. 1995, p. 53.`;
3. in Articles 2 (1), (2) and (3) and 3 (1), (3) and (4), 'levy` is replaced by 'customs duties`.
Regulation (EEC) No 862/91 is hereby amended as follows:
1. Article 1 is replaced by the following:
'Article 1
The customs duties referred to in Article 1 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3491/90 shall be calculated each week by the Commission as follows:
- the duty applicable to imports of paddy rice falling within CN code 1006 10, with the exception of that falling within CN code 1006 10 10, shall be equal to the customs duties set out in the Common Customs Tariff less 50 %, less ECU 4,34,
- the duty applicable to imports of husked rice falling within CN code 1006 20 shall be equal to the duty fixed pursuant to Article 12 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 less 50 %, less ECU 4,34,
- the duty applicable to imports of milled rice falling within CN code 1006 30 shall be equal to the duty fixed pursuant to Article 12 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 less ECU 16,78, less 50 %, less ECU 6,52.`;
2. Article 4 (2) is replaced by the following:
'2. The import licence, issued for a quantity not exceeding that entered on the certificate of origin referred to in Article 2, shall carry an obligation to import from Bangladesh. The import duty shall be that applicable on the date of submission of the licence application. The amount shall be adjusted on the basis of the difference between the intervention price applicable during the month of the licence application and that applicable on the date of release into free circulation, the difference being increased by:
- 80 % in the case of husked Indica rice,
- 163 % in the case of milled Indica rice,
- 88 % in the case of husked Japonica rice,
- 167 % in the case of milled Japonica rice.
The rice referred to in Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1573/95 (*) shall be considered to be Indica and Japonica rice.
(*) OJ No L 150, 1. 7. 1995, p. 3.`;
3. In Article 4 (1), (3) and (4), 'levy` is replaced by 'customs duties`.
Notwithstanding Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1162/95, the security for licences issued pursuant to Regulations (EEC) No 2942/73, (EC) No 999/90 and (EEC) No 862/91 shall be ECU 28 per tonne.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply from 1 July 1996 to 30 June 1997.
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31995R1326 | Council Regulation (EC) No 1326/95 of 6 June 1995 opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for live fry and juveniles of sea bream (Sparus aurata) and bass (Dicentrarchus labrax), originating in Ceuta
| COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1326/95 of 6 June 1995 opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for live fry and juveniles of sea bream (Sparus aurata) and bass (Dicentrarchus labrax), originating in Ceuta
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, and in particular the final subparagraph of Article 25 (4) thereof,
Having regard to Article 3 (3) of Protocol 2 to the Act of Accession, concerning the Canary Islands and Ceuta and Melilla,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (1),
Whereas, by virtue of Article 3 (2) of the said Protocol 2, certain fishery products originating in Ceuta and Melilla are eligible, as from 1 January 1993, for exemption from customs duties in the customs territory of the Community; whereas that exemption is to be granted within the limit of tariff quotas calculated by product with reference to the average quantities actually disposed of during 1982, 1983 and 1984 in that part of Spain which is included in the customs territory of the Community or exported to the Community as at present constituted;
Whereas the products originating in Ceuta which have enjoyed the benefit of the tariff arrangements set up by Protocol 2 are no longer exported to the Community because of a decrease in volume of fish catches put on to the market; whereas the tariff quotas opened for Ceuta were not extended beyond 31 December 1992 on this account; whereas live fry and juveniles of sea bream and bass henceforth replace these products in trade with the Community;
Whereas in 1993 Ceuta exported to the Community 2,5 tonnes of live fry and juveniles of sea bream and bass of CN code ex 0301 99 90; whereas these products, while covered by Article 3 of the Protocol in question, are, however, ineligible for the abovementioned tariff quotas because aquaculture was started only recently in Ceuta;
Whereas Ceuta's location as an enclave on the African continent poses specific problems; whereas the lack of both agriculture and industry sectors leaves fishing as Ceuta's primary sector; whereas, since the crisis is occurring in that sector, aquaculture has the potential to offer Ceuta's economic operators an alternative source of income to sea fishing;
Whereas the Community accords some non-member countries preferential tariff treatment in the form of exemption from customs duties for products of CN code 0301 99 90; whereas steps should be taken to ensure that the tariff treatment of such products originating in Ceuta and imported into the Community is comparable to that accorded to certain non-member countries; whereas the tariff arrangements applied to Ceuta need to be adjusted accordingly;
Whereas the joint declaration on Protocol 2 concerning the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla is intended to permit the substitution of products covered by Article 3 of the Protocol in question;
Whereas the Kingdom of Spain has asked the Commission to open a zero-duty Community tariff quota for live fry and juveniles of sea bream and bass originating in Ceuta;
Whereas a zero-duty Community tariff quota should therefore be opened for the products in question and the annual quota volume fixed on the basis of annual production at three million individual fish; whereas steps should be taken, order to follow the market trends for these products, to open this quota in an initial stage for the period 1 January to 31 December 1995; whereas application of the tariff quota is subject to compliance with the rules laid down for the common organization of the markets;
Whereas it is, in particular, necessary to guarantee all Community importers equal and continuous access to the quota and ensure the uninterrupted application of the rate laid down for the quota to all imports of the products in question into all Member States until the quota is exhausted;
Whereas it is for the Community, in compliance with its international obligations, to decide to open tariff quotas; whereas there is, however, no reason why the Member States should not be authorized, in the interest of the common efficient administration of the quota, to draw from the quota volumes the quantities needed to cover actual imports; whereas, however, this method of administration calls for close cooperation between the Member States and the Commission, which must in particular be able to monitor the rate at which the quota volumes are used up and inform the Member States accordingly,
This Regulation shall apply without prejudice to the arrangements provided for by Protocol 2 to the Act of Accession and its detailed rules of application to the products not covered by this Regulation.
From 1 January to 31 December 1995, the customs duty applicable on importation into the Community of live fry and juveniles of sea bream and bass originating in Ceuta shall be suspended at the level and within the limit of the Community tariff quota shown below:
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The product's originating status shall be proved in accordance with Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1135/88 (1).
The tariff quota referred to in Article 1 shall be administered by the Commission, which may take all appropriate measures to ensure efficient administration thereof.
Where an importer declares in a Member State a product covered by this Regulation for release for free circulation and applies to take advantage of the preferential arrangements and that declaration is accepted by the customs authorities, the Member State concerned shall, by notifying the Commisison, draw an amount corresponding to its requirements from the quota volume.
Requests for drawings, indicating the date of acceptance of the said declarations, must be sent to the Commission without delay.
The drawings shall be granted by the Commission by reference to the date of acceptance of the declaration for release for free circulation by the customs authorities of the Member State concerned, to the extent that the available balance so permits.
If a Member State does not use the quantities drawn, it shall return them to the corresponding quota volume as soon as possible.
If the quantities requested are greater than the available balance of the quota volume, the balance shall be allocated on a pro rata basis. The Commission shall inform the Member States of the drawings made.
Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the products in question have equal and continuous access to the quotas for as long as the balance of the relevant quota volume so permits.
The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with.
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 January 1995.
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32003R1301 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1301/2003 of 23 July 2003 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
| Commission Regulation (EC) No 1301/2003
of 23 July 2003
establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 of 21 December 1994 on detailed rules for the application of the import arrangements for fruit and vegetables(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1947/2002(2), and in particular Article 4(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 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 the Annex thereto.
(2) In compliance with the above criteria, the standard import values must be fixed at the levels set out in the Annex to this Regulation,
The standard import values referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 shall be fixed as indicated in the Annex hereto.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 July 2003.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
32009R0632 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 632/2009 of 20 July 2009 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
| 21.7.2009 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 189/1
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 632/2009
of 20 July 2009
establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
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 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,
Whereas:
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,
The standard import values referred to in Article 138 of Regulation (EC) No 1580/2007 are fixed in the Annex hereto.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 July 2009.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. | 0 | 0.666667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.333333 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
32002R1063 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1063/2002 of 19 June 2002 establishing unit values for the determination of the customs value of certain perishable goods
| Commission Regulation (EC) No 1063/2002
of 19 June 2002
establishing unit values for the determination of the customs value of certain perishable goods
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing the Community Customs Code(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2700/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council(2),
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code(3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 444/2002(4), and in particular Article 173(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Articles 173 to 177 of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 provide that the Commission shall periodically establish unit values for the products referred to in the classification in Annex 26 to that Regulation.
(2) The result of applying the rules and criteria laid down in the abovementioned Articles to the elements communicated to the Commission in accordance with Article 173(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 is that unit values set out in the Annex to this Regulation should be established in regard to the products in question,
The unit values provided for in Article 173(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 are hereby established as set out in the table in the Annex hereto.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 June 2002.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
32008R0550 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 550/2008 of 16 June 2008 on the issuing of import licences for applications lodged during the first seven days of June 2008 under tariff quotas opened by Regulation (EC) No 806/2007 for pigmeat
| 17.6.2008 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 157/96
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 550/2008
of 16 June 2008
on the issuing of import licences for applications lodged during the first seven days of June 2008 under tariff quotas opened by Regulation (EC) No 806/2007 for pigmeat
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organisation of the market in pigmeat (1),
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006 of 31 August 2006 laying down common rules for the administration of import tariff quotas for agricultural products managed by a system of import licences (2), and in particular Article 7(2) thereof,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 806/2007 of 10 July 2007 opening and providing for the administration of tariff quotas for pigmeat (3), in particular Article 5(6) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Regulation (EC) No 806/2007 opened tariff quotas for imports of pigmeat products.
(2) The applications for import licences lodged during the first seven days of June 2008 for the sub-period 1 July to 30 September 2008 relate, for some quotas, to quantities exceeding those available. The extent to which licences may be issued should therefore be determined and an allocation coefficient laid down to be applied to the quantities applied for.
(3) The applications for import licences lodged during the first seven days of June 2008 for the sub-period 1 July to 30 September 2008 do not, for some quotas, cover the total quantity available. The quantities for which applications have not been lodged should therefore be determined, and these should be added to the quantity fixed for the following quota sub-period,
1. The quantities for which import licence applications have been lodged under Regulation (EC) No 806/2007 for the sub-period 1 July to 30 September 2008 shall be multiplied by the allocation coefficients set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
2. The quantities for which import licence applications covered by the quota have not been lodged under Regulation (EC) No 806/2007, to be added to sub-period 1 October to 31 December 2008, are fixed in the Annex.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 June 2008.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 |
32013R0942 | Commission Regulation (EU) No 942/2013 of 1 October 2013 establishing a prohibition of fishing for haddock in areas IIIa, EU waters of Subdivisions 22-32 by vessels flying the flag of the Netherlands
| 3.10.2013 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 261/1
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 942/2013
of 1 October 2013
establishing a prohibition of fishing for haddock in areas IIIa, EU waters of Subdivisions 22-32 by vessels flying the flag of the Netherlands
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 of 20 November 2009 establishing a Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy (1), and in particular Article 36(2) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Council Regulation (EU) No 40/2013 of 21 January 2013 fixing for 2013 the fishing opportunities available in EU waters and, to EU vessels, in certain non-EU waters for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks which are subject to international negotiations or agreements (2), lays down quotas for 2013.
(2) According to the information received by the Commission, catches of the stock referred to in the Annex to this Regulation by vessels flying the flag of or registered in the Member State referred to therein have exhausted the quota allocated for 2013.
(3) It is therefore necessary to prohibit fishing activities for that stock,
Quota exhaustion
The fishing quota allocated to the Member State referred to in the Annex to this Regulation for the stock referred to therein for 2013 shall be deemed to be exhausted from the date set out in that Annex.
Prohibitions
Fishing activities for the stock referred to in the Annex to this Regulation by vessels flying the flag of or registered in the Member State referred to therein shall be prohibited from the date set out in that Annex. In particular it shall be prohibited to retain on board, relocate, tranship or land fish from that stock caught by those vessels after that date.
Entry into force
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that 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. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
32008D0041 | 2008/41/EC,Euratom: Council Decision of 10 December 2007 appointing seven members of the Court of Auditors
| 15.1.2008 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 11/3
COUNCIL DECISION
of 10 December 2007
appointing seven members of the Court of Auditors
(2008/41/EC, Euratom)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 247(3) thereof,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 160b(3) thereof,
Having regard to the opinions of the European Parliament (1),
Whereas:
(1) The terms of office of Mr Jean-François BERNICOT, Mr David BOSTOCK, Mr François COLLING, Mr Maarten B. ENGWIRDA, Mr Ioannis SARMAS, Ms Hedda VON WEDEL and Mr Hubert WEBER expire on 31 December 2007.
(2) New appointments should therefore be made,
The following are hereby appointed members of the Court of Auditors for the period from 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2013:
— Mr David BOSTOCK,
— Mr Michel CRETIN,
— Mr Maarten B. ENGWIRDA,
— Mr Henri GRETHEN,
— Mr Harald NOACK,
— Mr Ioannis SARMAS,
— Mr Hubert WEBER.
This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
32005R1208 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1208/2005 of 27 July 2005 amending, for the sixth time, Regulation (EC) No 1763/2004 imposing certain restrictive measures in support of effective implementation of the mandate of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
| 28.7.2005 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 197/19
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1208/2005
of 27 July 2005
amending, for the sixth time, Regulation (EC) No 1763/2004 imposing certain restrictive measures in support of effective implementation of the mandate of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1763/2004 imposing certain restrictive measures in support of effective implementation of the mandate of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (1), and in particular Article 10(b) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1763/2004 lists the competent authorities to which specific functions related to the implementation of that Regulation are attributed.
(2) The Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom requested that the address details concerning their competent authorities be amended,
Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1763/2004 is hereby amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following 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. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
32001R1036 | Council Regulation (EC) No 1036/2001 of 22 May 2001 prohibiting imports of Atlantic bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) originating in Belize, Cambodia, Equatorial Guinea, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Honduras
| Council Regulation (EC) No 1036/2001
of 22 May 2001
prohibiting imports of Atlantic bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) originating in Belize, Cambodia, Equatorial Guinea, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Honduras
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 133 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas:
(1) Fishery resources, which are an exhaustible natural resource, must be protected in the interests of biological balances and global food security.
(2) In 1998 the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT), to which the European Community is a Contracting Party, adopted Resolution 98-18 concerning the unreported and unregulated catches of tuna by large-scale longline vessels in the Convention area.
(3) The stock concerned cannot be managed effectively by the ICCAT Contracting Parties, whose fishermen are obliged to reduce their catches of Atlantic tuna, unless all non-Contracting Parties cooperate with ICCAT and comply with its conservation and management measures.
(4) ICCAT has identified Belize, Cambodia, Equatorial Guinea, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Honduras as countries whose vessels fish Atlantic bigeye tuna in a manner which diminishes the effectiveness of the organisation's tuna conservation measures, substantiating its findings with data concerning catches, trade and the observation of vessels.
(5) ICCAT's attempts to encourage five of the six States mentioned to comply with measures for the conservation and management of Atlantic swordfish have been to no avail. Honduras has been given extra time to prove that it is complying with conservation and management measures. In consequence, the result of the country's measures will be reviewed at the 2001 annual meeting.
(6) ICCAT has recommended the Contracting Parties to take appropriate measures to prohibit imports of Atlantic bigeye tuna products originating in Belize, Cambodia, Equatorial Guinea, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Honduras. These measures will be lifted as soon as it is established that the countries in question have brought their fishing practices into line with ICCAT's measures. These measures must be implemented by the Community, which has sole competence in this matter.
(7) In the case of Atlantic bigeye tuna products originating in Honduras, ICCAT's prohibition will enter into force on 1 January 2002, unless the country can provide documentary proof at ICCAT's 2001 meeting that its fishing activities have been brought into line with ICCAT's management and conservation measures.
(8) These measures are compatible with the Community's obligations under other international agreements,
1. The release for free circulation in the Community of Atlantic bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) of CN codes ex 0301 99 90, ex 0302 39 19, ex 0302 39 99, ex 0303 49 41, ex 0303 49 43, ex 0303 49 49, ex 0303 49 90, ex 0304 10 38, ex 0304 10 98, ex 0304 20 45, ex 0304 90 97, ex 0305 20 00, ex 0305 30 90, ex 0305 49 80, ex 0305 59 90, ex 0305 69 90, ex 1604 14 11, ex 1604 14 16, ex 1604 14 18 and ex 1604 20 70 originating in Belize, Cambodia, Equatorial Guinea and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is hereby prohibited.
2. The landing of the products referred to in paragraph 1 for the purposes of Community transit is hereby prohibited.
This Regulation shall not apply to quantities of the products referred to in Article 1(1) which can be shown to the satisfaction of the competent national authorities to have been en route to Community territory on the date of its entry into force and which are released for free circulation no later than fourteen days after that date.
Articles 1 and 2 shall apply to Atlantic bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) of CN codes ex 0301 99 90, ex 0302 39 19, ex 0302 39 99, ex 0303 49 41, ex 0303 49 43 ex 0303 49 49, ex 0303 49 90, ex 0304 10 38, ex 0304 10 98, ex 0304 20 45, ex 0304 90 97, ex 0305 20 00, ex 0305 30 90, ex 0305 49 80, ex 0305 59 90, ex 0305 69 90, ex 1604 14 11, ex 1604 14 16, ex 1604 14 18 and ex 1604 20 70 originating in Honduras.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 2001.
shall apply from 1 January 2002.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
32010R0917 | Commission Regulation (EU) No 917/2010 of 12 October 2010 entering a name in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications (Fourme de Montbrison (PDO))
| 13.10.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 269/21
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 917/2010
of 12 October 2010
entering a name in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications (Fourme de Montbrison (PDO))
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 of 20 March 2006 on the protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs (1), and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 7(4) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Pursuant to the first subparagraph of Article 6(2) and in accordance with Article 17(2) of Regulation (EC) No 510/2006, France’s application to register the name ‘Fourme de Montbrison’ was published in the Official Journal of the European Union
(2).
(2) As no statement of objection pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 has been received by the Commission, that name should be entered in the register,
The name contained in the Annex to this Regulation is hereby entered in the register.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following 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. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
31994R1551 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1551/94 of 30 June 1994 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2219/92 laying down detailed rules for the application of the specific supply arrangements for Madeira relating to milk products and establishing the forecast supply balance
| COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1551/94 of 30 June 1994 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2219/92 laying down detailed rules for the application of the specific supply arrangements for Madeira relating to milk products and establishing the forecast supply balance
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1600/92 of 15 June 1992 concerning specific measures for the Azores and Madeira relating to certain agricultural products (1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1974/93 (2), and in particular Article 10 thereof,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1696/92 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2596/93 (4), lays down in particular the detailed rules for the application of the specific arrangements for the supply of certain agricultural products to the Azores and Madeira;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2219/92 of 30 July 1992 laying down detailed rules for the application of the specific supply arrangements for Madeira relating to milk products and establishing the forecast supply balance (5), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1231/94 (6), establishes the forecast balance relating to milk products for Madeira until 30 June 1994;
Whereas, pending additional information to be provided by the competent authorities and in order to ensure that the specific supply arrangements continue, the balance provided for in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1600/92 should be fixed for a period limited to three months, on the basis of the quantities determined for the 1993/94 marketing year;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2219/92 is hereby replaced by the Annex hereto.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply from 1 July 1994.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
32006R1748 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1748/2006 of 27 November 2006 amending the representative prices and additional duties for the import of certain products in the sugar sector fixed by Regulation (EC) No 1002/2006 for the 2006/2007 marketing year
| 28.11.2006 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 330/3
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1748/2006
of 27 November 2006
amending the representative prices and additional duties for the import of certain products in the sugar sector fixed by Regulation (EC) No 1002/2006 for the 2006/2007 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of 20 February 2006 on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector (1),
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 951/2006 of 30 June 2006 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 as regards trade with third countries in the sugar sector (2), and in particular of the Article 36,
Whereas:
(1) The representative prices and additional duties applicable to imports of white sugar, raw sugar and certain syrups for the 2006/2007 marketing year are fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1002/2006 (3). These prices and duties have been last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1710/2006 (4).
(2) The data currently available to the Commission indicate that the said amounts should be changed in accordance with the rules and procedures laid down in Regulation (EC) No 951/2006,
The representative prices and additional duties on imports of the products referred to in Article 36 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006, as fixed by Regulation (EC) No 1002/2006 for the 2006/2007 marketing year are hereby amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 November 2006.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
32013R1345 | Commission Regulation (EU) No 1345/2013 of 12 December 2013 establishing a prohibition of fishing for plaice in areas VIIf and VIIg by vessels flying the flag of the United Kingdom
| 17.12.2013 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 338/25
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1345/2013
of 12 December 2013
establishing a prohibition of fishing for plaice in areas VIIf and VIIg by vessels flying the flag of the United Kingdom
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 of 20 November 2009 establishing a Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy (1), and in particular Article 36(2) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Council Regulation (EU) No 39/2013 of 21 January 2013 fixing for 2013 the fishing opportunities available to EU vessels for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks which are not subject to international negotiations or agreements (2), lays down quotas for 2013.
(2) According to the information received by the Commission, catches of the stock referred to in the Annex to this Regulation by vessels flying the flag of or registered in the Member State referred to therein have exhausted the quota allocated for 2013.
(3) It is therefore necessary to prohibit fishing activities for that stock,
Quota exhaustion
The fishing quota allocated to the Member State referred to in the Annex to this Regulation for the stock referred to therein for 2013 shall be deemed to be exhausted from the date set out in that Annex.
Prohibitions
Fishing activities for the stock referred to in the Annex to this Regulation by vessels flying the flag of or registered in the Member State referred to therein shall be prohibited from the date set out in that Annex. In particular it shall be prohibited to retain on board, relocate, tranship or land fish from that stock caught by those vessels after that date.
Entry into force
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that 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. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
32002R1576 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1576/2002 of 2 September 2002 amending the import duties in the cereals sector
| Commission Regulation (EC) No 1576/2002
of 2 September 2002
amending 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 597/2002(4), and in particular Article 2(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) The import duties in the cereals sector are fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1557/2002(5).
(2) Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1249/96 provides that if during the period of application, the average import duty calculated differs by EUR 5 per tonne from the duty fixed, a corresponding adjustment is to be made. Such a difference has arisen. It is therefore necessary to adjust the import duties fixed in Regulation (EC) No 1557/2002,
Annexes I and II to Regulation (EC) No 1557/2002 are hereby replaced by Annexes I and II to this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 September 2002.
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32008R0045 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 45/2008 of 18 January 2008 amending the representative prices and additional duties for the import of certain products in the sugar sector fixed by Regulation (EC) No 1109/2007 for the 2007/08 marketing year
| 19.1.2008 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 16/9
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 45/2008
of 18 January 2008
amending the representative prices and additional duties for the import of certain products in the sugar sector fixed by Regulation (EC) No 1109/2007 for the 2007/08 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of 20 February 2006 on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector (1),
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 951/2006 of 30 June 2006 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 as regards trade with third countries in the sugar sector (2), and in particular of the Article 36,
Whereas:
(1) The representative prices and additional duties applicable to imports of white sugar, raw sugar and certain syrups for the 2007/08 marketing year are fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1109/2007 (3). These prices and duties have been last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 37/2008 (4).
(2) The data currently available to the Commission indicate that the said amounts should be changed in accordance with the rules and procedures laid down in Regulation (EC) No 951/2006,
The representative prices and additional duties on imports of the products referred to in Article 36 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006, as fixed by Regulation (EC) No 1109/2007 for the 2007/08 marketing year are hereby amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 January 2008.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
31985R1362 | Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1362/85 of 24 May 1985 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2226/78 laying down detailed rules for the application of intervention measures in the beef and veal sector
| COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1362/85
of 24 May 1985
amending Regulation (EEC) No 2226/78 laying down detailed rules for the application of intervention measures in the beef and veal sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in beef and veal (1), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Greece, and in particular Article 6 (5) (d) thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1308/85 of 23 May 1985 fixing for the 1985/86 marketing year the guide price and intervention price for adult bovine animals (2), and in particular Article 3 (5) (c) thereof,
Whereas Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1308/85 lays down the rules for activating, suspending and resuming buying in by intervention agencies; whereas the provisions of Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2226/78 (3) should be adjusted accordingly;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Beef and Veal,
Paragraphs 2 to 4 of Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 2226/78 are hereby replaced by the following:
'2. The market prices referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1308/85 shall be recorded each week in each Member State or region of each Member State within the meaning of Article 1 in accordance with Articles 1 and 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1557/82.
3. The date for activating buying-in operations pursuant to Article 3 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1308/85 and for resuming such operations pursuant to Article 2 (3) of that Regulation shall be on the second Monday following the price recording referred to in paragraph 2. However, where the market situation of a Member State so requires, the activation and resumption of buying-in operations shall be brought forward; in no case may buying in be resumed before the Monday following the recording.
4. The suspension of buying-in provided for in Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1308/85 shall take place on the second Monday following the price recording referred to in paragraph 2. In this case meat bought in shall be taken over by the intervention agencies by the end of the week following such recording.'
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply from 27 May 1985.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
31986L0161 | Commission Directive 86/161/EEC of 4 April 1986 amending Commission Directive 76/527/EEC of 4 June 1976 on the calculation of total or partial relief from import duties under the outward processing procedure in respect of accession compensatory amounts
| COMMISSION DIRECTIVE
of 4 April 1986
amending Commission Directive 76/527/EEC of 4 June 1976 on the calculation of total or partial relief from import duties under the outward processing procedure in respect of accession compensatory amounts
(86/161/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 76/119/EEC of 18 December 1975 on the harmonization of provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in respect or outward processing (1), and in particular Article 14 thereof,
Whereas Article 1 (2) of Commission Directive 76/527/EEC of 4 June 1976 on the calculation of total or partial relief from import duties under the outward processing procedure (2) lays down that for the calculation of the total or partial relief from import duties mentioned in Article 1 (1) on products which are reimported after outward processing in another Member State, the import duties applicable to the reimported products shall not be modified by the accession compensatory amounts which would be applicable to the temporarily exported goods if they were imported into the Member State concerned from the Member State in which they were subject to processing or to the last processing operation;
Whereas Article 9 (4) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 296/86 of 10 February 1986 on the implementation of the arrangements for inward processing, outward processing and processing under customs control in trade between the Member States of the Community as constituted on 31 December 1985 and Spain and Portugal and also in trade between the two new Member States for such time as customs duties are levied in such trade (3) lays down that where goods are sent for outward processing, no amounts shall apply to goods exported to the Member State where the processing takes place other than the monetary compensatory amounts levied under the common agricultural policy or under specific arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products; whereas consequently the situation described in the third recital of Directive 76/527/EEC whereby accession compensatory amounts are levied or granted on goods exported for outward processing no longer applies;
Whereas, contrary to the sixth recital of Directive 76/527/EEC, for the calculation of the total or partial relief from import duties provided for in Article 10 of Directive 76/119/EEC on products which are reimported after outward processing in another Member State, the import duties applicable to the reimported products shall be modified by the accession compensatory amounts that would be applicable to the temporarily exported goods if they where imported into the Member State concerned from the country in which they were subject to processing or to the last processing operation;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Customs Processing Arrangements,
Directive 76/527/EEC is hereby amended as follows:
1. The figure '1' shall be deleted from Article 1 (1).
2. Article 1 (2) shall be deleted.
The Member States shall bring into force the measures necessary to comply with this Directive from 1 March 1986.
1. Each Member State shall notify the Commission immediately of the provisions adopted to implement the Directive.
2. The Commission shall notify the other Member States thereof.
This Directive is addressed to the Member States. | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
32001R1523 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1523/2001 of 25 July 2001 amending representative prices and additional duties for the import of certain products in the sugar sector
| Commission Regulation (EC) No 1523/2001
of 25 July 2001
amending representative prices and additional duties for the import of certain products in the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 of 19 June 2001 on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector(1),
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1423/95 of 23 June 1995 laying down detailed implementing rules for the import of products in the sugar sector other than molasses(2), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 624/98(3), and in particular the second subparagraph of Article 1(2), and Article 3(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) The amounts of the representative prices and additional duties applicable to the import of white sugar, raw sugar and certain syrups are fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1309/2001(4), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1419/2001(5).
(2) It follows from applying the general and detailed fixing rules contained in Regulation (EC) No 1423/95 to the information known to the Commission that the representative prices and additional duties at present in force should be altered to the amounts set out in the Annex hereto,
The representative prices and additional duties on imports of the products referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1423/95 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 July 2001.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
31986R1337 | Council Regulation (EEC) No 1337/86 of 6 May 1986 fixing the target price for milk and the intervention prices for butter, skimmed milk powder and Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano cheeses for the 1986/87 milk year
| COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1337/86 of 6 May 1986 fixing the target price for milk and the intervention prices for butter, skimmed - milk powder and Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano cheeses for the 1986/87 milk year
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof, Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, and in particular Article 89 (1) thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in milk and milk products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1335/86 (2), and in particular Articles 3 (4), 5 (1) and 5b (1) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (3), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (4), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (5), Whereas, when fixing the common agricultural prices, account should be taken of the objectives of the common agricultural policy and of the contribution which the Community wishes to make to the harmonious development of world trade; whereas the objectives of the common agricultural policy are in particular to secure a fair standard of living for the agricultural community and to ensure that supplies are available and that they reach the consumers at reasonable prices; Whereas the target price for milk should bear a balanced relationship to the prices for other agricultural products and in particular to the prices for beef and veal, and be consistent with the desired general pattern of cattle farming; whereas it is also necessary, in fixing that price, to take account of the Community's efforts to establish a long term balance between supply and demand on the milk market, allowing for external trade in milk and milk products; Whereas the intervention prices for butter and for skimmed-milk powders are intended to contribute to the achievement of the target price for milk; whereas it is necessary to determine price levels in the light of the overall supply and demand situation on the Community market in milk and the opportunities for disposal of butter and skimmed-milk powder on the Community and world markets; Whereas the intervention prices for Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano cheeses must be fixed in accordance with the criteria laid down in Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68; Whereas, under Article 5b of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68, the Council, when fixing the target price for milk and the intervention prices, fixes a guarantee threshold for milk; whereas, however, the initial objective in fixing a guarantee threshold should be achieved inter alia by means of the system of quotas, together with an additional levy on deliveries of milk or milk products which exceed the reference quantities determined; Whereas Article 68 of the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal has led to prices in Spain being set at a level differing from that of the common prices, whereas, pursuant to Article 70 (1) of the Act of Accession, the Spanish prices should be aligned with the common prices at the beginning of each marketing year,
For the 1986/87 milk year, the target price for milk and the intervention prices for milk products shall be as follows:ECU/100 kg >TABLE>
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. It shall apply from the beginning of the 1986/87 milk year.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. | 0 | 0.333333 | 0.333333 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.333333 | 0 |
31993R2815 | COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2815/93 of 13 October 1993 concerning the stopping of fishing for European plaice by vessels flying the flag of Germany
| COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2815/93 of 13 October 1993 concerning the stopping of fishing for European plaice by vessels flying the flag of Germany
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2241/87 of 23 July 1987, establishing certain control measures for fishing activities (1), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3483/88 (2), and in particular Article 11 (3) thereof,
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3919/92 of 20 December 1992, fixing, for certain fish stocks and groups of stocks, the total allowable catches for 1993 and certain conditions under which they may be fished (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 927/93 (4), provides for European plaice quotas for 1993;
Whereas, in order to ensure compliance with the provisions relating to the quantitiative limitations on catches of stocks subject to quotas, it is necessary for the Commission to fix the date by which catches made by vessels flying the flag of a Member State are deemed to have exhausted the quota allocated;
Whereas, according to the information communicated to the Commission, catches of European plaice in the waters of ICES division III a Skagerrak by vessels flying the flag of Germany have reached the quota allocated for 1993; whereas Germany has prohibited fishing for this stock as from 10 October 1993; whereas it is necessary to abide by that date,
Catches of European plaice in the waters of ICES division III a Skagerrak by vessels flying the flag of Germany or registered in Germany are deemed to have exhausted the quota allocated to Germany for 1993.
Fishing for European plaice in the waters of ICES division III a Skagerrak by vessels flying the flag of Germany or registered in Germany is prohibited, as well as the retention on board, the transhipment and the landing of such stock captured by the abovementioned vessels after the date of application of this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply with effect from 10 October 1993.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
31998D0180 | 98/180/EC, ECSC, Euratom: Decision of the Council and the Commission of 19 December 1997 on the conclusion of the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communties and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Estonia, of the other part
| DECISION OF THE COUNCIL AND THE COMMISSION of 19 December 1997 on the conclusion of the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Estonia, of the other part (98/180/EC, ECSC, Euratom)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Article 95 thereof,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 238 in conjunction with the second sentence of Article 228(2) and the second subparagraph of Article 228(3) thereof,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular the second subparagraph of Article 101 thereof,
After consultation of the Consultative Committee and with the assent of the Council pursuant to Article 95 of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community,
Having regard to the assent of the European Parliament (1),
Having regard to the approval of the Council granted pursuant to Article 101 of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community,
Whereas the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Estonia, of the other part, signed in Brussels on 12 June 1995, should be approved,
The Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Estonia, of the other part, the Protocols annexed thereto and the declarations and exchanges of letters attached to the Final Act are hereby approved on behalf of the European Coal and Steel Community, the European Community and the European Atomic Energy Community.
The text of the Agreement, the Protocols annexed thereto and the Final Act are attached to this Decision (2).
1. The position to be taken by the Community within the Association Council and within the Association Committee when the latter is empowered to act by the Association Council shall be laid down by the Council, on a proposal by the Commission, or, where appropriate, by the Commission, each in accordance with the corresponding provisions of the Treaties establishing the European Community, the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community.
2. The President of the Council shall, in accordance with Article 110 of the Europe Agreement, preside over the Association Council and present the Community's position. A representative of the Commission shall preside over the Association Committee, in accordance with the Rules of Procedure thereof, and present the Community's position.
