Community agricultural products: inward processing and competitiveness against outside countries

PURPOSE : to make the arrangements in the management of certain agricultural markets more flexible and more efficient. CONTENT : rapid action, whether to suspend or restrict inward processing so that Community agricultural products can be exported without infringing the rules applying under the World Trade Organisation Agreement on Agriculture or to guarantee the visibility and security of supply, is impossible to under the present common market organisation provisions. Much greater flexibility is therefore called for over inward processing. This involves authorising the adoption of management measures within the meaning of Article 2 of Council Decision 1999/468/EC laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission. �