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C0H<90)104 final 
Brussels, 26 March 1990 
Amendment to the Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) 
amending Regulation (EEC) No 986/86 laying down general rules 
for granting aid for skimmed milk and sklmmed-mllk powder 
for use as feed 
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of the EEC Treaty) 
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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 
The aim of this amendment to the proposal for a Council Regulation which Is 
the subject of Document COM(89) 448 final of 9 October 1989 is to extend 
the original proposal by adding a provision on the definition of buttermilk 
in powder form laid down In Article 1(d) of Regulation (EEC) No 986/68. 
For technical reasons, the processing into powder of soured buttermilk can 
only occur after the liquid product has been neutralized. Although it Is a 
common manufacturing procedure, the present text of the Regulation does not 
provide explicitly for It to be used. 
The aim of this additional proposal is to clarify Regulation (EEC) 
No 986/68 on this point by formally authorizing the neutralization of 
soured buttermiIk. 
This modification has no Impact on the budget. 
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Amendment to the 
Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) 
amending Regulation (EEC) No 986/86 laying down general rules for 
granting aid for skimmed milk and skimmed-mllk powder 
for use as feed 
The proposal for a Council Regulation which is the subject of Document COM 
(89) 448 final is hereby amended as follows: 
1. The recital of the proposal for a Regulation is replaced by the 
fol lowing recitals: 
"Whereas Article 1(d) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 986/68, as last 
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1115/89, defines skimmed-mllk powder In 
particular as the by-product of the processing of milk or cream into 
butter, even though naturally or artificially soured, in the form of 
powder; whereas the manufacturing technique requires that soured 
buttermilk be neutralized before being processed into powder; whereas 
that definition should be supplemented by explicitly authorizing the 
neutralization of soured buttermilk prior to its processing Into 
powder ; 
Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 3(1) of that Regulation 
provides, by way of a derogation, that the Member States which consign 
skimmed-mllk powder to another Member State are to be authorized to pay 
the aid in the place of the Member State where the skimmed-mllk powder 
is denatured or incorporated into compound feedingstuffs; whereas the 
trend in the market situation leads that derogation no longer to be 
maintained,". 
2. Article 1 of the proposal for a Regulation is replaced by the 
fol lowing: 
"Article 1 
Regulation (EEC) No 986/68 Is hereby amended as follows: 
1. The following sentence is added to Article 1(d): 
"Naturally or artificially soured buttermilk may be neutralized 
with a view to its processing into powder." 
2. The second subparagraph of Article 3(1) is deleted." 
Donet at Brussels, For the Council 

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