{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-2112/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eur/2004/2112",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 2112/2004 of 10 December 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 634/2004 laying down transitional measures for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2202/96 and Regulation (EC) No 2111/2003 by reason of the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the European Union",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-2112",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 2112/2004\nof 10 December 2004\namending Regulation (EC) No 634/2004 laying down transitional measures for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2202/96 and Regulation (EC) No 2111/2003 by reason of the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the European Union\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,\nHaving regard to the Treaty of Accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia,\nHaving regard to the Act of Accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia, and in particular the first paragraph of Article 41 thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nProducer organisations in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia (hereafter ‘the new Member States’) should benefit from the provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No 2202/96 of 28 October 1996 introducing a Community aid scheme for producers of certain citrus fruits.\n(2)\nThe Community aid scheme for producers of certain citrus fruits is based on contracts between, on the one hand, producer organisations recognised or provisionally admitted under Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 of 28 October 1996 on the common organisation of the market in fruit and vegetables and on the other hand, processors.\n(3)\nCommission Regulation (EC) No 634/2004 laid down transitional measures for the application of Regulation (EC) No 2202/96 and of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2111/2003 of 1 December 2003 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2202/96 introducing a Community aid scheme for producers of certain citrus fruits.\n(4)\nArticle 13 of Regulation (EC) No 2111/2003 provides that producer organisations and processors wishing to participate in the aid scheme shall inform the competent authorities of the Member States in which their head office is situated, no later than 20 days before the start of the marketing year.\n(5)\nDue to different administrative constraints observed in the new Member States, certain producer organisations could not be recognised or provisionally admitted under Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 by the competent authorities in time to be in a position to inform those authorities of their wish to participate in the aid scheme within a time limit set by Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 2111/2003.\n(6)\nIn order to give, as far as possible, such producer organisations the opportunity to benefit from the provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No 2202/96, while ensuring that the aid scheme is properly applied, provisions should be made for the 2004/2005 marketing year as regards the deadline by which producer organisations in the new Member States should inform the competent authorities of their wish to participate in the aid scheme.\n(7)\nArticle 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2111/2003 provides that the Member States have the possibility to decide, within a certain deadline fixed by that Article, the date(s) by which short-term contracts should be concluded by producer organisations that have their head office located in their territory. However, if producer organisations in the new Member States are to inform the competent authorities of their wish to participate in the aid scheme at a later stage, the deadline for the conclusion of short-term contracts that cover at least eight complete and consecutive months should be revised accordingly. Nevertheless, any revision of that deadline should not jeopardise the necessary checks to be carried out by the competent authorities of the Member States concerned.\n(8)\nRegulation (EC) No 634/2004 should therefore be amended accordingly.\n(9)\nSince the 2004/2005 marketing year started on 1 October 2004, and contracts between producer organisations and processors have already been arranged, amendments should apply from 10 September 2004.\n(10)\nThe measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fresh Fruit and Vegetables,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 49. Regulation as last amended by the 2003 Act of Accession."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 47/2003 (OJ L 7, 11.1.2003, p. 64)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 100, 6.4.2004, p. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ L 317, 2.12.2003, p. 5."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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