Commission Regulation (EC) No 551/2008 of 17 June 2008 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables

of 17 June 2008

establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables

Preamble

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1580/2007 of 21 December 2007 laying down implementing rules of Council Regulations (EC) No 2200/96, (EC) No 2201/96 and (EC) No 1182/2007 in the fruit and vegetable sector ¹ , and in particular Article 138(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Regulation (EC) No 1580/2007 lays down, pursuant to the outcome of the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations, the criteria whereby the Commission fixes the standard values for imports from third countries, in respect of the products and periods stipulated in the Annex thereto.

(2) In compliance with the above criteria, the standard import values must be fixed at the levels set out in the Annex to this Regulation,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The standard import values referred to in Article 138 of Regulation (EC) No 1580/2007 shall be fixed as indicated in the Annex hereto.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 June 2008.

Final provisions

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 17 June 2008. For the Commission Jean-Luc DEMARTY Director-General for Agriculture and Rural Development

¹ OJ L 350, 31.12.2007, p. 1 .

¹ Country nomenclature as fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1833/2006 ( OJ L 354, 14.12.2006, p. 19 ). Code ‘ ZZ ’ stands for ‘of other origin’.

Footnotes

1. Country nomenclature as fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1833/2006 (). Code ‘ ZZ ’ stands for ‘of other origin’. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