This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply from 31 March 2003.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 23 September 2002.
For the Council
The President
M. Fischer Boel
(1) OJ L 270, 14.12.1970, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2205/2001 (OJ L 297, 15.11.2001, p. 3).
(2) Forty-first Commission Directive 82/822/EEC of 19 November 1982 amending the Annexes to Council Directive 70/524/EEC concerning additives in feedingstuffs (OJ L 347, 7.12.1982, p. 16).
(3) OJ L 296, 17.11.1999, p. 3.
(4) Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 of 26 June 1990 laying down a Community procedure for the establishment of maximum residue limits of veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin (OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 1). Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1530/2002 (OJ L 230, 28.8.2002, p. 3).