3. The decision to publish the decisions of the Association Council and the Association Committee in the Official Journal of the European Communities shall be taken on a case-by-case basis by the Council and Commission respectively.
The President of the Council shall, as regards the European Community, deposit the act of notification provided for in Article 130 of the Agreement. The President of the Commission shall deposit the said acts of notification as regards the European Coal and Steel Community and European Atomic Energy Community. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
32011R1072 | Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1072/2011 of 20 October 2011 entering a name in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications (Liquirizia di Calabria (PDO))
| 25.10.2011 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 278/1
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 1072/2011
of 20 October 2011
entering a name in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications (Liquirizia di Calabria (PDO))
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 of 20 March 2006 on the protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs (1), and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 7(4) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Pursuant to the first subparagraph of Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 510/2006, Italy’s application to register the name ‘Liquirizia di Calabria’ was published in the Official Journal of the European Union
(2).
(2) As no statement of objection under Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 has been received by the Commission, that name should therefore be entered in the register,
The name contained in the Annex to this Regulation is hereby entered in the register.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following 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. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
31993L0096 | Council Directive 93/96/EEC of 29 October 1993 on the right of residence for students
| COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 93/96/EEC of 29 October 1993 on the right of residence for students
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular the second paragraph of Article 7 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),
In cooperation with the European Parliament (2),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (3),
Whereas Article 3 (c) of the Treaty provides that the activities of the Community shall include, as provided in the Treaty, the abolition, as between Member States, of obstacles to freedom of movement for persons;
Whereas Article 8a of the Treaty provides that the internal market must be established by 31 December 1992; whereas the internal market comprises an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is ensured in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty;
Whereas, as the Court of Justice has held, Articles 128 and 7 of the Treaty prohibit any discrimination between nationals of the Member States as regards access to vocational training in the Community; whereas access by a national of one Member State to vocational training in another Member State implies, for that national, a right of residence in that other Member State;
Whereas, accordingly, in order to guarantee access to vocational training, the conditions likely to facilitate the effective exercise of that right of residence should be laid down;
Whereas the right of residence for students forms part of a set of related measures designed to promote vocational training;
Whereas beneficiaries of the right of residence must not become an unreasonable burden on the public finances of the host Member State;
Whereas, in the present state of Community law, as established by the case law of the Court of Justice, assistance granted to students, does not fall within the scope of the Treaty within the meaning of Article 7 thereof;
Whereas the right of residence can only be genuinely exercised if it is also granted to the spouse and their dependent children;
Whereas the beneficiaries of this Directive should be covered by administrative arrangements similar to those laid down in particular in Council Directive 68/360/EEC of 15 October 1968 on the abolition of restrictions on movement and residence within the Community for workers of Member States and their families (4) and Council Directive 64/221/EEC of 25 February 1964 on the coordination of special measures concerning the movement and residence of foreign nationals which are justified on grounds of public policy, public security or public health (5);
Whereas this Directive does not apply to students who enjoy the right of residence by virtue of the fact that they are or have been effectively engaged in economic activities or are members of the family of a migrant worker;
Whereas, by its judgment of 7 July 1992 in Case C-295/90, the Court of Justice annulled Council Directive 90/366/EEC of 28 June 1990 on the right of residence for students (1), while maintaining the effects of the annulled Directive until the entry into force of a directive adopted on the appropriate legal basis;
Whereas the effects of Directive 90/366/EEC should be maintained during the period up to 31 December 1993, the date by which Member States are to have adopted the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive,
In order to lay down conditions to facilitate the exercise of the right of residence and with a view to guaranteeing access to vocational training in a non-discriminatory manner for a national of a Member State who has been accepted to attend a vocational training course in another Member State, the Member States shall recognize the right of residence for any student who is a national of a Member State and who does not enjoy that right under other provisions of Community law, and for the student's spouse and their dependent children, where the student assures the relevant national authority, by means of a declaration or by such alternative means as the student may choose that are at least equivalent, that he has sufficient resources to avoid becoming a burden on the social assistance system of the host Member State during their period of residence, provided that the student is enrolled in a recognized educational establishment for the principal purpose of following a vocational training course there and that he is covered by sickness insurance in respect of all risks in the host Member State.
1. The right of residence shall be restricted to the duration of the course of studies in question.
The right of residence shall be evidenced by means of the issue of a document known as a 'residence permit for a national of a Member State of the Community', the validity of which may be limited to the duration of the course of studies or to one year where the course lasts longer; in the latter event it shall be renewable annually. Where a member of the family does not hold the nationality of a Member State, he or she shall be issued with a residence document of the same validity as that issued to the national on whom he or she depends.
For the purpose of issuing the residence permit or document, the Member State may require only that the applicant present a valid identity card or passport and provide proof that he or she meets the conditions laid down in Article 1.
2. Articles 2, 3 and 9 of Directive 68/360/EEC shall apply mutatis mutandis to the beneficiaries of this Directive.
The spouse and the dependent children of a national of a Member State entitled to the right of residence within the territory of a Member State shall be entitled to take up any employed or self-employed activity anywhere within the territory of that Member State, even if they are not nationals of a Member State.
Member States shall not derogate from the provisions of this Directive save on grounds of public policy, public security or public health; in that event, Articles 2 to 9 of Directive 64/221/EEC shall apply.
This Directive shall not establish any entitlement to the payment of maintenance grants by the host Member State on the part of students benefiting from the right of residence.
The right of residence shall remain for as long as beneficiaries of that right fulfil the conditions laid down in Article 1.
The Commission shall, not more than three years after the date of implementation of this Directive, and at three-yearly intervals thereafter, draw up a report on the application of this Directive and submit it to the European Parliament and the Council.
The Commission shall pay particular attention to any difficulties to which the implementation of Article 1 might give rise in the Member States; it shall, if appropriate, submit proposals to the Council with the aim of remedying such difficulties.
Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive not later than 31 December 1993. They shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.
For the period preceding that date, the effects of Directive 90/366/EEC shall be maintained.
When Member States adopt those measures, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. The methods of making such references shall be laid down by the Member States.
This Directive is addressed to the Member States. | 0 | 0 | 0.333333 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0.166667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.166667 | 0 |
32000R1641 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1641/2000 of 25 July 2000 on the payment of a supplement to the advances on the compensatory aid in the banana sector for 2000
| Commission Regulation (EC) No 1641/2000
of 25 July 2000
on the payment of a supplement to the advances on the compensatory aid in the banana sector for 2000
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 of 13 February 1993 on the common organisation of the market in bananas(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999(2), and in particular Article 14 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1858/93(3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1467/1999(4), lays down detailed rules for applying Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 as regards the aid scheme to compensate for loss of income from marketing in the banana sector. Article 4 of that Regulation lays down the conditions for paying the advances on the compensatory aid.
(2) The unit amount of each advance on the aid to be determined subsequently for 2000 was set at EUR 17,81 per 100 kilograms in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1157/2000 of 30 May 2000 fixing the compensatory aid for bananas produced and marketed in the Community in 1999, the time limit for payment of the balance of the aid and the unit value of the advances for 2000(5).
(3) To take account of the difficult financial situation in which Community banana producers find themselves as a result of the marked deterioration of the Community market, provision should be made for the payment of a supplement to the advances paid for the quantities marketed in the Community from 1 January to 31 October 2000, without prejudice to the level of compensatory aid to be set subsequently under Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 and Regulation (EEC) No 1858/93. This supplementary payment should be conditional on the lodging of a security in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 1858/93.
(4) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Bananas,
Producer Member States shall pay a supplement to the advances on the compensatory aid provided for in Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93, for 2000, of EUR 7,08 per 100 kilograms, for the quantities marketed in the Community from 1 January to 31 October 2000.
The supplement to the advances shall be paid for marketed quantities for which applications for advances on the compensatory aid have been made for 2000.
Applications for payment of the supplement to the advance shall be accompanied by proof that a security of EUR 3,54 per 100 kilograms has been lodged.
Payment shall be made within two months of this Regulation becoming applicable.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply from 16 October 2000.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
32003R1614 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1614/2003 of 15 September 2003 fixing Community producer and import prices for carnations and roses with a view to the application of the arrangements governing imports of certain floricultural products originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Morocco and the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
| Commission Regulation (EC) No 1614/2003
of 15 September 2003
fixing Community producer and import prices for carnations and roses with a view to the application of the arrangements governing imports of certain floricultural products originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Morocco and the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the application of preferential customs duties on imports of certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Morocco and the West Bank and the Gaza Strip(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1300/97(2), and in particular Article 5(2)(a) thereof,
Whereas:
Pursuant to Article 2(2) and Article 3 of abovementioned Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87, Community import and producer prices are fixed each fortnight for uniflorous (bloom) carnations, multiflorous (spray) carnations, large-flowered roses and small-flowered roses and apply for two-weekly periods. Pursuant to Article 1b of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 of 17 March 1988 laying down detailed rules for the application of the arrangements for the import into the Community of certain floricultural products originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Morocco and the West Bank and the Gaza Strip(3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2062/97(4), those prices are determined for fortnightly periods on the basis of weighted prices provided by the Member States. Those prices should be fixed immediately so the customs duties applicable can be determined. To that end, provision should be made for this Regulation to enter into force immediately,
The Community producer and import prices for uniflorous (bloom) carnations, multiflorous (spray) carnations, large-flowered roses and small-flowered roses as referred to in Article 1b of Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 for a fortnightly period shall be as set out in the Annex.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 September 2003.
It shall apply from 17 to 30 September 2003.
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32009R0327 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 327/2009 of 21 April 2009 on the issuing of import licences for applications lodged during the first seven days of April 2009 under tariff quotas opened by Regulation (EC) No 616/2007 for poultry meat
| 22.4.2009 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 102/5
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 327/2009
of 21 April 2009
on the issuing of import licences for applications lodged during the first seven days of April 2009 under tariff quotas opened by Regulation (EC) No 616/2007 for poultry meat
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
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 Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006 of 31 August 2006 laying down common rules for the administration of import tariff quotas for agricultural products managed by a system of import licences (2), and in particular Article 7(2) thereof,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 616/2007 of 4 June 2007 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for poultry meat originating in Brazil, Thailand and other third countries (3), and in particular Article 5(5) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Regulation (EC) No 616/2007 opened tariff quotas for imports of products in the poultry meat sector.
(2) The applications for import licences lodged during the first seven days of April 2009 for the subperiod 1 July to 30 September 2009 and, for group 3, for the period 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010 relate, for some quotas, to quantities exceeding those available. The extent to which licences may be issued should therefore be determined and an allocation coefficient laid down to be applied to the quantities applied for.
(3) The applications for import licences lodged during the first seven days of April 2009 for the subperiod 1 July to 30 September 2009 do not, for some quotas, cover the total quantity available. The quantities for which applications have not been lodged should therefore be determined and these should be added to the quantity fixed for the following quota subperiod,
1. The quantities for which import licence applications have been lodged pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 616/2007 for the subperiod 1 July to 30 September 2009 shall be multiplied by the allocation coefficients set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
2. The quantities for which import licence applications have not been lodged pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 616/2007, to be added to the subperiod 1 October to 31 December 2009, are set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 April 2009.
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31994R3096 | Council Regulation (EC) No 3096/94 of 12 December 1994 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2990/82 on the sale of butter at reduced prices to persons receiving social assistance
| COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 3096/94 of 12 December 1994 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2990/82 on the sale of butter at reduced prices to persons receiving social assistance
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in milk and milk products (1) and in particular Article 12 (2) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2990/82 (2) introduces arrangements, expiring on 31 December 1994, for the sale of butter at reduced prices to persons receiving social assistance; whereas, as provided for in Article 3a (3) of that Regulation, the Council is to examine, before that date and on the basis of a report from the Commission, the possibility of renewing the arrangements laid down; whereas, as a result of the report submitted by the Commission and the results obtained, the abovementioned arrangements should be extended for a period of two years; whereas, in view on the one hand of experience gained and on the other hand of the situation on the market for butter, the aid should be reduced,
Regulation (EEC) No 2990/82 is hereby amended as follows:
1. in Article 1, '31 December 1994' shall be replaced by '31 December 1996';
2. in Article 3, 'ECU 140' shall be replaced by 'ECU 115';
3. in Article 3a (3), '31 December 1994' shall be replaced by '31 December 1996'.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
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32003R0906 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 906/2003 of 23 May 2003 suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States
| Commission Regulation (EC) No 906/2003
of 23 May 2003
suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk and milk products(1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 509/2002(2),
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2771/1999 of 16 December 1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards intervention on the market in butter and cream(3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 359/2003(4), and in particular Article 2 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 2771/1999 lays down that buying-in by invitation to tender is to be opened or suspended by the Commission in a Member State, as appropriate, once it is observed that, for two weeks in succession, the market price in that Member State is below or equal to or above 92 % of the intervention price.
(2) Commission Regulation (EC) No 769/2003 suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States(5) establishes the most recent list of Member States in which intervention is suspended. This list must be adjusted as a result of the market prices communicated by Sweden under Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 2771/1999. In the interests of clarity, the list in question should be replaced and Regulation (EC) No 769/2003 should be repealed,
Buying-in of butter by invitation to tender as provided for in Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 is hereby suspended in Belgium, Denmark, Greece, the Netherlands, Austria, Luxembourg and Finland.
Regulation (EC) No 769/2003 is hereby repealed.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 May 2003.
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32012R1027 | Regulation (EU) No 1027/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 amending Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 as regards pharmacovigilance Text with EEA relevance
| 14.11.2012 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 316/38
REGULATION (EU) No 1027/2012 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 25 October 2012
amending Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 as regards pharmacovigilance
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 114 and Article 168(4)(c) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
After transmission of the draft legislative act to the national parliaments,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (1),
After consulting the Committee of the Regions,
Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (2),
Whereas:
(1) In order to ensure transparency on the surveillance of authorised medicinal products, the list of medicinal products subject to additional monitoring established by Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 laying down Community procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human and veterinary use and establishing a European Medicines Agency (3), should systematically include medicinal products that are subject to certain post-authorisation safety conditions.
(2) In addition, voluntary action by the marketing authorisation holder should not lead to a situation where concerns relating to the risks or benefits of a medicinal product authorised in the Union are not properly addressed in all Member States. Therefore, the marketing authorisation holder should be obliged to inform the European Medicines Agency of the reasons for withdrawing or interrupting the placing on the market of a medicinal product, for requesting that a marketing authorisation be revoked, or for not renewing a marketing authorisation.
(3) Since the objective of this Regulation, namely to provide for specific rules on pharmacovigilance and improve the safety of medicinal products for human use authorised pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 726/2004, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective.
(4) Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 should therefore be amended accordingly,
Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 is hereby amended as follows:
(1) in Article 13(4), the second subparagraph is replaced by the following:
(2) the following Article is inserted:
(3) in Article 20, paragraph 8 is replaced by the following:
(4) Article 23 is replaced by the following:
(a) medicinal products authorised in the Union that contain a new active substance which, on 1 January 2011, was not contained in any medicinal product authorised in the Union;
(b) any biological medicinal product not covered by point (a) that was authorised after 1 January 2011;
(c) medicinal products that are authorised pursuant to this Regulation, subject to the conditions referred to in point (cb) of Article 9(4), point (a) of the first subparagraph of Article 10a(1) or Article 14(7) or (8);
(d) medicinal products that are authorised pursuant to Directive 2001/83/EC, subject to the conditions referred to in points (b) and (c) of the first paragraph of Article 21a, Article 22, or point (a) of the first subparagraph of Article 22a(1) thereof.
(5) Article 57 is amended as follows:
(a) in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1, points (c) and (d) are replaced by the following:
‘(c) coordinating the monitoring of medicinal products which have been authorised within the Union and providing advice on the measures necessary to ensure the safe and effective use of those medicinal products, in particular by coordinating the evaluation and implementation of pharmacovigilance obligations and systems and the monitoring of such implementation;
(d) ensuring the collation and dissemination of information on suspected adverse reactions to medicinal products authorised in the Union by means of a database which is permanently accessible to all Member States;’;
(b) in the second subparagraph of paragraph 2, point (b) is replaced by the following:
‘(b) marketing authorisation holders shall, by 2 July 2012 at the latest, electronically submit to the Agency information on all medicinal products for human use authorised in the Union, using the format referred to in point (a);’.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 5 June 2013 with the exception of Article 23(4), points (c) and (d) of the second subparagraph of Article 57(1) and point (b) of the second subparagraph of Article 57(2) of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004, as amended by this Regulation, which shall apply from 4 December 2012.
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32013R0807 | Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 807/2013 of 26 August 2013 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards the survey of prices of certain bovine animals on representative Union markets
| 27.8.2013 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 228/5
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 807/2013
of 26 August 2013
laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards the survey of prices of certain bovine animals on representative Union markets
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), and in particular Article 192(2) in conjunction with Article 4 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) The provisions of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2273/2002 (2) do not reflect anymore the current situation of the price recording on the Union markets concerned. It is necessary to bring the rules on price recording in line with the needs of the beef sector. Regulation (EC) No 2273/2002 should therefore be repealed and replaced.
(2) In order to have a complete picture of the market situation at all times, it is necessary to know the prices of certain categories of bovine animals other than those covered by price reporting under Commission Regulation (EC) No 1249/2008 (3).
(3) In order to improve data accuracy, provision should be made for a survey of prices for male calves aged between eight days and four weeks, for store cattle aged more than six months and less than two years and calves slaughtered at the age of less than eight months. Therefore, detailed rules on the information to be provided for the price survey for each of those bovine animal categories should be established.
(4) The Member States with an important share in the production and trade of those different categories of bovine animals and the information to be provided by them for the price survey for each of those categories should be established.
(5) The price recorded on the representative Union markets should be taken as the average of the prices of the bovine animals in question on the representative market or markets of each Member State. That average should be weighted in accordance with coefficients expressing the relative size of the relevant cattle population of each Member State for each category marketed in a reference period.
(6) In order to obtain comparable prices of the categories of bovine animals concerned in the Union, it is necessary to provide that the price recording should refer to a well-defined marketing stage based on the quotations excluding value added tax.
(7) Moreover, the Union reference presentation of carcasses of slaughtered calves should be determined. In that context, it is appropriate to provide that certain corrective factors need to be specified by Member States to adjust the presentations used to the Union reference presentation.
(8) The representative market or markets for each Member State should be selected. Where there is more than one representative market in a Member State, account should be taken of the weigthed average of the prices recorded on those markets.
(9) In order to ensure that prices reported are representative of national production, it is necessary to allow Member States to designate for price recording natural or legal persons who trade or send for slaughter substantial numbers of the relevant categories of bovine animals.
(10) In the absence of price recording on public markets or by operators of slaughterhouses, or by designated natural or legal persons, it should be provided that prices are recorded by chambers of agriculture, quotation centres, farmers’ cooperatives or farmers’ unions and other reliable sources in the Member State concerned.
(11) In case Member States have established regional committees to determine prices of certain categories of bovine animals, provision should be made that the prices determined by those committees may be taken into account in the national price calculation, provided that their membership ensures a balanced and objective approach.
(12) With a view to monitoring the reporting of prices of the relevant categories of bovine animals, Member States should be obliged to communicate periodically certain information to the Commission.
(13) Provision should be made for the weekly communication to the Commission of the national average prices through electronic means of transmission.
(14) Member States may, because of veterinary or health protection regulations, find it necessary to take measures which affect quotations. In such circumstances, it is not always suitable when recording market prices to take into account quotations which do not reflect the normal trend of the market. Consequently, certain rules should be laid down allowing the Commission to authorise the Member State concerned to disregard the prices recorded or to use the last prices recorded.
(15) It is necessary to provide that Member States have to take certain measures in order to ensure the representativeness and accuracy of the reported prices. Moreover, Member States should inform the Commission of those measures.
(16) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets,
1. The average Union price, per head, of male calves aged between eight days and four weeks shall be the average of the prices recorded for dairy type male rearing calves and beef type male rearing calves on the representative markets of the Member States with an important share in the production and trade of those calves as referred to in Annex I, which shall be weighted by coefficients established on the basis of:
(a) as regards dairy type male rearing calves, the number of dairy cows recorded in the Union, as transmitted in accordance with Article 7(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1165/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (4);
(b) as regards beef type male rearing calves, the number of cows recorded in the Union, as transmitted in accordance with Article 7(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1165/2008.
2. The prices to be reported for each type of calves referred to in paragraph 1 shall be recorded on public markets or by natural or legal persons who trade substantial numbers of those types of calves and are designated by the Member State.
Those prices shall be the average of the prices paid in that Member State at the same wholesale stage, exclusive of value added tax (‘VAT’), for the type concerned and weighted by coefficients reflecting the relative proportion of the different qualities of male rearing calves defined by the Member State and the relative importance of each market.
3. For the purposes of this Article:
(a) ‘dairy type male rearing calf’ means male rearing calf from dairy breed;
(b) ‘beef type male rearing calf’ means male rearing calf from a meat breed, dual purpose breed or born of a cross with a meat breed.
1. The average Union price, per kilogram of live weight, of store cattle shall be the average of the prices recorded for young store cattle, yearling male store cattle and yearling female store cattle on the representative markets of the Member States with an important share in the production and trade of that cattle as referred to in Annex II, which shall be weighted by coefficients established on the basis of:
(a) as regards young store cattle, the number of bovine animals aged not over one year and not for slaughter recorded in the Union, as transmitted in accordance with Article 7(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1165/2008;
(b) as regards yearling male store cattle, the number of male bovine animals aged over one year but under two years recorded in the Union, as transmitted in accordance with Article 7(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1165/2008;
(c) as regards yearling female store cattle, the number of female bovine animals aged over one year but under two years and which have not yet calved, recorded in the Union, as transmitted in accordance with Article 7(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1165/2008.
2. The prices to be reported for each type of store cattle referred to in paragraph 1 shall be recorded on public markets or by natural or legal persons who trade substantial numbers of the relevant store cattle and are designated by the Member State.
Those prices shall be the average of the prices paid in that Member State at the same wholesale stage, exclusive of VAT, for the type concerned and weighted by coefficients reflecting the relative proportion of the different qualities of store cattle defined by the Member State and the relative importance of each market.
3. For the purposes of this Article:
(a) ‘young store cattle’ means male and female bovine animals aged 6 months or more but less than 12 months, bought after weaning to be fattened;
(b) ‘yearling store cattle’ means male and female bovine animals aged 12 months or more but less than 24 months, bought to be fattened.
1. The average Union price, per 100 kg of carcass weight, of calves slaughtered at the age of less than eight months shall be the average of the prices recorded for those calves on the representative markets of the Member States with an important share in the production as referred to in Annex III, which shall be weighted by coefficients established on the basis of the net production of those calves in the Union.
2. The price to be reported for carcasses of the calves referred to in paragraph 1 shall be recorded by the operators of any slaughterhouse which slaughters such calves or by natural or legal persons who send substantial numbers of such calves for slaughter and which are designated by the Member State.
That price shall be the average of the prices paid in that Member State at the slaughterhouse entry stage, exclusive of VAT, for the carcasses of the calves concerned and weighted by coefficients reflecting the relative proportion of the different qualities of carcasses defined by the Member State and the relative importance of each market.
3. For the purposes of establishing the market prices to be reported, the carcass shall be presented:
(a) without the head and without the feet; the head shall be separated from the carcass at the atloido-occipital joint and the feet shall be severed at the carpometacarpal or tarsometatarsal joints;
(b) without the organs contained in the thoracic and abdominal cavities and without the kidneys, the kidney fat, the pelvic fat, the thin and thick skirt;
(c) without the sexual organs and the attached muscles;
(d) without the removal of external fat.
Where at the moment of weighing the presentation of the carcass differs from the presentation provided for in the first subparagraph, the weight of the carcass shall be adjusted by applying corrective factors specified by the Member State in order to move from that presentation to the reference presentation. In that case the price for each 100 kg of carcass weight shall be adjusted accordingly.
4. The carcass weight to be taken into account for the reporting of the market prices shall be the cold weight of the carcass.
The cold weight of the carcass shall correspond to the warm weight taken not later than one hour after the animal has been stuck, less 2 %.
1. In the absence of price recording on public markets or by operators of slaughterhouses or by the natural or legal persons referred to in Articles 1(2), 2(2) and 3(2), the prices shall be recorded by chambers of agriculture, quotation centres, farmers’ cooperatives or farmers’ unions in the Member State concerned.
However, where a Member State has established a committee to determine prices for a region, and where the membership of such committee is comprised equally of buyers and sellers of certain categories of bovine animals or carcasses of such animals, that Member State may use them for the calculation of the prices to be reported.
2. The Member States concerned shall communicate to the Commission their representative markets, the qualities to be defined and the weighting coefficients referred to in Articles 1(2), 2(2) and 3(2), as well as the corrective factors referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 3(3) by 1 June 2014 at the latest and thereafter no later than 1 June each year.
As regards representative markets, the communication shall include:
(a) the survey method applied with an indication of the types of sources for recording the prices referred to in this Regulation;
(b) an indication of the share of the volume recorded, for each type of source for recording prices, expressed as a percentage of each relevant category of bovine animals traded or slaughtered
The Commission shall communicate the information referred to in the first subparagraph to all Member States.
3. The Member States concerned shall communicate to the Commission not later than 12 noon, Brussels time, on Wednesday each week, the national average prices for each type of bovine animals referred to in Articles 1(1), 2(1) and 3(1) recorded on their respective representative markets. They shall not communicate those prices to any other body before they have communicated them to the Commission.
Those prices shall relate to the seven day period from Monday to Sunday preceding the week in which the information is communicated.
The prices reported shall be expressed in euro or, where applicable, in national currency.
For the communications referred to in this paragraph, Member States shall use electronic means of transmission made available to the Member States by the Commission.
The Commission shall revise periodically the weighting coefficients referred to in Articles 1(1), 2(1) and 3(1) to take into account trends recorded at national and Union levels.
After each revision the Commission shall communicate the revised weighting coefficients to the Member States.
Where a Member State takes measures for veterinary or health protection reasons which affect the normal movement in prices recorded on its representative market or markets, the Commission may authorise it either to disregard the prices recorded on the market or markets concerned, or to use the last prices recorded on the market or markets concerned before those measures were put into effect.
Member States shall provide for the necessary measures to ensure the representativeness and accuracy of the prices communicated in accordance with Article 4 and shall inform the Commission of those measures by 30 June 2014 at the latest and thereafter within one month after any amendments relating to those measures.
Regulation (EC) No 2273/2002 is repealed.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 July 2014.
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31984R3197 | Council Regulation (EEC) No 3197/84 of 12 November 1984 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for 2' -tert-pentylanthraquinone, falling within subheading ex 29.13 F of the Common Customs Tariff
| COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3197/84
of 12 November 1984
opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for 2'-tert-pentylanthraquinone, falling within subheading ex 29.13 F of the Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 28 thereof,
Whereas production in the Community of 2'-tert-pentylanthraquinone falling within subheading ex 29.13 F of the Common Customs Tariff is currently insufficient to meet the requirements of the processing industries in the Community; whereas, consequently, Community supplies of products of this type currently depend to a considerable extent on imports from third countries; whereas the most urgent Community requirements for the product in question should be met immediately on the most favourable terms; whereas a nil duty Community tariff quota should therefore be opened within the limits of an appropriate amount and for a six-month period; whereas, in order not to jeopardize the balance of the market for this product, the volume of the Community tariff quota should be fixed at 60 tonnes;
Whereas it is necessary, in particular, to ensure to all Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to the abovementioned quota and uninterrupted application of the rates laid down for that quota to all imports of the products concerned into all Member States until the quota has been used up; whereas, however, since the period of application of the quota is very short and is to cover requirements which cannot be determined with sufficient accuracy, it seems possible to avoid allocating it among the Member States, without prejudice to the drawing against the quota volume of such quantities as they may need, under the conditions and according to the procedure specified in Article 1 (2); whereas this method of management requires close cooperation between the Member States and the Commission and the latter must in particular be able to monitor the rate at which the quota is used up and inform the Member States thereof;
Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united within and jointly represented by the Benelux Economic Union, all transactions concerning the administration of shares allocated to that economic union may be carried out by any one of its members,
1. From the date on which this Regulation enters into force until 31 May 1985, the Common Customs Tariff duty for 2'-tert-pentylanthraquinone falling within subheading ex 29.13 F shall be totally suspended within the limit of a Community tariff quota of 60 tonnes.
Within the limit of this tariff quota, Greece shall apply customs duties calculated in accordance with the relevant provisions laid down by the 1979 Act of Accession.
2. If an importer notifies an imminent importation of the product in question in a Member State and requests the benefit of the quota, the Member State concerned shall inform the Commission and draw an amount corresponding to these requirements to the extent that the available balance of the reserve permits this.
3. The shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be valid until the end of the quota period.
1. Member States shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that their drawings pursuant to Article 1 (2) are carried out in such a way that imports may be charged without interruption against their accumulated shares of the Community quota.
2. Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the said goods have access to the quota so long as the residual balance of the quota volume allows this.
3. Member States shall charge imports of the said goods against their drawings as and when the goods are entered for free circulation. 4. The extent to which the quota has been used up shall be determined on the basis of the imports charged in accordance with paragraph 3.
At the request of the Commission, Member States shall inform it of imports actually charged against the quota.
The Member States and the Commission shall collaborate closely in order to ensure that this Regulation is complied with.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
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32002R1126 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1126/2002 of 27 June 2002 opening and providing for the administration of an import tariff quota for young male bovine animals for fattening (1 July 2002 to 30 June 2003)
| Commission Regulation (EC) No 1126/2002
of 27 June 2002
opening and providing for the administration of an import tariff quota for young male bovine animals for fattening (1 July 2002 to 30 June 2003)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef and veal(1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2345/2001(2) and in particular Article 32(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) The WTO schedule CXL requires the Community to open an annual import tariff quota for 169000 head of young male bovine animals for fattening. Implementing rules should be laid down for the period 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2003.
(2) There should be a guarantee in particular of equal and continuing access to the said quota for all interested traders within the Community. However, pursuant to Article 32(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999, the method of administration may give due weight to the supply requirements on the Community market.
(3) The requirements of certain Member States which have a shortfall of bovine animals for fattening may therefore be taken into account. As those requirements are particularly evident in Italy and Greece, priority should be given to satisfying demand in those two Member States.
(4) For the allocation of the tariff quota methods which have been applied in the past to this quota should be applied again. Consequently, in Italy and Greece the method referred to in the third indent of Article 32(2) should be applied while the method referred to in the second indent of that paragraph shall be used for applications in other Member States.
(5) Importers who can show that they have been involved in trade with live animals with third countries should be able to apply for import rights. Proof of that involvement calls for evidence to be presented of recent import or export of some significance.
(6) Checks of criteria for participation in the quota allocation call for applications to be submitted in the Member State where the trader is entered in the value added tax (VAT) register. Italy and Greece are an exception to this rule: traders entered in the VAT register of another Member State may submit their applications in these two countries.
(7) In order to prevent speculation:
- importers no longer involved in trade in live bovine animals at 1 January 2002 should be denied access to the quota,
- a security should be fixed for import rights,
- licences should not be transferable,
- import licences should be issued to traders solely for the quantities for which they have been allocated import rights.
(8) In order to provide for more equal access to the quota while ensuring a commercially viable number of animal per application, each application should respect a maximum and a minimum number of heads.
(9) To oblige traders to apply for import licences for all import rights allocated, it should be established that this obligation is a primary requirement within the meaning of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2220/85 of 22 July 1985 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of securities for agricultural products(3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1932/1999(4).
(10) With a view to using up quota quantities completely, a closing date should be set for the submission of import licence applications and provision should be made for a further allocation of quantities not covered by licence applications submitted by that date. In the light of experience it should also be laid down that this final allocation is open only to importers who have applied for import licences for the total quantity to which they are entitled.
(11) A proper management of the quota requires the use of import licences. To that end, rules should be laid down in particular on the way applications are to be submitted and the information to be shown in applications and licences, where applicable by waiving or supplementing certain provisions of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 of 9 June 2000 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of import and export licences and advance fixing certificates for certain agricultural products(5) and of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1445/95 of 26 June 1995 on rules of application for import and export licences in the beef and veal sector and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 2377/80(6), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2442/2001(7).
(12) A proper management of the quota also requires that the titular holder of the licence is a genuine importer. Therefore, such importer should actively participate in the purchase, transport and import of the animals concerned. Presentation of proof of those activities should thus also be a primary requirement with regard to the licence security.
(13) With a view of ensuring a strict statistical control of the animals imported under the quota, the tolerance referred to in Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 shall not apply.
(14) The application of this tariff quota requires effective checks on the specific destination of the imported animals. The animals should therefore be fattened in the Member State which has issued the import licence.
(15) A security must be lodged to ensure that the animals are fattened for at least 120 days in designated production units. The amount of the security should cover the difference between the common customs tariff (CCT) duty and the reduced duty applicable on the date of release for home use of the animals in question.
(16) The Management Committee for Beef and Veal has not given an opinion within the time limit set by its President,
1. A tariff quota for 169000 young male bovine animals covered by CN codes 0102 90 05, 0102 90 29 or 0102 90 49 and intended for fattening in the Community is hereby opened for the period 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2003.
The serial number of the quota shall be 09.4005.
2. The customs import duty applicable under the tariff quota referred to in paragraph 1 shall be 16 % ad valorem plus EUR 582 per tonne net.
That rate of duty shall apply on condition that the imported animals are fattened for at least 120 days in the Member State which has issued the import licence.
1. Import rights for the quantity referred to in Article 1(1) shall be allocated to the Member States as follows:
(a) Italy: 118300 head,
(b) Greece: 18100 head,
(c) other Member States: 32600 head.
