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Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 
day following its publication in the Official Journal 
of the European Communities. 
It shall apply from: — 1 July 1984 in the case of the provisions of 
Article 1 (II), 
— 1 August 1984 in the case of the other provi­
sions. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and 
directly applicable in all Member States. 
ANNEX 
Heading No 10.07 of the Common Customs Tariff shall be replaced by the following: 
Heading 
number 
1 
10.07 Description 
2 
Buckwheat, millet, canary seed and grain 
sorghum; other cereals: 
A. Buckwheat 
B. Millet 
C. Grain sorghum 
D. Other: 
I. Triticale (wheat/rye hybrid) 
II. Other Rate of duty 
Autonomous % 
or levy (L) 
3 
10 (L) 
8(L) 
8(L) 
8(L) 
8(L) Conventional % 
4 
— 
— 
Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 2731/75 fixing 
standard qualities for common wheat, rye, barley, maize and durum wheat 
(84/C 62/05) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN 
COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
pean Economic Community, and particular 
Article 43 thereof, 
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organ­
ization of the market in cereals ('), as last amended 
by Regulation (EEC) No 1451/82 (2), and in parti­
cular Article 3 (6) thereof, 
(i) OJ No L 281,1. 11. 1975, p. 1. 
O OJ No L 164, 14. 6. 1982, p. 1. Having regard to the proposal from the 
Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European 
Parliament, 
Whereas trends in the production and consumption 
of cereals require that conditions of intervention be 
reinforced in the long term; whereas this aim cannot 
be achieved without introducing stricter require­
ments for the standard qualities and hence for the 
minimum quality stipulated for intervention; wher­
eas for this purpose the moisture content should be 
reduced, the same moisture content should be laid 
down for maize, and the criterion of fibre content 
should be introduced for barley; whereas at the 
same time the moisture content for the standard 
quality of durum wheat should also be laid down; 
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Whereas an intervention price is to be fixed for 
sorghum from the 1984/85 marketing year; whereas 
such a measure requires a standard quality to be 
defined; 
Whereas a certain number of technical improve­
ments should be made to the original text at the 
same time as the amendments referred to above, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION. 
Article 1 
Regulation (EEC) No 2731/75 is hereby amended 
as follows: 
1. The title is amended to read: 
'... fixing standard qualities for common 
wheat, rye, barley, maize, sorghum and durum 
wheat.' 
2. In point (b) of Articles 1, 2, 3 and 4, the mois­
ture content given is changed to 15,5 %. 
3. In Article 5 (a) the word 'dry' is deleted. 
A point (d), as follows, is added to Article 5: 
'(d) moisture content: 15,5 %.' 
4. A point (e), as follows, is added to Article 3: '(e) 
fibre content: 4,5 % by weight of dry matter.' 
5. The second indent of Article 4 (c) is replaced by 
the following: 
'percentage of grain impurities: 4% ("grain 
impurities") means grains of other cereals, 
grains damaged by pests and grains heated by 
drying).' 
6. The following Article is inserted: 
'Article 4a 
The standard quality for which the target price 
and the intervention price for sorghum are fixed 
is defined as follows: 
(a) sorghum of a sound and fair marketable 
quality, free from abnormal smell and live 
pests; 
(b) moisture content: 15,5 %; 
(c) total percentage of matter other than basic 
cereals of unimpaired quality: 8 %, which: 
— percentage of broken grains: 2 % ("bro­
ken grains" means pieces of grain or 
grains which pass through a sieve with a 
circular mesh 1,8 millimetres in dia­
meter), — percentage of grain impurities: 4% 
("grain impurities" means grains of 
other cereals, grains damaged by pests 
and grains heated by drying), 
— percentage of sprouted grains: 1 %, 
— percentage of miscellaneous impurities: 
1 % ("miscellaneous impurities" consist 
of weed seeds, damaged grains, extra­
neous matter, husks, dead insects and 
fragments of insects); 
(d) tannin content: 0,3 % by weight of dry mat­
ter.' 
7. Article 6 is replaced by the following: 
'Article 6 
For the purposes of this Regulation: 
(a) the matter, other than basic cereals of unim­
paired quality, shall be as defined in the 
Annex, save as otherwise provided for in 
this Regulation; 
(b) the methods for determining: 
— matter other than basic cereals of unim­
paired quality, 
— moisture content, 
— "mitadine" durum wheat grains, 
— fibre content, 
— tannin content, 
shall be determined in accordance with the 
procedure laid down in Article 26 of Regu­
lation (EEC) No 2727/75.' 
8. Annex I.B and Annex II to Regulation (EEC) 
No 2731/75 are hereby repealed. Annex LA 
becomes the Annex. 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 
day following its publication in the Official Journal 
of the European Communities. 
It shall apply from the beginning of the 1984/85 
marketing year for each of the products concerned. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and 
directly applicable in all Member States.