Introductory text

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 36 and the third subparagraph of Article 37(2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament^f1,

Whereas:

The text of Regulation (EC) No 1786/2003^f2 contains a number of errors.

In Article 1 of the said Regulation, CN codes ex 1214 90 91 and ex 1214 90 99 should be replaced by CN code ex 1214 90 90 following an amendment to the combined nomenclature.

In Article 5(1) of the said Regulation, the maximum guaranteed quantity of 4 855 900 tonnes should be replaced by the maximum guaranteed quantity of 4 960 723 tonnes, the sum of the guaranteed national quantities listed in paragraph 2 of that Article.

The first subparagraph of Article 6 of the said Regulation should be reworded in order to describe correctly the method of decreasing the aid, should the maximum guaranteed quantity be overrun. In the second subparagraph of the same Article, all linguistic versions should be aligned in order to use the same terminology when expressing the principle that no increase in budget expenditure is possible in the event of an overrun of the maximum guaranteed quantity.

Regulation (EC) No 1786/2003 should therefore be corrected accordingly.

Given that the corrections have no negative effect on economic operators, this Regulation should apply from the date of application of Regulation (EC) No 1786/2003,

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