19.3.98 Official Journal of the European Communities L 82/35 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 618/98 of 18 March 1998 amending Regulation (EC) No 1898/97 laying down rules of application in the pigmeat sector for the arrangements covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 2698/93 and (EC) No 1590/94 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 auto- nomous and transitional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for in the Europe Agreements to take account of the Agreement on Agriculture concluded during the Uruguay Round Multilateral Trade Nego- tiations ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1595/ 97 (%), and in particular Article 8 thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organisation of the market in pigmeat (%), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 (%), and in particular Article 22 thereof, Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1898/97 (%) lays down detailed rules for application in the pigmeat sector of the arrangments provided for in Regulation (EC) No 3066/95; Whereas Article 4(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1898/97 fore- sees that Member States notify to the Commission within five working days the applications lodged for import licences; whereas in all other import regimes applied in the pigmeat sector this information is provided within three working days; whereas it is appropriate to harmonise the two time periods in order to facilitate well functioning management of the different import regimes; Whereas 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 In Article 4(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1898/97, ‘fifth’ is replaced by ‘third’. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April 1998. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 18 March 1998. OJ L 328, 30. 12. 1995, p. 31. OJ L 216, 8. 8. 1997, p. 1. OJ L 282, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1. OJ L 349, 31. 12. 1994, p. 105. OJ L 267, 30. 9. 1997, p. 58. For the Commission Franz FISCHLER Member of the Commission