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Official Journal of the European Union
16.3.2013
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 238/2013
of 15 March 2013
amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 481/2012 as regards the validity of certificates of
authenticity for high-quality beef
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
(4) For
reasons
of
legal
certainty,
the
new
period
of
validity
of certificates of authenticity should not apply to
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
certificates of authenticity issued before the date of
Union,
entry into force of this Regulation.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of
(5) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
in
22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agri
accordance with the opinion of the Management
cultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agri
Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural
cultural products (Single CMO Regulation) ( 1 ) and in particular
Markets,
Article 144(1) and Article 148 in conjunction with Article 4
thereof,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas:
Article 1
(1) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No Implementing Regulation (EU) No 481/2012 is amended as
481/2012 of 7 June 2012 laying down rules for the
follows:
management of a tariff quota for high-quality beef ( 2 )
changed the management method of the quota opened
(1) in Article 3, paragraph 7 is replaced by the following:
by Council Regulation (EC) No 617/2009 ( 3 ) from the
simultaneous examination method to the first-come,
‘7. The
validity
of
a
certificate
of
authenticity
shall
be
first-served management method. As in the framework
three months from the date of its issue.’;
of the first-come, first-served management method of
that quota there are no longer import licences with
validity limited to 30 June of each importing year, it is
(2) in Annex II, footnote 1 is replaced by the following:
therefore opportune to drop the validity limit of 30 June
for the certificates of authenticity. Instead, a period of
‘( 1 ) For the purposes of these requirements, heifers and
three months from the date of issue of those certificates
steers are “bovine animals”, as defined in point 1 of
should be established which is in line with other high-
Part IV of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007,
quality beef tariff quotas.
which correspond, respectively, to categories E and C,
as defined in Part A of Annex V to that Regulation.’
(2) For
reasons
of
clarity,
it
is
necessary
to
indicate,
in
the
requirements for goods to benefit from the preferential
Article 2
tariff quota concerned, as set out in Annex II to Imple
menting Regulation (EU) No 481/2012, the bovine
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
animals covered by the Union carcass classification and
that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European
thus eligible for producing ‘high quality beef’.
Union.
(3) Implementing
Regulation
(EU)
No
481/2012
should It shall apply to certificates of authenticity issued from the date
therefore be amended accordingly.
of entry into force of this Regulation.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 15 March 2013.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
( 1 ) OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.
( 2 ) OJ L 148, 8.6.2012, p. 9.
( 3 ) OJ L 182, 15.7.2009, p. 1.

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