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ANNEX 
1. (a) Fresh fish shall be cleaned and gutted immediately after having been caught. 
Derogation from this requirement and the detailed rules of application of these conditions shall be 
adopted following the procedure provided for under Article 6, account being taken in particular of 
the technical constraints with reference to the catch and handling on board of certain species or 
groups of species. 
Fresh fish for which such a derogation has been given must in any case be refrigerated to less than 
2 ° C immediately after capture. 
(b) Fillets of fresh fish must be visually inspected by the processing establishment. Any larvae present 
must be removed. 
2. A complete treatment must comply with one of the following conditions: 
(a) heating, in which the internal temperature in all parts of the fish is raised to at least 65 °C; 
(b) salting, by using salt (NaCl) in such a way that the combination between the minimum salt concen­
tration (MSC) in the tissue fluid of the fish and the minimum action time (MAT) of the salt is as 
follows: 
MSC MAT 
20 % 10 days 
15 °/o 14 days 
12 % 28 days 
10 % 35 days 
when using sugar (anchovis production) 
15 % 28 days 
Other methods having a similar effect may be approved by the competent authorities; 
(c) marinating, by immersion of the fish in a solution having a suitable pH and a suitable salt concen­
tration during a well determined period, possibly in combination with the use of other additives. 
The combination of those parameters must be approved by the competent authority; 
(d) cold treatment, in which the internal temperature of the fish has to be at maximum — 20 °C for at 
least 24 hours. 
The competent authorities shall communicate to the Commission and to the other Member States the 
methods approved for the treatments referred to under (b) and (c). 
Amendment to the proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) on a Research and Development 
Programme in the field of Applied Metrology and Chemical Analyses in the European 
Economic Community 1988 to 1992 
(The Community Bureau of Reference — BCR) (') 
COM(88) 79 final 
(Amendment submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to Article 149, (3) of the EEC 
Treaty on 26 February 1988) 
(88/C 66/03) 
The Commission proposal is hereby amended as follows: 
Title 
Replace 'Council Regulation' by 'Council Decision'. 
(') OJ No C 304, 14. 11. 1987, p. 4. 
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The first four recitals are unchanged. 
Addthefollowingnewrecitab 
^^ereas theresultsshouldbewidelydistributedandpublicizedinordertocreatema^hnum 
awareness about the work. 
The last two recitals are unchanged, 
^asadoptedthisregulation^shouldread^ad adopted this decisions 
Unchanged. 
Add^ 
Theannualamountsshallbedetermmedwithintheframeworkof thebudgetaryprocedureB 
Unchanged. 
t. At the end of the third year the Commission shall review the programme. The conclusions 
of thisreviewshallbecommunicated totheCouncil and the European Rarliament. 
This review may lead to the submission by the Commission ofaproposalforarevision of the 
programme in accordance with theappropriateprocedures. 
^ Add^ 
The programme shall be evaluated prior toits expiry by independent experts in accordance 
with the criteria set outmA^ne^tt and A^icle^^^ofthe^rameworkProgramme.The 
evaluation report shall be transmitted to the Council and the European Parliament. 
^Ir^cA^^ 
Replace by^ 
Inaccordance with Article t^O l^of the EECTreaty^ the Commission is hereby auth 
ori^ed to negotiate agreements with third states and international organisations^ in 
particular the countries taking part in European Cooperation in the Meld of scientific and 
Technical Research t^CCo^T^ and those having concluded framework agreements for 
scientific and technical cooperation with the Community^withaview to associating them 
either fully ormpart with the programme. 
^uch agreements^ which are based on a common interests shall be concluded by the 
Councils acting byaqualifiedmaiority^in cooperation with Rarliament. 
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Article 6 
Delete. 
ANNEX I 
The title is unchanged. 
The first two paragraphs are unchanged. 
The priority fields are the following: 
(a) Analyses for food and agriculture, in particular: 
— analyses in livestock (foodstuffs, hormones, antibiotics, etc.) and of the quality of cereals, fruit and 
vegetables, 
— analyses of the quality of processed food (nutritional properties, presence of dangerous substances, 
bacterial contamination). 
(b) Analyses related to the environment, in particular: 
— determination of traces of dangerous compounds in various matrices, 
— determination of air pollutants at the workplace, 
— mutagenicity of chemical substances. 
(c) Biomedical analyses, with priority to: 
— the determination of enzymes and hormones (in human serum), 
— haematological tests (e.g. blood coagulation), 
— analyses related to cardiovascular diseases, 
— analysis of tumour markers and drugs in the human body. 
(d) Analyses of (essentially non-ferrous) metals and surface analysis of materials. 
(e) Applied metrology 
The emphasis will be placed on the measurement and calibration of the most important parameters for 
test laboratories and industrial laboratories, in particular for quality control. The subjects covered will 
include in particular: 
— dimensional and mechanical metrology (in particular, measurements that are becoming increasingly 
necessary for the verification of automatic machines) and the characterization of surface states, 
— mechanical parameters such as force and pressure, 
— study of the performance and accuracy of new temperature measuring devices, 
— improvement of optical metrology in the visible, ultraviolet and infra-red ranges and in the field of 
fibre optics and lasers, 
— measurements of electrical magnitudes, in particular at high frequency, 
— acoustic measurements, in particular as regards sound-proofing, 
— measurements relating to ultrasonics, 
— liquid and gas flow measurements, 
— methods of measurement of physical and material properties such as thermal conductivity, viscosity, 
etc., 
— methods of determination of the mechanical properties of metals (the work will cover only the 
methods required for the accurate determination of these properties and not the characterization of 
the materials), 
— improvement of technological measurements in industry. 
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The activities include in particular: 
— execution of measurement programmes involving the cooperation of laboratories in several Member 
States (intercomparisons), 
— improvement of methods of analysis and measurement, 
— improvement of instruments necessary for high precision measurements, 
— development of transfer standards, 
— preparation and certification of reference materials, 
— storage and distribution of reference materials, 
— support for the setting up at Community level of interlaboratory circuits for quality assurance, 
— research grants for young scientists in subjects covered by the programme, 
— exchange and training of scientists in subjects covered by the programme, in particular for the benefit of 
the Member States that wish to catch up in these fields, 
— dissemination of the results of the projects, 
— well-targeted advertising of the reference materials and promotion of their sale. 
Add: 
ANNEX II 
EVALUATION CRITERIA 
The programme will be evaluated to assess its achievements, in particular from the following viewpoints: 
1. To what extent the programme has contributed to the development of the internal market, in particular 
by providing support: 
— for the preparation of directives or standards, 
— for the application of directives or standards, 
— to help overcome difficulties regarding the application of commercial specifications. 
2. What benefit the participants have gained from their cooperation on the projects (acquisition of know-
how, dissemination of information, improvement of methods, consistency of results, etc.) and from the 
contacts with their European partners. 
3. Whether the programme has helped to increase cooperation between the Member States, in particular in 
the fields of metrology and calibration services (harmonization, coordination, cooperation in the devel­
opment of new methods, etc.).