2. Within each of the quantities referred to in paragraph 1(a) and (b), import rights relating to:
- 50 % of the quantity shall be allocated upon application directly by the Member State concerned to importers who furnish proof of having imported animals under the Regulations referred to in Annex I. All quantities presented as reference quantity shall constitute the import rights applied for,
- 50 % of the quantity shall be allocated upon application directly by the Member State concerned to operators who furnish proof that, in the period 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2001, they have exported to or imported from third countries at least 75 live animals covered by CN code 0102 90, excluding imports under Regulations referred to in Annex I.
3. Applicants must be entered in a national value added tax (VAT) register.
Applications for import rights shall be presented:
- in Italy for the quantities referred to in paragraph 1(a),
- in Greece for the quantities referred to in paragraph 1(b),
- in the Member States of registration for the quantities referred to in paragraph 1(c).
4. The quantities referred to in paragraph 1(c) shall be allocated upon application to operators who furnish proof that in the period from 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2001 they have exported to or imported from third countries at least 75 live animals covered by CN code 0102 90.
5. The quantities referred to in the first and second indent of paragraph 2 and in paragraph 4 shall be allocated to eligible operators in proportion to the quantities respectively applied for. Each application under the second indent of paragraph 2 and under paragraph 4 shall relate to a minimum of 50 head and a maximum of 10 % of the available number of head.
6. Proof of import and/or export shall be provided solely by means of customs documents of release for home use.
Member States may accept copies of those documents duly certified by the competent authorities.
1. Operators who are no longer engaged in trade in live bovine animals on 1 January 2002 shall not qualify under the arrangements provided for in this Regulation.
2. A company formed by the merger of companies each having rights to apply pursuant to the first indent of Article 2(2) shall enjoy the same rights as the companies from which they were formed.
1. Where, under any one category referred to respectively in the first indent of Article 2(2), the second indent of Article 2(2) and Article 2(4) an applicant submits more than one application, all such applications shall be rejected.
2. For the purposes of Article 2(2) and (4), applications accompanied by the necessary proofs must reach the competent authorities not later than 8 July 2002.
3. As regards applications under Article 2(2), after verification of the documents presented, Italy and Greece shall forward to the Commission by 19 July 2002 at the latest a list of applicants and quantities applied for using the forms set out in Annex II for applications under the first indent of Article 2(2) and in Annex III for applications under the second indent of Article 2(2).
4. As regards applications under Article 2(4), after verification of the documents presented, Member States shall forward to the Commission by 19 July 2002 at the latest a list of applicants and quantities applied for using the form set out in Annex III.
The Commission shall decide as soon as possible to what extent applications under Article 2(4) may be accepted. Where the quantities applied for exceed the quantities available, the Commission shall fix a reduction coefficient to be applied to the quantities applied for.
5. Where in application of the coefficient referred to in paragraph 4 the allocation under Article 2(4) would result in less than 50 head being allocated per application, the allocation shall be made by the Member States concerned by drawing lots for batches of 50 head for those applications. Where the remainder is fewer than 50 head, that number shall constitute a single batch.
1. A security for import rights is fixed at EUR 3 per head. It must be lodged with the competent authority together with the application for import rights.
2. Import licence applications must be submitted for the import rights allocated. This obligation is a primary requirement within the meaning of Article 20(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2220/85.
3. Where the allocations for Italy and Greece referred to in Article 2(2) and that made by the Commission under Article 4(4) result in import right applications exceeding the rights allocated, the security lodged shall be released immediately for that overrun.
1. Any import of animals for which import rights have been allocated shall be subject to presentation of an import licence.
2. Regulations (EC) No 1291/2000 and (EC) No 1445/95 shall apply, save as otherwise provided in this Regulation.
3. Licence applications may be lodged solely:
- in the Member State in which the application for import rights has been lodged, and
- by operators to whom import rights have been allocated in accordance with Articles 2 and 4. Each issuing of an import licence shall result in a corresponding reduction of the import rights.
4. Licences shall be issued up to 29 November 2002 for a maximum of 50 % of the allocated import rights. Import licences for the remaining quantities shall be issued from 1 December 2002.
5. An import license shall be issued on application by and in the name of the operators who have obtained the import rights.
6. Licence applications and licences shall show:
(a) the country of origin in box 8;
(b) one of the eligible CN codes in box 16;
(c) the figure "0" (zero) in box 19;
(d) the following endorsement in box 20: "Live male bovine animals of a live weight not exceeding 300 kg per head (Regulation (EC) No 1126/2002)."
1. Notwithstanding Article 9(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000, import licences issued pursuant to this Regulation shall not be transferable and shall confer rights under the tariff quotas only if made out in the same name and address as the one entered as consignee in the customs declaration of release for home use accompanying them.
2. Import licences shall be valid for 90 days from their date of issue within the meaning of Article 23(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000. However, no licences shall be valid after 30 June 2003.
3. The security relating to the import licence shall be EUR 20 per head and shall be lodged by the applicant together with the licence application.
4. Licences shall be valid throughout the Community.
5. Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 shall not apply.
6. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4 of Title III of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000, the security shall not be released until proof has been produced that the titular holder of the licence has been commercially and logistically responsible for the purchase, transport and clearance for home use of the animals concerned. Such proof shall at least consist of:
- the original commercial invoice made out in the name of the titular holder by the seller or his representative, both established in the third country of export, and proof of payment by the titular holder or the opening by the titular holder of an irrevocable documentary credit in favour of the seller,
- the bill of lading or, where applicable, the road or air transport document, drawn up in the name of the titular holder, for the animals concerned,
- the copy No 8 of form IM 4 with the name and address of the titular holder being the only indication in box 8,
- the proof of the payment of the customs duties by, or on behalf of, the titular holder.
1. At the time of import, the importer shall provide proof that he has:
- given a written undertaking to inform within one month the competent authority of the Member State that issued the licence, of the farm or farms where the young bovine animals are to be fattened,
- lodged a security of an amount as laid down for each eligible CN code in Annex IV with the competent authority of the Member State that issued the licence. The fattening of the imported animals in that Member State for at least 120 days from the date of acceptance of the customs declaration of release for home use is a primary requirement within the meaning of Article 20(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2220/85.
2. Except in cases of force majeure, the security referred to in the second indent of paragraph 1 shall be released only if proof is furnished to the competent authority of the Member State that issued the licence that the young bovine animals:
(a) have been fattened on the farm or farms indicated pursuant to paragraph 1;
(b) have not been slaughtered before a period of 120 days from the date of import has elapsed; or
(c) have been slaughtered for health reasons or have died as a result of sickness or accident before that period has elapsed.
The security shall be released immediately after such proof has been furnished.
However, where the time limit referred to in the first indent of paragraph 1 has not been observed, the security to be released shall be reduced by:
- 15 %, and by
- 2 % of the remaining amount for each day by which it has been exceeded.
The amounts not released shall be forfeited and retained as customs duties.
3. If the proof referred to in paragraph 2 is not furnished within 180 days from the date of import, the security shall be forfeited and retained as customs duty.
However, if such proof is not furnished within 180 days but is produced within six months following the said period of 180 days, the amount forfeited, less 15 % of the security, shall be repaid.
1. Animals not covered by import licence applications at 21 February 2003 shall be the subject of a further allocation of import rights, irrespective of the allocation of import rights between Member States referred to in Article 2(1) and of the two different schemes provided for in the first and second indents of Article 2(2).
2. To that end, by 28 February 2003 at the latest the Member States shall notify the Commission of the number of animals referred to in paragraph 1.
3. The Commission shall establish and publish as quickly as possible the total remaining number of animals to be reallocated.
4. The allocation of those animals shall be open to interested operators who have applied for import licences for all their import rights initially granted.
New applications for import rights shall be presented in the Member State where the applicant is entered in the national value added tax register.
5. Each application shall relate to a minimum of 50 head. However, where the remaining number of animals referred to in paragraph 3 is lower than 50 head, an application shall relate to that lower number of head.
6. For the purposes of this Article, Articles 4 to 8 shall apply. However, the date of application mentioned in Article 4(2) shall be 21 March 2003 and the date of communication mentioned in Article 4(4) shall be 28 March 2003.
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32008R0415 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 415/2008 of 8 May 2008 on the division between deliveries and direct sales of national reference quantities fixed for 2007/08 in Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 1788/2003
| 9.5.2008 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 125/22
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 415/2008
of 8 May 2008
on the division between ‘deliveries’ and ‘direct sales’ of national reference quantities fixed for 2007/08 in Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 1788/2003
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1788/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing a levy in the milk and milk products sector (1), and in particular Article 8 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 1788/2003 provides that producers may have one or two individual reference quantities, one for deliveries and the other for direct sales and these quantities may be converted from one reference quantity to the other only by the competent authority of the Member State, at the duly justified request of the producer.
(2) Commission Regulation (EC) No 607/2007 of 1 June 2007 on the division between ‘deliveries’ and ‘direct sales’ of national reference quantities fixed for 2006/07 in Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 1788/2003 (2) sets out the division between ‘deliveries’ and ‘direct sales’ for the period from 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2007 for Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
(3) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1186/2007 of 10 October 2007 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 1788/2003 establishing a levy in the milk and milk products sector as regards the division between direct sales and deliveries for Romania and Bulgaria (3) fixed the division between direct sales and deliveries for those Member States at the commencement of the quota regime on 1 April 2007.
(4) In accordance with Article 25(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 595/2004 of 30 March 2004 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1788/2003 establishing a levy in the milk and milk products sector (4), Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom have notified the quantities which have been definitively converted at the request of the producers between individual reference quantities for deliveries and for direct sales.
(5) In accordance with Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1788/2003 the total national reference quantities for Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom for 2007/08 are greater than their total national reference quantities for 2006/07, and these Member States have notified the Commission of the division between ‘deliveries’ and ‘direct sales’ of the additional reference quantities.
(6) It is therefore appropriate to establish the division between ‘deliveries’ and ‘direct sales’ of the national reference quantities applicable for the period from 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008 fixed in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1788/2003.
(7) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
The division between ‘deliveries’ and ‘direct sales’ of the national reference quantities applicable for the period from 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008 fixed in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1788/2003 is set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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31995R1799 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1799/95 of 25 July 1995 amending Regulation (EC) No 2715/94 laying down specific rules on compensatory payments for certain irrigated arable crops
| COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1799/95 of 25 July 1995 amending Regulation (EC) No 2715/94 laying down specific rules on compensatory payments for certain irrigated arable crops
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92 of 30 June 1992 establishing a support system for producers of certain arable crops (1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1664/95 (2), and in particular Article 12 thereof,
Whereas the French regionalization plan established in conformity to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92 for application from the 1995/96 marketing year, limits eligibility for 'irrigated` compensatory payments to a single oil seed crop, namely soya; whereas it is therefore necessary to fix a specific ceiling for that crop and to amend Commission Regulation (EC) No 2715/94 (3);
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Joint Management Committee for Cereals, Oils and Fats and Dried Fodder,
In the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2715/94, the table under the heading 'France` is hereby replaced by the table in the Annex hereto.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall be applicable from the 1995/96 marketing year.
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31982R1559 | Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1559/82 of 17 June 1982 amending for the sixth time Regulation (EEC) No 2730/81 establishing a list of agencies in non-member importing countries entitled to issue invitations to tender in the milk and milk products sectorm
| COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1559/82
of 17 June 1982
amending for the sixth time Regulation (EEC) No 2730/81 establishing a list of agencies in non-member importing countries entitled to issue invitations to tender in the milk and milk products sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in milk and milk products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1183/82 (2), and in particular Articles 13 (3) and 17 (4) thereof,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2730/81 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 928/82 (4), established a list of agencies in non-member importing countries entitled to issue invitations to tender in the milk and milk products sector;
Whereas in the light of the most recent information available to the Commission on the trade practices followed by the importing countries concerned and the official nature of the agencies in question this Regulation should be amended;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
The Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2730/81 is amended as follows:
The list of issuing organizations should be completed by addition of the following organizations, insertion being made in the alphabetical order of the importing country:
// Importing country // Issuing organization // Quatar // Government of Quatar Central Tenders Committee
Ministry of Petroleum and Finance
Doha
State of Quatar // Syria // Société Arabe pour les Médicaments
Boîte Postal 976
Damascus Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
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31997R1154 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1154/97 of 25 June 1997 increasing the volume of the tariff quota for imports of bananas provided for in Article 18 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 for 1997 (Text with EEA relevance)
| COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1154/97 of 25 June 1997 increasing the volume of the tariff quota for imports of bananas provided for in Article 18 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 for 1997 (Text with EEA relevance)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 of 13 February 1993 on the common organization of the market in bananas (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 (2), and in particular Articles 18 (1) and 30 thereof,
Whereas Article 18 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 provides that, where Community demand is determined on the basis of the supply balance referred to in Article 16 increases, the volume of the quota is to be increased in consequence;
Whereas, in Decision 97/402/EC (3), the Commission establishes the forecast balance for production and consumption in the Community and for imports and exports; whereas that balance indicates an increase in Community demand in particular as a result of the accession to the Community of Austria, Finland and Sweden;
Whereas on 4 April 1995 the Commission forwarded to the Council a proposal adapting the volume of the tariff quota for the import of bananas following the accession of the new Member States (4); whereas, in spite of the Commission's efforts, the Council has so far not adopted any decision on that proposal; whereas, in order to satisfy consumption demand and to prevent serious disturbance on the Community market, the Commission is obliged to increase the volume of the tariff quota on the basis of the forecast balance;
Whereas the Court of Justice, in its ruling dated 26 November 1996 in case C 68/95, rightly stated that 'Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 authorizes and, depending on the circumstances, requires the Commission to lay down rules catering for cases of hardship arising from the fact that importers of third-country bananas or non-traditional ACP bananas meet difficulties threatening their existence when an exceptionally low quota has been allocated to them on the basis of the reference years to be taken into consideration under Article 19 (2) of that regulation, where those difficulties are inherent in the transition from the national arrangements existing before the entry into force of the regulation to the common organization of the market and are not caused by a lack of care on the part of the traders concerned`;
Whereas, as a result of that ruling, a number of operators submitted to the Commission applications for additional allocations claiming cases of hardship; whereas, in order to accede during 1997 to those applications which appear justified in the light of the principles handed down by the Court of Justice, a special reserve should be created within the tariff quota;
Whereas the Management Committee has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its Chairman,
The tariff quota for imports of third-country and non-traditional ACP bananas provided for in Articles 18 and 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 shall be 2 553 000 tonnes for 1997.
Within that tariff quota, a maximum quantity of 10 000 tonnes shall be reserved to allow the adoption of special measures pursuant to Article 30 of that Regulation with a view to settling cases of hardship encountered by certain operators, following the entry into force of the common organization of the market in bananas. That quantity shall not be taken into account for the allocation of import licences to operators in categories A, B and C pursuant to Article 19 (1) and (2) of that Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
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32010R0852 | Commission Regulation (EU) No 852/2010 of 27 September 2010 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
| 28.9.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 253/48
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 852/2010
of 27 September 2010
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 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,
Whereas:
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,
The standard import values referred to in Article 138 of Regulation (EC) No 1580/2007 are fixed in the Annex hereto.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 September 2010.
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32000D0812 | 2000/812/EC: Council Decision of 14 December 2000 on the conclusion of an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters concerning the provisional application of the Protocol setting out, for the period 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2003, the fishing opportunities and financial contribution provided for in the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire on fishing off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire
| Council Decision
of 14 December 2000
on the conclusion of an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters concerning the provisional application of the Protocol setting out, for the period 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2003, the fishing opportunities and financial contribution provided for in the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire on fishing off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire
(2000/812/EC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 300(2) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas:
(1) Pursuant to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire on fishing off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire(1), the Community and the Côte d'Ivoire conducted negotiations to determine the amendments or additions to be made to the Agreement at the end of the period of application of the Protocol annexed thereto.
(2) As a result of those negotiations, a new Protocol was initialled on 26 May 2000.
(3) Under the said Protocol, Community fishermen enjoy fishing opportunities in waters under the sovereignty or jurisdiction of Côte d'Ivoire from 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2003.
(4) The Protocol in question must be applied at the earliest opportunity if fishing activities by Community vessels are not to be interrupted. To that end, the two Parties initialled an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters providing for the provisional application of the initialled Protocol from the day following that on which the Protocol in force expired. That Agreement should be approved pending a final decision to be adopted in accordance with Article 37 of the Treaty.
(5) The method of allocating the fishing opportunities among the Member States should also be defined on the basis of the traditional allocation of fishing opportunities under the Fisheries Agreement,
The Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters concerning the provisional application of the Protocol setting out, for the period 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2003, the fishing opportunities and financial contribution provided for in the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire on fishing off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire is hereby approved on behalf of the Community.
The texts of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters and the Protocol are attached to this Decision.
The fishing opportunities set out in the Protocol shall be allocated among the Member States as follows:
(a) demersal species:
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(b) tuna fishing:
(i) tuna seiners
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(ii) surface longliners
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(iii) pole-and-line tuna vessels
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If licence applications from these Member States do not exhaust the fishing opportunities set out in the Protocol, the Commission may consider licence applications from any other Member State.
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32000L0047 | Council Directive 2000/47/EC of 20 July 2000 amending Directives 69/169/EEC and 92/12/EEC as regards temporary quantitative restrictions on beer imports into Finland
| Council Directive 2000/47/EC
of 20 July 2000
amending Directives 69/169/EEC and 92/12/EEC as regards temporary quantitative restrictions on beer imports into Finland
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 93 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission(1),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament(2),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee(3),
Whereas:
(1) Article 26 of Council Directive 92/12/EEC of 25 February 1992 on the general arrangements for products subject to excise duty and on the holding, movement and monitoring of such products(4), grants Finland the right to maintain a quantitative limit of 15 litres for beer acquisitions from other Member States, as laid down in the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden, which is exempted from Finnish taxes.
(2) Finland should take measures to ensure that imports of beer from third countries are not allowed under more favourable conditions than such import from other Member States.
(3) Article 26 of Directive 92/12/EEC authorises Finland to continue to apply, until 31 December 2003, the same restrictions on the quantity of goods which may be brought into its territory without further excise duty payment as applied on 31 December 1996, those restrictions being progressively removed.
(4) Articles 4 and 5 of Council Directive 69/169/EEC of 28 May 1969 on the harmonisation of provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action relating to exemption from turnover taxes and excise duty on imports in international travel(5) provide for allowances in respect of excisable goods contained in the luggage of travellers coming from countries other than Member States on condition that such imports have no commercial character.
(5) The provisions of Article 26 of Directive 92/12/EEC represent a derogation from a fundamental principal of the internal market, namely the right of its citizens to transport goods purchased for their own use throughout the Community without incurring liability to new duty charges, so that it is necessary to limit its effects as far as possible.
(6) It is appropriate, at this juncture, to raise the current quantitative limit for beer acquisitions from other Member States in several steps in order to align Finland gradually on the Community rules laid down in Articles 8 and 9 of Directive 92/12/EEC and to ensure a complete removal of intra-Community allowances for beer by 31 December 2003, as provided for in Article 26(1) of that Directive.
(7) Finland has experienced problems in respect of alcohol policy and social and health policy, as well as public order, as a result of increased private imports, inter alia, of beer.
(8) Finland has requested a derogation to apply a limitation for beer imports from countries other than Member States, of not less than 6 litres.
(9) Account is taken of the geographical situation of Finland, the economic difficulties of Finnish retail traders located in the border regions and the considerable loss of revenue caused by the increased imports of beer from countries other than Member States.
(10) It is therefore necessary to authorise Finland to apply a restriction of not less than 6 litres on beer imports from countries other than Member States.
(11) It is appropriate to maintain this derogation two years longer than the restrictions on beer brought to Finland from other Member States, in order to allow the Finnish retail trade to adapt to the new situation,
The following paragraph shall be added to Article 5 of Directive 69/169/EEC:
"9. By way of derogation from Article 4(1), Finland shall be authorised, until 31 December 2005, to apply a quantitative limit of not less than 6 litres for the importation of beer from countries other than Member States."
The following sentence shall be added to the second subparagraph of Article 26(1) of Directive 92/12/EEC:"Finland shall increase the quantitative restrictions for beer to at least 24 litres from the entry into force of the Finnish legislation transposing Article 5(9) of Directive 69/169/EEC, to at least 32 litres from 1 January 2001 and to at least 64 litres from 1 January 2003."
1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 1 November 2000 at the latest. They shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.
When Member States adopt these measures, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. The methods of making such reference shall be laid down by Member States.
2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.
This Directive shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
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32014R1084 | Commission Regulation (EU) No 1084/2014 of 15 October 2014 amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the use of diphosphates (E 450) as a raising agent and acidity regulator in prepared yeast based doughs Text with EEA relevance
| 16.10.2014 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 298/8
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1084/2014
of 15 October 2014
amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the use of diphosphates (E 450) as a raising agent and acidity regulator in prepared yeast based doughs
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on food additives (1), and in particular Article 10(3),
Whereas:
(1) Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 lays down a Union list of food additives approved for use in foods and their conditions of use.
(2) The Union list of food additives may be updated in accordance with the common procedure referred to in Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1331/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) either on the initiative of the Commission or following an application.
(3) An application for authorisation of the use of diphosphates (E 450) as a raising agent and acidity regulator in prepared yeast doughs was submitted on 7 July 2013 and was made available to the Member States.
(4) A raising system based on sodium bicarbonate (E 500), diphosphates (E 450) and yeast is required for fresh doughs that are used as basis for the preparation of pizzas, quiches, tarts and similar products. These doughs should not raise under cooling conditions, but the raising should be activated during the final preparation by the consumer. Sodium bicarbonate is mainly responsible for the raising, while yeast with low raising activities is particularly needed to develop the typical aromatic taste. The diphosphates are required as acidity regulators in order to control the carbon dioxide formation from the sodium bicarbonate.
(5) Such a raising system based on sodium bicarbonate, diphosphates and yeast can be used as an alternative to the use of self-raising flour in which higher levels of phosphates are authorised. The authorisation of the use of diphosphates in prepared yeast based doughs will thus not result in an increase of intake of phosphates. It is therefore appropriate to authorise the use of diphosphates as a raising agent and acidity regulator in yeast based doughs used as basis for pizzas, quiches, tarts and similar products.
(6) Pursuant to Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1331/2008, the Commission is to seek the opinion of the European Food Safety Authority in order to update the Union list of food additives set out in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, except where the update in question is not liable to have an effect on human health. Since the authorisation of the use of diphosphates as acidity regulator in yeast based doughs used as basis for pizza's, quiches, tarts and similar products is not considered of safety concern, it is not necessary to seek the opinion of the European Food Safety Authority.
(7) Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(8) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,
Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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32001R1489 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1489/2001 of 19 July 2001 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1627/89 on the buying in of beef by invitation to tender
| Commission Regulation (EC) No 1489/2001
of 19 July 2001
amending Regulation (EEC) No 1627/89 on the buying in of beef by invitation to tender
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef and veal(1), and in particular Article 47(8) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1627/89 of 9 June 1989 on the buying in of beef by invitation to tender(2), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1236/2001(3), opened buying in by invitation to tender in certain Member States or regions of a Member State for certain quality groups.
(2) The application of Article 47(3), (4) and (5) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 and the need to limit intervention to buying in the quantities necessary to ensure reasonable support for the market result, on the basis of the prices of which the Commission is aware, in an amendment, in accordance with the Annex hereto, to the list of Member States or regions of a Member State where buying in is open by invitation to tender, and the list of the quality groups which may be bought in,
The Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1627/89 is hereby replaced by the Annex hereto.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 20 July 2001.
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32000D0012(01) | 2001/150/EC: Decision of the European Central Bank of 10 November 2000 on the publication of certain legal acts and instruments of the European Central Bank (ECB/2000/12)
| Decision of the European Central Bank
of 10 November 2000
on the publication of certain legal acts and instruments of the European Central Bank
(ECB/2000/12)
(2001/150/EC)
THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
,
Having regard to the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank (hereinafter referred to as the "Statute") and in particular to Articles 10.4, 34.1 and 34.2 thereof,
After consulting the General Council of the European Central Bank (ECB),
Whereas:
(1) The ECB attaches great importance to enhancing the transparency of the regulatory framework of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). In line with this approach, legal acts and instruments adopted by the ECB should be made available to the gernal public for public awareness even in the absence of an obligation to do so pursuant to the Treaty establishing the European Community or the Statute.
(2) Transparency can best be served through the publication of ECB acts and instruments in all official Community languages in the Official Journal of the European Communities,
Guideline ECB/1998/NP10 of 3 November 1998 on the implementation of Article 52 of the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank (Annex I to this Decision), Guideline ECB/1999/NP11 of 22 April 1999 on the authorisation to issue national banknotes during the transitional period (Annex II to this Decision) and Guideline ECB/1998/NP28 of 22 December 1998 concerning the common rules and minimum standards to protect the confidentiality of the individual statistical information collected by the European Central Bank with the assistance of the national central banks (Annex III to this Decision); Decision ECB/1998/NP1 of 19 June 1998 on the appointment and on the duration of the mandate of the external auditor of the European Central Bank (Annex IV to this Decision); Decision ECB/1998/NP15 of 1 December 1998 concerning the performance by the European Central Bank of certain functions relating to medium-term financial assistance for Member States' balance of payments (Annex V to this Decision) and Recommendation ECB/1999/NP7 of 8 April 1999 on the accounting treatment of costs incurred in connection with the issue of banknotes (Annex VI to this Decision) are hereby published.
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31989D0619 | 89/619/EEC, Euratom, ECSC: Commission Decision of 29 November 1989 adjusting the weightings applicable from 1 November 1989 to the remuneration of officials of the European Communities serving in non-member countries
| COMMISSION DECISION
of 29 November 1989
adjusting the weightings applicable from 1 November 1989 to the remuneration of officials of the European Communities serving in non-member countries
(89/619/EEC, Euratom, ECSC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing a Single Council and a Single Commission of the European Communities,
Having regard to the Staff Regulations of officials of the European Communities laid down by Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68 (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 2187/89 (2), and in particular the second paragraph of Article 13 of Annex X thereto,
Whereas, pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 13 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations, Council Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 2899/89 (3) laid down the weightings to be applied from 1 July 1989 to the remuneration of officials serving in non-member countries payable in the currency of their country of employment;
Whereas the Commission has made a number of adjustments to these weightings in recent months, pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 13 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations (4);
Whereas some of these weightings should be adjusted with effect from 1 November 1989 given that the statistics available to the Commission show that in certain non-member countries the variation in the cost of living measured on the basis of the weighting and the corresponding exchange rate has exceeded 5 % since weightings were last laid down or adjusted,
With effect from 1 November 1989 the weightings applicable to the remuneration of officials serving in non-member countries payable in the currency of their country of employment are adjusted as shown in the Annex.
The exchange rates for the payment of such remuneration shall be those used for implementation of the budget of the European Communities during the month preceding the date on which this Decision takes effect. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
31996R1236 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1236/96 of 28 June 1996 amending Regulations (EEC) No 2699/93 and (EC) No 1559/94 and fixing the available quantities for the period 1 July to 30 September 1996 under the Community tariff quotas provided for in the Europe Agreements pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 3066/95
| COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1236/96 of 28 June 1996 amending Regulations (EEC) No 2699/93 and (EC) No 1559/94 and fixing the available quantities for the period 1 July to 30 September 1996 under the Community tariff quotas provided for in the Europe Agreements pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 3066/95
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1194/96 (1) extending Council Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 of 22 December 1995 establishing certain concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and providing for the adjustment, as an autonomous and transitional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for in the Europe Agreements to take account of the Agreement on Agriculture concluded during the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations (2), and in particular Article 8 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2771/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the market in eggs (3), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2916/95 (4), and in particular Article 22 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the market in poultrymeat (5), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2916/95, and in particular Article 22 thereof,
Whereas concessions for certain products in the poultrymeat and egg sectors have been granted under Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2699/93 of 30 September 1993 laying down detailed rules for the application in the poultrymeat and eggs sectors of the arrangements provided for in the Interim Agreements between the Community and the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Hungary and the former Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (6), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 354/96 (7), and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1559/94 of 30 June 1994 laying down detailed rules for the application in the poultrymeat and egg sectors of the arrangements provided for in the Interim Agreements between the Community, of the one part and Bulgaria and Romania, of the other part (8), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 354/96;
Whereas, in order to prevent speculation and in the light of the experience gained, particularly regarding the large number of applicants, the conditions for access to the scheme should be amended to exclude importers who do not intend to use the licences to cover their own needs and the maximum quantity to be imported each quarter should be reduced;
Whereas the duration of the validity of licences enables importers to submit applications during the first 10 days of each quarter;
Whereas the import licences for the quantities available for the period 1 January to 30 June 1996 have already been issued on the basis of Regulations (EEC) No 2699/93 and (EC) 1559/94; whereas the quantities available for the period 1 July to 30 September 1996 should therefore be fixed taking into consideration the quantities awarded and the quotas set for that period;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Poultrymeat and Eggs,
Regulations (EEC) No 2699/93 and (EC) No 1559/94 are amended as follows:
1. Article 3 (a) of both Regulations is replaced by the following:
'(a) applicants for import licences must be natural or legal persons who, at the time at which applications are submitted, can prove to the satisfaction of the competent authorities in the Member States that they have imported or exported at least 50 tonnes (by weight of product) in the case of products covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75 and 5 tonnes (eggs and shell equivalent) in the case of products covered by Regulations (EEC) No 2771/75 and (EEC) No 2783/75 during both of the two calendar years preceding the year in which the licence applications were submitted. However retail establishments or restaurants selling their products to final consumers are excluded from the benefit of this scheme.`
2. The last subparagraph of Article 3 (b) of both Regulations is replaced by the following:
'A licence application must relate to at least 1 tonne and to a maximum of 10 % of the quantity available for the group concerned and the period as specified in Article 2;`.
3. The first subparagraph of Article 4 (1) of both Regulations is replaced by the following:
'1. Licence applications may be lodged only during the first 10 days of each period as specified in Article 2.`
The quantities available for the products in groups 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 43 referred to in Annex I to Regulations (EEC) No 2699/93 and (EC) No 1559/94 for the period 1 July to 30 September 1996 are set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1996.
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31996L0060 | Commission Directive 96/60/EC of 19 September 1996 implementing Council Directive 92/75/EEC with regard to energy labelling of household combined washer-driers
| COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 96/60/EC of 19 September 1996 implementing Council Directive 92/75/EEC with regard to energy labelling of household combined washer-driers
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 92/75/EEC of 22 September 1992 on the indication by labelling and standard product information of the consumption of energy and other resources of household appliances (1), and in particular Articles 9 and 12 thereof,
Whereas electricity use by combined washer-driers accounts for a significant part of total Community energy demand; whereas the scope for reduced energy use by these appliances is substantial;
Whereas a better washing performance often requires a higher consumption of water and energy; whereas information on the washing performance of an appliance is helpful in evaluating the information on its energy and water consumption; whereas this will help consumers make a choice of appliance which is consistent with the rational use of energy;
Whereas the Community, confirming its interest in an international standardization system capable of producing standards that are actually used by all partners in international trade and of meeting the requirements of Community policy, invites the European standards organizations to continue their cooperation with international standards organizations;
Whereas the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (Cenelec) are the bodies recognized as competent to adopt harmonized standards in accordance with the general guidelines for cooperation between the Commission and these two bodies signed on 13 November 1984; whereas, within the meaning of this Directive, a harmonized standard is a technical specification (European standard or harmonization document) adopted by Cenelec, on the basis of a remit (mandate) from the Commission in accordance with the provisions of Council Directive 83/189/EEC of 28 March 1983 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations (2), as last amended by Commission Decision 96/139/EEC (3), and on the basis of those general guidelines;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the committee set up under Article 10 of Directive 92/75/EEC,
1. This Directive shall apply to electric mains operated household combined washer-driers. Appliances that can also use other energy sources are excluded.
2. The information required by this Directive shall be measured in accordance with harmonized standards, the reference numbers of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Communities and for which Member States have published the reference numbers of the national standards transposing those harmonized standards. Throughout this Directive any provisions requiring the giving of information relating to noise shall apply only where that information is required pursuant to Article 3 of Council Directive 86/594/EEC (4). This information, where required, shall be measured in accordance with that Directive.
3. The harmonized standards referred to in paragraph 2 shall be drawn up under mandate from the Commission in accordance with Directive 83/189/EEC.
4. In this Directive, except where the context otherwise requires, expressions used have the same meaning as in Directive 92/75/EEC.
1. The technical documentation referred to in Article 2 (3) of Directive 92/75/EEC shall include:
- the name and address of the supplier,
- a general description of the model, sufficient for it to be uniquely identified,
- information, including drawings as relevant, on the main design features of the model and in particular items which appreciably affect its energy consumption,
- reports of relevant measurement tests carried out on the model under the test procedures of the harmonized standards referred to in Article 1 (2) of this Directive,
- operating instructions, if any.
2. The label referred to in Article 2 (1) of Directive 92/75/EEC shall be as specified in Annex I to this Directive. The label shall be placed on the outside of the front or top of the appliance, in such a way as to be clearly visible and not obscured.
3. The content and format of the fiche referred to in Article 2 (1) of Directive 92/75/EEC shall be as specified in Annex II to this Directive.
4. In the circumstances covered by Article 5 of Directive 92/75/EEC, and where the offer for sale, hire or hire purchase is provides by means of a printed communication, such as a mail order catalogue, then that printed communication shall include all the information specified in Annex III to this Directive.
5. The energy efficiency class of an appliance, and its washing performance class, shall be as determined in accordance with Annex IV.
Member States shall take all necessary measures to ensure that all suppliers and dealers established in their territory fulfil their obligations under this Directive.
1. Member States shall adopt and publish the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 15 July 1997. They shall immediately inform the Commission thereof. They shall apply those provisions from 1 August 1997.
However, Member States shall, until 31 January 1998, permit:
- the placing on the market, the commercialization and/or the display of products and
- the distribution of printed communications referred to in Article 2 (4)
which do not conform with this Directive.
