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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 263/2013 of 18 March 2013 approving non-minor amendments to the specification for            a name entered in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications (Mela Alto Adige/Südtiroler            Apfel (PGI))         

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# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 263/2013                     

# of 18 March 2013

# approving non-minor amendments to the specification for a name entered in the register of protected designations of origin                        and protected geographical indications (Mela Alto Adige/Südtiroler Apfel (PGI))                     

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 November 2012 on quality                           schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs(1), and in particular Article 52(2) thereof,                        

Whereas:

(1)Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 entered into force on 3 January 2013. It repealed and replaced Council Regulation (EC) No 510/2006                              of 20 March 2006 on the protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs(2).

(2)By virtue of the first subparagraph of Article 9(1) of Regulation (EC) No 510/2006, the Commission has examined Italy’s application                              for the approval of amendments to the specification for the protected geographical indication ‘Mela Alto Adige/Südtiroler                              Apfel’ registered under Commission Regulation (EC) No 1855/2005(3).

(3)Since the amendments in question are not minor, the Commission published the amendment application in the *Official Journal of the European Union* (4), as required by Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 510/2006. As no statement of objection under Article 7 of that Regulation                              has been received by the Commission, the amendments should be approved,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

# Article 1U.K.

The amendments to the specification published in the *Official Journal of the European Union* regarding the name contained in the Annex to this Regulation are hereby approved.                  

# Article 2U.K.

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, 18 March 2013.

*For the Commission, On behalf of the President*,                           

Dacian Cioloș                            

*Member of the Commission*                            

## ANNEXU.K.

Agricultural products intended for human consumption listed in Annex I to the Treaty:

### **Class 1.6.****Fruit, vegetables and cereals, fresh or processed**U.K.

#### ITALYU.K.

Mela Alto Adige/Südtiroler Apfel (PGI)

1

OJ L 343, 14.12.2012, p. 1.                           

2

OJ L 93, 31.3.2006, p. 12.                           

3

OJ L 297, 15.11.2005, p. 5.                           

4

OJ C 125, 28.4.2012, p. 5.