Commission Regulation (EC) No 634/2008 of 27 June 2008 laying down the reduced agricultural components and the additional duties applicable to imports into the Community of certain goods containing milk products covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 from Switzerland

of 27 June 2008

laying down the reduced agricultural components and the additional duties applicable to imports into the Community of certain goods containing milk products covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 from Switzerland

Preamble

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of 6 December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products ¹ , and in particular Article 7 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) By the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation ² of 26 October 2004 (hereinafter the Agreement) Protocol 2 to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation of 22 July 1972 was replaced by a new Protocol 2 concerning certain processed agricultural products. In implementation of this Protocol, the EC-Switzerland Joint Committee, by its Decision No 1/2008 ³ , has amended the domestic reference prices from 1 February 2008.

(2) Consequently it is necessary to lay down the agricultural components and the additional duties applicable from 1 February 2008 for certain products containing milk products and imported from Switzerland to the Community.

(3) Since the Agreement is applicable from 1 February 2008, the measures provided for in this Regulation should apply from the same date,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The reduced agricultural components and the additional duties applicable from 1 February 2008 to the imports of certain goods containing milk products covered by Table 1 of Annex B to Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 from Switzerland are set out in the Annex.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 February 2008.

Final provisions

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 27 June 2008. For the Commission Günter VERHEUGEN Vice-President

¹ OJ L 318, 20.12.1993, p. 18 . Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2580/2000 ( OJ L 298, 25.11.2000, p. 5 ).

² OJ L 23, 26.1.2005, p. 19 .

³ OJ L 69, 13.3.2008, p. 34 .

Agricultural components (per 100 kilograms net weight) to be levied from 1 February 2008, on imports into the Community from Switzerland

PART 1

PART 2

See Part 2

Footnotes

1. . Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2580/2000 (). ↩ ↩²

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