When Member States adopt these provisions, these shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such reference at the time of their official publication. The procedure for such reference shall be adopted by Member States.
2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.
This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
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31995L0035 | Commission Directive 95/35/EC of 14 July 1995 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market
| COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 95/35/EC of 14 July 1995 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (Text with EEA relevance)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 91/414/EEC of 15 July 1991 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (1), as last amended by Commission Directive 94/79/EC (2), and in particular Article 18 (2) thereof,
Whereas Annexes II and III to Directive 91/414/EEC set out the requirements for the dossier to be submitted by applicants respectively for the inclusion of an active substance in Annex I and for the authorization of a plant protection product;
Whereas it is necessary, in Annexes II and III to Directive 91/414/EEC, to indicate to the applicants as precisely as possible any details on the required information, such as the circumstances, conditions and technical protocols under which certain data has to be generated; whereas those details should be introduced as soon as available in order to permit applicants to use them in the preparation of their dossiers;
Whereas the introductions to Annexes II and III to Directive 91/414/EEC currently refer to the application of the principles of good laboratory practice (GLP) where testing is conducted to obtain data on the properties and safety of the substances and preparations; whereas therefore, without prejudice to the provisions of Article 9 (1), third subparagraph thereof, GLP should in principle be applied to residue studies, in particular when they are necessary for the dossiers to be submitted with a view to the inclusion of active substances in Annex I to the said Directive;
Whereas, however, it has become evident that in certrain Member States the necessary infrastructure is not yet available for applying GLP requirements to residue studies from supervised trials on crops, food or feedingstuffs; whereas on the other hand Member States already applying GLP requirements should be allowed to continue to do so in trials performed on their territory; whereas this principle should also be clarified for the purpose of the derogations from GLP already contained in the Directive;
Whereas it is necessary to provide for a temporary derogation for the application of GLP requirements for active substances already on the market two years after notification of Directive 91/414/EEC whenever a number of precautionary conditions are satisfied; whereas, however, it is not necessary to provide for such a derogation service for active substances not brought onto the market two years after the notification of the said Directive;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plant Health,
Annexes II and III to Directive 91/414/EEC are amended as set out in the Annex to this Directive.
Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 30 June 1996. They shall immediately inform the Commission thereof.
When Member States adopt these provisions, these shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such a reference at the time of their official publication. The procedure for such reference shall be adopted by Member States.
This Directive shall enter into force on 1 July 1995.
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32003D0847 | 2003/847/JHA: Council Decision 2003/847/JHA of 27 November 2003 concerning control measures and criminal sanctions in respect of the new synthetic drugs 2C-I, 2C-T-2, 2C-T-7 and TMA-2
| Council Decision 2003/847/JHA
of 27 November 2003
concerning control measures and criminal sanctions in respect of the new synthetic drugs 2C-I, 2C-T-2, 2C-T-7 and TMA-2
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on European Union,
Having regard to Council Joint Action 97/396/JHA of 16 June 1997 concerning the information exchange, risk assessment and the control of new synthetic drugs(1), and in particular Article 5(1) thereof,
Having regard to the initiative of the Italian Republic,
Whereas:
(1) Risk assessment reports on 2C-I (2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenethylamine), 2C-T-2 (2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethylthiophenethylamine), 2C-T-7 (2,5-dimethoxy-4-(n)-propylthiophenethylamine), TMA-2 (2,4,5-trimethoxyamphetamine) were drawn up on the basis of Article 4(3) of Joint Action 97/396/JHA at a meeting convened under the auspices of the Scientific Committee of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.
(2) 2C-I, 2C-T-2, 2C-T-7 and TMA-2 are amphetamine derivatives having structural features of phenethylamines, which are associated with hallucinogenic and stimulant activity. 2C-I, 2C-T-2, 2C-T-7 and TMA-2 have not been reported to be associated with fatal or non-fatal intoxication within the Community. However 2C-I, 2C-T-2, 2C-T-7 and TMA-2 are hallucinogenic drugs that carry potential risks common to other hallucinogenic substances, such as 2C-B, DOB, TMA and DOM, already classified in Schedules I or II to the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances. Therefore a risk of acute or chronic toxicity cannot be excluded.
(3) 2C-I, 2C-T-2, 2C-T-7 and TMA-2 are not currently listed in any of the Schedules to the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances.
(4) At present, 2C-I and 2C-T-2 are controlled under the national drugs legislation in five Member States; 2C-T-7 and TMA-2 are controlled in four Member States.
(5) 2C-I, 2C-T-2, 2C-T-7 and TMA-2 have no therapeutic value or industrial use.
(6) 2C-I has been identified in four Member States; 2C-T-2 and 2C-T-7 have been identified in six Member States; TMA-2 has been identified in five Member States. At present one Member State has reported one case of international trafficking of 2C-T-2 involving two Member States; no international trafficking of 2C-I, 2C-T-7 and TMA 2 has been reported. Laboratories involving the production of 2C-I, 2C-T-2, 2C-T-7 and TMA-2 have been seized in three Member States. In one of these Member States, the seizure of a large amount of the intermediate precursor 2C-H and documentation suggests the production of 2C-I. The major chemical precursors of 2C-I, 2C-T-2, 2C-T-7 and TMA-2 are commercially available.
(7) 2C-I, 2C-T-2, 2C-T-7 and TMA-2 should be subjected by the Member States to control measures and criminal penalties, as provided for under their legislation complying with their obligations under the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances with respect to substances listed in Schedules I or II thereto,
Member States shall take the necessary measures, in accordance with their national law, to submit 2C-I (2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenethylamine), 2C-T-2 (2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethylthiophenethylamine), 2C-T-7 (2,5-dimethoxy-4-(n)propylthiophenethylamine) and TMA-2 (2,4,5-trimethoxyamphetamine) to control measures and criminal penalties, as provided for under their legislation complying with their obligations under the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances with respect to substances listed in Schedules I or II thereto.
Member States shall, in accordance with the third subparagraph of Article 5(1) of Joint Action 97/396/JHA, take the measures referred to in Article 1 within three months of the date on which this Decision takes effect.
Within six months of the date on which this Decision takes effect Member States shall inform the General Secretariat of the Council and the Commission of the measures they have taken.
This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall take effect on the day following that of its publication. | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
32003L0012 | Commission Directive 2003/12/EC of 3 February 2003 on the reclassification of breast implants in the framework of Directive 93/42/EEC concerning medical devices (Text with EEA relevance)
| Commission Directive 2003/12/EC
of 3 February 2003
on the reclassification of breast implants in the framework of Directive 93/42/EEC concerning medical devices
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices(1), as last amended by Directive 2001/104/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(2), and in particular Article 13(1)(b) thereof,
Having regard to the request submitted by France and the United Kingdom,
Whereas:
(1) On the basis of the classification criteria set out to Annex IX to Directive 93/42/EEC, breast implants are in principal Class IIb medical devices.
(2) France and the United Kingdom requested the classification of breast implants as Class III medical devices by way of derogation from the provisions of Annex IX to Directive 93/42/EEC.
(3) In order to ensure the highest possible level of safety for breast implants, notified bodies should, under the full quality assurance system, carry out an examination of the design dossier of the product in accordance with point 4 of Annex II to Directive 93/42/EEC. Consequently, it is necessary to proceed to the reclassification of breast implants as Class III medical devices.
(4) It is necessary to determine the regime applicable to breast implants placed on the market before 1 September 2003 under Article 11(3)(a) or 11(3)(b)(iii) of Directive 93/42/EEC.
(5) The measures provided for in this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Medical Devices set up by Article 6(2) of Council Directive 90/385/EEC of 20 June 1990 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to active implantable medical devices(3), as last amended by Directive 93/68/EEC(4),
By way of derogation from the rules set out in Annex IX to Directive 93/42/EEC, breast implants shall be reclassified as medical devices falling within Class III.
1. Breast implants placed on the market before 1 September 2003 pursuant to Article 11(3)(a) or 11(3)(b)(iii) of Directive 93/42/EEC shall be subject to a conformity reassessment procedure as Class III medical devices before 1 March 2004.
2. By way of derogation from Article 11(11) of Directive 93/42/EEC, the decisions on breast implants taken by the notified bodies before 1 September 2003 under Article 11(3)(a) of Directive 93/42/EEC may not be extended.
1. Member States shall adopt and publish the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive, not later that 1 August 2003. They shall immediately inform the Commission thereof.
When Member States adopt these provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such a reference at the time of their official publication. The procedure for such reference shall be adopted by the Member States.
Member States shall apply these measures with effect from 1 September 2003.
2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the texts of the provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.
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31976D0949 | 76/949/EEC: Commission Decision of 3 December 1976 on the implementation of the reform of agricultural structures in the United Kingdom pursuant to Directive 72/159/EEC and to Titles III and IV of Directive 75/268/EEC (Only the English text is authentic)
| COMMISSION DECISION of 3 December 1976 on the implementation of the reform of agricultural structures in the United Kingdom pursuant to Directive 72/159/EEC and to Titles III and IV of Directive 75/268/EEC (Only the English text is authentic) (76/949/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 72/159/EEC of 17 April 1972 on the modernization of farms (1), and in particular Article 18 (3) thereof,
Having regard to Council Directive 75/268/EEC of 28 April 1975 on mountain and hill farming and farming in certain less-favoured areas (2), and in particular Article 13 thereof,
Whereas on 22 June and 18 August 1976 the Government of the United Kingdom notified, pursuant to Article 17 (4) of Directive 72/159/EEC, the following statutory instruments: - 1976 No 743 : the farm and horticulture development (amendment) regulations 1976,
- 1976 No 547 : the farm capital grant (variation) scheme 1976,
- 1976 No 761 : the horticulture capital grant (variation) scheme 1976;
Whereas Article 18 (3) of Directive 72/159/EEC requires the Commission to decide whether, having regard to the abovementioned notification, the existing provisions for the implementation in the United Kingdom of Directive 72/159/EEC, which from the subject of Commission Decisions 75/5/EEC of 27 November 1974 (3), 75/434/EEC of 8 July 1975 (4) and 76/482/EEC of 21 April 1976 (5) on the implementation of the reform of agricultural structures in the United Kingdom pursuant to Directive 72/159/EEC, continue to satisfy the conditions for financial contribution by the Community to common measures within the meaning of Article 15 of Directive 72/159/EEC;
Whereas the abovementioned provisions are consistent with the requirements and objectives of Directive 72/159/EEC and of Titles III and IV of Directive 75/268/EEC;
Whereas the EAGGF Committee has been consulted on the financial aspects;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Agricultural Structures,
The provisions for the implementation of Directive 72/159/EEC notified by the Government of the United Kingdom on 22 May 1974 continue, having regard to the provisions notified on 22 June 1976 and 18 August 1976, to satisfy the conditions for financial contribution by the Community to common measures within the meaning of Article 15 of Directive 72/159/EEC.
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31980R2941 | Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2941/80 of 13 November 1980 laying down detailed rules for the application of the system of production aid for olive oil
| COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2941/80 of 13 November 1980 laying down detailed rules for the application of the system of production aid for olive oil
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation 136/66/EEC of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common organization of the market in oils and fats (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1917/80 (2), and in particular Article 5 (5) thereof,
Whereas under Article 8 of Regulation (EEC No 2529/80 (3), each producer Member State is to set up a system of administrative checks designed to guarantee that the product for which an aid application is submitted is eligible for aid ; whereas, consequently, the crop declarations and aid applications to be presented by applicants must include a minimum amount of information necessary for the carrying out of these checks;
Whereas the checks referred to in Article 3 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2529/80 must embrace a sufficiently representative number of crop declarations by olive growers who are members of organizations ; whereas under Article 5 (2) the organizations can require any supporting documents necessary to establish the amount of their member's production ; whereas the nature of such supporting documents should be defined in order to facilitate uniform application of this system;
Whereas the aid to be granted to growers who are not members of a producer organization must be calculated from the standard olive and oil yields of olive trees ; whereas the use of standard yields is also necessary for determination of the aid to be given to growers who are members of an organization in cases where they sell their olives to a purchaser other than a mill owner;
Whereas, in the interests of good administration, provision should be made for informing the Member States at the end of each marketing year of the number of olive growers whose production is still to be verified by the producer organizations;
Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 2529/80 requires producer organizations to check the stock records and activity of the mills indicated to them by the Member States ; whereas, in order for the checks to be properly carried out, it should be laid down that the organizations must have access to the mills and to their stock records;
Whereas, in order to ensure that mills collaborate more closely with the running of the aid system, provision should be made for participation by their professional associations in the checks carried out by producer organizations on the mills' premises;
Whereas, in order to ensure that the aid system runs smoothly, the checks referred to in Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 2529/80 and to be carried out in the mills by the producer organizations should be defined;
Whereas to ensure that the aid system functions properly the minimum information to be given in the stock records of each mill and the checks to be made with regard to these records by the Member State concerned should be specified;
Whereas rules for determining the amount of aid to be granted to members of producer organizations who have had their olives pressed in a mill which has not complied with the obligations on stock records should be determined;
Whereas the checks specified in Article 8 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2529/80 must cover a percentage which provides adequate guarantees that the system will run properly, due account being taken of control possibilities in the Member State concerned;
Whereas it is specified in Article 8 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2529/80 that the producer Member States are to carry out, for each producer organization, random checks on the accuracy of the crop declarations and applications for aid of their members ; whereas these checks must cover a sufficiently representative number of growers, due account being taken of the control guarantees given by the organization;
(1) OJ No 172, 30.9.1966, p. 3025/66. (2) OJ No L 186, 19.7.1980, p. 1. (3) OJ No L 259, 2.10.1980, p. 3. Whereas doubts may arise as to the quantity of oil eligible for aid because of a discrepancy between the quantity for which aid is demanded and that recorded in the stock records of the mill ; whereas principles of good management dictate that the aid should be paid for the smaller quantity;
Whereas in order to ensure that the aid system is correctly applied to growers who are not members of an organization it is necessary that the yields to be used be determined for production zones with given characteristics;
Whereas to facilitate the fixing of yields it is advisable that Commission officials take part in the preparatory work;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Oils and Fats.
1. The crop declarations referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 2529/80 shall be submitted by 30 June 1981 at the latest.
Producer organizations may, however, submit the crop declaration at the latest when they present the aid application.
2. Each crop declaration shall include: (a) if it is submitted by the olive grower, his name, forename and address;
(b) if it is submitted by a producer organization, the name and address of the organization and the names, forenames and addresses of each of its members;
(c) the location of the holding or holdings;
(d) the cadastral reference of the holding or holdings;
(e) for each holding: - the number of plots and if possible the area of each under olives,
- the total number of bearing trees whose olives are used for oil production.
Declarations submitted by growers who are not members of an organization must also include: - where the olives are pressed on behalf of the declarant, the address of the mills and the date of pressing,
- where the olives are sold, the name and address of the purchaser and a copy of the sale invoice or of any equivalent document must be attached.
3. Producer Member States may decide that crop declarations submitted during previous marketing years are valid for the 1980/81 marketing year provided that: - the holdings concerned have not undergone charges such as to affect their olive and oil production potential,
- the declarations include all the information specified in paragraph 2.
The checks referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 3 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2529/80 shall cover at least 10 % of crop declarations of producer organizations members.
1. The application for aid to be submitted by each producer organization shall contain at least the following information: (a) the name and address of the organization;
(b) the name, forename and address of each of the members who have completed their production of oil;
(c) the quantity of oil produced by each member, with an explicit statement that the product is virgin olive oil;
(d) the location of the holdings where the olives were harvested, with reference to the crop declaration;
(e) the mill or mills in which the oil was produced, indicating in each case the quantity of olives used and the quantity of oil produced.
2. Where the growers have sold their olives, the application for aid shall contain the following information in addition to the particulars specified in 1 (a) and (d): (a) the name, forename and address of the purchaser;
(b) a copy of the invoice for the sale of the olives or of any equivalent document;
(c) the quantity of oil actually produced, if the olives were sold directly to a mill for immediate pressing.
1. Where olive growers who are members of a producer organization have sold some or all of their olives before harvesting or to a purchaser other than those provided for in Article 3 (2) (c), the quantity of virgin olive oil eligible for aid shall be determined by applying to the number of olive trees referred to in the second indent of Article 1 (2) (e) the yields of olives and oil fixed for the production area concerned pursuant to Article 12.
2. In the case of olive growers who are not members of an organization, the quantity of virgin olive oil eligible for aid shall be determined by applying to the number of olive trees referred to in the second indent of Article 1 (2) (e) the yields of olives and oil fixed for the production area concerned pursuant to Article 12.
3. The quantity of olive-residue oil eligible for aid shall be equal to 8 % of the quantity of virgin olive oil produced from the olives from which the residue is obtained and in respect of which entitlement to the aid has been established in accordance with the preceding paragraphs.
1. The supporting documents to be supplied pursuant to the first subparagraph of Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2529/80 shall include: (a) documents concerning special cultivation operations carried out on the olive grove;
(b) proof of the labour force employed in the olive grove or of use of mechanical or other means for the olive harvest;
(c) purchase invoice for fertilizer and plant health products employed, or proof that such operations have been carried out.
Where the checks referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 2529/80 are not completed for all members at the end of a given marketing year, the producer organization shall, not later than 31 October, inform the Member State concerned of the number of members whose production has not yet been checked.
1. During the milling period, the producer organizations shall check, in mills indicated to them by the Member States: - that stock records are kept as required by Article 8,
- the milling capacity,
- the yields of oil from the olives pressed
and shall further verify on the basis of the stock records: - that the quantities stated to have been pressed in a given period tally with the mill's pressing capacity;
- the oil yields obtained by growers who had their olives pressed during the period prior to the checks.
For this purpose the producer organizations shall have access to the mills and to their stock records.
2. If the mills are members or a professional association, representatives of that association shall, at their request, take part in the checks carried out by the producer organizations.
3. Where producer organizations: - do not have access to mills or their stock records, or
- find, during the checks and verifications referred to in paragraph 1: (a) irregularities in the stock records, or
(b) significant discrepancies between the mill's pressing capacity and the quantities of olives pressed, or between the oil yields recorded during inspection visits to the mill and the yields shown in the stock records,
they shall inform the Member State concerned accordingly without delay.
Without prejudice to other criteria to be fixed by the producer Member State pursuant to Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 2529/80, the mills shall keep daily stock records which show the following at least: (a) the quantities of olives received, consignment by consignment, giving the producer of each consignment;
(b) the quantities of olives pressed;
(c) the quantities of oil obtained;
(d) the quantities of oil leaving the mill, consignment by consignment, indicating the consignee;
(e) the quantities of olive residue leaving the mill, consignment by consignment, indicating the consignee.
If the oil and olive residue obtained is sold, the invoice for the sale of each consignment must be submitted by the miller at the request of the authorities who control the stock records.
1. The producer Member States shall check, in the cases referred to in Article 7 (3), the activities and stock records of the mills concerned.
2. In respect of mills which are not subject to checks by producer organizations, the Member States shall verify by means of random checks: - that the stock records are kept in accordance with the provisions of Article 8;
- that the quantities referred to in Article 8 (c) shown in the stock records for a given period correspond to the quantities of oil which can be obtained during that period by the mill in question, taking account of the actual degree of use of the mill's pressing capacity.
3. Where the verifications referred to in the above paragraphs reveal irregularities the Member States shall, without prejudice to other penalties applicable: - withhold approval of the mill in question for the 1981/82 marketing year,
- to the extent that they cannot verify the actual production of olive growers who have had their olives pressed in the mill in question, determine the quantity of oil qualifying for aid from the information given in the grower's crop declarations and from the olive and oil yields for the production zone concerned.
4. With regard to the files sent to the Member States pursuant to Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2529/80, the Member States in question shall determine the quantity of olive oil qualifying for aid from the information given in the growers' crop declarations and from the olive and oil yields for the production zone concerned.
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1. The checks to be carried out by the producer Member States pursuant to Article 8 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 2529/80 shall cover at least 5 % of growers who are not members of organizations.
2. Producer Member States shall verify the checking procedures followed by the producer organizations in order to comply with the obligations arising under Articles 5 and 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 2529/80.
1
The Member State shall check by random sampling that the quantities of olives and of oil shown in the application for aid submitted by a producer organization and the quantities shown in the stock records of the mill which pressed the olives agree. If they do not agree the Member State concerned shall determine the quantity of oil eligible for aid on the basis of the smallest quantity indicated by the check.
2
The yields of olives and of oil shall be fixed in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 38 of Regulation 136/66/EEC.
To this end, the producer Member States shall supply the Commission with data established for homogeneous production areas taking into account in particular: - the geography and the geology of the region concerned;
- the main varieties of olive tree, their age, and the most frequent type of shape pruning.
Agents of the Commission shall participate in the establishment of these data.
For each production area, such data shall include: (a) the geographical extent of the area;
(b) an estimate of the olive growing area;
(c) an estimate of the average number of olive trees per hectare under specialized cultivation;
(d) the average quantity of olives produced per tree;
(e) the average quantity of oil produced per 100 kilograms of olives.
3
The advance payment referred to in Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 2529/80 shall be granted only for quantities of oil obtained from olives pressed by producers who belong to a producer organization or who press the olives for their own account.
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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 1 November 1980.
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32009R0777 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 777/2009 of 26 August 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 575/2009 fixing an acceptance percentage for the issuing of export licences, rejecting export-licence applications and suspending the lodging of export-licence applications for out-of-quota sugar
| 27.8.2009 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 224/5
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 777/2009
of 26 August 2009
amending Regulation (EC) No 575/2009 fixing an acceptance percentage for the issuing of export licences, rejecting export-licence applications and suspending the lodging of export-licence applications for out-of-quota sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
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 Regulation (EC) No 951/2006 of 30 June 2006 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 as regards trade with third countries in the sugar sector (2), and in particular Article 7e in conjunction with Article 9(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) According to Article 61, first subparagraph, point (d) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 the sugar produced during a marketing year in excess of the quota referred to in Article 56 of that Regulation may be exported only within the quantitative limit to be fixed.
(2) Commission Regulation (EC) No 924/2008 of 19 September 2008 fixing the quantitative limit for the exports of out-of-quota sugar and isoglucose until the end of the 2008/2009 marketing year (3) has fixed the quantitative limit at 650 000 tonnes.
(3) The quantities of sugar covered by applications for export licences exceeded that quantitative limit. Therefore Commission Regulation (EC) No 575/2009 (4) suspended the lodging of applications for out-of-quota sugar export licences for the period 6 July 2009 to 30 September 2009.
(4) By amendment of Regulation (EC) No 924/2008, introduced by Commission Regulation (EC) No 776/2009 (5), the quantitative limit for the exports of out-of-quota sugar in respect of marketing year 2008/2009 was increased by 300 000 tonnes.
(5) As the quantitative limit in respect of marketing year 2008/2009 is increased the lodging of applications should once again be possible.
(6) Regulation (EC) No 575/2009 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(7) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets,
In Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 575/2009, paragraph 3 is deleted.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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31985D0062 | 85/62/EEC: Commission Decision of 19 December 1984 on the issue of import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar and Swaziland
| COMMISSION DECISION
of 19 December 1984
on the issue of import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar and Swaziland
(85/62/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 435/80 of 18 February 1980 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural products and certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas countries and territories (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3019/81 (2), and in particular Article 23 thereof,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2377/80 of 4 September 1980 on special detailed rules for the application of the system of import and export licences in the beef and veal sector (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1994/84 (4), and in particular Article 15 (6) (b) (i) thereof,
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 435/80 provides for the possibility of issuing import licences for beef and veal products; whereas, however, imports must take place within the limits of the quantities specified for each of these exporting non-member countries;
Whereas the applications for import licences submitted between 1 and 10 December 1984, expressed in terms of boned meat, in accordance with Article 15 (1) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 2377/80, do not exceed, in respect of products originating from Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar and Swaziland, the quantities available from these States; whereas it is therefore possible to issue import licences in respect of the quantities requested;
The following Member States shall issue, on 21 December 1984, import licences concerning beef and veal products, expressed in terms of boned meat, originating from certain African, Caribbean and Pacific States, in respect of the quantities and the countries of origin stated:
1. Federal Republic of Germany:
- 959 tonnes originating in Botswana,
- 40 tonnes originating in Swaziland.
2. United Kingdom:
606 tonnes originating in Botswana.
3. France:
1 920 tonnes originating in Madagascar.
4. Italy:
180 tonnes originating in Madagascar.
5. Netherlands:
200 tonnes originating in Botswana.
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32008R0946 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 946/2008 of 25 September 2008 fixing the representative prices and additional import duties applicable to molasses in the sugar sector from 1 October 2008
| 26.9.2008 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 258/58
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 946/2008
of 25 September 2008
fixing the representative prices and additional import duties applicable to molasses in the sugar sector from 1 October 2008
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
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), and in particular Article 143 in conjunction with Article 4 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 951/2006 of 30 June 2006 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 as regards trade with third countries in the sugar sector (2), lays down that the cif import price for molasses is to be considered the representative price. That price is fixed for the standard quality defined in Article 27 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006.
(2) For the purposes of fixing the representative prices, account must be taken of all the information provided for in Article 29 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006, except in the cases provided for in Article 30 of that Regulation and those prices should be fixed, where appropriate, in accordance with the method provided for in Article 33 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006.
(3) Prices not relating to the standard quality should be adjusted upwards or downwards, according to the quality of the molasses offered, in accordance with Article 32 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006.
(4) Where there is a difference between the trigger price for the product concerned and the representative price, additional import duties should be fixed under the terms laid down in Article 39 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006. Should the import duties be suspended pursuant to Article 40 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006, specific amounts for these duties should be fixed.
(5) The representative prices and additional import duties for the products concerned should be fixed in accordance with Article 34 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006.
(6) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets,
The representative prices and the additional duties applying to imports of the products referred to in Article 34 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006 are fixed in the Annex hereto.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 October 2008.
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31977R2254 | Council Regulation (EEC) No 2254/77 of 11 October 1977 amending Regulation (EEC) No 879/73 on the granting and reimbursement of aid accorded by the Member States to recognized producer groups in the hop sector
| COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2254/77 of 11 October 1977 amending Regulation (EEC) No 879/73 on the granting and reimbursement of aid accorded by the Member States to recognized producer groups in the hop sector
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71 of 26 July 1971 on the common organization of the market in hops (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1170/77 (2), and in particular Article 10 (1) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1170/77 amended the conditions formerly laid down for the recognition of hop producer groups ; whereas aid should be granted for the setting up and operation of producer groups not only to associations in existence at the time of the entry into force of Regulation (EEC) No 1170/77 but also to groups recognized at an earlier date, in so far as both incur expenditure in the form of adaptation costs;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2253/77 of 11 October 1977 on structural measures in the hop sector (3) has laid down general rules on the granting of aid for conversion to other varieties and the reorganization of hop gardens as provided for in Article 9 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71 ; whereas, for administrative reasons, therefore, Title II of Council Regulation (EEC) No 879/73 of 26 March 1973 on the granting and reimbursement of aid accorded by the Member States to recognized producer groups in the hop sector (4) should be repealed,
Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 879/73 shall be replaced by the following:
"Article 6
Producer associations and producer groups which had prior to 1 July 1977 been recognized as provided for in Article 7 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71 shall qualify for the aid provided for in Article 8 (1) of that same Regulation only if they incur expenditure in adapting to satisfy the conditions laid down in Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71."
Title II of Regulation (EEC) No 879/73 is repealed.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
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32006D0448 | Council Decision 2006/448/CFSP of 7 June 2006 concerning the extension of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the Government of Indonesia on the tasks, status, privileges and immunities of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Aceh (Indonesia) (Aceh Monitoring Mission — AMM) and its personnel
| 30.6.2006 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 176/107
COUNCIL DECISION 2006/448/CFSP
of 7 June 2006
concerning the extension of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the Government of Indonesia on the tasks, status, privileges and immunities of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Aceh (Indonesia) (Aceh Monitoring Mission — AMM) and its personnel
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular Article 24 thereof,
Having regard to the recommendation from the Presidency,
Whereas:
(1) On 27 February 2006, the Council adopted Joint Action 2006/202/CFSP amending and extending Joint Action 2005/643/CFSP on the European Union Monitoring Mission in Aceh, Indonesia (Aceh Monitoring Mission — AMM) (1) for a period of three months until 15 June 2006.
(2) On that date the Council also adopted Decision 2006/201/CFSP (2) concerning the extension for 3 months of the Agreement between the European Union and the Government of Indonesia on the tasks, status, privileges and immunities of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Aceh (Indonesia) (Aceh Monitoring Mission — AMM) and its personnel.
(3) On 5 May 2006 the Government of Indonesia invited the European Union to extend the mandate of the Aceh Monitoring Mission for a further period of three months.
(4) As stated in the letter of 14 September 2005 and its annexes from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Indonesia regarding the tasks, status, privileges and immunities of the Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM) and its personnel and the reply from the Secretary General/High Representative of 3 October 2005, the Agreement may be extended for a period of up to six months by mutual consent (3).
(5) The extension of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters for a period of three months until 15 September 2006 should be approved on behalf of the European Union,
The extension of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the Government of Indonesia on the tasks, status, privileges and immunities of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Aceh (Indonesia) (Aceh Monitoring Mission — AMM) and its personnel for a period of 3 months until 15 September 2006, is hereby approved on behalf of the European Union.
The text of the Exchange of Letters agreeing to the extension is attached to this Decision.
The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate the person(s) empowered to sign the Exchange of Letters in order to bind the European Union (4).
This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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31994D0651 | 94/651/EC: Commission Decision of 15 September 1994 authorizing Member States to permit temporarily the marketing of forest reproductive material not satisfying the requirements of Council Directive 66/404/EEC
| COMMISSION DECISION of 15 September 1994 authorizing Member States to permit temporarily the marketing of forest reproductive material not satisfying the requirements of Council Directive 66/404/EEC (94/651/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 66/404/EEC of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of forest reproductive material (1), as last amended by Directive 90/654/EEC (2), and in particular Article 15 thereof,
Having regard to the requests submitted by certain Member States,
Whereas production of reproductive material of the species set out in the Annexes is at present insufficient in all Member States, as well as in Austria, for which the Council has stated the equivalence of the reproductive material there harvested, with the result that their requirements for reproductive material conforming to the provisions of Directive 66/404/EEC cannot be met;
Whereas third countries are not in a position to supply sufficient reproductive material of the relevant species which can afford the same guarantees as Community reproductive material and which conforms to the provisions of the abovementioned Directive;
Whereas the Member States should therefore be authorized to permit, for a limited period, the marketing of reproductive material of the relevant species which satisfies less stringent requirements to cover the shortage of reproductive material satisfying the requirements of Directive 66/404/EEC;
Whereas, for genetic reasons, the reproductive material must be collected at places of origin within the natural range of the relevant species and the strictest possible guarantees should be given to ensure the identity of the material;
Whereas, furthermore, reproductive material should be marketed only if it is accompanied by a document bearing certain details of the reproductive material in question;
Whereas each of the Member States should furthermore be authorized to permit the marketing in its territory of seed which satisfy less stringent requirements in respect of provenance, as referred to in Directive 66/404/EEC, if the marketing of such material has been authorized in the other Member States under this Decision;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry,
1. Member States are authorized to permit the marketing in their territory of seed satisfying less stringent requirements in respect of provenance, as referred to in Directive 66/404/EEC, on the terms set out in the Annex hereto and on condition that the proof specified in Article 2 is furnished with regard to the place of provenance of the seed and the altitude at which it was collected.
2. Member States are authorized to permit the marketing in their territory of plants produced in the Community from the abovementioned seed.
1. The proof referred to in Article 1 (1) shall be deemed to be furnished where the reproductive material is of the category 'source-identified reproductive material' as defined in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) scheme for the control of forest reproductive material moving in international trade, or of another category defined in that scheme.
2. Where the OECD scheme referred to in paragraph 1 is not used at the place of provenance of the reproductive material, other official evidence shall be admissible.
3. Where official evidence cannot be provided, Member States may accept other non-official evidence.
The Member States other than the applicant Member States are also authorized to permit, on the terms set out in the Annex and for the purposes intended by the applicant Member States, the marketing in their territory of the seeds authorized to be marketed under this Decision.
The authorization provided for in Article 1 (1) in so far as it concerns the first placing of forest reproductive material on the market of the Community, shall expire on 30 November 1995. Such authorization, in so far as it concerns subsequent placing on the market of the Community, shall expire on 31 December 1997.
With regard to the first placing on the market of forest reproductive material, as referred to in Article 4, Member States shall, by 1 January 1996, notify the Commission of the quantities of such material satisfying less stringent requirements which have been approved for marketing in their territory under this Decision. The Commission shall inform the other Member States thereof.
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32013D0045 | Council Decision 2013/45/CFSP of 22 January 2013 amending Decision 2011/137/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Libya
| 23.1.2013 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 20/60
COUNCIL DECISION 2013/45/CFSP
of 22 January 2013
amending Decision 2011/137/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Libya
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular Article 29 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) On 28 February 2011, the Council adopted Decision 2011/137/CFSP (1).
(2) With regard to the persons listed in Annex IV to Decision 2011/137/CFSP, in order to facilitate the return of misappropriated funds to the Libyan State, the derogations provided for in Decision 2011/137/CFSP should be amended to permit the release of certain frozen funds or economic resources where they are required to satisfy a judicial or administrative decision rendered in the Union, or a judicial decision enforceable in a Member State, prior to or after the date of designation of the persons, entities and bodies concerned.
(3) The Council considers that there are no longer grounds for keeping one entity on the list set out in Annex IV to Decision 2011/137/CFSP.
(4) The entry for one person should be removed from the lists set out in Annexes II and IV to Decision 2011/137/CFSP and should be included in the lists set out in Annexes I and III to that Decision.
(5) The information relating to certain individuals listed in Annexes I, II, III and IV to Decision 2011/137/CFSP should be updated.
