Commission Regulation (EC) No 1154/2005

of 18 July 2005

amending the codes and descriptions of certain products listed in Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 on the common organisation of the market in cereals

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 234/79 of 5 February 1979 on the procedure for adjusting the Common Customs Tariff nomenclature used for agricultural products [1], and in particular Article 2(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff [2] contains the combined nomenclature currently in force.

(2) In accordance with the outcome of the negotiations with the United States of America concluded in 1995, certain blends of residues from the manufacture of starch from maize with certain other types of residue, in particular screenings from maize and residues of maize steep-water used for the manufacture of alcohol or of other starch derived products imported into the Community were exempted from customs duty. Council Regulation (EC) No 344/96 [3] consequently incorporated into the Combined Nomenclature a subheading 23099020 to classify this product separately.

(3) As the result of an omission, Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 of 29 September 2003 on the common organisation of the market in cereals [4] was not adapted accordingly. This adaptation must therefore be made, with effect from the date of application of Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003, by incorporating code CN 23099020 into the list of products included in Annex I to that Regulation.

(4) Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(5) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for cereals,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 July 2004.

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

Done at Brussels, 18 July 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann Fischer Boel

Member of the Commission

[1] OJ L 34, 9.2.1979, p. 2. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 (OJ L 349, 31.12.1994, p. 105).

[2] OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 493/2005 (OJ L 82, 31.3.2005, p. 1).

[3] OJ L 49, 28.2.1996, p. 1.

[4] OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 78.

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