During the fifth COP/MOP in Nagoya, Japan, the Union supported the final compromise reached on the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (‘the Supplementary Protocol’), following consideration that it was within the limits of the agreed Union positions and negotiating directives addressed to the Commission.

81. Emphasises, as far as the additional isoglucose quota is concerned, that its industrial production is not connected with the local availability of maize and other raw materials and that, as the Commission mentions, the price of maize and other raw materials used for processing isoglucose remains unaffected; notes, accordingly, that the demand and the pattern of isoglucose consumption are fundamentally different from sugar consumption; agrees, as a result, with the Court of Auditors that ‘the logic of including those additional q ...[+++]uotas free of charge in the subsequent quota reductions is far from clear’ and asks the Commission what public good was served in the case of the free allowances which were given to isoglucose producers;

The Court of Justice of the European Communities in its judgment given on 13 December 2001 in Case C-317/99 Kloosterboer Rotterdam BV v Minister van Landbouw, Natuurbeheer en Visserij (3) stated that paragraphs 1 and 3 of Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1484/95 of 28 June 1995 laying down detailed rules for implementing the system of additional import duties and fixing additional import duties in the poultrymeat and egg sectors and for egg albumin, and repealing Regulation No 163/67/EEC (4), are invalid, inasmuch as they pr ...[+++]ovide that the additional duty referred to therein is, as a general rule, established on the basis of the representative price laid down in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1484/95 and that the duty is established on the basis of the cif import price of the shipment concerned only if the importer so requests.

Commission Decision 2004/558/EC of 15 July 2004 implementing Council Directive 64/432/EEC as regards additional guarantees for intra-Community trade in bovine animals relating to infectious bovine rhinotracheitis and the approval of the eradication programmes presented by certain Member States (2) approves the programmes for the control and eradication of the infection with the bovine herpesvirus type 1 (BHV1) presented by the Member States listed in Annex I to that Decision for the regions listed in that Annex, and for which additional guarantees for BHV1 apply in accordance ...[+++] with Article 9 of Directive 64/432/EEC.

Commission Decision 2004/558/EC of 15 July 2004 implementing Council Directive 64/432/EEC as regards additional guarantees for intra-Community trade in bovine animals relating to infectious bovine rhinotracheitis and the approval of the eradication programmes presented by certain Member States (2) approves the programmes for the control and eradication of the infection with the bovine herpesvirus type 1 (‘BHV1’) presented by the Member States listed in Annex I to that Decision for the regions listed in that Annex, and for which additional guarantees for BHV1 apply in accordan ...[+++]ce with Article 9 of Directive 64/432/EEC.

The draft was based on the Commission proposal for a Council Act drawing up the additional Protocol to the Convention on the protection of the European Communities' financial interests and for the Protocol to the Convention on the protection of the European Communities' financial interests pursuant to Article K.3 of the Treaty on European Union (COM(95)0693).