(6) Annexes I, II, III and IV of Decision 2011/137/CFSP should therefore be amended accordingly,
Decision 2011/137/CFSP is hereby amended as follows:
(1) In Article 6, the following paragraph is inserted:
(a) the funds or economic resources are subject of an arbitral decision rendered prior to the date on which the natural or legal person, entity or body referred to in paragraph 1(b) was listed in the Annex IV or of a judicial or administrative decision rendered in the Union, or a judicial decision enforceable in the Member State concerned, prior to or after that date;
(b) the funds or economic resources will be used exclusively to satisfy claims secured by such a decision or recognised as valid in such a decision, within the limits set by applicable laws and regulations governing the rights of persons having such claims;
(c) the decision is not for the benefit of a natural or legal person, entity or body listed in Annexes II and IV; and
(d) recognising the decision is not contrary to public policy in the Member State concerned.
(2) In Article 6(6), the following point is inserted:
"(c) payments due under judicial, administrative or arbitral decisions rendered in the Union or enforceable in the Member State concerned, with regard to persons and entities listed in Annex IV;";
(3) Annexes I, II, III and IV to Decision 2011/137/CFSP are amended as set out in the Annex to this Decision.
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32002R0367 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 367/2002 of 27 February 2002 fixing the export refunds on olive oil
| Commission Regulation (EC) No 367/2002
of 27 February 2002
fixing the export refunds on olive oil
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common organisation of the market in oils and fats(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1513/2001(2), and in particular Article 3(3) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Article 3 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC provides that, where prices within the Community are higher than world market prices, the difference between these prices may be covered by a refund when olive oil is exported to third countries.
(2) The detailed rules for fixing and granting export refunds on olive oil are contained in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 616/72(3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2962/77(4).
(3) Article 3(3) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC provides that the refund must be the same for the whole Community.
(4) In accordance with Article 3(4) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC, the refund for olive oil must be fixed in the light of the existing situation and outlook in relation to olive oil prices and availability on the Community market and olive oil prices on the world market. However, where the world market situation is such that the most favourable olive oil prices cannot be determined, account may be taken of the price of the main competing vegetable oils on the world market and the difference recorded between that price and the price of olive oil during a representative period. The amount of the refund may not exceed the difference between the price of olive oil in the Community and that on the world market, adjusted, where appropriate, to take account of export costs for the products on the world market.
(5) In accordance with Article 3(3) third indent, point (b) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC, it may be decided that the refund shall be fixed by tender. The tendering procedure should cover the amount of the refund and may be limited to certain countries of destination, quantities, qualities and presentations.
(6) The second indent of Article 3(3) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC provides that the refund on olive oil may be varied according to destination where the world market situation or the specific requirements of certain markets make this necessary.
(7) The refund must be fixed at least once every month. It may, if necessary, be altered in the intervening period.
(8) It follows from applying these detailed rules to the present situation on the market in olive oil and in particular to olive oil prices within the Community and on the markets of third countries that the refund should be as set out in the Annex hereto.
(9) The Management Committee for Oils and Fats has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its chairman,
The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1(2)(c) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 February 2002.
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31998R1280 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1280/98 of 19 June 1998 establishing the quantities to be allocated to importers from the Community quantitative quotas redistributed by Regulation (EC) No 786/98
| COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1280/98 of 19 June 1998 establishing the quantities to be allocated to importers from the Community quantitative quotas redistributed by Regulation (EC) No 786/98
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 519/94 of 7 March 1994 on common rules for imports from certain third countries and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 1765/82, (EEC) No 1766/82 and (EEC) No 3420/83 (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1138/98 (2),
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 520/94 of 7 March 1994 establishing a Community procedure for administering quantitative quotas (3), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 138/96 (4), and in particular Articles 9 and 13 thereof,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 786/98 of 14 April 1998 redistributing the unused portions of the 1997 quantitative quotas for certain products originating in the People's Republic of China (5), and in particular Article 6 thereof,
Whereas Regulation (EC) No 786/98 established the portion of each of the quotas concerned reserved for traditional and other importers and the conditions and methods for participating in the allocation of the quantities available; whereas importers lodged applications for import licences with the competent national authorities between 16 April and 6 May 1998 at 3 p.m., Brussels time, in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 786/98;
Whereas the Commission has received from the Member States under Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 786/98 particulars of the numbers and aggregate volume of import licence applications submitted and the total volume imported by traditional importers in 1995, the reference year;
Whereas the Commission is now able, on the basis of that information, to establish uniform quantitative criteria by which the competent national authorities may satisfy licence applications submitted by importers in the Member States for the quantitative quotas redistributed by Regulation (EC) No 786/98;
Whereas examination of the figures supplied by Member States shows that the aggregate volume of the applications submitted by traditional importers for the products listed in Annex I to this Regulation exceeds the portion of the quota set aside for them; whereas the applications must therefore be met by applying the uniform rate of reduction shown in Annex I to the imports, expressed in value or volume terms, of each importer over the reference period;
Whereas examination of the figures supplied by Member States shows that the aggregate volume of applications submitted by non-traditional importers for the products listed in Annex II to this Regulation exceeds the portion of the quota set aside for them; whereas the applications must therefore be met by applying the uniform rate of reduction shown in Annex II to the amounts requested by each importer, as limited by Regulation (EC) No 786/98;
Whereas examination of the figures supplied by Member States shows that the total applications submitted by non-traditional importers for products listed in Annex III to this Regulation amount to less than the portion of the quota set aside for them; whereas those applications should therefore be met in full, up to the maximum amount that can be requested by each importer under Regulation (EC) No 786/98,
In response to licence applications in respect of the products listed in Annex I duly submitted by traditional importers, the competent national authorities shall allocate each importer a quantity or value equal to its imports for 1995 adjusted by the rate of reduction/increase specified in the said Annex for each quota.
Where the use of this quantitative criterion would entail allocating an amount greater than that applied for, the quantity or value allocated shall be limited to that specified in the application.
In response to licence applications in respect of the products listed in Annex II duly submitted by non-traditional importers, the competent national authorities shall allocate each importer a quantity or value equal to the amount requested within the limits set by Regulation (EC) No 786/98, adjusted by the rate of reduction specified in the said Annex for each quota.
Licence applications in respect of the products listed in Annex III duly submitted by non-traditional importers shall be met in full by the competent national authorities, within the limits set by Regulation (EC) No 786/98.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
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32011D0688 | 2011/688/CFSP: Political and Security Committee Decision EULEX KOSOVO/1/2011 of 14 October 2011 extending the mandate of the Head of Mission of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo, EULEX KOSOVO
| 15.10.2011 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 270/32
POLITICAL AND SECURITY COMMITTEE DECISION EULEX KOSOVO/1/2011
of 14 October 2011
extending the mandate of the Head of Mission of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (1), EULEX KOSOVO
(2011/688/CFSP)
THE POLITICAL AND SECURITY COMMITTEE
,
Having regard to the Treaty on European Union and in particular the third subparagraph of Article 38 thereof,
Having regard to Council Joint Action 2008/124/CFSP of 4 February 2008 on the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo, EULEX KOSOVO (2), and in particular Article 12(2) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Pursuant to Joint Action 2008/124/CFSP, the Political and Security Committee (PSC) is authorised, in accordance with Article 38 of the Treaty, to take the relevant decisions for the purpose of exercising political control and strategic direction of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX KOSOVO), including the decision to appoint a Head of Mission.
(2) On 8 June 2010 the Council adopted Decision 2010/322/CFSP (3) extending the duration of EULEX KOSOVO until 14 June 2012.
(3) By Decision 2010/431/CFSP (4), following a proposal by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affaires and Security Policy (HR), the PSC appointed Mr Xavier BOUT DE MARNHAC as Head of Mission of EULEX KOSOVO with effect from 15 October 2010. That Decision applies until 14 October 2011.
(4) On 23 September 2011, the HR proposed the extension of the mandate of Mr Xavier BOUT DE MARNHAC as Head of Mission of EULEX KOSOVO,
The mandate of Mr Xavier BOUT DE MARNHAC as Head of Mission of EULEX KOSOVO is hereby extended until 14 December 2011.
This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its adoption. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
31997D0604 | 97/604/EC: Commission Decision of 5 August 1997 modifying Commission Decision 95/199/EC and approving a modification of the single programming document for Community structural measures for improving the processing and marketing conditions for agricultural products in Hessen (Germany), in respect of Objective 5 (a), covering the period between 1994 and 1999 (Only the German version is authentic)
| COMMISSION DECISION of 5 August 1997 modifying Commission Decision 95/199/EC and approving a modification of the single programming document for Community structural measures for improving the processing and marketing conditions for agricultural products in Hessen (Germany), in respect of Objective 5 (a), covering the period between 1994 and 1999 (Only the German version is authentic) (97/604/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 951/97 of 20 May 1997, on improving the processing and marketing conditions for agricultural products (1) and in particular Article 15 (1) thereof,
Whereas, on 31 May 1995, the Commission has adopted Decision 95/199/EC (2), approving the single programming document for Community structural measures for improving the processing and marketing conditions for agricultural products in Hessen (Germany), in respect of Objective 5 (a), covering the period between 1994 and 1999;
Whereas, on 19 August 1996 the German government submitted to the Commission a request for a modification of the single programming document approved, supplemented by additional information on 18 February, 14 March and 12 May 1997;
Whereas this request concerns the inclusion of the sector flowers and plants into the single programming document and the transfer of financial allocations initially attributed to the sectors other vegetable products (non-food products and medical plants) and miscellaneous products (products from organic farming) to the sectors meat, fruit and vegetables and to a minor extent to the sector potatoes; whereas these transfers take account of the result of the implementation of the measures in the first three years of the programming period and of the development of markets; whereas this reallocation between sectors is based on reductions and extensions respectively of support activities in the relevant sectors;
Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1866/90 of 2 July 1990 on arrangements for using the ecu for the purposes of the budgetary management of the Structural Funds (3), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2745/94 (4), provides that in Commission decisions approving single programming documents, the Community assistance decided upon for the entire period and the annual breakdown thereof are to be set out in ecus, at prices for the year in which the decision is taken, and are to be subject to indexation; whereas Germany decided to use the amounts created by indexation for 1996 and 1997 by adding them to the initially granted amount in constant prices of 1995;
Whereas according to Article 25 (5) third subparagraph of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 (5), at last amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3193/94 (6), the monitoring committee of the single programming document for Community structural measures for improving the processing and marketing conditions for agricultural products in Germany, outside the Objective 1 region, in respect of Objective 5 (a) covering the period between 1994 and 1999, has expressed a positive opinion on the request in its meeting of 13 May 1997;
Whereas, during the implementation of the single programming document, the Member State will ensure that the individual projects included therein will conform with the selection criteria for investments for improving the processing and marketing conditions for agricultural products currently in force, in application of Article 8 (1) of Regulation (EC) No 951/97;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Agricultural Structures and Rural Development,
Commission Decision 95/199/EC of 31 May 1995 is amended as follows:
1. in Article 2, the sector 'flowers and plants` is added for joint action.
2. in Article 3, first subparagraph, the maximum amount of assistance from the EAGGF (Guidance Section) is changed to ECU 21 196 375.
3. in Article 4, the table indicating the annual breakdown is replaced by the following table:
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4. the financial plan annexed to Decision 95/199/EC is replaced by a new plan which takes account of the amendments in the different sectors and which is included in Annex I of the present decision (7).
The modifications of the single programming document approved by Decision 95/199/EC of 31 May 1995 and indicated in Annex II to this Decision (8) are approved.
This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of Germany. | 0 | 0.666667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.333333 | 0 |
32010R0501 | Commission Regulation (EU) No 501/2010 of 10 June 2010 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
| 11.6.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 145/2
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 501/2010
of 10 June 2010
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 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,
Whereas:
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,
The standard import values referred to in Article 138 of Regulation (EC) No 1580/2007 are fixed in the Annex hereto.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 June 2010.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. | 0 | 0.666667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.333333 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
32011R0399 | Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 399/2011 of 20 April 2011 fixing the export refunds on pigmeat
| 21.4.2011 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 105/8
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 399/2011
of 20 April 2011
fixing the export refunds on pigmeat
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), and in particular Article 164(2), and Article 170, in conjunction with Article 4 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Article 162(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 provides that the difference between prices on the world market for the products listed in Part XVII of Annex I to that Regulation and prices for those products on the Union market may be covered by an export refund.
(2) Given the present situation on the market in pigmeat, export refunds should therefore be fixed in accordance with the rules and criteria provided for in Articles 162, 163, 164, 167 and 169 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007.
(3) Article 164(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 provides that the refund may vary according to destination, especially where the world market situation, the specific requirements of certain markets, or obligations resulting from agreements concluded in accordance with Article 300 of the Treaty make this necessary.
(4) Refunds should be granted only on products that are allowed to move freely in the Union and that bear the health mark as provided for in Article 5(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin (2). Those products must also satisfy the requirements laid down in Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs (3) and Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption (4).
(5) The currently applicable refunds have been fixed by Commission Regulation (EU) No 46/2011 (5). Since new refunds should be fixed, that Regulation should therefore be repealed.
(6) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets,
1. Export refunds as provided for in Article 164 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 shall be granted on the products and for the amounts set out in the Annex to this Regulation subject to the condition provided for in paragraph 2 of this Article.
2. The products eligible for a refund under paragraph 1 shall meet the relevant requirements of Regulations (EC) No 852/2004 and (EC) No 853/2004 and, in particular, shall be prepared in an approved establishment and comply with the health marking requirements laid down in Annex I, Section I, Chapter III to Regulation (EC) No 854/2004.
Regulation (EU) No 46/2011 is hereby repealed.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 April 2011.
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32005R2131 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 2131/2005 of 22 December 2005 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state
| 23.12.2005 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 340/45
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2131/2005
of 22 December 2005
fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 of 19 June 2001 on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector (1), and in particular the second subparagraph of Article 27(5) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Article 27 of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 provides that the difference between quotations or prices on the world market for the products listed in Article 1(1)(a) of that Regulation and prices for those products within the Community may be covered by an export refund.
(2) Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 provides that when refunds on white and raw sugar, undenatured and exported in its unaltered state, are being fixed account must be taken of the situation on the Community and world markets in sugar and in particular of the price and cost factors set out in Article 28 of that Regulation. The same Article provides that the economic aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken into account.
(3) The refund on raw sugar must be fixed in respect of the standard quality. The latter is defined in Annex I, point II, to Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001. Furthermore, this refund should be fixed in accordance with Article 28(4) of that Regulation. Candy sugar is defined in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2135/95 of 7 September 1995 laying down detailed rules of application for the grant of export refunds in the sugar sector (2). The refund thus calculated for sugar containing added flavouring or colouring matter must apply to their sucrose content and, accordingly, be fixed per 1 % of the said content.
(4) In special cases, the amount of the refund may be fixed by other legal instruments.
(5) The refund must be fixed every two weeks. It may be altered in the intervening period.
(6) The first subparagraph of Article 27(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 provides that refunds on the products referred to in Article 1 of that Regulation may vary according to destination, where the world market situation or the specific requirements of certain markets make this necessary.
(7) The significant and rapid increase in preferential imports of sugar from the western Balkan countries since the start of 2001 and in exports of sugar to those countries from the Community seems to be highly artificial.
(8) To prevent any abuse through the re-import into the Community of sugar products in receipt of an export refund, no refund should be set for all the countries of the western Balkans for the products covered by this Regulation.
(9) In view of the above and of the present situation on the market in sugar, and in particular of the quotations or prices for sugar within the Community and on the world market, refunds should be set at the appropriate amounts.
(10) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Sugar,
The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001, undenatured and exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed to the amounts shown in the Annex hereto.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 December 2005.
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31996D0566 | 96/566/EC, Euratom: Commission Decision of 11 September 1996 authorizing Finland not to take into account certain categories of transactions and to use certain approximate estimates for the calculation of the VAT own resources base (Only the Finnish text is authentic)
| COMMISSION DECISION of 11 September 1996 authorizing Finland not to take into account certain categories of transactions and to use certain approximate estimates for the calculation of the VAT own resources base (Only the Finnish text is authentic) (96/566/Euratom, EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC, Euratom) No 1553/89 of 29 May 1989 on the definitive uniform arrangements for the collection of own resources accruing from value-added tax (1), and in particular Article 13 thereof,
Whereas, under Article 28 (3) of the Council Directive 77/388/EEC of 17 May 1977 on the harmonization of the laws of the Member States relating to turnover taxes - Common system of value-added tax: uniform basis of assessment (2), hereinafter called 'the sixth Directive`, the Member States may continue to exempt or tax certain transactions; whereas these transactions must be taken into account for the determination of the VAT resources base;
Whereas, for the application of the provisions in Article 28 (3) of the sixth Directive, paragraph 2 (n) of Annex IX (Taxation) to the Act of Accession of the Republic of Finland to the European Communities (3), authorizes Finland to exempt certain transactions listed in Annex F to the sixth Directive;
Whereas Finland is unable to make a precise calculation of the VAT own resources base for certain categories of transactions listed in Annex F, points 2 and 7, to the sixth Directive; whereas such calculation is likely to involve an unjustified administrative burden in relation to the effect of these transactions on Finland's total VAT resources base; whereas Finland should therefore be authorized not to take these transactions into account for the calculation of the VAT base;
Whereas Finland is able to make a calculation using approximate estimates for three categories of transactions listed in Annex F to the sixth Directive; whereas Finland should therefore be authorized to calculate the VAT base using approximate estimates;
Whereas the Advisory Committee on Own Resources has approved the report recording the opinions of its members on this Decision,
For the purpose of calculating the VAT own resources base from 1 January 1995, Finland is authorized, in accordance with the first indent of Article 6 (3) of Council Regulation (EEC, Euratom) No 1553/89, not to take into account the following category of transactions referred to in Annex F to the sixth Directive:
1. services supplied by authors, artists, performers, in so far as these are not services specified in Annex B to the Council Directive 67/228/EEC (4) (Annex F, former point 2); except for copyrights and royalties.
2. transactions carried out by blind persons or workshops for the blind provided these exemptions do not give rise to significant distortion of competition. (Annex F, former point 7).
For the purpose of calculating the VAT own resources base from 1 January 1995, Finland is authorized to use approximate estimates in respect of the following categories of transactions referred to in Annex F to the sixth Directive:
1. services supplied by authors, artists and performers, in so far as these are not services specified in Annex B to Council Directive 67/228/EEC (Annex F, former point 2); for copyrights and royalties;
2. supplies of land described in Article 4 (3) of the sixth Directive (Annex F, former point 16);
3. passenger transport (Annex F, former point 17).
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32000R0050 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 50/2000 of 10 January 2000 on the labelling of foodstuffs and food ingredients containing additives and flavourings that have been genetically modified or have been produced from genetically modified organisms
| COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 50/2000
of 10 January 2000
on the labelling of foodstuffs and food ingredients containing additives and flavourings that have been genetically modified or have been produced from genetically modified organisms
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 99/112/EEC of 18 December 1978 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the labelling, presentation and advertising of foodstuffs(1), as last amended by Directive 97/4/EC of the European Parliament and the Council(2), and in particular Article 4(2) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Regulation (EC) No 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning novel foods and novel food ingredients(3) does not apply to additives and flavourings intended to be used in foodstuffs as, for the purpose of testing these substances for their safety evaluation, they come under other Community provisions, namely Council Directive 89/107/EEC of 21 December 1988 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States concerning food additives authorised for use in foodstuffs intended for human consumption(4), as amended by Directive 94/34/EEC of the European Parliament and of the Council(5), and Council Directive 88/388/EEC of 22 June 1988 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to flavourings for use in foodstuffs and to source materials for their production(6), as amended by Commission Directive 91/71/EEC(7);
(2) these additives and flavourings are also excluded from the scope of Council Regulation (EC) No 1139/98 of 26 May 1998 concerning the compulsory indication, on the labelling of certain foodstuffs produced from genetically modified organisms, of particulars other than those provided for in Directive 79/112/EEC(8);
(3) a consequence of this exclusion is that additives and flavourings that have been genetically modified or have been produced from genetically modified organisms and are used as ingredients in foodstuffs are not subject to the specific labelling provisions laid down in Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 258/97 and the labelling provisions laid down in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1139/98;
(4) it is important that consumers should also be informed of the use of additives or flavourings that have been genetically modified or have been produced through genetic engineering as they are already informed of the presence of other ingredients containing or produced from genetically modified organisms;
(5) some Member States have served notice of their intention to impose at national level indications on labelling informing consumers of the use of additives and/or flavourings produced from genetically modified organisms;
(6) such provisions are likely to create new obstacles to infra-Community trade;
(7) the Commission, in its Decision 98/613/EC of 21 October 1998 concerning a draft decree of the Republic of Austria concerning the identification of genetically modified additives and flavourings(9), took the view, with the agreement of the Member States, that the most satisfactory solution would be to draw up Community provisions an labelling;
(8) accordingly, it would be useful to make it obligatory to indicate on the labelling of the foodstuffs concerned that the additives or flavourings used are or contain genetically modified organisms or have been produced from such organisms, in accordance with the same principles as those laid down for the labelling of ingredients that are, contain, or are produced from genetically modified organisms;
(9) the provisions of this Regulation do not apply to additives and flavourings sold as such to the final consumer. Separate measures imposing similar obligatory labelling for additives and flavourings should be introduced;
(10) in particular, in accordance with the approach adopted in Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 258197, it is necessary to ensure that the final consumer is informed of any characteristic or food property such as composition, nutritional value or nutritional effects or the intended use of the food, which renders this food or food ingredient no longer equivalent to an existing food or food ingredient. To this end additives and flavourings that have been genetically modified or have been produced from genetically modified organisms that are not equivalent to their traditional counterparts must be subject to labelling requirements;
(11) in accordance with the approach adopted in Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 258/97, labelling requirements must be based on scientific assessment;
(12) clear labelling rules should be formulated for the abovementioned products so as to ensure that official inspections can be carried out on the basis of reliable, reproducible and practicable data;
(13) care should also be taken to ensure that the labelling requirements are not excessively complex but nevertheless sufficiently detailed to provide consumers with the information they need;
(14) Regulation (EC) No 1139!98 specifies the criterion according to which the labelling obligations become operative for food produced from genetically modified maize or soya;
(15) the presence in additives and, flavourings used as ingredients in a foodstuff of protein or DNA resulting from genetic modification is, as matters stand, also the criterion that best meets the abovementioned requirements. Such an approach could be re-examined in the light of new scientific evidence;
(16) in view of the scope and consequences of the proposed action, the Community measures introduced by this Regulation are not only necessary but indeed essential to achieve the objectives;
(17) adventitious contamination of additives and flavourings with DNA or protein resulting from genetic modification cannot be excluded; it is useful to examine the possibility of setting up a threshold in order to avoid labelling as a result of such contamination;
(18) the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Foodstuffs,
1. This Regulation provides for specific additional labelling requirements for food and food ingredients intended for final consumers and mass caterers hereinafter referred to as "specified foodstuffs") containing additives and/or flavourings as described in paragraph 2 (hereinafter referred to as "specified additives and flavourings").
2. The following are specified additives and flavourings:
- additives falling within the scope of Directive 89/107/EEC and/or
- flavourings for use in foodstuffs falling within the scope of Directive 88/388/EEC
which are, contain or are produced from genetically modified organisms within the meaning of Council Directive 90/220/EEC(10).
Without prejudice to the other requirements of Community legislation on food labelling, the labelling of the specified foodstuffs must inform final consumers and mass caterers of:
(a) in accordance with Article 4(1), any characteristic or food property such as:
- composition
- nutritional value or nutritional effects
- intended use of the additives, or flavourings
as a result of which the specified additives or flavourings are no longer equivalent to existing additives or flavourings;
(b) the presence in the specified additives or flavourings of material which is not present in existing equivalent additives or flavourings and which may affect the health of certain sections of the population;
(c) the presence in the specified additives or flavourings of material which is not present in existing equivalent additives or flavourings and which gives rise to ethical concerns;
(d) in accordance with Article 4(2), the presence of an additive or flavouring that is or contains an organism genetically modified by techniques of genetic modification, the non-exhaustive list of which is laid down in Annex I A, Part 1, of Directive 90/220/EEC.
The specified additives or flavourings shall be deemed to be no longer equivalent within the meaning of Article 2(a) if scientific assessment, based upon an appropriate analysis of existing data, can demonstrate that the characteristics assessed are different in comparison with traditional additives or flavourings, having regard to the accepted limits of natural variations of such characteristics. This is the case where the specified additives or flavourings contain protein and/or DNA resulting from genetic modification.
1. The additional specific labelling requirements with regard to the information referred to in Article 2(a) are as follows:
The words "produced from genetically modified ..." shall appear in the list of ingredients provided for in Article 6 of Directive 791/112/EEC, in parentheses, immediately after the indication of the additive or flavouring in question.
Alternatively, this wording may appear in a prominently displayed footnote to the list of ingredients, linked to the additive or the flavouring concerned by an asterisk (*). It shall be printed in a font that is at least of the same size as that used for the list of ingredients itself.
For specified foodstuffs for which there is no list of ingredients, this wording shall appear clearly on the product's label.
2. The additional specific labelling requirements with regard to the information referred to in Article 2(d) are as follows:
The words "genetically modified" shall appear in the list of ingredients immediately after the indication of the additive or flavouring in question.
Alternatively, this wording may appear in a prominently displayed footnote to the list of ingredients, linked to the additive or the flavouring concerned by an asterisk (*). It shall be printed in a font that is at least of the same size as that used for the list of ingredients itself.
For specified foodstuffs for which there is no list of ingredients, this wording shall appear clearly on the product's label.
This Regulation shall not apply to specified foodstuffs lawfully manufactured and labelled in the Community or lawfully imported into the Community and put into free circulation before the entry into force of this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force 90 days following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
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31992R0249 | Commission Regulation ( EEC ) No 249/92 of 31 January 1992 on the direct import of maize for animal feed into Réunion during January and February 1992
| COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 249/92 of 31 January 1992 on the direct import of maize for animal feed into Réunion during January and February 1992
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3763/91 of 16 December 1991 introducing specific measures in respect of certain agricultural products for the benefit of the French overseas departments (1), and in particular Article 2 (6) thereof,
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 3763/91 introduced a scheme for the exemption from the levy on direct import into the French overseas departments of cereals for animal feed originating in developing countries; whereas that Regulation provides that, in the event of exceptional cereals supply difficulties, the exemption may be extended to products originating in other third countries;
Whereas at present the supply to Réunion of maize for animal feed is impossible from developing countries as a result of the unavailability of these products; whereas supply from the rest of the Community cannot be made at very short notice due to the non-existence of public intervention stocks, or transport times which cannot be shortened; whereas, as a result of the urgency of requirements and the exceptional difficulties mentioned above, provision should be made to allow the exemption from the levy of products originating in third countries other than developing countries, in order to satisfy part of animal consumption needs in the first two months of 1992;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Cereals,
Pursuant to the second subparagraph of Article 2 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3763/91, during January and February 1992 the levies fixed pursuant to Article 13 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the market in cereals (2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3577/90 (3), shall not apply to the direct import into Réunion of maize falling within CN code 1005 90 00 for animal feed, originating in third countries other than developing countries, up to a maximum quantity of 5 000 tonnes.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply from 1 January 1992. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 |
32011D0372 | 2011/372/EU: Commission Implementing Decision of 24 June 2011 exempting exploration for oil and gas and exploitation of oil in Italy from the application of Directive 2004/17/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors (notified under document C(2011) 4253) Text with EEA relevance
| 25.6.2011 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 166/28
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION
of 24 June 2011
exempting exploration for oil and gas and exploitation of oil in Italy from the application of Directive 2004/17/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors
(notified under document C(2011) 4253)
(Only the Italian text is authentic)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2011/372/EU)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Directive 2004/17/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors (1), and in particular Article 30(5) and (6) thereof,
Whereas:
I. FACTS
(1) On 23 March 2011 the Italian Petroleum and Mining Industry Association – Assomineraria transmitted a request pursuant to Article 30(5) of Directive 2004/17/EC to the Commission by e-mail. In accordance with Article 30(5) first subparagraph, the Commission informed the Italian authorities thereof by letter of 1 April 2011, to which the said authorities answered on 19 April 2011. The request submitted by Assomineraria concerns the exploration for oil and gas and exploitation of oil in Italy. In line with previous Commission Merger Decisions (2), two distinct activities have been described in the request, namely:
(a) exploration for oil and natural gas; and
(b) production of oil.
(2) In accordance with the abovementioned Commission Decisions, ‘production’ will for the purposes of this Decision be taken to include also ‘development’, i.e. the setting up of adequate infrastructure for future production (oil platforms, pipelines, terminals, etc.). Furthermore, established Commission practice also found that ‘the development, production and sales of crude oil’ constitutes ‘one relevant product market’ (3). Thus, for the purposes of this Decision, ‘production’ will be taken as including both ‘development’ as well as (first) sale of oil.
(3) Assomineraria is a trade association which, in this context, acts on behalf of the main undertakings operating in the exploration and production of hydrocarbons sector in Italy. The four main companies affiliated to the association are ENI SpA, Edison SpA, Shell Italia E&P SpA and Total E&P Italia SpA.
II. LEGAL FRAMEWORK
(4) Article 30 of Directive 2004/17/EC provides that contracts intended to enable the performance of one of the activities to which Directive 2004/17/EC applies shall not be subject to that Directive if, in the Member State in which it is carried out, the activity is directly exposed to competition on markets to which access is not restricted. Direct exposure to competition is assessed on the basis of objective criteria, taking account of the specific characteristics of the sector concerned. Access is deemed to be unrestricted if the Member State has implemented and applied the relevant EU legislation opening a given sector or a part of it.
(5) Since Italy has implemented and applied Directive 94/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 1994 on the conditions for granting and using authorisations for the prospection, exploration and production of hydrocarbons (4), access to the market should be deemed not to be restricted in accordance with the first subparagraph of Article 30(3) of Directive 2004/17/EC. Direct exposure to competition in a particular market should be evaluated on the basis of various criteria, none of which are, necessarily and per se, decisive.
(6) For the purposes of assessing whether the relevant operators are subject to direct competition in the markets concerned by this Decision, the market share of the main players and the degree of concentration of those markets shall be taken into account. As the conditions vary for the different activities that are concerned by this Decision, a separate assessment shall be undertaken for each activity/market.
(7) This Decision is without prejudice to the application of the rules on competition.
III. ASSESSMENT
(8) Each of the two activities that are the subject of this request (exploration for oil and natural gas and production of oil) have been considered to constitute separate product markets in the previous Commission Decisions referred to in recitals 1 and 2 above. They should therefore be examined separately.
(9) According to Commission practice (5), exploration for oil and natural gas constitutes one relevant product market, since it is not possible from the outset to determine whether the exploration will result in finding oil or natural gas. On the exploration market, exploration companies acquire exploration licenses granted by ‘host countries’ usually via bidding procedures (6). It has furthermore been established through the same, long-standing, Commission practice, that the geographical scope of that market is worldwide. Given that there is no indication that the definition would be different in this case, it will be maintained for the purposes of this Decision.
(10) The market shares of operators active in exploration can be measured by reference to three variables: the capital expenditure, proven reserves and expected production. The use of capital expenditure to measure the market shares of operators on the exploration market has been found to be unsuitable, inter alia, because of the large differences between the required levels of investments that are necessary in different geographic areas. Thus, larger investments are needed to explore for oil and gas in the North Sea than is the case for exploration in, e.g. the Middle East.
(11) Two other parameters have typically been applied to assess the market shares of economic operators within this sector, namely, their share of proven reserves and of the expected production (7).
(12) As of 31 December 2009, the global, proven oil and gas reserves amounted to a total of 385,58 billion standard cubic metres oil equivalent (in the following Sm3 o. e.) worldwide, according to the available information (8). As of 1 January 2010, the combined, proven oil and gas reserves in Italy amounted to slightly more than 0,205 billion Sm3 o. e. (9), or slightly more than 0,05 %. The share thereof of the individual contracting entities operating in Italy is necessarily even smaller. According to the available information, there is a direct correlation between proven reserves of oil and gas and expected future production. Nothing in the available information therefore indicates that the market share of the individual contracting entities operating in Italy would be substantially different if measured in terms of expected production rather than in terms of its share of proven reserves. Given the links between proven reserves and actual production these facts can be taken as an indication also of the state of competition on the market concerned here.
(13) The exploration market is not highly concentrated. Apart from the state-owned companies, the market is characterised by the presence of international vertically integrated private players named the super majors (BP and ExxonMobil and Shell) as well as a certain number of so-called ‘majors’. These elements are an indication of direct exposure to competition.
(14) According to established Commission practice (10), development, production and sales of (crude) oil is a separate product market whose geographic scope is worldwide. Given that there is no indication that the definition would be different in this case it will be maintained for the purposes of this Decision.
(15) According to the available information (11), the total, daily production of oil worldwide amounted to 79,948 million barrels in 2009. That same year, a total of 0,095 million barrels per day were produced in Italy giving it a market share of 0,11 %. Looking at the 2009 share of the individual contracting entities operating in Italy, the situation is as follows: with a worldwide production of 1 007 thousand (12) barrels per day, ENI has a share of 1,26 % of oil production worldwide; Shell’s worldwide production of 1 581 thousand barrels of oil per day (13) gives it a market share amounting to 1,98 % of oil production in the world; Total has a worldwide production of 1 381 thousand barrels of oil per day (14) which gives it a market share amounting to 1,73 % of oil production worldwide; finally Edison has a worldwide daily production of 5 thousand barrels of oil per day (15) which gives it a market share amounting to 0,006 % of oil production in the world.
(16) For the purposes of this analysis, it is important to have regard to the degree of concentration in the relevant market as a whole. In this view, the Commission notes that the market for crude oil production is characterised by the presence of big state-owned companies and three international vertically integrated private players (the so called ‘super majors’: BP, ExxonMobil and Shell whose parts of oil production in 2009 amounted to: 3,2 %, 3,0 % and 2,0 % respectively (16)) as well as a certain number of so-called ‘majors’ (17). These factors suggest that the market comprises a number of players between whom effective competition can be presumed.
