12.12.2000 Official Journal of the European Communities L311/27 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2704/2000 of 11 December 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 1899/97 laying down rules of application in the poultrymeat and egg sectors for the arrangements covered by Council Regulations (EC) No 17272000 and (EC) No 3066/95 and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 2699/93 and (EEC) No 1559/94 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 of 22 December 1995 establishing certain concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and providing for the adjustment, as an autonomous and trans- itional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for in the Europe Agreements to take account of the Agreement on Agriculture concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilat- eral trade negotiations ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2435/98 (3), and in particular Article 8 thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2290/2000 of 9 October 2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and trans- itional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for in the Europe Agreement with Bulgaria (}), and in particular Article 1(3) thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2433/2000 of 17 October 2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and trans- itional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for in the Europe Agreement with the Czech Republic (), and in particular Article 1(3) thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2434/2000 of 17 October 2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and trans- itional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for in the Europe Agreement with the Slovak Republic (°), and in particular Article 1(3) thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2435/2000 of 17 October 2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and () O] L 328, 30.12.1995, p. 31. () O] L 303, 13.11.1998, p. 1. () O] L 262, 17.10.2000, p. 1. () O] L 280, 4.11.2000, p. 1. () O] L 280, 4.11.2000, p. 9. providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and trans- itional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for in the Europe Agreement with Romania (%), and in particular Article 1(3) thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2771/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organisation of the market in eggs (), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1516/96 (%), and in particular Article 22 thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2777(75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organisation of the market in poultrymeat (°), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2916/95 (%), and in particular Article 22 thereof, Whereas: (1)  Commission Regulation (EC) No 1899/97 of 29 September 1997 laying down rules of application in the poultrymeat and egg sectors for the arrangements covered by Council Regulations (EC) No 1727/2000 and (EC) No 3066/95 and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 2699/93 and (EC) No 1559/94 (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1773/2000 (*?), lays down rules of application in these sectors for the arrangements in the Europe Agreements. It must be modified in line with the provisions on poultrymeat and egg products adopted in Regulations (EC) No 2290/2000, (EC) No 2433/2000, (EC) No 2434/2000 and (EC) No 2435/2000. (20  To prevent licences being used after the end of the period for which they have been applied for, they should not be valid beyond 30 June of the current year and the date for lodging applications for the following period should be brought forward. (3)  Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code (*), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1602/2000 (*%), codified the management rules for tariff quotas designed to be used following the chronological order of dates of customs declarations. (4 To allow the application of the arrangements provided for in the above Regulations once this Regulation has been published, the tariff quotas with the serial numbers 09.4672, 09.4627, 09.4630, 09.4633 and 09.4771 should be administered in accordance with Articles 308a, 308b and 308c of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93. ) O] L 280, 4.11.2000, p. 17. ) O] L 282, 1.11.1975, p. 49. % O] L 189, 30.7.1996, p. 99. ) O] L 282, 1.11.1975, p. 77. 9 O L 305, 19.12.1995, p. 49. ! 267, 30.9.1997, p. 67. 2 205, 12.8.2000, p. 3. ; 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1. 188, 26.7.2000, p. 1.