Commission Regulation (EC) No 903/2002

of 30 May 2002

fixing the weighting coefficients to be used in calculating the Community market price for pig carcasses and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1284/2001

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organisation of the market in pigmeat(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1365/2000(2), and in particular Article 4(6) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) The Community market price for pig carcasses, as referred to in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75, must 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. 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(3), as last amended by Directive 97/77/EC(4).

(2) In view of the results of the census of December 2001 the weighting coefficients fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1284/2001(5) should be adjusted.

(3) 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

The weighting coefficients referred to in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 shall be as specified in the Annex hereto.

Article 2

Regulation (EC) No 1284/2001 is hereby repealed.

Article 3

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 2002.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 May 2002.

For the Commission

Franz Fischler

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 282, 1.11.1975, p. 1.

(2) OJ L 156, 29.6.2000, p. 5.

(3) OJ L 149, 21.6.1993, p. 1.

(4) OJ L 10, 16.1.1998, p. 28.

(5) OJ L 176, 29.6.2001, p. 25.

ANNEX

Weighting coefficients to be used in calculating the Community market price for pig carcasses

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