IV. CONCLUSIONS
(17) In view of the factors examined in recitals 8 to 16 the condition of direct exposure to competition laid down in Article 30(1) of Directive 2004/17/EC should be considered to be met in Italy in respect of the following services:
(a) exploration for oil and natural gas; and
(b) production of oil.
(18) Since the condition of unrestricted access to the market is deemed to be met, Directive 2004/17/EC should not apply when contracting entities award contracts intended to enable the services listed in points (a) and (b) of recital 17 to be carried out in Italy, nor when design contests are organised for the pursuit of such an activity in those geographic areas.
(19) According to the application, in Italy most of exploitation fields produce both oil and gas, in different percentages (18). The production of gas is not subject to this exemption request, and for this sector the provisions of Directive 2004/17/EC continue to apply. In this context, it is recalled that procurement contracts covering several activities shall be treated in accordance with Article 9 of Directive 2004/17/EC. This means that, when a contracting entity is engaged in ‘mixed’ procurement, that is procurement used to support the performance of both, activities exempted from the application of Directive 2004/17/EC and activities not exempted, regard shall be had to the activities for which the contract is principally intended. In the event of such mixed procurement, where the purpose is principally to support the production of gas, the provision of Directive 2004/17/EC shall apply. If it is objectively impossible to determine for which activity the contract is principally intended, the contract shall be awarded in accordance with the rules referred to in paragraphs (2) and (3) of Article 9 of Directive 2004/17/EC.
(20) This Decision is based on the legal and factual situation as of March 2011 to April 2011 as it appears from the information submitted by Assomineraria, and BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2010 and the Italian authorities. It may be revised, should significant changes in the legal or factual situation mean that the conditions for the applicability of Article 30(1) of Directive 2004/17/EC are no longer met.
(21) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Advisory Committee for Public Contracts,
Directive 2004/17/EC shall not apply to contracts awarded by contracting entities and intended to enable the following services to be carried out in Italy:
(a) exploration for oil and natural gas; and
(b) production of oil.
This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 |
31992R2274 | Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2274/92 of 3 August 1992 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on products of category 35 (order No 40.0350), originating in Pakistan and China, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3832/90 apply
| COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2274/92 of 3 August 1992 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on products of category 35 (order No 40.0350), originating in Pakistan and China, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3832/90 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3832/90 of 20 December 1990 applying generalized tariff preferences for 1991 in respect of textile products originating in developing countries (1), extended into 1992 by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3387/91 (2), and in particular Article 12 thereof,
Whereas Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 3832/90 provides that preferential tariff treatment shall be accorded for each category of products in Annexes I and II thereto individual ceilings, within the limits of the quantities specified in column 8 of Annex I and column 7 of Annex II, in respect of certain or each of the countries or territories of origin referred to in column 5 of the same Annexes;
Whereas Article 11 of the abovementioned Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-establioshed at any time in respect of imports of the products in question once the relevant individual ceilings have been reached at Community level;
Whereas, in respect of products of category 35 (order No 40.0350), originating in Pakistan and China, the relevant ceilings amount to 264 and 53 tonnes respectively;
Whereas on 9 June 1992 imports of the products in question into the Community, originating in Pakistan and China, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached and were charged against those ceilings;
Whereas it is appropriate to re-establish the levying of customs duties for the products in question with regard to Pakistan and China,
As from 8 August 1992 the leving of customs duties, suspended pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 3832/90, shall be re-established in respect of the following products, imported into the Community and originating in Pakistan and China:
Order No Category
(unit) CN code Description 40.0350 35
(tonnes) 5407 10 00
5407 20 90
5407 30 00
5407 41 00
5407 42 10
5407 42 90
5407 43 00 Woven fabrics of synthetic fibres (continuous), other than those for tyres of category 114 5407 44 10
5407 44 90
5407 51 00
5407 52 00
5407 53 10
5407 53 90
5407 54 00
5407 60 10
5407 60 30
5407 60 51
5407 60 59
5407 60 90
5407 71 00
5407 72 00
5407 73 10 40.0350 (cont'd) 5407 73 91
5407 73 99
5407 74 00
5407 81 00
5407 82 00
5407 83 10
5407 83 90
5407 84 00
5407 91 00
5407 92 00
5407 93 10
5407 93 90
5407 94 00
ex 5811 00 00
ex 5905 00 70
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 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. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 |
31978R0914 | Council Regulation (Euratom, ECSC, EEC) No 914/78 of 2 May 1978 amending the Staff Regulations of officials of the European Communities as regards the allowance referred to in Article 4a of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations
| COUNCIL REGULATION (EURATOM, ECSC, EEC) No 914/78 of 2 May 1978 amending the Staff Regulations of officials of the European Communities as regards the allowance referred to in Article 4a of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing a single Council and a single Commission of the European Communities, and in particular Article 24 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission submitted after consulting the Staff Regulations Committee,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (1),
Having regard to the opinion of the Court of Justice,
Whereas Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68 (2) as last amended by Regulation (Euratom, ECSC, EEC) No 912/78 (3), lays down in Article 2 the Staff Regulations of officials of the European Communities and in Article 3 the conditions of employment of other servants of the European Communities ; whereas it is for the Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission and after consulting the other institutions concerned, to amend the Staff Regulations and the conditions of employment;
Whereas it seems desirable to make the allowance referred to in Article 4a of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations permanent,
1. In Annex VII the word "temporary" shall be deleted from the title of Section 2a and from the first sentence of Article 4a.
2. The second sentence of Article 4a of Annex VII shall be replaced by the following:
"The amount of this allowance shall be determined by the Council in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 65 (3) of the Staff Regulations."
The amount of this allowance as it is shown in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 2859/77 (4) shall remain applicable until it is amended by the Council, acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 65 (3) of the Staff Regulations.
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. | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
32003R0005 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 5/2003 of 27 December 2002 laying down detailed rules for the application in 2003 of the tariff quotas for beef and veal products originating in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
| Commission Regulation (EC) No 5/2003
of 27 December 2002
laying down detailed rules for the application in 2003 of the tariff quotas for beef and veal products originating in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 of 18 September 2000 introducing exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the European Union's Stabilisation and Association process, amending Regulation (EC) No 2820/98, and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1763/1999 and (EC) No 6/2000(1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2487/2001(2), and in particular Article 4(2) and Article 6 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef and veal(3), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2345/2001(4), and in particular Article 32(1) thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2248/2001 of 19 November 2001 on certain procedures for applying the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Croatia, of the other part and for applying the Interim Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Croatia(5), and in particular Article 2 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 153/2002 of 21 January 2002 on certain procedures for applying the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part, and for applying the Interim Agreement between the European Community and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia(6), and in particular Article 2 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 provides for an annual preferential tariff quota of 11475 tonnes of "baby beef", distributed among Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia including Kosovo.
(2) The Interim Agreements with Croatia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, which were approved by Council Decision 2002/107/EC on the conclusion and the provisional application of an Interim Agreement on trade and trade-related matters between the European Community, of the one part, and the Republic of Croatia, of the other part(7), and by Council Decision 2001/330/EC on the conclusion of the Interim Agreement on trade and trade-related matters between the European Community, of the one part, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part(8), lay down annual preferential tariff quotas of 9400 tonnes and 1650 tonnes respectively.
(3) For control purposes, Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 makes imports under the quotas of "baby beef" for Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia including Kosovo subject to the presentation of a certificate of authenticity attesting that the goods originate from the issuing country and that they correspond exactly to the definition in Annex II to that Regulation. For the sake of harmonisation, imports under the quotas of "baby beef" originating in Croatia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia should also be made subject to the presentation of a certificate of authenticity attesting that the goods originate from the issuing country and that they correspond exactly to the definition in Annex III to the Interim Agreements with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and with Croatia. A model should also be established for the certificates of authenticity and detailed rules laid down for their use.
(4) Kosovo, as defined by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999, is subject to an international civil administration by the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), which has also set up a separate customs service. There should therefore also be a specific certificate of authenticity for goods originating in the FRY/Kosovo.
(5) The quotas concerned should be managed through the use of import licences. To this end, Commission Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of import and export licences and advance fixing certificates for agricultural products(9), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2299/2001(10), and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1445/95 on rules of application for import and export licences in the beef and veal sector and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 2377/80(11), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 24/2001(12), are applicable subject to this Regulation.
(6) In order to ensure proper management of imports of the products concerned, import licences should be issued subject to verification, in particular of entries on certificates of authenticity.
(7) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Beef and Veal,
1. The following tariff quotas are hereby opened for the period 1 January to 31 December 2003:
- 9400 tonnes of "baby beef", expressed in carcase weight, originating in Croatia,
- 1500 tonnes of "baby beef", expressed in carcase weight, originating in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
- 1650 tonnes of "baby beef", expressed in carcase weight, originating in the Former Yugoslavia Republic of Macedonia,
- 9975 tonnes of "baby beef", expressed in carcase weight, originating in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia including Kosovo.
The four quotas referred to in the first subparagraph shall bear the serial Nos 09.4503, 09.4504, 09.4505 and 09.4506 respectively.
For the purposes of attributing the said quotas, 100 kilograms live weight shall be equivalent to 50 kilograms carcase weight.
2. The customs duty applicable under the quotas referred to in paragraph 1 shall be 20 % of the ad valorem duty and 20 % of the specific duty as laid down in the Common Customs Tariff.
3. Importation under the quotas referred to in paragraph 1 shall be reserved for certain live animals and certain meat falling within CN codes:
- ex 0102 90 51, ex 0102 90 59, ex 0102 90 71 and ex 0102 90 79,
- ex 0201 10 00 and ex 0201 20 20,
- ex 0201 20 30,
- ex 0201 20 50;
referred to in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 and in Annex III to the Interim Agreements concluded with Croatia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
4. All applications for imports under the quotas referred to in paragraph 1 shall be accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the competent authorities of the exporting country or customs territory attesting that the goods originate in that country or customs territory and that they correspond to the definition given, as the case may be, in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 or Annex III to the Interim Agreements referred to in paragraph 3.
Imports of the quantities set out in Article 1 shall be subject to presentation, on release for free circulation, of an import licence issued in accordance with the following provisions:
(a) section 8 of licence applications and licences must show the country or customs territory of origin; licences shall carry with them an obligation to import from the country or customs territory indicated;
(b) section 20 of licence applications and licences shall show one of the following entries:
- "Baby beef" [Reglamento (CE) n° 5/2003]
- "Baby beef" (forordning (EF) nr. 5/2003)
- "Baby beef" [Verordnung (EG) Nr. 5/2003]
- "Baby beef" [κανονισμóς (EK) αριθ. 5/2003]
- "Baby beef" (Regulation (EC) No 5/2003)
- "Baby beef" [règlement (CE) n° 5/2003]
- "Baby beef" [regolamento (CE) n. 5/2003]
- "Baby beef" (Verordening (EG) nr. 5/2003)
- "Baby beef" [Regulamento (CE) n.o 5/2003]
- "Baby beef" (asetus (EY) N:o 5/2003)
- "Baby beef" (förordning (EG) nr 5/2003)
(c) the original of the certificate of authenticity drawn up in accordance with Articles 3 and 4 plus a copy thereof shall be presented to the competent authority together with the application for the first import licence relating to the certificate of authenticity.
The original of the certificate of authenticity shall be kept by the abovementioned authority;
(d) certificates of authenticity may be used for the issue of more than one import licence for quantities not exceeding that shown on the certificate. Where more than one licence is issued in respect of a certificate, the competent authority shall endorse the certificate of authenticity to show the quantity attributed;
(e) the competent authorities may issue import licences only after they are satisfied that all the information on the certificate of authenticity corresponds to that received each week from the Commission on the subject. The licences shall be issued immediately thereafter.
1. Certificates of authenticity as referred to in Article 2 shall be made out in one original and two copies, to be printed and completed in one of the official languages of the European Community, in accordance with the model in Annexes I, II, III, IV and V respectively for the exporting countries and the customs territory concerned; they may also be printed and completed in the official language or one of the official languages of the exporting country or customs territory.
The competent authorities of the Member State in which the import licence application is submitted may require a translation of the certificate to be provided.
2. The original and copies thereof may be typed or hand-written. In the latter case, they must be completed in black ink and in block capitals.
3. The certificate forms shall measure 210 × 297 mm. The paper used shall weigh not less than 40 g/m2. The original shall be white, the first copy pink and the second copy yellow.
4. Each certificate shall have its own individual serial number followed by the name of the issuing country or customs territory.
The copies shall bear the same serial number and the same name as the original.
5. Certificates shall be valid only if they are duly endorsed by an issuing authority listed in Annex VI.
6. Certificates shall be deemed to have been duly endorsed if they state the date and place of issue and if they bear the stamp of the issuing authority and the signature of the person or persons empowered to sign them.
1. The issuing authorities listed in Annex VI must:
(a) be recognised as such by the exporting country or customs territory concerned;
(b) undertake to verify entries on the certificates;
(c) undertake to forward to the Commission at least once per week any information enabling the entries on the certificates of authenticity to be verified, in particular with regard to the number of the certificate, the exporter, the consignee, the country of destination, the product (live animals/meat), the net weight and the date of signature.
2. The list in Annex V may be revised by the Commission where the requirement referred to in paragraph 1(a) is no longer met, where an issuing authority fails to fulfil one or more of the obligations incumbent on it or where a new issuing authority is designated.
Certificates of authenticity and import licences shall be valid for three months from their respective dates of issue. However, their term of validity shall expire on 31 December 2003.
The authorities of the exporting countries and the custom territory concerned shall communicate to the Commission specimens of the stamp imprints used by their issuing authorities and the names and signatures of the persons empowered to sign certificates of authenticity. The Commission shall communicate this information to the competent authorities of the Member States.
Save as otherwise provided in this Regulation, Regulations (EC) Nos 1291/2000 and 1445/95 shall apply to importing operations under the quotas referred to in Article 1.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply from 1 January 2003.
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32012D0327 | Council Decision 2012/327/CFSP of 25 June 2012 extending the mandate of the European Union Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean region
| 26.6.2012 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 165/56
COUNCIL DECISION 2012/327/CFSP
of 25 June 2012
extending the mandate of the European Union Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean region
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular Article 28, Article 31(2) and Article 33 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,
Whereas:
(1) On 18 July 2011, the Council adopted Decision 2011/424/CFSP (1) appointing Mr Bernardino LEÓN as the European Union Special Representative (EUSR) for the Southern Mediterranean region. The EUSR’s mandate is to expire on 30 June 2012.
(2) The mandate of the EUSR should be extended for a further period of 12 months,
European Union Special Representative
The mandate of Mr Bernardino LEÓN as the EUSR for the Southern Mediterranean region is hereby extended until 30 June 2013. The mandate of the EUSR may be terminated earlier, if the Council so decides, on a proposal of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR).
Policy objectives
The mandate of the EUSR shall be based on the policy objectives of the Union regarding the Southern Neighbourhood as set out in the European Council Declarations of 4 February and 11 March 2011, the European Council conclusions of 24-25 March 2011, and the Council conclusions of 21 February and 20 June 2011, and taking into account the proposals of the HR and the Commission in their communications of 8 March and 25 May 2011.
Those objectives include:
(a) enhancing the Union’s political dialogue, contributing to the partnership and broader relationship with Southern Mediterranean countries, in particular those undergoing political reform and a transition to democracy;
(b) contributing to the response of the Union to the developments of Southern Mediterranean countries, in particular those undergoing political reform and a transition to democracy, notably by strengthening democracy and institution building, the rule of law, good governance, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, peace and regional cooperation, including through the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Union for the Mediterranean;
(c) enhancing the Union’s effectiveness, presence and visibility in the region and in relevant international forums;
(d) establishing close coordination with relevant local partners and international and regional organisations such as the African Union, the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the League of Arab States, the Arab Maghreb Union, relevant international financial institutions, the United Nations and the private sector.
Mandate
In order to achieve the policy objectives, the mandate of the EUSR shall be to:
(a) strengthen the overall political role of the Union with regard to Southern Mediterranean countries, in particular those undergoing political reform and a transition to democracy, notably by enhancing dialogue with governments and international organisations, as well as with civil society and other relevant interlocutors, and promoting awareness among the partners of the Union’s approach;
(b) maintain close contact with all parties involved in the process of democratic transformation in the region, foster stabilisation and reconciliation in full respect of local ownership and contribute to crisis management and prevention;
(c) contribute to better coherence, consistency and coordination of the Union and Member States’ policies and actions towards the region;
(d) contribute to promoting coordination with international partners and organisations and to supporting regional cooperation. Assist the HR, in coordination with the Commission and Member States, by contributing to the work of the Task Force and follow up meetings for the Southern Mediterranean region;
(e) contribute to the implementation of the Union’s human rights policy in the region, including the EU Guidelines on human rights, in particular the EU Guidelines on Children and Armed Conflict, as well as on violence against women and girls and combating all forms of discrimination against them, and the Union’s policy on Women, Peace and Security, including by monitoring and reporting on developments, as well as formulating recommendations in this regard.
Implementation of the mandate
1. The EUSR shall be responsible for the implementation of the mandate, acting under the authority of the HR.
2. The Political and Security Committee (PSC) shall maintain a privileged link with the EUSR and shall be the EUSR’s primary point of contact with the Council. The PSC shall provide the EUSR with strategic guidance and political direction within the framework of the mandate, without prejudice to the powers of the HR.
3. The EUSR shall work in close coordination with the European External Action Service (EEAS) and its relevant departments.
Financing
1. The financial reference amount intended to cover the expenditure related to the mandate of the EUSR in the period from 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2013 shall be EUR 945 000.
2. The expenditure shall be managed in accordance with the procedures and rules applicable to the general budget of the Union.
3. The management of the expenditure shall be subject to a contract between the EUSR and the Commission. The EUSR shall be accountable to the Commission for all expenditure.
Constitution and composition of the team
1. Within the limits of the mandate and the corresponding financial means made available, the EUSR shall be responsible for constituting a team. The team shall include the expertise on specific policy issues as required by the mandate. The EUSR shall keep the Council and the Commission promptly informed of the composition of the team.
2. Member States, the institutions of the Union and the EEAS may propose the secondment of staff to work with the EUSR. The salary of such seconded personnel shall be covered by the Member State, the institution of the Union concerned or the EEAS, respectively. Experts seconded by Member States to the institutions of the Union or the EEAS may also be posted to the EUSR. International contracted staff shall have the nationality of a Member State.
3. All seconded personnel shall remain under the administrative authority of the sending Member State, the sending institution of the Union or the EEAS, and shall carry out their duties and act in the interest of the mandate of the EUSR.
Privileges and immunities of the EUSR and the staff of the EUSR
The privileges, immunities and further guarantees necessary for the completion and smooth functioning of the mission of the EUSR and the members of the EUSR’s staff shall be agreed with the host party or parties, as appropriate. Member States and the Commission shall grant all necessary support to such effect.
Security of EU classified information
The EUSR and the members of the EUSR’s team shall respect the security principles and minimum standards established by Council Decision 2011/292/EU of 31 March 2011 on the security rules for protecting EU classified information (2).
Access to information and logistical support
1. Member States, the Commission and the General Secretariat of the Council shall ensure that the EUSR is given access to any relevant information.
2. The Union delegations and/or the Member States, as appropriate, shall provide logistical support in the region.
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Security
In accordance with the Union’s policy on the security of personnel deployed outside the Union in an operational capacity under Title V of the Treaty, the EUSR shall take all reasonably practicable measures, in conformity with the mandate and on the basis of the security situation in the geographical area of responsibility, for the security of all personnel under the direct authority of the EUSR, in particular by:
(a) establishing a mission-specific security plan based on guidance from the EEAS, providing for mission-specific physical, organisational and procedural security measures governing the management of the secure movement of personnel to, and within, the mission area and the management of security incidents, and providing for a contingency plan and a mission evacuation plan;
(b) ensuring that all personnel deployed outside the Union are covered by high risk insurance, as required by the conditions in the mission area;
(c) ensuring that all members of the EUSR’s team to be deployed outside the Union, including locally contracted personnel, have received appropriate security training before or upon arriving in the mission area, based on the risk ratings assigned to the mission area by the EEAS;
(d) ensuring that all agreed recommendations made following regular security assessments are implemented, and providing the Council, the HR and the Commission with written reports on their implementation and on other security issues within the framework of the mid-term and mandate implementation reports.
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Reporting
The EUSR shall regularly provide the PSC and the HR with oral and written reports. The EUSR shall also report to Council working parties as necessary. Regular written reports shall be circulated through the COREU network. Upon recommendation of the PSC or the HR, the EUSR may provide the Foreign Affairs Council with reports. In accordance with Article 36 of the Treaty, the EUSR may be involved in briefing the European Parliament.
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Coordination
1. The EUSR shall contribute to the unity, consistency and effectiveness of the Union’s action and shall help ensure that all Union instruments and Member States’ actions are engaged coherently, to attain the Union’s policy objectives. The EUSR shall work in full coordination with the Member States and the Commission, as well as other European Union Special Representatives active in the region, including the EUSR for the Middle East Peace Process, as appropriate. The EUSR shall provide regular briefings to Member States’ missions and the Union’s delegations.
2. In the field, close liaison shall be maintained with the Heads of Union delegations and Member States’ Heads of Mission, who shall make every effort to assist the EUSR in the implementation of the mandate. The EUSR shall also liaise with other international and regional actors in the field.
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Review
The implementation of this Decision and its consistency with other contributions from the Union to the region shall be kept under regular review. The EUSR shall present the Council, the HR and the Commission with a progress report by the end of December 2012, and with a comprehensive implementation report on the mandate at the end thereof.
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Entry into force
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32003D0514 | 2003/514/EC: Commission Decision of 10 July 2003 concerning health protection measures against African swine fever in Sardinia, Italy (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2003) 2293)
| Commission Decision
of 10 July 2003
concerning health protection measures against African swine fever in Sardinia, Italy
(notified under document number C(2003) 2293)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2003/514/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 89/662/EEC of 11 December 1989 concerning veterinary checks in intra-Community trade with a view to the completion of the internal market(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 806/2003(2), and in particular Article 9 thereof,
Having regard to Council Directive 90/425/EEC of 26 June 1990 concerning veterinary and zootechnical checks applicable in intra-Community trade in certain live animals and products with a view to the completion of the internal market(3), as last amended by Directive 2002/33/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(4), and in particular Article 10 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Commission Decision 95/108/EC of 28 March 1995 concerning health protection measures against African swine fever in Sardinia, Italy(5) has been substantially amended(6). In the interests of clarity and rationality the said Decision should be codified.
(2) African swine fever must be considered an endemic disease in the province of Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy.
(3) The disease situation is liable to endanger the herds in other regions of Italy and of other Member States, in view of trade in live pigs, fresh pigmeat and certain pigmeat-based products.
(4) Council Decision 90/424/EEC of 26 June 1990 on expenditure in the veterinary field(7), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 806/2003, provides for the possibility of financial participation by the Community in the eradication and surveillance of animal diseases.
(5) It is the objective within the context of the African swine fever eradication programmes presented annually by Italy for approval to eliminate that disease from the remaining infected areas of Sardinia.
(6) The Italian authorities have taken legal measures to prohibit the movement of live pigs, fresh pigmeat and certain pigmeat-based products from the territory of Sardinia. The adoption of those legal measures guarantees the efficacity of the implementation of this Decision.
(7) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
Italy prohibits the movement of animals of the family Suidae from the territory of the region of Sardinia.
1. Italy prohibits the movement of fresh pigmeat originating from any animal of the Suidae family from the territory of the region of Sardinia.
2. In derogation from the provisions of paragraph 1 fresh pigmeat can be sent to areas outside the territory of the region of Sardinia on condition that the meat in question:
(a) originates from pigs which have entered the territory of the region of Sardinia as pigs for slaughter in accordance with the provisions of Council Directive 64/432/EEC(8) or Council Directive 72/462/EEC(9). The said pigs for slaughter have been transported directly from the port of entry to a designated slaughterhouse. On arrival at the slaughterhouse they have been slaughtered within 12 hours; or
(b) originates from pigs which:
(i) have been kept on a holding approved by the competent veterinary authority; the holding shall be situated in the province of Sassari, Oristano or Cagliari;
(ii) have been kept for at least four months at the holding of origin;
(iii) have been kept on a holding which is located at least 10 km distant from any outbreak of African swine fever which has occurred in the last three months;
(iv) have been kept on a holding into which no pigs have been introduced during the previous 30 days;
(v) have been included in a pig population on a holding which is covered by the serological testing programme required under the African swine fever eradication programme adopted by the Commission within the context of the provisions of Decision 90/424/EEC and no antibodies to African swine fever virus have been detected within the last six months;
(vi) have been included in a pre-movement serological testing programme carried out within 10 days prior to transport for slaughter where no antibodies to the African swine fever virus have been detected; the pre-movement testing programme for the consignment in question must be designed to give approximately 95 % confidence of detecting seropositive animals at a 5 % prevalence level;
(vii) have undergone a clinical examination on the holding of origin within 24 hours prior to transport. All pigs on the holding of origin shall be examined and related facilities must be inspected. The animals shall be identified by eartags at the holding of origin so that they can be traced back to the holding of origin;
(viii) have been transported direct from the holding of origin to the designated slaughterhouse. The means of transport shall be cleaned and disinfected before loading and shall be officially sealed. The pigs shall be accompanied by a health document certifying that they comply with the requirements provided for under points (i) to (vii) and signed by the competent authority;
(ix) on arrival at the slaughterhouse, have been slaughtered within 12 hours.
3. The meat referred to in paragraph 2 shall be kept separately from meat which does not comply with the conditions of provided for in that paragraph.
Meat consigned from the territory of the region of Sardinia shall be accompanied by a certificate from an official veterinarian. The certificate shall bear the following words:
"Meat conforming to Commission Decision 2003/514/EC concerning health protection measures against African swine fever in Sardinia, Italy."
1. Italy prohibits the movement of pigmeat products from the territory of the region of Sardinia.
2. In derogation from paragraph 1, pigmeat products may be sent to areas outside the territory of the region of Sardinia on condition that the products in question:
(a) have undergone treatment in accordance with the provisions of Article 4(1)(a) of Council Directive 80/215/EEC(10); or
(b) have been manufactured at a designated establishment and only from meat which:
(i) complies with the provision of Article 2(2) and (3); or
(ii) have entered the territory of Sardinia as fresh pigmeat in accordance with the provisions of Council Directive 64/433/EEC(11).
Meat products referred to in Article 4(2)(b) consigned from the territory of the region of Sardinia shall be accompanied by a certificate from an official veterinarian. The certificate shall bear the following words:
"Meat products conforming to Commission Decision 2003/514/EC concerning health protection measures against African swine fever in Sardinia, Italy."
Italy shall present to all Member States and the Commission:
(a) a list containing name(s) and location(s) of designated slaughterhouse(s) referred to in Article 2 and name(s) and location(s) of designated establishment(s) referred to in Article 4(2)(b) and approved by the Central Veterinary Authority;
(b) a report every six months which contains information on number of pigs which have been subject to the measures provided for in Article 2(2)(b) and the results from serological testing carried out.
1. Italy shall establish a National Coordination and Monitoring Committee. The chairman of the Committee shall be designated by the Central Veterinary Authority, which shall be in charge of the implementation of this Decision and the monitoring of measures to eradicate African swine fever. The Committee shall:
(a) collect data on the surveillance activities carried out by authorities of the region of Sardinia;
(b) have data-handling facilities;
(c) have rapid communication links with the region of Sardinia.
2. The Central Veterinary Authority may introduce further protection measures other than those referred to in this Decision if they are deemed necessary.
Decision 95/108/EC is repealed.
References to the repealed Decision shall be construed as references to this Decision and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table set out in Annex II.
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32012R0636 | Commission Regulation (EU) No 636/2012 of 13 July 2012 extending for six months the application of Regulation (EU) No 161/2012 on emergency measures for the protection of haddock stocks in waters to the west of Scotland
| 14.7.2012 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 186/19
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 636/2012
of 13 July 2012
extending for six months the application of Regulation (EU) No 161/2012 on emergency measures for the protection of haddock stocks in waters to the west of Scotland
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002 (1), and in particular Article 7 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Evidence of serious threats to the conservation of certain stocks of haddock in waters to the west of Scotland led the Commission to adopt Regulation (EU) No 161/2012 of 23 February 2012 on emergency measures for the protection of haddock stocks in waters to the west of Scotland (2), on the basis of the provisions laid down Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002.
(2) Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002 states that the emergency measures are to last no more than six months and that the Commission may take a new decision to extend them for an additional period of no more than six months.
(3) The rationale that underlies the adoption of the emergency measures in issue remains valid for the duration of the fishery this season. Otherwise the positive effects they have yielded until now could be nullified. Since the relevant fisheries are indeed still ongoing, the lapse of the emergency measures would re-introduce the catch composition requirements, entailing increased discarding and thus considerable increase in fishing pressure on haddock and other stocks as fishermen seek to legitimately land their quotas.
(4) Measures on permanent protection of the haddock stocks concerned by Commission Regulation (EU) No 161/2012 might not be in place before the expiry date of application of that Regulation. Meanwhile, the threats for the conservation of the haddock stocks persist.
(5) It is therefore appropriate to extend for six months the emergency measures provided for in Regulation (EU) No 161/2012,
The application of Regulation (EU) No 161/2012 shall be extended until 25 February 2013.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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31990D0195 | 90/195/EEC: Council Decision of 29 March 1990 concerning the conclusion of an Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation establishing cooperation in the field of training in the context of the implementation of COMETT II (1990-1994)
| COUNCIL DECISION of 29 March 1990 concerning the conclusion of an Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation establishing cooperation in the field of training in the context of the implementation of Comett II (1990-1994) (90/195/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 235 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),
Having regard to the oppinion of the European Parliament (2),
Whereas, by Decision 89/27/EEC (3), the Council adopted the second phase of the programme for cooperation between universities and industry regarding training in the field of technology (Comett II) (1990-1994);
Whereas, by Decision of 22 May 1989, the Council adopted the opening of the Comett II programme to the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries and Article 1 of that Decision authorizes the Commission to negotiate - with those EFTA countries which so wish - cooperation agreements in the field of training in technology in the context of the implementation of Comett II;
Whereas a cooperation Agreement with Switzerland enriches, by its very nature, the impact of Comett II actions throughout the Community and will strengthen the skill levels of human resources in Europe,
The Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation establishing cooperation in the field of training in the context of the implementation of Comett II (1990-1994) is hereby approved on behalf of the Community.
The text of the Agreement is attached to this Decision.
The President of the Council shall, on behalf of the Community, give the notification as provided for in Article 15 of the Agreement. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
31994R2687 | Council Regulation (EC) No 2687/94 of 31 October 1994 on Community financial contributions to the International Fund for Ireland
| COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2687/94 of 31 October 1994 on Community financial contributions to the International Fund for Ireland
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 235 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),
Whereas the Joint Declaration of the Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and Prime Minister John Major of 14 December 1993 provides a framework for a peace process in this part of the European Union;
Whereas the Commission in its statements of 16 December 1993 and 31 August 1994 expressed the wish to give practical support to this process and in its statement of 21 September 1994 proposed an increase in the Community contribution to the International Fund for Ireland;
Whereas the Council in its statement of 20 December 1993 declares that the ending of the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland would bring many social and economic benefits to the region, the Member States concerned and the European Union as a whole and in its statement of 4 October 1994 welcomed the progress made and reaffirmed the need to ensure that the peace process was made irreversible;
Whereas Article 10 (a) of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 15 Nowember 1985 provides that the two governments shall cooperate to promote the economic and social development of those areas of both parts of Ireland which have suffered most severely from the consequences of the instability of recent years, and shall consider the possibility of securing international support for this work;
Whereas, in order to contribute to the work envisaged in Article 10 (a) of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, the International Fund for Ireland was established to promote economic and social advance and to encourage contact, dialogue and reconciliation between nationalists and unionists throughout Ireland;
Whereas the governments of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1988 invited the Community to contribute to the International Fund for Ireland;
Whereas ECU 15 millions per annum has been provided from the Community budget since 1989 to support projects of the International Fund for Ireland which have a genuine additional impact in the areas concerned;
Whereas the programmes of the International Fund for Ireland encourage cross-border and cross-community cooperation and thereby promote dialogue and reconciliation between nationalists and unionists;
Whereas the International Fund for Ireland has since its establishment provided support to some 3 000 projects;
Whereas the International Fund for Ireland encourages those in the most deprived areas to participate in and take responsibility for the economic regeneration of their own areas;
Whereas the International Fund for Ireland is an example of successfull Anglo-Irish cooperation in advancing economic and social progress and in promoting reconciliation on a cross-border and cross-community basis;
Whereas a framework for continued Community support for the International Fund for Ireland should be established;
Whereas such support should take the form of financial contributions for a period of three years and be reassessed in due course;
Whereas the amount deemed necessary for the Community contribution to the International Fund for Ireland is ECU 20 million for each of the years 1995, 1996 and 1997 expressed in current prices;
Whereas this support will contribute to reinforcing the solidarity between the Member States and between their peoples;
Whereas the Treaty does not, for the adoption of this Regulation, provide powers other than those in Article 235,
An annual contribution shall be made to the International Fund for Ireland, hereinafter called 'the Fund', for each of the years 1995, 1996, 1997. The amount of this contribution shall be established as part of the annual budgetary procedure.
The contribution shall be used by the Fund in priority for projects of a cross-border or cross-community nature, in accordance with the Agreement establishing the International Fund for Ireland.
The contribution shall be used in such a way that it has a genuine additional impact on the areas concerned and should not therefore be used as a substitute for other public and private expenditure.
