Article 1 Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation:

1. (a)

   ‘Community of fifteen’ means the Community as constituted on 30 April 2004;

2. (b)

   ‘New Member States’ means the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia;

3. (c)

   ‘The enlarged Community’ means the Community as constituted on 1 May 2004;

4. (d)

   ‘primary import’ means the economic operation defined in the first subparagraph of Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 896/2001 with a view to sale in one or more new Member States;

5. (e)

   ‘minimum quantity’ means the minimum quantity defined in the third subparagraph of Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 896/2001 established on the basis of all primary imports carried out with a view to supplying the markets of the new Member States;

6. (f)

   ‘Competent authorities’ means the competent authorities listed in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 896/2001, as amended by this Regulation.