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COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/...  
of XXX  
amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2104 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 
1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards marketing 
standards for olive oil    
EN 1  EN EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM  
1. CONTEXT  OF THE  DELEGATED  ACT  
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2104 of 29 July 2022 supplementing 
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards 
marketing standards for olive oil, and repealing Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2568/91 
and C ommission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 29/2012 lays down rules on the 
characteristics of the olive oils referred to in Part VIII, points 1 to 6, of Annex VII to 
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013. Limit values for the characteristics of olive oil set out in 
Regulation (EU) 2022/2104 are set in accordance with the IOC Trade Standard applying to 
olive oil and olive -pomace oil (IOC Trade Standard) . The IOC Trade Standard changed with 
regard to one chemical parameter, Δ -7-stigmastenol, and Delegated Regulation (EU ) 
2022/2104 should be amended accordingly.  
2. CONSULTATIONS  PRIOR  TO THE  ADOPTION  OF THE  ACT  
Consultations involved experts from all the 27 Member States during two meetings of the 
Expert Group for agricultural markets, in particular concerning aspects fal ling under the 
single CMO regulation; Subgroup: Arable Crops and Olive Oil, taking place in October and 
November  2023. The draft was agreed at the meeting of 30 November 2023 . The draft 
versions of the present act were transmitted to the European Parliamen t and to the Council.  
In addition, a general public consultation was carried out through the publication of the draft 
delegated regulation on the Better Regulation Portal from [dates to be inserted ]. WTO 
partners were notified.  
3. LEGAL  ELEMENTS  OF THE  DELEGATED  ACT  
The act amends Annex I of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2104 with regard to the chemical 
parameter Δ -7-stigmastenol.   
EN 2  EN COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/...  
of XXX  
amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2104 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 
1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards marketing 
standards for olive oil  
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,  
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the Europea n Union,  
Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the 
Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in 
agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, 
(EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/20071, and in particular Article 75(2), thereof , 
Whereas:  
(1) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/21042 lays down rules on the 
characteristics of the olive oils referred to in Part VIII, points 1 to 6, of Annex VII to 
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 . 
(2) The l imit values for the characteristics of olive oil laid down in Delegated Regulation 
(EU) 2022/2104 reflect the trade standard for olive oil and olive -pomace oil of the 
International Olive Council (IOC)  (hereinafter, ‘ IOC Trade Standard ’3). 
(3) At its 116th IOC session  which took place on 30 November 2022 , the IOC adopted 
Decision DEC -III.2/116 -VI/2022 amend ing the IOC Trade Standard  as regards the 
limit of Δ-7-stigmastenol for all categories of olive oil . The Union voted in favour of 
this amendment, in accordance with Council Decision (EU) 2022/23914. 
(4) In order to ensure the implementation at Union level of the most recent international 
standard on limit values for the parameter Δ -7-stigmastenol established by the IOC, 
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2104 should be amended accordingly , 
HAS ADOPTED THIS RE GULATION:  
Article 1  
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2104 is amended as follows:  
                                                 
1 OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 671 , ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2013/1308/oj . 
2 Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2104 of 29 July 2022 supplementing Regulation (EU) 
No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards marketing standards for olive 
oil, and repealin g Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2568/91 and Commission Implementing 
Regulation (EU) No 29/2012  (OJ L 284, 4.11.2022 , p. 1 , ELI: 
http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2022/2104/oj ). 
3 https://www.internationaloliveoil.org/what -we-do/chemistry -standardisation -unit/standards -and-
methods/ . 
4 Council Decision (EU) 2022/2391  of 25 Novemb er 2022 on the position to be taken on behalf of the 
European Union within the Council of Members of the International Olive Council, as regards the trade 
standard applying to olive oils and olive -pomace oils  (OJ L 316, 8.12.2022, p. 86 , ELI: 
http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2022/2391/oj ).  
EN 3  EN 1. Annex I  is amended as follows:  
(a) table B is replaced by the table set out in Annex  I to this Regulation ; 
(b) its Appendix is deleted ; 
2. Annex III  is replaced by the text set out in Annex II to this Regulation . 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth  day following that of its publication in 
the Official Journal of the European Union . 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.  
Done at Brussels,  
 For the Commission  
 The President  
 Ursula VON DER LEYEN