Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 2406/96 laying down common marketing standards for certain fishery products
Date: 2000-07-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: fishery product, fresh fish, marketing standard, product quality, refrigerated product

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 26.07.2000
COM(2000) 484 final

Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION

amending Regulation (EC) No 2406/96 laying down common marketing standards for

certain fishery products

(presented by the Commission)

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

As part of market organisation reform, Annex IV to Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 of
17 December 1999 on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture
products added five new species to the list of products eligible for intervention mechanisms:

• Common scallop (Pecten maximus)

• Common whelk (Buccinum undatum)

• Striped or red mullet (Mullus surmuletus, Mullus barbatus)

• Black sea bream (Spondyliosoma cantharus).

So that they can be harmonised on the Community market, common marketing standards
therefore need to be laid down for these species by amending Council Regulation (EC)
No 2406/96.

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Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION

amending Regulation (EC) No 2406/96 laying down common marketing standards for
certain fishery products

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 of 17 December 1992 on the
common organisation of the market in fishery and aquaculture products1, and in particular
Article 2(3) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 of 17 December 1999 on the common
organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products2 repealed Regulation
(EEC) No 3759/92 with effect from 1 January 2001;

Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 also added five new species to the list of
products eligible for intervention mechanisms under the common organisation of the
markets;

common marketing standards, harmonised throughout
the Community market,
therefore need to be laid down for those species by amending Regulation (EEC)
No 2406/963,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 2406/96 is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 3:

a)

in paragraph 1, the list under (a) shall be supplemented by the following indents:

1

2

3

OJ L 388, 31.12.1992, p. 1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3318/94 (OJ L 350, 31.12.1994,
p. 15).
OJ L 17, 21.1.2000, p. 22.
OJ L 334, 23.12.1996, p. 1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 323/97 (OJ L 52, 22.2.1997, p. 8).

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"

-

–

Striped or red mullet (Mullus surmuletus, Mullus barbatus)

Black sea bream (Spondyliosoma cantharus)"

b)

in paragraph 1, a new point (d) shall be added:

"(d) Common scallop and other aquatic invertebrates falling under code NC 0307:

– Common scallop (Pecten maximus)

– Common whelk (Buccinum undatum)"

2. The first subparagraph of Article 4(3) shall be replaced by:

"The crab, common scallop and common whelk referred to in Article 3 shall not be
classified according to specific standards of freshness."

3. Article 7(1) shall be replaced by:

"The products referred to in Article 3 shall be sized by weight or by number per
kilogram. Shrimps and crabs, however, shall be graded in size categories by width of
shell; common scallops and common whelks shall be graded in size categories by
width of scallop."

4.

In Annex II, the scale of sizes shall be supplemented by the size categories applicable to
striped or red mullet, black sea bream, common scallop and common whelk, as specified
in the annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following its publication in the
Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply from 1 January 2001.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels,

For the Council
The President

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Species

Size

Kg/fish or shell
size

Number
of fish/kg

Region

Geographical area

ANNEX

Minimum
size

100 mm (1)

Regions 1 to 5 except
Skagerrak/Kattegat
and except ICES VIIa
north
52°30’ N
of
and VIId

Mediterranean

100 mm (2)

ICES VIIa north of
52°30’ N and VIId

110 mm (1)

Regions 1 to 5 except
Skagerrak/Kattegat

45 mm

Mediterranean

11 cm (2)

1

2

3

1

one
size

11 cm and over (3)

Common
scallop

(Pecten
maximus)

Common whelk

one
size

4.5 cm and over (3)

-

red

1

500 g and over

(Buccinum
undatum)

Striped or
mullet

(Mullus
surmuletus,
Mullus
barbatus)

2

3a

Mediterranean

3b

200
to
exclusive

40
to
exclusive

18
to
exclusive

500 g

200 g

200 g

Black sea bream

1

800 g and over

(Spondyliosoma
cantharus)

2

3

4

500
to
exclusive

300
to
exclusive

to
180
exclusive

800 g

500 g

300 g

(1)

(2)

(3)

Laid down in Regulation (EC) No 850/98.

Laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1626/94.

Shell width, measured at the widest point.

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