25.3.2010 Official Journal of the European Union L 79/1 II (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 248/2010 of 24 March 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 1484/95 laying down detailed rules for implementing the system of additional import duties and fixing representative prices in the poultry meat and egg sectors and for egg albumin, and Regulation (EC) No 504/2007 laying down detailed rules for the application of the arrangements for additional import duties in the milk and milk products sector THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agri- cultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agri- cultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (1), and in particular Article 143(b), in conjunction with Article 4 thereof, Article 248(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93, equal to the difference between the amount of additional import duty calculated on the basis of the representative price applicable to the product in question and the amount of additional import duty calculated on the basis of the cif import price of the consignment in question. (3)  For sake of harmonisation of the calculation methods Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 614/2009 of a{?phca}ll)le n }:h(ei dlfferzn(ti ?ect(?rs, Alt.li a;) p}rop?age to 7 July 2009 on the common system of trade for ovalbumin align the method provided for In Article (3) o 8y and lactalbumin (3), and in particular Article 3(4) thereof, lation (EC) No 1484/95 and Article 4(3) of Regulation ’ ’ (EC) No 504/2007 to the method provided for in Article 38(3) of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006. Whereas: (1)  Article 3(3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1484/95 (*), and Article 4(3) of Commission Regulation (4)  Article 3(4) of Regulation (EC) No 148495 and (EC) No 5042007 (*) provide that, when the cif import Article 4(4) of Regulation (EC) No 504/2007 determine price of a consignment is higher than the applicable the time-limits by which the importer has to prove that representative price, the importer has to lodge the the consignment was disposed of under the conditions security referred to in Article 248(1) of Commission confirming the correctness of the cif import price. It Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying appears that in practice the procedure for the import down provisions for the implementation of Council and the sale of the goods under the system have Regulation  (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the become far more differentiated. Where previously a Community Customs Code (°), equal to the amount of single operator was in general dealing with the additional duty which he would have paid if the calcu- purchase in the third country, the release into free circu- lation of the additional duty had been made on the basis lation and the sale in the Community, nowadays several of the representative price applicable to the product in operators are involved in the different operations making question. often impossible the respect of those time-limits. It is therefore appropriate to extend those time-limits. 2) However, in a similar case, Article 38(3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 951/2006 of 30 June 2006 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 as regards trade with third (5)  Regulations (EC) No 1484/95 and (EC) No 5042007 countries in the sugar sector (%), provides that the should therefore be amended accordingly. importer has to lodge the security referred to in ! 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1. j 181, 14.7.2009, p. 8. (6)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in () oL (® oL () O] L 145, 29.6.1995, p. 47. (% OJ L 119, 9.5.2007, p. 7. () O] L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1. () O] L 178, 1.7.2006, p. 24. accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets,