COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1594/95 of 30 June 1995 amending Regulations (EEC) No 2698/93 and (EC) No 1590/94 with regard to the transitional adjustment of certain rules on imports to the Community of certain pigmeat products from the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania in order to implement the Agricultural Agreement concluded during the Uruguay Round of negotiations

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 of 22 December 1994 on the adjustments and transitional arrangements required in the agriculture sector in order to implement the agreements concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations (1), and in particular Article 3 (1) thereof,

Whereas in order to take account of existing import arrangements in the pigmeat sector and those resulting from the Agricultural Agreement concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, transitional measures are needed to adjust the preferential concessions in the form of partial exemption from the import duty for certain products from the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania;

Whereas concessions were granted pursuant Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2698/93 of 30 September 1993 laying down detailed rules for the application in the pigmeat sector of the arrangements provided for in the Interim Agreements between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Hungary and the former Czech and Slovak Republic (2), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 341/95 (3), and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1590/94 of 30 June 1994 laying down detailed rules for the application in the pigmeat sector of the arrangement provided for in the Interim Agreements between the Community, of the one part and Bulgaria and Romania, of the other part (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 341/95; whereas, since the levies are being replaced by customs duties from 1 July 1995, it is necessary to make transitional adjustments to these rules;

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In Regulations (EEC) No 2698/93 and (EC) No 1590/94, the word 'levy` shall be replaced by the word 'customs duty` each time that it appears.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 July 1995 to 30 June 1996.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 June 1995.

For the Commission Franz FISCHLER Member of the Commission