
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 97/2004 is hereby amended as follows: the words ‘at the request of the interested party’ in the second and third paragraphs of Article 3 are deleted.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 22 January 2004.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 18 August 2004.
For the Commission
J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ
Director-General for Agriculture