6.4.2002 Official Journal of the European Communities L91/9 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 597/2002 of 5 April 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 1249/96 on rules of application (cereal sector import duties) for Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 on the common organisation of the market in cereals THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 176692 of 30 June 1992 on the common organisation of the market in cereals (') as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1666/ 2000 (3, and in particular Article 10(4) thereof, Whereas: (1)  Article 2(4) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1249/ 96 (), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2104/ 2001 (¥, provides for the issue by the customs authority at the port of unloading of a certificate attesting the quantity of each product unloaded. However, the Regu- lation does not lay down the format of that certificate and this has caused a lack of harmonisation. In order to overcome that problem therefore, a model certificate should be included. (2) In particular, exceptional circumstances, the repres- entative cif prices calculated in accordance with Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1249/96 result in a duty being fixed for lower quality common wheat that is less than that for higher quality common wheat. The lower duty should be applied to the qualities concerned. (3)  Under Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1249/96, where the duty on the quality to be imported is not the highest duty for the product concerned, importers of common and durum wheat must lodge a specific security addi- tional to those required under Commission Regulation (EC) No 1162/95 (°) as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2298/2001 (). The purpose of that guarantee is to ensure that the duty applicable to the quality imported is paid. Where the duty applicable to each quality is zero, that guarantee is no longer necessary. (4)  Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1249/96 provides for the customs authorities to take representative samples of certain products on import in order to determine the rate of duty applicable on the basis of the quality of the product. Where the import duty is the same for the 181, 1.7.1992, p. 21. 193, 29.7.2000, p. 1. 161, 29.6.1996, p. 125. 283, 27.10.2001, p. 8. 117, 24.5.1995, p. 2. 308, 27.11.2001, p. 16. different qualities of the same product, the taking of samples to achieve the above objective no longer has any point. (5)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Cereals, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EC) No 1249/96 is amended as follows: 1. The second subparagraph of Article 2(4) is replaced by the following: ‘The customs authority at the port of unloading shall issue a certificate in accordance with the model given in Annex VI attesting the quantity of each product unloaded. For the duty reduction to be granted this must accompany the goods until completion of the customs import formalities.’ 2. Article 4(2) is replaced by the following: 2. The representative cif import prices for durum wheat, barley, maize and, in the case of common wheat, for each standard quality shall be the sum of the components referred to in paragraph 1(a), (b) and (c). However, where the representative cif price for a lower quality common wheat is higher than that for higher quality common wheat, the higher representative cif price shall be used for calculating the duty applicable to the qualities immediately above whose representative cif price is lower. In cases where third countries grant subsidies on exports of medium or low quality common wheat to European or Mediterranean basin countries so that world market prices can be undercut, the Commission may take account of those subsidies in establishing the representative cif price for importation into the Community. 3. The following paragraph is added at the end of Article 5: ‘However, where the import duty applicable to the different qualities is zero, the commitment referred to in the second indent of the first paragraph shall not be required.’