28.11.2002 Official Journal of the European Communities L 323/41 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2097/2002 of 27 November 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 94/2002 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 2826/2000 on information and promotion actions for agricultural products on the internal market THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Article 1 Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2826/2000 of 19 December 2000 on information and promotion actions for agricultural products on the internal market ('), and in parti- cular Article 12 thereof, Regulation (EC) No 94/2002 is hereby amended as follows: 1. the first sentence of Article 5(1) is replaced by the Whereas: following: ‘With a view to implementing measures contained in (1) Article 5(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 94/ programmes as referred to in Article 6 of Regulation (EC) 2002 (), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1186/ No 2826/2000, the Community trade federations or inter- 2002 (%, lays down, for the purposes of implementing branch organisations that are representative of the sector(s) measures contained in programmes as referred to in concerned shall submit programmes in response to calls for Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 2826/2000, the deadline proposals issued by the Member States concerned no later of 15 June each year for Community trade federations than 31 January and 31 July each year.’; or interbranch organisations to submit programmes to the Member Stat d. ¢ Miember state concerne 2. Article 7 is amended as follows: (a) the first sentence of paragraph 1 is replaced by the (2)  In view of the utilisation of available financial resources following: provided for by the support measures for information and promotion actions when first applied in August ‘No later than 15 March and 30 September each year 2002, these organisations should be given the opportu- the Member States shall send the Commission a provi- nity to submit new programmes. sional list of the programmes and proposed imple- menting bodies and a copy of each programme which they have selected.’; (3) It would therefore appear useful to provide for the possi- bility of submitting new information and promotion (b) the first subparagraph of paragraph 3 is replaced by the programmes twice a year. following: ‘After checking programmes on the final list referred to in the third subparagraph of Article 6(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2826/2000 the Commission shall decide, no later than 31 May and 15 December, which programmes it may part-finance under the indicative budgets listed in Annex III to this Regulation.’; (4)  Taking account of the experience acquired in examining the programmes submitted in the field of information on the Community systems for PDOs, PGIs and TSGs and for organic production, on the one hand, and of the development of Community policy in these areas on the other, the guidelines in these sectors should be adapted. 3. Annex Il is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation. (5)  Regulation (EC) No 94/2002 should therefore be amended. (6)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion delivered at the joint Article 2 meeting of the management committees on agricultural product promotion, 1 O] L 328, 21.12.2000, p. 2. This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day @ oL 17, 19.1.2002, p., 0. following its publication in the Official Journal of the European () OJL 173, 3.7.2002, p. 4. Communities.