A Commission representative shall be enabled to continue to assist as an observer at the Board meetings of the Fund.
The Commission shall administer the contribution mentioned in Article 1.
The Commission shall submit an annual report to the budgetary authority covering the following matters, inter alia:
- a survey of the Fund's activities,
- a list of projects which have received aid,
- an assessment of the nature and impact of the interventions, with particular regard to the objectives of the Fund and the criteria laid down in the first and second paragraphs of Article 2,
- an Annex containing the results of the verifications and spot checks carried out by the Commission representative or his agents.
The annual contribution shall be paid over in two parts in accordance with the following provisions:
- an advance of 80 % shall be paid over after signature by the chairman of the Board of the Fund of the Commission's standard undertaking relating to grants and after having made the undertaking to use the contribution in accordance with Article 2, and, as far as contributions for 1996 and 1997 are concerned, after receipt and acceptance by the Comission of the beneficiary's annual activity report and audited accounts in respect of the previous assessment,
- the remaining 20 % shall be paid over after receipt and acceptance by the Commission of the beneficiary's annual activity report and audited accounts.
Before the end of 1996, the Commission shall draw up an evaluation report for the European Parliament and the Council assessing the need for continuing contributions beyond 1997.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1995, and shall remain in force until 31 December 1997.
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31977D0282 | 77/282/EEC: Commission Decision of 30 March 1977 authorizing the French Republic to restrict the marketing of seed of certain varieties of agricultural plant species (Only the French text is authentic)
| COMMISSION DECISION of 30 March 1977 authorizing the French Republic to restrict the marketing of seed of certain varieties of agricultural plant species (Only the French text is authentic) (77/282/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 70/457/EEC of 29 September 1970 on the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species (1), as last amended by Council Directive 73/438/EEC of 11 December 1973 (2), and in particular Article 15 (2), (3) and (7) thereof,
Having regard to the application lodged by the French Republic,
Whereas, under Article 15 (1) of the said Directive, seeds and propagating material of varieties of agricultural plant species which have been officially accepted during 1974 in one or more Member States and which also meet the conditions laid down in the said Directive are, with effect from 31 December 1976, no longer subject to any marketing restrictions relating to variety in the Community;
Whereas, however, Article 15 (2) thereof provides that a Member State may be authorized upon application to prohibit the marketing of seed and propagating material of certain varieties;
Whereas the French Republic has applied for such authorization for a certain number of varieties of different species;
Whereas Commission Decision 77/148/EEC of 29 December 1976 (3) extended the period provided for in the said Article 15 (1) for the majority of these varieties for the French Republic from 31 December 1976 to 31 March 1977;
Whereas the Commission has meanwhile completed its examination of the French application in respect of these varieties;
Whereas the varieties listed in this Decision have been the subject of official growing trials in the French Republic ; whereas the results of these trials have led the French Republic to decide that these varieties are not sufficiently uniform there;
Whereas the other Member States have accepted these conclusions in respect of the variety Capelli Senatore (durum wheat) ; whereas it is therefore clear that this variety is not sufficiently uniform in France in one characteristic (Article 15 (3) (c), first case of the said Directive);
Whereas in respect of the variety Hydra (barley), the results of the trials show that in the French Republic, when compared with the national rules governing the acceptance of varieties there, which apply as part of current Community provisions, it is not sufficiently uniform in certain characteristics (Article 15 (3) (a) of the said Directive);
Whereas, therefore, the application of the French Republic in respect of these varieties should be granted in full;
Whereas in respect of the variety Oberweihst (cocks-foot), the French Republic is not yet in a position to justify its application for reasons beyond its control;
Whereas the period provided for in Article 15 (1) thereof should therefore be extended in the case of the French Republic by an appropriate period to enable it to prepare the necessary data concerning these varieties (Article 15 (7) of the said Directive);
Whereas other varieties are no longer included in the French application;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Seed and Propagating Material for Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry, (1)OJ No L 225, 12.10.1970, p. 1. (2)OJ No L 356, 27.12.1973, p. 79. (3)OJ No L 47, 18.2.1977, p. 68.
The French Republic is hereby authorized to prohibit the marketing in its territory of seed of the following varieties listed in the 1977 common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species:
Cereals 1. Hordeum distichum L. Hydra
2. Triticum durum L. Cappelli senatore.
The authorization under Article 1 shall be withdrawn as soon as it is established that the conditions thereof are no longer satisfied.
In respect of the variety Oberweihst (Dactylis glomerata), the period provided for in Article 15 (1) of Directive 70/457/EEC shall be extended for the French Republic from 31 March 1977 to 31 December 1979.
The French Republic shall notify the Commission of the date from which it makes use of the authorization under Article 1 and the detailed methods to be followed. The Commission shall inform the other Member States thereof.
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32008L0052 | Directive 2008/52/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2008 on certain aspects of mediation in civil and commercial matters
| 24.5.2008 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 136/3
DIRECTIVE 2008/52/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 21 May 2008
on certain aspects of mediation in civil and commercial matters
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 61(c) and the second indent of Article 67(5) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (1),
Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty (2),
Whereas:
(1) The Community has set itself the objective of maintaining and developing an area of freedom, security and justice, in which the free movement of persons is ensured. To that end, the Community has to adopt, inter alia, measures in the field of judicial cooperation in civil matters that are necessary for the proper functioning of the internal market.
(2) The principle of access to justice is fundamental and, with a view to facilitating better access to justice, the European Council at its meeting in Tampere on 15 and 16 October 1999 called for alternative, extra-judicial procedures to be created by the Member States.
(3) In May 2000 the Council adopted Conclusions on alternative methods of settling disputes under civil and commercial law, stating that the establishment of basic principles in this area is an essential step towards enabling the appropriate development and operation of extrajudicial procedures for the settlement of disputes in civil and commercial matters so as to simplify and improve access to justice.
(4) In April 2002 the Commission presented a Green Paper on alternative dispute resolution in civil and commercial law, taking stock of the existing situation as concerns alternative dispute resolution methods in the European Union and initiating widespread consultations with Member States and interested parties on possible measures to promote the use of mediation.
(5) The objective of securing better access to justice, as part of the policy of the European Union to establish an area of freedom, security and justice, should encompass access to judicial as well as extrajudicial dispute resolution methods. This Directive should contribute to the proper functioning of the internal market, in particular as concerns the availability of mediation services.
(6) Mediation can provide a cost-effective and quick extrajudicial resolution of disputes in civil and commercial matters through processes tailored to the needs of the parties. Agreements resulting from mediation are more likely to be complied with voluntarily and are more likely to preserve an amicable and sustainable relationship between the parties. These benefits become even more pronounced in situations displaying cross-border elements.
(7) In order to promote further the use of mediation and ensure that parties having recourse to mediation can rely on a predictable legal framework, it is necessary to introduce framework legislation addressing, in particular, key aspects of civil procedure.
(8) The provisions of this Directive should apply only to mediation in cross-border disputes, but nothing should prevent Member States from applying such provisions also to internal mediation processes.
(9) This Directive should not in any way prevent the use of modern communication technologies in the mediation process.
(10) This Directive should apply to processes whereby two or more parties to a cross-border dispute attempt by themselves, on a voluntary basis, to reach an amicable agreement on the settlement of their dispute with the assistance of a mediator. It should apply in civil and commercial matters. However, it should not apply to rights and obligations on which the parties are not free to decide themselves under the relevant applicable law. Such rights and obligations are particularly frequent in family law and employment law.
(11) This Directive should not apply to pre-contractual negotiations or to processes of an adjudicatory nature such as certain judicial conciliation schemes, consumer complaint schemes, arbitration and expert determination or to processes administered by persons or bodies issuing a formal recommendation, whether or not it be legally binding as to the resolution of the dispute.
(12) This Directive should apply to cases where a court refers parties to mediation or in which national law prescribes mediation. Furthermore, in so far as a judge may act as a mediator under national law, this Directive should also apply to mediation conducted by a judge who is not responsible for any judicial proceedings relating to the matter or matters in dispute. This Directive should not, however, extend to attempts made by the court or judge seised to settle a dispute in the context of judicial proceedings concerning the dispute in question or to cases in which the court or judge seised requests assistance or advice from a competent person.
(13) The mediation provided for in this Directive should be a voluntary process in the sense that the parties are themselves in charge of the process and may organise it as they wish and terminate it at any time. However, it should be possible under national law for the courts to set time-limits for a mediation process. Moreover, the courts should be able to draw the parties’ attention to the possibility of mediation whenever this is appropriate.
(14) Nothing in this Directive should prejudice national legislation making the use of mediation compulsory or subject to incentives or sanctions provided that such legislation does not prevent parties from exercising their right of access to the judicial system. Nor should anything in this Directive prejudice existing self-regulating mediation systems in so far as these deal with aspects which are not covered by this Directive.
(15) In order to provide legal certainty, this Directive should indicate which date should be relevant for determining whether or not a dispute which the parties attempt to settle through mediation is a cross-border dispute. In the absence of a written agreement, the parties should be deemed to agree to use mediation at the point in time when they take specific action to start the mediation process.
(16) To ensure the necessary mutual trust with respect to confidentiality, effect on limitation and prescription periods, and recognition and enforcement of agreements resulting from mediation, Member States should encourage, by any means they consider appropriate, the training of mediators and the introduction of effective quality control mechanisms concerning the provision of mediation services.
(17) Member States should define such mechanisms, which may include having recourse to market-based solutions, and should not be required to provide any funding in that respect. The mechanisms should aim at preserving the flexibility of the mediation process and the autonomy of the parties, and at ensuring that mediation is conducted in an effective, impartial and competent way. Mediators should be made aware of the existence of the European Code of Conduct for Mediators which should also be made available to the general public on the Internet.
(18) In the field of consumer protection, the Commission has adopted a Recommendation (3) establishing minimum quality criteria which out-of-court bodies involved in the consensual resolution of consumer disputes should offer to their users. Any mediators or organisations coming within the scope of that Recommendation should be encouraged to respect its principles. In order to facilitate the dissemination of information concerning such bodies, the Commission should set up a database of out-of-court schemes which Member States consider as respecting the principles of that Recommendation.
(19) Mediation should not be regarded as a poorer alternative to judicial proceedings in the sense that compliance with agreements resulting from mediation would depend on the good will of the parties. Member States should therefore ensure that the parties to a written agreement resulting from mediation can have the content of their agreement made enforceable. It should only be possible for a Member State to refuse to make an agreement enforceable if the content is contrary to its law, including its private international law, or if its law does not provide for the enforceability of the content of the specific agreement. This could be the case if the obligation specified in the agreement was by its nature unenforceable.
(20) The content of an agreement resulting from mediation which has been made enforceable in a Member State should be recognised and declared enforceable in the other Member States in accordance with applicable Community or national law. This could, for example, be on the basis of Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (4) or Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 of 27 November 2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility (5).
(21) Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 specifically provides that, in order to be enforceable in another Member State, agreements between the parties have to be enforceable in the Member State in which they were concluded. Consequently, if the content of an agreement resulting from mediation in a family law matter is not enforceable in the Member State where the agreement was concluded and where the request for enforceability is made, this Directive should not encourage the parties to circumvent the law of that Member State by having their agreement made enforceable in another Member State.
(22) This Directive should not affect the rules in the Member States concerning enforcement of agreements resulting from mediation.
(23) Confidentiality in the mediation process is important and this Directive should therefore provide for a minimum degree of compatibility of civil procedural rules with regard to how to protect the confidentiality of mediation in any subsequent civil and commercial judicial proceedings or arbitration.
(24) In order to encourage the parties to use mediation, Member States should ensure that their rules on limitation and prescription periods do not prevent the parties from going to court or to arbitration if their mediation attempt fails. Member States should make sure that this result is achieved even though this Directive does not harmonise national rules on limitation and prescription periods. Provisions on limitation and prescription periods in international agreements as implemented in the Member States, for instance in the area of transport law, should not be affected by this Directive.
(25) Member States should encourage the provision of information to the general public on how to contact mediators and organisations providing mediation services. They should also encourage legal practitioners to inform their clients of the possibility of mediation.
(26) In accordance with point 34 of the Interinstitutional agreement on better law-making (6), Member States are encouraged to draw up, for themselves and in the interests of the Community, their own tables illustrating, as far as possible, the correlation between this Directive and the transposition measures, and to make them public.
(27) This Directive seeks to promote the fundamental rights, and takes into account the principles, recognised in particular by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
(28) Since the objective of this Directive cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale or effects of the action, be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective.
(29) In accordance with Article 3 of the Protocol on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland, annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty establishing the European Community, the United Kingdom and Ireland have given notice of their wish to take part in the adoption and application of this Directive.
(30) In accordance with Articles 1 and 2 of the Protocol on the position of Denmark, annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Denmark does not take part in the adoption of this Directive and is not bound by it or subject to its application,
Objective and scope
1. The objective of this Directive is to facilitate access to alternative dispute resolution and to promote the amicable settlement of disputes by encouraging the use of mediation and by ensuring a balanced relationship between mediation and judicial proceedings.
2. This Directive shall apply, in cross-border disputes, to civil and commercial matters except as regards rights and obligations which are not at the parties’ disposal under the relevant applicable law. It shall not extend, in particular, to revenue, customs or administrative matters or to the liability of the State for acts and omissions in the exercise of State authority (acta iure imperii).
3. In this Directive, the term ‘Member State’ shall mean Member States with the exception of Denmark.
Cross-border disputes
1. For the purposes of this Directive a cross-border dispute shall be one in which at least one of the parties is domiciled or habitually resident in a Member State other than that of any other party on the date on which:
(a) the parties agree to use mediation after the dispute has arisen;
(b) mediation is ordered by a court;
(c) an obligation to use mediation arises under national law; or
(d) for the purposes of Article 5 an invitation is made to the parties.
2. Notwithstanding paragraph 1, for the purposes of Articles 7 and 8 a cross-border dispute shall also be one in which judicial proceedings or arbitration following mediation between the parties are initiated in a Member State other than that in which the parties were domiciled or habitually resident on the date referred to in paragraph 1(a), (b) or (c).
3. For the purposes of paragraphs 1 and 2, domicile shall be determined in accordance with Articles 59 and 60 of Regulation (EC) No 44/2001.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Directive the following definitions shall apply:
(a) ‘Mediation’ means a structured process, however named or referred to, whereby two or more parties to a dispute attempt by themselves, on a voluntary basis, to reach an agreement on the settlement of their dispute with the assistance of a mediator. This process may be initiated by the parties or suggested or ordered by a court or prescribed by the law of a Member State.
(b) ‘Mediator’ means any third person who is asked to conduct a mediation in an effective, impartial and competent way, regardless of the denomination or profession of that third person in the Member State concerned and of the way in which the third person has been appointed or requested to conduct the mediation.
Ensuring the quality of mediation
1. Member States shall encourage, by any means which they consider appropriate, the development of, and adherence to, voluntary codes of conduct by mediators and organisations providing mediation services, as well as other effective quality control mechanisms concerning the provision of mediation services.
2. Member States shall encourage the initial and further training of mediators in order to ensure that the mediation is conducted in an effective, impartial and competent way in relation to the parties.
Recourse to mediation
1. A court before which an action is brought may, when appropriate and having regard to all the circumstances of the case, invite the parties to use mediation in order to settle the dispute. The court may also invite the parties to attend an information session on the use of mediation if such sessions are held and are easily available.
2. This Directive is without prejudice to national legislation making the use of mediation compulsory or subject to incentives or sanctions, whether before or after judicial proceedings have started, provided that such legislation does not prevent the parties from exercising their right of access to the judicial system.
Enforceability of agreements resulting from mediation
1. Member States shall ensure that it is possible for the parties, or for one of them with the explicit consent of the others, to request that the content of a written agreement resulting from mediation be made enforceable. The content of such an agreement shall be made enforceable unless, in the case in question, either the content of that agreement is contrary to the law of the Member State where the request is made or the law of that Member State does not provide for its enforceability.
2. The content of the agreement may be made enforceable by a court or other competent authority in a judgment or decision or in an authentic instrument in accordance with the law of the Member State where the request is made.
3. Member States shall inform the Commission of the courts or other authorities competent to receive requests in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2.
4. Nothing in this Article shall affect the rules applicable to the recognition and enforcement in another Member State of an agreement made enforceable in accordance with paragraph 1.
Confidentiality of mediation
1. Given that mediation is intended to take place in a manner which respects confidentiality, Member States shall ensure that, unless the parties agree otherwise, neither mediators nor those involved in the administration of the mediation process shall be compelled to give evidence in civil and commercial judicial proceedings or arbitration regarding information arising out of or in connection with a mediation process, except:
(a) where this is necessary for overriding considerations of public policy of the Member State concerned, in particular when required to ensure the protection of the best interests of children or to prevent harm to the physical or psychological integrity of a person; or
(b) where disclosure of the content of the agreement resulting from mediation is necessary in order to implement or enforce that agreement.
2. Nothing in paragraph 1 shall preclude Member States from enacting stricter measures to protect the confidentiality of mediation.
Effect of mediation on limitation and prescription periods
1. Member States shall ensure that parties who choose mediation in an attempt to settle a dispute are not subsequently prevented from initiating judicial proceedings or arbitration in relation to that dispute by the expiry of limitation or prescription periods during the mediation process.
2. Paragraph 1 shall be without prejudice to provisions on limitation or prescription periods in international agreements to which Member States are party.
Information for the general public
Member States shall encourage, by any means which they consider appropriate, the availability to the general public, in particular on the Internet, of information on how to contact mediators and organisations providing mediation services.
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Information on competent courts and authorities
The Commission shall make publicly available, by any appropriate means, information on the competent courts or authorities communicated by the Member States pursuant to Article 6(3).
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Review
Not later than 21 May 2016, the Commission shall submit to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee a report on the application of this Directive. The report shall consider the development of mediation throughout the European Union and the impact of this Directive in the Member States. If necessary, the report shall be accompanied by proposals to adapt this Directive.
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Transposition
1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations, and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive before 21 May 2011, with the exception of Article 10, for which the date of compliance shall be 21 November 2010 at the latest. They shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.
When they are adopted by Member States, these measures shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such reference on the occasion of their official publication. The methods of making such reference shall be laid down by Member States.
2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.
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Entry into force
This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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Addressees
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32007D0680 | 2007/680/EC: Commission Decision of 22 October 2007 amending Decision 2006/410/EC, setting the amounts which, pursuant to Articles 10(2), 143d and 143e of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, are made available to the EAFRD and the amounts available for EAGF expenditure, and Decision 2006/636/EC fixing the annual breakdown by Member State for Community support to rural development for the period from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2013 (notified under document number C(2007) 5106)
| 24.10.2007 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 280/27
COMMISSION DECISION
of 22 October 2007
amending Decision 2006/410/EC, setting the amounts which, pursuant to Articles 10(2), 143d and 143e of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, are made available to the EAFRD and the amounts available for EAGF expenditure, and Decision 2006/636/EC fixing the annual breakdown by Member State for Community support to rural development for the period from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2013
(notified under document number C(2007) 5106)
(2007/680/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 of 21 June 2005 on the financing of the common agricultural policy (1), and in particular Article 12(2) and (3) thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 of 20 September 2005 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (2), and in particular Article 69(4) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Article 4(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 378/2007 of 27 March 2007 laying down rules for voluntary modulation of direct payments provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, and amending Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005, stipulates that the Commission should set the net amounts resulting from the application of voluntary modulation and that these amounts should be incorporated into the annual breakdown by Member State relating to Community support to rural development referred to in Article 69(4) and (5) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005.
(2) Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 stipulates that the Commission should set the amounts which, pursuant to Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC) No 378/2007 and Articles 10(2), 143d and 143e of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers (3), are made available to the EAFRD, and the net balance available for EAGF expenditure.
(3) The amounts to be made available to the EAFRD and the net balance available for EAGF expenditure have to be set on the basis of the maximum annual amounts corresponding to the financial years 2007 to 2013.
(4) Commission Decision 2006/410/EC (4) established the amounts resulting from the application of the reductions of direct payments provided for in Articles 10(2), 143d and 143e of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, which are made available to EAFRD, and the net balance available for EAGF expenditure, for the financial years 2007 to 2013.
(5) Council Decision 2006/493/EC (5) fixed the amount of Community support to rural development for the period from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2013, its annual breakdown and the minimum amount to be concentrated in regions eligible under the Convergence Objective.
(6) Commission Decision 2006/636/EC (6) established the breakdown by Member State of Community support to rural development for the period from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2013, including as regards the amount of the transfers to the EAFRD.
(7) As a result of the adoption of Commission Decision 2007/679/EC 22 October 2007 fixing the net amounts resulting from the application of voluntary modulation to the United Kingdom for the calendar years 2007 to 2012 (7), under Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC) No 378/2007, the amounts which are made available to the EAFRD should be adjusted and added to the annual breakdown for Community support to rural development for the United Kingdom.
(8) Decisions 2006/410/EC and 2006/636/EC should therefore be amended accordingly,
Decision 2006/410/EC is amended as follows:
1. The sole article is replaced by the following:
2. The Annex to the Decision is replaced by the text appearing in Annex I to this Decision.
In the table appearing in the Annex to Decision 2006/636/EC, the amounts concerning the United Kingdom and the total amounts resulting from the addition of the amounts concerning all the Member States are replaced by the amounts which appear in Annex II to this Decision.
This Decision applies as from the budget year 2008.
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31995D0499 | 95/499/ECSC: Commission Decision of 19 July 1995 authorizing additional aid by Germany to the coal industry for 1994 (Only the German text is authentic)
| COMMISSION DECISION of 19 July 1995 authorizing additional aid by Germany to the coal industry for 1994 (Only the German text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (95/499/ECSC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community,
Having regard to Commission Decision No 3632/93/ECSC of 28 December 1993 establishing Community rules for State aid to the coal industry (1),
Having regard to Commission Decision 94/1070/ECSC (2) which delivered a positive opinion on the plan for the modernization, rationalization and restructuring of the German coal industry,
Whereas:
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In a letter dated 4 April 1995, the German Government informed the Commission, pursuant to the second indent of Article 3 (1) of Decision No 3632/93/ECSC, of an additional financial measure totalling DM 379 million which it intends to apply retroactively for 1994 in order to support the coal industry, concerning deliveries of coal and coke to the Community's steel industry.
By Commission Decision 94/1070/ECSC, Germany was authorized to grant aid to the coal industry for 1994.
According to that Decision, Germany intended to grant in 1994, pursuant to Decision No 3632/93/ECSC, a total of DM 2 853 million under the system of aid to deliveries of coking coal, coke and coal for use in blast furnaces in the Community's steel industry.
In its Decision 94/1070/ECSC, the Commission stated that any plan for a change to the amount approved would have to be notified to it in accordance with Article 3 (1) of the Decision.
In a letter dated 4 April 1995, the German Government informed the Commission that the amount of aid for the supply of coal and coke to the Community's steel industry was insufficient. The increase necessary for 1994 over the amount authorized is DM 379 million, which brings the total aid to DM 3 232 million. This compares with a total of DM 3 248 million approved by the Commission for 1993 in its Decisions 93/151/ECSC (3) and 94/332/ECSC (4).
The reason for the increase in aid is that the gap between the world market price for coking coal and German coal production costs has proved wider than originally foreseen, on account of the development of the US dollar-German mark exchange rate.
The new figure of DM 3 232 million for this aid does not bridge the gap, for each production unit, between the production costs and the revenue from the delivery of 18 million tonnes of coal assumed in this Decision for the coal industry's financial year.
The incorporation of the intended measure in the plan for the modernization, restructuring and rationalization of the German coal industry, the reduction of quantities and the capping of aid for the period 1992, 1993 and 1994 are in line with the objective set in the first indent of Article 2 (1) of the Decision of making further progress towards profitability, i. e. reducing costs, in the light of coal prices on the world market.
In its assessment of the aid the Commission, in accordance with the second indent of Article 2 (1), also took account of the essential need to cushion as far as possible the social and regional consequences of restructuring.
In accordance with Article 3 of the Decision, the procedures for granting aid help to improve the profitability of the undertakings concerned by reducing production costs.
Germany must ensure that this aid does not result in any discrimination between producers, between purchasers or between consumers, in accordance with Article 4 (b) of the ECSC Treaty.
II
For the above reasons and on the basis of the information supplied by the German Government, the aid envisaged for 1994 is compatible with the aims of Decision No 3632/93/ECSC and with the proper functioning of the common market,
Germany is hereby authorized to grant, for 1994, additional aid amounting to DM 379 million for the supply of coking coal, coke and coal for injection into blast furnaces in the Community's steel industry, which brings the total aid for this purpose in 1994 to DM 3 232 million.
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32013D0415 | 2013/415/EU: Commission Implementing Decision of 31 July 2013 amending Annex II to Decision 2006/766/EC as regards the inclusion of Tristan da Cunha in the list of third countries and territories from which imports of certain fishery products for human consumption are permitted and the deletion of Mayotte from that list (notified under document C(2013) 4848) Text with EEA relevance
| 2.8.2013 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 206/7
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION
of 31 July 2013
amending Annex II to Decision 2006/766/EC as regards the inclusion of Tristan da Cunha in the list of third countries and territories from which imports of certain fishery products for human consumption are permitted and the deletion of Mayotte from that list
(notified under document C(2013) 4848)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2013/415/EU)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption (1), and in particular Article 11(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 lays down specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin. In particular, it provides that products of animal origin are to be imported only from a third country or part of a third country that appears on a list drawn up in accordance with that Regulation.
(2) Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 also provides that when drawing up and updating such lists, account is to be taken of Union controls in third countries and guarantees by the competent authorities of third countries as regards compliance or equivalence with Union feed and food law and animal health rules specified in Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules (2).
(3) Commission Decision 2006/766/EC of 6 November 2006 establishing the lists of third countries and territories from which imports of bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates, marine gastropods and fishery products are permitted (3) lists those third countries which satisfy the criteria referred to in Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 and are therefore able to guarantee that those products meet the sanitary conditions laid down in Union legislation to protect the health of consumers and can accordingly be exported to the Union. In particular, Annex II to that Decision sets out a list of third countries and territories from which imports into the Union of fishery products for human consumption are permitted. That list also indicates restrictions concerning such imports from certain third countries.
(4) On 19 December 2012, the competent authority of Tristan da Cunha, part of Saint Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, submitted to the Commission an application for the authorisation of imports of lobster (fresh or frozen) into the Union. The application was supported by a detailed description of the control system and other information necessary to ensure adequate consumer health protection related to lobster exported to the Union. This information was subsequently assessed by the Commission and no deficiencies were identified. On the basis of the available information and guarantees, Tristan da Cunha can be included in the list of Annex II to Decision 2006/766/EC for lobsters.
(5) In accordance with European Council Decision 2012/419/EU of 11 July 2012 amending the status of Mayotte with regard to the European Union (4), Mayotte will cease to be an overseas country or territory and will become an outermost region of the Union within the meaning of Article 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, with effect from 1 January 2014. The entry for Mayotte in Annex II to Decision 2006/766/EC should therefore be deleted on that date.
(6) Decision 2006/766/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.
(7) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
In Annex II to Decision 2006/766/EC, the entry for Saint Helena is amended as follows:
‘SH SAINT HELENA
TRISTAN DA CUNHA Only lobsters (fresh or frozen)’
In Annex II to Decision 2006/766/EC, the entry for Mayotte is deleted.
Article 2 shall apply from 1 January 2014.
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32006D0018 | 2006/18/EC: Commission Decision of 16 January 2006 amending Decision 2000/690/EC setting up an Enterprise Policy Group, in order to extend its period of validity
| 17.1.2006 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 11/36
COMMISSION DECISION
of 16 January 2006
amending Decision 2000/690/EC setting up an Enterprise Policy Group, in order to extend its period of validity
(2006/18/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Whereas:
(1) In accordance with Article 6 of Commission Decision 2000/690/EC (1), it appears appropriate that the work of the expert group denominated ‘Enterprise Policy Group’ should continue unhindered in 2006 in the same format as established by that Decision.
(2) Decision 2000/690/EC should therefore be amended accordingly,
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31994D0201 | 94/201/EC: Commission Decision of 7 April 1994 repealing Decision 92/356/EEC concerning importations of fishery and aquaculture products from Ecuador (Text with EEA relevance)
| COMMISSION DECISION of 7 April 1994 repealing Decision 92/356/EEC concerning importations of fishery and aquaculture products from Ecuador (Text with EEA relevance) (94/201/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 90/675/EEC of 10 December 1990 laying down the principles governing the organization of veterinary checks on products entering the Community from third countries (1), as last amended by Directive 92/118/EEC (2), and in particular Article 19 thereof,
Whereas Commission Decision 91/281/EEC of 5 June 1991 concerning importations of fishery and aquaculture products from Ecuador (3) was adopted because of the development of a cholera epidemic in that country;
Whereas according to the World Health Organization the cholera situation in Ecuador no longer presents a serious risk to public health; whereas, therefore, Decision 91/281/EEC should be repealed and the importation of fishery products from Ecuador subject to the provisions of Council Directive 91/493/EEC of 22 July 1991 laying down the health conditions for the production and the placing on the market of fishery products (4);
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Veterinary Committee,
Decision 91/281/EEC is hereby repealed with effect from 1 June 1994.
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31994R1802 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1802/94 of 22 July 1994 introducing a definitive quantitative limit on imports into the Community of certain textile products (category 28) originating in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
| COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1802/94 of 22 July 1994 introducing a definitive quantitative limit on imports into the Community of certain textile products (category 28) originating in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 of 12 October 1993 on common rules for imports of certain textile products from third countries (1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 195/94 (2), and in particular Article 10 thereof,
Whereas Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 lays down the conditions under which quantitative limits may be established;
Whereas imports into the Community of certain textile products of category 28 specified in the Annex hereto and originating in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (hereinafter referred to 'Pakistan') have exceeded the level referred to in Article 10 (1) in conjunction with Annex IX of Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 10 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93, Pakistan was notified on 25 March 1994 of a request for consultations concerning imports into the Community of textile products of category 28;
Whereas, pending a mutually satisfactory solution, imports into the Community of products falling within category 28 were submitted to a provisional quantitative limit for the period 25 March to 24 June 1994 by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1134/94 (3);
Whereas the Community and Pakistan were unable during the consultations held to reach a satisfactory solution within the time limits foreseen in the Agreement on trade in textile products between the Community and Pakistan and the provisional quantitative limit established by Regulation (EC) No 1134/94 expires on 24 June 1994;
Whereas it is appropriate pending the outcome of further consultations to introduce at this stage and for 1994 a definitive quantitative limit for imports into the Community of products falling within category 28 originating in Pakistan so as to ensure the continuation of the application of the quantitative limit introduced provisionally;
Whereas the provisions of the Agreement on trade in textile products between the Community and Pakistan, which concern exports of products subject to the quantitative limits established in Annex II to the Agreement and in particular those relating to the double checking system are applicable to products for which quantitative limits are introduced in accordance with the conditions of the Agreement;
Whereas it is therefore appropriate to confirm that imports into the Community of products for which definitive quantitative limits are introduced shall be and remain subject as of 25 March 1994 to the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 which are applicable to imports of products subject to the quantitative limits set out in Annex V to the said Regulation and in particular to those relating to the double-checking system described in Annex III thereto referred to in Article 10 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93;
Whereas the products falling within category 28 exported from Pakistan on or after 25 March 1994 must be set off against the quantitative limit fixed for the period 25 March to 31 December 1994;
Whereas the quantitative limit for imports of products falling within category 28 should not prevent the importation of products covered by it shipped from Pakistan before the entry into force of Regulation (EC) No 1134/94 or between 25 June 1994 and the date of entry into force of the present Regulation;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Textile Committee,
Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 2, imports into the Community of the category of products originating in Pakistan and specified in the Annex hereto shall be subject to the quantitative limit set out in that Annex for the period 25 March to 31 December 1994.
Imports of the products referred to in Article 1 and shipped from Pakistan on or after 25 March 1994 are subject to the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 which apply to imports into the Community of products subject to the quantitative limits set out in Annex V to the said Regulation and in particular to the double-checking system described in Annex III to the said Regulation.
All quantities of products falling within category 28 shipped to the Community from Pakistan on or after 25 March 1994 and released for free circulation shall be deducted from the quantitative limit laid down in the Annex hereto.
The limit laid down in the Annex shall not prevent the importation of products falling within category 28 but shipped from Pakistan before the date of entry into force of Regulation (EC) No 1134/94 or between 25 June 1994 and the date of entry into force of the present Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
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32013R0104 | Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 104/2013 of 4 February 2013 amending Regulation (EU) No 185/2010 as regards the screening of passengers and persons other than passengers by Explosive Trace Detection (ETD) equipment in combination with Hand Held Metal Detection (HHMD) equipment Text with EEA relevance
| 5.2.2013 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 34/13
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 104/2013
of 4 February 2013
amending Regulation (EU) No 185/2010 as regards the screening of passengers and persons other than passengers by Explosive Trace Detection (ETD) equipment in combination with Hand Held Metal Detection (HHMD) equipment
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 300/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2008 on common rules in the field of civil aviation security and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2320/2002 (1), and in particular Article 4(3) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 272/2009 of 2 April 2009 supplementing the common basic standards on civil aviation security laid down in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 300/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) provides that the implementing rules to be adopted pursuant to Article 4(3) of Regulation (EC) No 300/2008 may allow the use of explosive trace detection (ETD) equipment and hand held metal detection (HHMD) equipment for screening of persons (passengers and persons other than passengers).
(2) Experience has shown that hand searches of passengers and persons other than passengers are not always the most efficient means of screening certain parts of the person, in particular where those parts are not readily accessible such as certain headgear, plaster casts or prosthesis.
(3) Trials have demonstrated the effectiveness of the combined use of ETD and HHMD in such cases. Moreover, the use of ETD and HHMD may facilitate the screening process and be experienced to be a less intrusive means of screening than a hand search, thus constituting an improvement in the experience of persons screened.
