(1)

Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 lays down, pursuant to the outcome of the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations, the criteria whereby the Commission fixes the standard values for imports from third countries, in respect of the products and periods stipulated in the Annex thereto.

(2)

In compliance with the above criteria, the standard import values must be fixed at the levels set out in the Annex to this Regulation,

(1)

All pharmacologically active substances which are used within the Community in veterinary medicinal products intended for administration to food-producing animals should be evaluated in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90.

(2)

Oxolinic acid has been included in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 for chicken and porcine for muscle, skin and fat, liver and kidney, for muscle and skin in natural proportions for fin fish and excluding animals from which eggs are produced for human consumption. The entry should be extended to all food-producing species excluding animals from which milk or eggs are produced for human consumption, for fin fish, this entry relates only to ‘muscle and skin in natural proportions’ and for porcine and poultry species the maximum residue limit concerning fat relates to ‘skin and fat in natural proportions’.

(3)

Morantel has been included in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 for bovine and ovine for muscle, fat, liver, kidney and milk. That entry should be extended to all ruminants.

(4)

Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 should be amended accordingly.

(5)

An adequate period should be allowed before the applicability of this Regulation in order to enable Member States to make any adjustment which may be necessary in the light of this Regulation to the marketing authorisations granted in accordance with Directive 2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community code relating to veterinary medicinal products (2).

(6)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Veterinary Medicinal Products,

(1)

In accordance with Article 6(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2081/92, France’s application to register ‘Chevrotin’ was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (2).

(2)

Italy opposed the registration under Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 2081/92 on the grounds that the conditions laid down in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 2081/92 were not complied with, that registration would be detrimental to other products on the market in Italy, in particular those called ‘caprino’, and that the translation in Italian of the name in question (caprino) was generic.

(3)

By letter of 7 December 2004 the Commission asked the Member States concerned to seek agreement among themselves in accordance with their internal procedures.

(4)

As no agreement was reached between France and Italy within three months, the Commission must adopt a decision in accordance with the procedure provided for in Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No 2081/92.

(5)

However, France officially argued that registration of the name ‘Chevrotin’ would not lead to a ban on the use of the expression ‘de chèvre’ (goat) or ‘fromage de chèvre’ (goat cheese) to denominate cheese made from goat’s milk or, by the same token, use of the translation of these terms (in Italian, ‘caprino’ and ‘formaggio di capra’).

(6)

The term ‘chevrotin’ cannot be considered to be a translation of the term ‘caprino’ and, conversely, even if the term ‘caprino’ were generic as claimed by the Italian authorities, that does not imply that the term ‘chevrotin’ has become generic. Furthermore, Italy did not provide any evidence from which it may be concluded that the term ‘chevrotin’ itself is generic.

(7)

Finally, Italy did not provide any evidence of non-compliance with the conditions laid down in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 2081/92.

(8)

In the light of the above, the name should thus be entered in the Register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications.

(9)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Regulatory Committee on the Protection of Geographical Indications and Designations of Origin for Agricultural Products and Foodstuffs,

(1)

The Community market price for pig carcases, as referred to in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75, should be established by weighting the prices recorded in each Member State by coefficients expressing the relative size of the pig population of each Member State.

(2)

These coefficients should be determined on the basis of the number of pigs counted at the beginning of December each year in accordance with Council Directive 93/23/EEC of 1 June 1993 on the statistical surveys to be carried out on pig production (2).

(3)

In view of the results of the census of December 2004, new weighting coefficients should be set for the 2005/06 marketing year and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1900/2004 (3) should be repealed.

(4)

Since the marketing year 2005/06 starts on 1 July 2005, this Regulation should apply from that date.

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Pigmeat,

(1)

Article 2(3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1663/95 of 7 July 1995 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 regarding the procedure for the clearance of the accounts of the EAGGF Guarantee Section (2) provides that the form and content of the accounting information referred to in Article 4(1)(c) of that Regulation shall be established in accordance with the procedure provided for in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999.

(2)

The form and content of the accounting information to be submitted to the Commission for the purposes of the clearance of the EAGGF Guarantee Section accounts as well as for monitoring and forecasting purposes are presently laid down in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2390/1999 (3).

(3)

Annexes I and III to Regulation (EC) No 2390/1999 need to be updated because of changes in the budget nomenclature and data requirements. Furthermore, in order to keep the transfer of information between the Member States and the Commission optimal and up to date, it is necessary to adapt the technical specifications in Annex II to that Regulation.

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 2390/1999 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Fund Committee,