1.The Commission shall be assisted by the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets (hereinafter referred to as the Committee).
2.Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 4 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply.
The period laid down in Article 4(3) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at one month.
The organisation of meetings of the Committee referred to in Article 195 shall take into account, in particular, the scope of its responsibilities, the specificities of the subject to be dealt with, and the need to involve appropriate expertise.
Articles 74 to 76 of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 shall be deleted.
Articles 46 and 47 of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 shall be deleted.
Articles 29 and 30 of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 shall be deleted.
Regulation (EC) No 1184/2006 shall be amended as follows:
The title shall be replaced by the following:
‘Council Regulation (EC) No 1184/2006 of 24 July 2006 applying certain rules of competition to the production of and trade in certain agricultural products’;
Article 1 shall be replaced by the following:
This Regulation shall lay down the rules to be applied as regards the applicability of Articles 81 to 86 and certain provisions of Article 88 of the Treaty in relation to production of, or trade in, the products listed in Annex I to the Treaty with the exception of the products referred to in points (a) to (h), point (k) and points (m) to (u) of Article 1(1) and in Article 1(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007(1).
Articles 81 to 86 of the Treaty and provisions made for their implementation shall, subject to Article 2 of this Regulation, apply to all agreements, decisions and practices referred to in Articles 81(1) and 82 of the Treaty which relate to the production of, or trade in, the products referred to in Article 1.’;
The first subparagraph of Article 2(1) shall be replaced by the following:
‘1.Article 81(1) of the Treaty shall not apply to those agreements, decisions and practices referred to in Article 1a of this Regulation which form an integral part of a national market organisation or are necessary for attainment of the objectives set out in Article 33 of the Treaty.’;
Article 3 shall be replaced by the following:
Article 88(1) and of the first sentence of Article 88(3) of the Treaty shall apply to aid granted for the production of, or trade in, the products referred to in Article 1.’.
1.Subject to paragraph 3, the following Regulations shall be repealed:
(a)Regulations (EEC) No 234/68, (EEC) No 827/68, (EEC) No 2517/69, (EEC) No 2728/75, (EEC) No 1055/77, (EEC) No 2931/79, (EEC) No 1358/80, (EEC) No 3730/87, (EEC) No 4088/87, (EEC) No 404/93, (EC) No 670/2003 and (EC) No 797/2004, as from 1 January 2008;
(b)Regulations (EEC) No 707/76, (EC) No 1786/2003, (EC) No 1788/2003 and (EC) No 1544/2006 as from 1 April 2008;
(c)Regulations (EEC) No 315/68, (EEC) No 316/68, (EEC) No 2729/75, (EEC) No 2759/75, (EEC) No 2763/75, (EEC) No 2771/75, (EEC) No 2777/75, (EEC) No 2782/75, (EEC) No 1898/87, (EEC) No 1906/90, (EEC) No 2204/90, (EEC) No 2075/92, (EEC) No 2077/92, (EEC) No 2991/94, (EC) No 2597/97, (EC) No 1254/1999, (EC) No 1255/1999, (EC) No 2250/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EC) No 2529/2001, (EC) No 1784/2003, (EC) No 865/2004 and (EC) No 1947/2005 (EC) No 1952/2005 and (EC) No 1028/2006, as from 1 July 2008;
(d)Regulation (EC) No 1785/2003 as from 1 September 2008;
(e)Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 as from 1 October 2008;
(f)Regulations (EEC) No 3220/84, (EEC) No 386/90, (EEC) No 1186/90, (EEC) No 2137/92, and (EC) No 1183/2006 as from 1 January 2009.
2.Decision 74/583/EEC shall be repealed as from 1 January 2008.
3.The repeal of the Regulations referred to in paragraph 1 shall be without prejudice to:
(a)the maintenance in force of Community acts adopted on the basis of those Regulations; and
(b)the continuing validity of amendments made by those Regulations to other acts of Community law that are not repealed by this Regulation.
References to the provisions and Regulations which are amended or repealed by Articles 197 to 201 shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation tables set out in Annex XXII.
The Commission may adopt the measures required to facilitate the transition from the arrangements provided for in the Regulations which are amended or repealed by Articles 197 to 201 to those established by this Regulation.
1.This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
2.It shall apply from 1 January 2008.
However, it shall apply:
(a)as regards the cereals, seeds, hops, olive oil and table olives, flax and hemp, raw tobacco, beef and veal, pigmeat, sheepmeat and goatmeat, eggs and poultrymeat sectors, from 1 July 2008;
(b)as regards the rice sector, from 1 September 2008;
(c)as regards the sugar sector, from 1 October 2008 with the exception of Article 59 which shall apply as from 1 January 2008;
(d)as regards the dried fodder and the silkworm sectors, from 1 April 2008;
(e)as regards the wine sector as well as Article 197, from 1 August 2008;
(f)as regards the milk and milk products sector, with the exception of the provisions set out in Chapter III of Title I of Part II, from 1 July 2008;
(g)as regards the system of milk production limitation established in Chapter III of Title I of Part II, from 1 April 2008;
(h)as regards the Community scales for carcass classification referred to in Article 42(1), from 1 January 2009.
Articles 27, 39 and 172 shall apply from 1 January 2008 and Articles 149 to 152 from 1 July 2008 for all the products concerned.
3.As regards the sugar sector, Title I of Part II shall apply until the end of the marketing year 2014/2015 for sugar.
4.The provisions related to the system of milk production limitation established in Chapter III of Title I of Part II shall, in accordance with Article 66, apply until 31 March 2015.