(4) It is thus useful and justified to allow these methods for screening of those parts of the person where a hand search is considered inefficient and/or undesirable such as certain headgear, plaster casts or prosthesis.
(5) This Regulation respects the fundamental rights and observes the principles recognised by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, notably the human dignity, the freedom of religion, the non-discrimination, the rights of persons with disabilities, and the right to liberty and security. In so far as it limits those rights and principles, such limitation is made genuinely to meet objectives of general interest and the need to protect the rights and freedoms of others, respecting the conditions laid down in Article 52 of the Charter. This Regulation must be applied in accordance with those rights and principles.
(6) Commission Regulation (EU) No 185/2010 (3) should therefore be amended accordingly.
(7) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Civil Aviation Security set up by Article 19(1) of Regulation (EC) No 300/2008,
The Annex to Regulation (EU) No 185/2010 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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32002D0226 | 2002/226/EC: Commission Decision of 15 March 2002 establishing special health checks for the harvesting and processing of certain bivalve molluscs with a level of amnesic shellfish poison (ASP) exceeding the limit laid down by Council Directive 91/492/EEC (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2002) 1009)
| Commission Decision
of 15 March 2002
establishing special health checks for the harvesting and processing of certain bivalve molluscs with a level of amnesic shellfish poison (ASP) exceeding the limit laid down by Council Directive 91/492/EEC
(notified under document number C(2002) 1009)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2002/226/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 91/492/EEC of 15 July 1991 fixing the health conditions for the production and the placing on the market of live bivalve molluscs(1), as last amended by Directive 97/79/EC(2), and in particular Chapter V, last paragraph, of the Annex thereto,
Whereas:
(1) Chapter V, point 7a, of the Annex to Directive 91/492/EEC provides that the total amnesic shellfish poison (ASP) content in the edible parts of molluscs (the entire body or any part edible separately) must not exceed 20 mg/kg of domoic acid (DA) using the high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method.
(2) For bivalve molluscs belonging to the species Pecten maximus and Pecten jacobaeus, scientific studies have shown that with a DA concentration in the whole body between 20 and 250 mg/kg, under certain restrictive conditions, the concentration of DA in the adductor muscle and/or gonads intended for human consumption is normally below the limit of 20 mg/kg.
(3) In the light of recent scientific studies it is appropriate to lay down, only for the harvesting stage and only for the bivalve molluscs belonging to the species referred to in recital 2, an ASP level with respect to the whole body, higher than the limit laid down in Directive 91/492/EEC.
(4) It is for the Competent Authority of Member States to authorise the establishments carrying out the specific preparation of these bivalve molluscs and to check the satisfactory application of the "own health checks" procedures set out in Article 6 of Council Directive 91/493/EEC of 22 July 1991 laying down the health conditions for the production and the placing on the market of fishery products(3), as last amended by Directive 97/79/EC.
(5) The provisions of this Decision should be re-evaluated when scientific evidence indicates the need to introduce other health checks, or to amend the parameters established for the purpose of protecting public health.
(6) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Veterinary Committee,
1. By way of derogation from point 7a of Chapter V of the Annex to Directive 91/492/EEC, Member States may authorise the harvesting of bivalve molluscs belonging to the species Pecten maximus and Pecten jacobaeus with a concentration of domoic acid (DA) in the whole body exceeding 20 mg/kg but lower than 250 mg/kg which satisfy the requirements in paragraph 2.
2. The requirements referred to in paragraph 1 are the following:
(a) the molluscs must be subjected to the harvesting conditions laid down in the Annex to this Decision;
(b) they must be transported in containers or vehicles, sealed under the direction of the competent authority, and directly dispatched from the production areas to an approved establishment authorised to carry out the specific preparation of these molluscs, that involves the removal of the hepatopancreas, soft tissues, or any other contaminated part not in compliance with point 2 of the Annex. A list of the establishment specifically authorised must be transmitted by the competent authority to the European Commission and to Member States;
(c) they must be accompanied by a registration document, issued by the competent authority, for each batch, specifying the requirements as provided for in Chapter II, point 6, of the Annex to Directive 91/492/EEC, as well as the anatomical part or parts that can be processed for human consumption. A permanent transport authorisation granted by the competent authority is not acceptable;
(d) after total removal of hepatopancreas, soft tissues and any other contaminated part the adductor muscle and/or gonads intended for human consumption must not contain an ASP level detectable by the HPLC techniques exceeding 20 mg/kg of DA.
1. Each batch of end product shall be tested by the specifically authorised establishment. If a sample, as defined in the Annex, contains more than 20 mg/kg of DA the entire batch shall be destroyed under the control of the competent authority.
2. The hepatopancreas, soft tissues and any other toxic part exceeding the limits laid down in point 2 of the Annex (including the end product exceeding the limit of 20 mg/kg of DA), shall be destroyed under the control of the competent authority.
3. The competent authority shall ensure that the "own health checks" provided for in Article 6 of Directive 91/493/EEC apply to the preparation referred to in Article 1(2)(b) of this Decision. The producer shall inform the competent authority of any results relating to the end product which are not in compliance with Chapter V point 7a of the Annex to Directive 91/492/EEC.
The provisions of this Decision shall be reviewed in the light of scientific progress.
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32010R0151 | Implementing Regulation of the Council (EU) No 151/2010 of 22 February 2010 terminating the partial interim review of the anti-dumping measures applicable to imports of certain tungsten electrodes originating in the People’s Republic of China
| 25.2.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 48/1
IMPLEMENTING REGULATION OF THE COUNCIL (EU) No 151/2010
of 22 February 2010
terminating the partial interim review of the anti-dumping measures applicable to imports of certain tungsten electrodes originating in the People’s Republic of China
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 of 30 November 2009 on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Community (1) (the basic Regulation) and in particular Articles 11(3) and 9(1) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal submitted by the European Commission after consulting the Advisory Committee,
Whereas:
1. PROCEDURE
1.1. Measures in force
(1) By Regulation (EC) No 260/2007 (2), the Council imposed a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain tungsten electrodes originating in the People’s Republic of China. For the three companies with individual duties, the duties in force range from 17 % to 38,8 %. The residual duty is 63,5 %.
1.2. Request for review
(2) In May 2008, the Commission received a request for a partial interim review pursuant to Article 11(3) of the basic Regulation from one exporting producer of certain tungsten electrodes originating in the People’s Republic of China.
(3) The request was lodged by Shandong Weldstone Tungsten Industry Co. Ltd (‘SWT’ or ‘the applicant’).
(4) The applicant had provided prima facie evidence showing that, on the basis of a comparison of constructed normal values and export prices to the Union, its dumping margin appeared to be substantially lower than the existing level of the measure and that the continued application of the measure at the existing level was no longer necessary to offset dumping.
1.3. Initiation
(5) Having determined, after consulting the Advisory Committee, that sufficient evidence existed to justify the initiation of a partial interim review, the Commission announced, by a notice (the notice of initiation) published in the Official Journal of the European Union
(3), the initiation of a partial interim review in accordance with Article 11(3) of the basic Regulation, limited to the examination of dumping as far as SWT is concerned. The ‘product concerned’ was the same as that set out in Council Regulation (EC) No 260/2007, being tungsten welding electrodes, containing 94 % or more by weight of tungsten, other than those obtained simply by sintering, whether or not cut to length, falling within CN codes ex 8101 99 10 and ex 8515 90 00 and originating in the People’s Republic of China.
(6) The investigation of dumping covered the period from 1 October 2007 to 30 September 2008.
(7) The Commission officially advised the applicant, representatives of the Union industry and the representatives of the exporting country of the initiation of the review investigation. Interested parties were given the opportunity to make their views known in writing and to request a hearing within the time limit set in the notice of initiation.
2. WITHDRAWAL OF THE REQUEST AND TERMINATION OF THE PROCEEDING
(8) By letter to the Commission dated 9 November 2009 SWT formally withdrew its request for the partial interim review of the anti-dumping measures applicable to imports of certain tungsten electrodes originating in the People’s Republic of China. In the light of the recent economic crisis, the applicant has begun to reconsider the economic viability of certain aspects of its operations.
(9) The representatives of the Union industry considered that the reasons given by the applicant for the withdrawal were circumstantial and not acceptable.
(10) However, since the request for the review had already been submitted in May 2008, i.e. before the onset of the economic crisis, and that the applicant withdrew the request well after the beginning of the crisis, when the investigation was still ongoing and not yet complete, the Commission cannot consider the reasons for withdrawal as circumstantial.
(11) It was considered whether it would be warranted to continue the review investigation ex officio. The Commission services found that the termination would not affect the actual anti-dumping measures and no compelling arguments were received that termination would be against the Union interest. On this basis, the review investigation should be terminated.
(12) Interested parties were informed of the intention to terminate the review investigation and were given the opportunity to comment. No comments received were such as to alter the conclusions set out in recitals 10 and 11.
(13) It is therefore concluded that the review concerning imports of certain tungsten electrodes originating in the People’s Republic of China should be terminated without amending the anti-dumping measures in force,
The partial interim review of the anti-dumping measures applicable to imports of certain tungsten electrodes originating in the People’s Republic of China initiated pursuant to Article 11(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 is hereby terminated without amending the anti-dumping measures in force.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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32001R1870 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1870/2001 of 24 September 2001 determining the extent to which applications lodged in September 2001 for import licences for certain pigmeat products under the regime provided for by the Agreements concluded by the Community with the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania can be accepted
| Commission Regulation (EC) No 1870/2001
of 24 September 2001
determining the extent to which applications lodged in September 2001 for import licences for certain pigmeat products under the regime provided for by the Agreements concluded by the Community with the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania can be accepted
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1898/97 of 29 September 1997 laying down detailed rules for the application in the pigmeat sector of the arrangements provided for by Council Regulations (EC) No 1727/2000, (EC) No 2290/2000, (EC) No 2433/2000, (EC) No 2434/2000, (EC) No 2435/2000 and (EC) No 2851/2000 and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 2698/93 and (EC) No 1590/94(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1006/2001(2), and in particular Article 4(5) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) The applications for import licences lodged for the fourth quarter of 2001 are for quantities less than the quantities available and can therefore be met in full.
(2) The surplus to be added to the quantity available for the following period should be determined.
(3) It is appropriate to draw the attention of operators to the fact that licences may only be used for products which comply with all veterinary rules currently in force in the Community,
1. Applications for import licences for the period 1 October to 31 December 2001 submitted pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1898/97 shall be met as referred to in Annex I.
2. For the period 1 January to 31 March 2002, applications may be lodged pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1898/97 for import licences for a total quantity as referred to in Annex II.
3. Licences may only be used for products which comply with all veterinary rules currently in force in the Community.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 October 2001.
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32010D0440 | 2010/440/CFSP: Council Decision 2010/440/CFSP of 11 August 2010 extending the mandate of the European Union Special Representative for the African Great Lakes Region
| 12.8.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 211/20
COUNCIL DECISION 2010/440/CFSP
of 11 August 2010
extending the mandate of the European Union Special Representative for the African Great Lakes Region
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on European Union and, in particular, Articles 28, 31(2) and 33 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,
Whereas:
(1) On 15 February 2007, the Council adopted Joint Action 2007/112/CFSP (1) appointing Mr Roeland VAN DE GEER European Union Special Representative (hereinafter the EUSR) for the African Great Lakes Region.
(2) On 22 February 2010, the Council adopted Decision 2010/113/CFSP (2) extending the mandate of the EUSR until 31 August 2010.
(3) The mandate of the EUSR should be extended until 31 August 2011. However, the mandate of the EUSR may be terminated earlier, if the Council so decides, on a proposal of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (hereinafter the HR) following the entry into force of the Decision establishing the European External Action Service.
(4) The EUSR will implement his mandate in the context of a situation which may deteriorate and could harm the objectives of the Common Foreign and Security Policy as set out in Article 21 of the Treaty,
European Union Special Representative
The mandate of Mr Roeland VAN DE GEER as the EUSR for the African Great Lakes Region is hereby extended until 31 August 2011. The mandate of the EUSR may be terminated earlier, if the Council so decides, on a proposal of the HR following the entry into force of the Decision establishing the European External Action Service.
Policy objectives
The mandate of the EUSR shall be based on the policy objectives of the European Union (hereinafter ‘the EU’ or ‘the Union’) regarding the further stabilisation and consolidation of the post-conflict situation in the African Great Lakes Region, paying particular attention to the regional dimension of the developments in the countries concerned. These objectives, which promote, in particular, compliance with the basic norms of democracy and good governance, including respect for human rights and the rule of law, include:
(a) contributing actively and effectively to a consistent, sustainable and responsible policy of the Union in the African Great Lakes Region, and promoting a coherent overall Union approach in the region. The EUSR shall support the work of the HR in the region;
(b) ensuring the continued commitment of the Union to the stabilisation and reconstruction processes in the region, through an active presence on the ground and in relevant international forums, staying in touch with key players and contributing to crisis management;
(c) contributing to the post-transition phase in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in particular as regards the political process of consolidating the new institutions and defining a broader international framework for political consultation and coordination with the new government;
(d) contributing, in close cooperation with the United Nations/MONUC, to the international support efforts to pursue a comprehensive Security Sector Reform in the DRC, in particular in view of the coordinating role the Union is ready to assume in this context;
(e) contributing to appropriate follow-up measures to the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region, in particular by establishing close contacts with the Great Lakes Secretariat and its Executive Secretary as well as with the Troika of the follow-up mechanism and by promoting good neighbourly relations in the region;
(f) addressing the still considerable problem of armed groups operating across the borders, which risks destabilising the countries in the region and aggravating their internal problems;
(g) contributing to the post-conflict stabilisation in Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda, in particular through accompanying peace negotiations with armed groups such as the FNL and LRA.
Mandate
In order to achieve the policy objectives, the mandate of the EUSR shall be to:
(a) establish and maintain close contact with the countries of the Great Lakes Region, the United Nations, the African Union, key African countries and main partners of the DRC and the Union, as well as regional and sub-regional African organisations, other relevant third countries and other key regional leaders;
(b) advise and report on the possibilities for the Union to support the stabilisation and consolidation process and on how best to pursue Union initiatives;
(c) provide advice and assistance for security sector reform (SSR) in the DRC;
(d) contribute to the follow-up to the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region, in particular by supporting policies, defined in the region, which pursue the objectives of non-violence and mutual defence in the resolution of conflicts as well as, regarding regional cooperation, by promoting human rights and democratisation, good governance, judicial cooperation, and the fight against impunity and the illegal exploitation of natural resources;
(e) contribute to a better understanding of the role of the Union among opinion leaders in the region;
(f) contribute, where requested, to the negotiation and implementation of peace and cease-fire agreements between the parties and engage with them diplomatically in the event of non-compliance with the terms of these agreements; in the context of the ongoing LRA negotiations, such activities should be pursued in close coordination with the EUSR for Sudan;
(g) contribute to the implementation of the EU human rights policy and EU Guidelines on Human Rights, in particular the EU Guidelines on Children and Armed Conflict, and the EU policy regarding UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Women, Peace and Security, including by monitoring and reporting on developments in this regard.
Implementation of the mandate
1. The EUSR shall be responsible for the implementation of the mandate acting under the authority of the HR.
2. The Political and Security Committee (hereinafter the PSC) shall maintain a privileged link with the EUSR and shall be the EUSR’s primary point of contact with the Council. The PSC shall provide the EUSR with strategic guidance and political direction within the framework of the mandate, without prejudice to the powers of the HR.
Financing
1. The financial reference amount intended to cover the expenditure related to the mandate of the EUSR in the period from 1 September 2010 to 31 August 2011 shall be EUR 1 520 000.
2. The expenditure shall be managed in accordance with the procedures and rules applicable to the general budget of the Union.
3. The management of the expenditure shall be subject to a contract between the EUSR and the Commission. The EUSR shall be accountable to the Commission for all expenditure.
Constitution and composition of the team
1. Within the limits of his mandate and the corresponding financial means made available, the EUSR shall be responsible for constituting his team. The team shall include the expertise on specific policy issues as required by the mandate. The EUSR shall keep the Council and the Commission promptly informed of the composition of his team.
2. Member States and institutions of the Union may propose the secondment of staff to work with the EUSR. The salary of personnel who are seconded by a Member State or an institution of the Union to the EUSR shall be covered by the Member State or the institution of the Union concerned respectively. Experts seconded by Member States to the General Secretariat of the Council may also be posted to the EUSR. International contracted staff shall have the nationality of a Member State.
3. All seconded personnel shall remain under the administrative authority of the sending Member State or Union institution and shall carry out their duties and act in the interest of the mandate of the EUSR.
Privileges and immunities of the EUSR and his staff
The privileges, immunities and further guarantees necessary for the completion and smooth functioning of the mission of the EUSR and the members of his staff shall be agreed with the host party/parties, as appropriate. Member States and the Commission shall grant all necessary support to such effect.
Security of EU classified information
The EUSR and the members of his team shall respect the security principles and minimum standards established by Council Decision 2001/264/EC of 19 March 2001 adopting the Council’s security regulations (3), in particular when managing EU classified information.
Access to information and logistical support
1. Member States, the Commission and the General Secretariat of the Council shall ensure that the EUSR is given access to any relevant information.
2. The Union delegations and/or Member States, as appropriate, shall provide logistical support in the region.
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Security
In accordance with the Union’s policy on the security of personnel deployed outside the Union in an operational capacity under Title V of the Treaty, the EUSR shall take all reasonably practicable measures, in conformity with his mandate and the security situation in his geographical area of responsibility, for the security of all personnel under his direct authority, notably by:
(a) establishing a mission-specific security plan based on guidance from the General Secretariat of the Council, including mission-specific physical, organisational and procedural security measures, governing management of the secure movement of personnel to, and within, the mission area, as well as management of security incidents and a mission contingency and evacuation plan;
(b) ensuring that all personnel deployed outside the Union are covered by high risk insurance as required by the conditions in the mission area;
(c) ensuring that all members of his team to be deployed outside the Union, including locally contracted personnel, have received appropriate security training before or upon arriving in the mission area, based on the risk ratings assigned to the mission area by the General Secretariat of the Council;
(d) ensuring that all agreed recommendations made following regular security assessments are implemented and providing the HR, the Council and the Commission with written reports on their implementation and on other security issues within the framework of the mid-term and mandate implementation reports.
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Reporting
The EUSR shall regularly provide the HR and the PSC with oral and written reports. The EUSR shall also report as necessary to Council working parties. Regular written reports shall be circulated through the COREU network. Upon recommendation of the HR or the PSC, the EUSR may provide the Foreign Affairs Council with reports.
2
Coordination
1. The EUSR shall promote coherence between Common Foreign and Security Policy/Common Security and Defence Policy actors and shall promote overall Union political coordination. The EUSR shall help to ensure that all Union instruments in the field are engaged coherently to attain the Union’s policy objectives. The activities of the EUSR shall be coordinated with those of the Commission, as well as those of other EUSRs active in the region as appropriate. The EUSR shall provide Member States’ missions and the Union delegations with regular briefings.
2. In the field, close liaison shall be maintained with the Heads of the Union delegations and Member States’ Heads of Mission. They shall make best efforts to assist the EUSR in the implementation of the mandate. The EUSR shall also liaise with other international and regional actors in the field.
3. The EUSR shall ensure consistency between the activities of the European Union mission to provide advice and assistance for security sector reform in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (EUSEC RD Congo) and the European Union police mission undertaken in the framework of reform of the security sector (SSR) and its interface with the system of justice in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (EUPOL RD Congo) and provide the Heads of these missions with local political guidance. The EUSR shall contribute to coordination with the other international players involved in SSR in the DRC. The EUSR and the Civilian Operation Commander shall consult each other as required.
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Review
The implementation of this Decision and its consistency with other contributions from the Union to the region shall be kept under regular review. The EUSR shall present the HR, the Council and the Commission with a progress report at the end of February 2011 and a comprehensive mandate implementation report at the end of the mandate.
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Entry into force
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32001R0762 | Council Regulation (EC, ECSC, Euratom) No 762/2001 of 9 April 2001 amending the Financial Regulation of 21 December 1977 applicable to the general budget of the European Communities as regards separating the internal audit function from the ex ante financial control function - Statements regarding Regulation (EC, ECSC, Euratom) No 762/2001 of 9 April 2001 amending the Financial Regulation of 21 December 1977 applicable to the general budget of the European Communities as regards separating the internal audit function from the ex ante financial control function
| Council Regulation (EC, ECSC, Euratom) No 762/2001
of 9 April 2001
amending the Financial Regulation of 21 December 1977 applicable to the general budget of the European Communities as regards separating the internal audit function from the ex ante financial control function
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 279 thereof,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Article 78h thereof,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 183 thereof,
Having regard to the proposals from the Commission(1),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament(2),
Having regard to the opinion of the Court of Auditors(3),
Whereas:
(1) The combining of the internal audit and ex ante financial control functions by the financial controller, under the second sentence of the fifth paragraph of Article 24 of the Financial Regulation of 21 December 1977 applicable to the general budget of the European Communities(4), might in some cases give rise to a blurring of the two functions, without necessarily ensuring a proper balance between the two.
(2) Pending the recasting of the Financial Regulation, the internal audit function should, where necessary, be separated from the financial controller's other functions. The result of this would be that the financial controller will continue to fulfil his present functions, including ex ante financial control, but not that of internal audit, which will be performed by an internal auditor independent of the financial controller.
(3) In the specific case of the Commission, the large volume of transactions carried out and the type of transactions involved, in particular their operational nature, require that the internal audit function be separated from the financial controller's other functions.
(4) The internal auditor will enjoy the same benefits and prerogatives as those granted to the financial controller in Article 24 of the Financial Regulation.
(5) In order to bring greater transparency to budget implementation, each institution's financial controller and internal auditor should produce an annual report illustrating the main lessons to be learned from the last financial year.
(6) The financial controller's ex ante financial control function and guaranteed independence in the performance of his duties should not in any way be hampered by the application of this Regulation. The financial controller should be able to fulfil his function in accordance with Article 24 of the Financial Regulation. The Commission, for Section III, and the other institutions, for their own expenditure, should ensure that the financial controller continues to enjoy the resources and autonomy required for the performance of his duties.
(7) The European Parliament and the Council reached a broad convergence of views on separating the internal audit function from the ex ante financial control function; they thus concluded that it was not necessary, in this particular case, to convene the Conciliation Committee pursuant to the Joint Declaration of 4 March 1975 of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission(5),
The Financial Regulation shall be amended as follows:
1. In Article 24:
(a) the second paragraph shall be replaced by the following: "He shall carry out his duties in accordance with the principles laid down in Article 2 and the provisions of Article 22(3). He shall report to his institution on any problem he uncovers regarding the management of Community finances. He shall draw up an annual report on his work.";
(b) the fifth paragraph shall be replaced by the following: "Monitoring shall be carried out by that official by means of inspection of the files relating to expenditure and revenue and, if necessary, on the spot."
2. The following Article shall be inserted: "Article 24a
1. The Commission shall appoint an internal auditor who is independent of the financial controller. He shall be appointed in the same way as the financial controller and shall, for the purposes of his duties, have access to the same information as the financial controller and, in order to maintain his independence, be subject to the same special rules and measures as are applicable to the financial controller under the second paragraph, the second sentence of the fourth paragraph, and the fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth paragraphs of Article 24.
The internal audit shall include, in particular, an evaluation of the effectiveness of the management and control systems and verification of the regularity of operations. These duties shall be performed in accordance with the implementing rules provided for in Article 139.
The internal auditor shall not be either an authorising officer or an accounting officer.
2. The Commission, under the authority of its President, shall take all the means necessary to enable the internal auditor to fulfil his functions in accordance with paragraph 1.
3. Institutions other than the Commission may each appoint an internal auditor who is independent of the financial controller and shall carry out his duties in accordance with the conditions and arrangements laid down in paragraph 1. If no internal auditor is appointed, the financial controller shall be responsible for internal auditing in accordance with the conditions and arrangements laid down in paragraph 1.
4. The internal auditor shall submit an annual internal audit report to his institution showing the number and type of internal audits carried out, the audit recommendations made and the action taken on those recommendations."
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
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31997D0254 | 97/254/EC: Council Decision of 14 April 1997 appointing an alternate member of the Committee of the Regions
| COUNCIL DECISION of 14 April 1997 appointing an alternate member of the Committee of the Regions (97/254/EC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 198a thereof,
Having regard to the Council Decisions 94/65/EC of 26 January 1994 (1) and 95/15/EC of 23 January 1995 (2) appointing members and alternate members of the Committee of the Regions,
Whereas a seat as an alternate member of the Committee has become vacant following the resignation of Mr Jesús Pedroche Nieto, notified to the Council on 26 March 1997;
Having regard to the proposal from the Spanish Government,
Ms Carmen Álvarez-Arenas Cisneros is hereby appointed an alternate member of the Committee of the Regions in place of Mr Jesús Pedroche Nieto for the remainder of the latter's term of office, which runs until 25 January 1998. | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
32001R0298 | Council Regulation (EC) No 298/2001 of 12 February 2001 amending Regulation (EC) No 2450/98 imposing a definitive countervailing duty on imports of stainless steel bars originating in India
| Council Regulation (EC) No 298/2001
of 12 February 2001
amending Regulation (EC) No 2450/98 imposing a definitive countervailing duty on imports of stainless steel bars originating in India
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2026/97 of 6 October 1997 on protection against subsidised imports from countries not members of the European Community(1), and in particular Articles 15 and 20 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal submitted by the Commission, after having consulted the Advisory Committee,
Whereas:
A. PREVIOUS PROCEDURE
(1) By Regulation (EC) No 2450/98(2), the Council imposed a definitive countervailing duty on imports of stainless steel bars (hereafter referred to as "the product concerned") falling within CN codes ex 7222 20 11, 7222 20 21, 7222 20 31 and 7222 20 81 originating in India. The measures took the form of ad valorem duties between 0 and 25,5 %, with a residual duty of 25,5 %.
B. CURRENT PROCEDURE
Request for review
(2) Subsequent to the imposition of definitive measures, the Commission received a request for initiation of an accelerated review of Regulation (EC) No 2450/98, pursuant to Article 20 of Regulation (EC) No 2026/97 (hereinafter referred to as "the basic Regulation"), from an Indian exporter, Hindustan Stainless, located in Bombay. The company claimed that it was not related to any other exporters of the product concerned in India, and that it had not exported the product concerned to the Community during the original period of investigation (1 July 1996 to 30 June 1997). The company stated that it intended to begin exporting to the European Union in the near future.
Initiation of an accelerated review
(3) The Commission examined the evidence submitted by the Indian exporting producer concerned and considered it sufficient to justify the initiation of a review in accordance with the provisions of Article 20 of the basic Regulation. After consultation of the Advisory Committee and after the Community industry concerned had been given the opportunity to comment, the Commission initiated, by a notice in the Official Journal(3), an accelerated review of Regulation (EC) No 2450/98 with regard to the company concerned and commenced its investigation.
Product concerned
(4) The product covered by the current review is the same product as that under consideration in Regulation (EC) No 2450/98.
Parties concerned
(5) The Commission officially advised the company concerned and the Government of India of the initiation of the review. Furthermore, it gave other parties directly concerned the opportunity to make their views known in writing and to request a hearing.
(6) The Commission sent a questionnaire to the company concerned and received a full reply within the deadlines. The Commission sought and verified all information it deemed necessary for the purpose of the investigation and carried out a verification visit at the premises of the company concerned.
Investigation period
(7) The investigation of subsidisation covered the period 1 October 1998 to 30 September 1999 (hereinafter referred to as "the investigation period").
Methodology
(8) The same methodology as that used in the original investigation was applied in the current investigation.
C. SCOPE OF THE REVIEW
(9) As no request for a review of the findings on injury was made in this investigation, this review was limited to subsidisation.
(10) The Commission examined the same subsidy schemes which were analysed in the original investigation, along with the possible usage by Hindustan Stainless of any subsidy schemes established after the end of the original investigation period, together with any ad-hoc subsidies received after this date.
(11) It was also examined whether the company under investigation could be considered as a newcomer for the purpose of Article 20 of the basic Regulation.
D. RESULT OF THE INVESTIGATION
New exporter qualification
(12) The investigation confirmed that Hindustan Stainless had not exported the product concerned during the original period of investigation but had subsequently exported the product to other third countries and had also received requests for prices from companies in the European Union.
(13) A number of family and economic links were established between Hindustan Stainless, Venus Wire Industries Ltd, and Venus Metal Corporation. Venus Wire Industries Ltd participated in the original investigation period and was given a countervailing duty of 16,1 %.
(14) From the documents obtained on-the-spot and on the basis of information from the Venus Wire Industries Ltd questionnaire submitted in the original investigation, the following family links were established. Three directors of Venus Wire Industries Ltd, who are also partners in Venus Metal Corporation, are respectively the father and uncles of the sole owner of Hindustan Stainless.
(15) The warehouse premises used by the company under investigation is rented from Venus Metal Corporation. The rental contract for the warehouse was signed in 1998 for one year and stipulates that payment has to be made quarterly in equal instalments. The contract was signed by the owner for Hindustan Stainless and by his uncle for Venus Metal Corporation.
(16) Hindustan Stainless also rents two offices in Mumbai, which belong respectively to two directors of Venus Wire Industries Ltd and who are also uncles of the owner of the company under investigation. Similarly, rent should also have been paid in four equal instalments.
(17) The investigation established that no payment had been made by Hindustan Stainless either for the warehouse or for the offices. Subsequent to the verification, the company paid rent for the period 1998 to 1999 and provided evidence to the Commission of the same after the on-the-spot investigation
(18) It was also established that a director of Venus Wire Industries Ltd, and the father of the owner of the company under investigation, was the guarantor for banking facilities used by Hindustan Stainless for an import of raw material.
(19) Given the circumstances outlined in recitals 13 to 18, it is concluded that Hindustan Stainless cannot be considered as a new exporter, but rather is related to an exporter which received individual treatment during the original investigation (Venus Wire Industries Ltd), either directly or through Venus Metal Corporation. The request for newcomer status should, therefore, be rejected and Hindustan Stainless, as a related company, should be subject to the same countervailing duty rate as Venus Wire Industries Ltd.
E. DISCLOSURE OF FINDINGS
(20) The company concerned was informed of the facts and considerations on the basis of which it is intended to propose the amendment of Regulation (EC) No 2450/98, and was given the opportunity to comment.
(21) Following disclosure of the essential facts, the company under investigation accepted the family relationships but denied any financial assistance from either Venus Wire Industries Ltd or Venus Metal Corporation. The company pointed out that rent for the year 1998 had now been paid and submitted that the bank guarantee involved no monetary contribution.
(22) It is accepted that the warehouse and office rentals for 1998 have now been paid, albeit a year late and only following the on-the-spot verification visit. However, the argument concerning the bank guarantee should be rejected. Without the guarantor, the interest rate payable may have been higher or the banking facility may not have been granted at all. Therefore the guarantee represents a benefit to Hindustan Stainless.
(23) As there are close family relationships and economic links between Hindustan Stainless and three of the directors of Venus Wire Industries Ltd, the conclusion reached in recital 19 is confirmed.
F. AMENDMENT AND DURATION OF THE MEASURES BEING REVIEWED
(24) Based on the findings made during the investigation, it is considered that imports into the Community of stainless steel bars produced and exported by the company concerned should be subject to the same rate of countervailing duty as Venus Wire Industries Ltd, i.e. 16,1 %, since they are related companies.
(25) Regulation (EC) No 2450/98 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(26) The review carried out does not affect the date on which Regulation (EC) No 2450/98 will expire under Article 18(1) of the basic Regulation,
Article 1(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2450/98 is hereby amended by adding the following to the list of companies subject to measures:
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This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
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32014R0695 | Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 695/2014 of 23 June 2014 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
| 24.6.2014 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 183/21
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 695/2014
of 23 June 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. | 0 | 0.666667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.333333 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
32011D0722 | 2011/722/: Council Decision of 27 October 2011 on the position to be taken by the European Union within the Trade Committee set up by the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Korea, of the other part, as regards the adoption of the rules of procedure of the Trade Committee and the establishment of a list of 15 arbitrators
| 5.11.2011 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 288/16
COUNCIL DECISION
of 27 October 2011
on the position to be taken by the European Union within the Trade Committee set up by the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Korea, of the other part, as regards the adoption of the rules of procedure of the Trade Committee and the establishment of a list of 15 arbitrators
(2011/722/EU)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Articles 91 and 100(2) and 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 23 April 2007 the Council authorised the Commission to negotiate a free trade agreement with the Republic of Korea on behalf of the European Union and its Member States.
(2) Those negotiations have been concluded and the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Korea, of the other part (1) (the Agreement) was signed on 6 October 2010.
(3) Pursuant to Article 15.10.5 of the Agreement, the Agreement has been provisionally applied since 1 July 2011 pending the completion of the procedures for its conclusion.
(4) Article 15.1 of the Agreement establishes a Trade Committee, which shall, inter alia, ensure that the Agreement operates properly.
(5) Article 15.1.4(f) of the Agreement provides that the Trade Committee may adopt its own rules of procedure.
(6) Article 14.18 of the Agreement provides that the Trade Committee shall, no later than 6 months after the entry into force of the Agreement or its provisional application, establish a list of 15 individuals to serve as arbitrators.
(7) The Union should determine the position to be taken as regards the adoption of the rules of procedure of the Trade Committee and the establishment of the list of arbitrators,
The position to be taken by the Union in the Trade Committee, set up by the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Korea, of the other part, as regards the adoption of the rules of procedure of the Trade Committee and the establishment of the list of 15 individuals to serve as arbitrators shall be based on the draft decisions of the Trade Committee attached to this Decision.
The delegation of the EU Party to the Trade Committee shall be composed, in accordance with the division of competences established pursuant to the Treaty, of representatives of the Commission and of the Member States, acting within their respective areas of competence as derived from the Treaties.
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