Commission Regulation (EC) No 411/2002

of 4 March 2002

adapting Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 as regards the Combined Nomenclature codes for certain products derived from rice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 234/79 of 5 February 1979 on the procedure for adjusting the Common Customs Tariff nomenclature used for agricultural products(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3290/94(2), and in particular Article 2(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 2031/2001 of 6 August 2001 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff(3) amends the Combined Nomenclature particularly as regards groats, meal and pellets of rice.

(2) The table in Article 1(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of 22 December 1995 on the common organisation of the market in rice(4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1987/2001(5), must accordingly be adapted.

(3) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Cereals,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following text in the table in Article 1(1) of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95: ">TABLE>"

is replaced by the following: ">TABLE>"

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 4 March 2002.

For the Commission

Franz Fischler

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 34, 9.2.1979, p. 2.

(2) OJ L 349, 31.12.1994, p. 105.

(3) OJ L 279, 23.10.2001, p. 1.

(4) OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.

(5) OJ L 271, 12.10.2001, p. 5.