31999R1479

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1479/1999

of 6 July 1999

amending Regulation (EC) No 2300/97 on detailed rules to implement Council Regulation (EC) No 1221/1997 laying down general rules for the application of measures to improve the production and marketing of honey

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1221/97 of 25 June 1997 laying down general rules for the application of measures to improve the production and marketing of honey(1), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2070/98(2), and in particular Article 5 thereof,

(1) Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2300/97(3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2767/98(4), lays down provisions for the implementation of measures to improve the production and marketing of honey;

(2) Whereas there have been changes to the number of hives in the Member States' communications to update the structural data on the situation in the sector as provided for in Article 1(a) of Regulation (EC) No 2300/97; whereas, as a result, Annex I to that Regulation should be amended;

(3) Whereas Article 2(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2300/97 lays down a final date for implementation of measures under annual programmes; whereas, as a result, the new Annex I is to apply for the first time to the annual programmes covering the 1999/2000 marketing year;

(4) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Poultrymeat and Eggs,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 2300/97 is replaced by the Annex hereto.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply for the first time to the annual programmes covering the 1999/2000 marketing year.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 6 July 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 173, 1.7.1997, p. 1.

(2) OJ L 265, 30.9.1998, p. 1.

(3) OJ L 319, 21.11.1997, p. 4.

(4) OJ L 346, 22.12.1998, p. 13.

ANNEX

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