(1)

Article 22 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 595/2004 of 30 March 2004 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1788/2003 establishing a levy in the milk and milk products sector (2), provides for the intensity of controls which are to be performed by Member States on milk delivered under the quota system. If the total adjusted deliveries have been less than 95 % of the deliveries part of the national quota in each of the three preceding 12-month periods, the control intensity on deliveries may be reduced from 2 % to 1 % of the producers and from 40 % to 20 % of the quantity of milk declared after adjustment.

(2)

The administrative complexity of those controls is relatively high and should be simplified.

(3)

Member States have gained years of experience with those controls and use a general control plan on the basis of risk analyses.

(4)

The results of the audits of the Commission in the Member States show that in almost all cases no corrections were required.

(5)

In accordance with Annex IX to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, the milk quota system ends in 2015.

(6)

It is therefore appropriate to fix the intensity of the controls on deliveries in all Member States at 1 % of the producers and at 20 % of the quantity of milk delivered declared after adjustment and to double the number of controls only in case of significant irregularities or discrepancies.

(7)

Regulation (EC) No 595/2004 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(8)

As the proposed amendments intend to decrease the intensity of the controls and thus to alleviate the administrative burden for Member States, they should apply in respect of the current 12-month period which has started on 1 April 2012. It is therefore necessary that this Regulation apply as from that date.

(9)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets,

(1)

Article 19(3) is replaced by the following:

(2)

Article 22 is amended as follows:

(1)

Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 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 Annex XVI, Part A thereto.

(2)

The standard import value is calculated each working day, in accordance with Article 136(1) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011, taking into account variable daily data. Therefore this Regulation should enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union,

(1)

Commission Decision 2002/994/EC of 20 December 2002 concerning certain protective measures with regard to the products of animal origin imported from China (2) applies to all products of animal origin imported from China and intended for human consumption or for animal feed.

(2)

Under Article 3 of that Decision, Member States are to authorise imports of products listed in Part II of the Annex to that Decision which are accompanied by a declaration of the Chinese competent authority stating that each consignment has been subjected before dispatch to a chemical test in order to ensure that the products concerned do not present a danger to human health. That test is to be carried out, in particular, with a view to detecting the presence of chloramphenicol and nitrofuran and its metabolites.

(3)

The Chinese competent authority has provided an appropriate residue monitoring plan for honey intended for export to the Union. That plan has been approved by Commission Decision 2011/163/EU of 16 March 2011 on the approval of plans submitted by third countries in accordance with Article 29 of Council Directive 96/23/EC (3).

(4)

Honey and royal jelly are currently included in the list set out in Part II of the Annex to Decision 2002/994/EC. Propolis and bee pollen are products that also originate from apiculture and, given the specificities of the production process for those animal products, the risks to animal or public health posed by them is minimal. In addition, appropriate safety guarantees for those products are provided by the residue monitoring plan for honey intended for export submitted by China and approved by Decision 2011/163/EU. Propolis and bee pollen should therefore be included in the list of products set out in Part II of the Annex to Decision 2002/994/EC and that Decision should be amended accordingly.

(5)

The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

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propolis and bee pollen’.

(1)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1451/2007 of 4 December 2007 on the second phase of the 10-year work programme referred to in Article 16(2) of Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of biocidal products on the market (2) establishes a list of active substances to be assessed, with a view to their possible inclusion in Annex I, IA or IB to Directive 98/8/EC.

(2)

For a number of substance/product-type combinations included in that list, either all participants have discontinued their participation from the review programme, or no complete dossier was received within the time period specified in Article 9 and Article 12(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1451/2007 by the Member State designated as rapporteur for the evaluation.

(3)

Consequently, and pursuant to Articles 11(2), 12(1) and 13(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1451/2007, the Commission informed the Member States accordingly. That information was also made public by electronic means on 17 January 2011.

(4)

Within three months of the electronic publication of that information, several companies indicated an interest in taking over the role of participant for some of the substances and product-types concerned, in accordance with Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1451/2007.

(5)

A new deadline should therefore be established for the submission of dossiers for those substances and product-types in accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 12(3) of that Regulation.

(6)

The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Biocidal Products,