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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 920/89
of 10 April 1989
laying down quality standards for carrots, citrus fruit and dessert apples and pears and amending Commission Regulation No 58
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of the Council of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit and vegetables (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 789/89 (2), and in particular Article 2 (3) thereof,
Whereas Annex I/5 to Commission Regulation No 58 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1730/87 (4), lays down common quality standards for carrots;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 379/71 of the Commission (5) lays down quality standards for citrus fruit;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1641/71 (6) of the Commission as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1653/87 (7), lays down quality standards for dessert apples and pears;
Whereas a change has occurred in the production and marketing of these products, in particular as regards the wholesale and consumer market requirements; whereas quality standards must accordingly be amended to take account of those new requirements;
Whereas the standards are applicable at all stages of marketing; whereas carriage over a great distance, storage for a certain length of time or the various handling operations to which the products are subjected may bring about deterioration due to the biological development of the products or their tendency to perish; whereas account should be taken of such deterioration when applying the standards at the marketing stages which follow dispatch; whereas, as products in the 'Extras' class have to be particularly carefully sorted and packaged, only lack of freshness and turgescence is to be taken into account in their case;
Whereas, for the sake of clarity and reliability as to legal requirements and for the convenience of the parties concerned, when new amendments are made to the regulations on the subject, they should be consolidated in a single text;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The quality standards for:
- carrots falling within CN code ex 0706 10 00,
- citrus fruit falling within by CN codes ex 0805 10, ex 0805 20, ex 0805 30 and
- dessert apples and pears falling within CN codes ex 0808 10 and ex 0808 20
shall be as set out in Annexes I, II and III.
Those standards shall apply at all stages of marketing under the conditions laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72.
However, at stages following dispatch, the products may show in relation to the provisions of the standards:
- a slight lack of freshness and turgescence,
- for products graded in classes other than the 'Extra' class, slight deteriorations due to their development and their tendency to perish.
Article 2
Regulation No 58 is hereby amended as follows:
- the line 'ex 07.01 G II Carrots' in the table in Article 1 is deleted,
- Annex I/5 is deleted.
Article 3
Regulations (EEC) No 379/71 and (EEC) No 1641/71 are hereby repealed.
Article 4
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1989.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 10 April 1989.