
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 499/96 is amended as follows:

1.. in Article 1 the following paragraph 4 shall be added:
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4. The benefit of the tariff quota with order number 09.0792 shall not be granted for goods declared for release for free circulation during the period 15 February to 15 June.';
2.. the Annex shall be amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2 
For 2004, the annual volume of the tariff quota with order number 09.0792 shall be reduced in proportion to the part of the quota period in whole weeks which has elapsed before the date given in the second paragraph of Article 3.
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 May 2004.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Luxembourg, 25 October 2004.
For the Council
The President
R. VERDONK
ANNEX

In the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 499/96 the following item is inserted:

‘09.0792 ex 0303 50 00 0303 50 00 20 Herrings of the species Clupea harengus or Clupea pallasii, frozen, excluding livers and roes, for industrial manufacture 950 0


