Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 80/232/EEC as regards the range of nominal weights for coffee extracts and chicory extracts
Date: 2000-09-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: approximation of laws, coffee, free movement of goods, instant product, pre-packaging

C 365 E/274

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Official Journal of the European Communities

19.12.2000

Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive
80/232/EEC as regards the range of nominal weights for coffee extracts and chicory extracts

(2000/C 365 E/25)

COM(2000) 568 final (cid:16) 2000/0235(COD)

(Submitted by the Commission on 13 September 2000)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION,

pre-packaged
Community.

products

to

circulate

throughout

the

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 95 thereof,

(5) Directive 80/232/EEC should therefore be

amended

accordingly,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Having regard to the opinion of
Committee,

the Economic and Social

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
251 of the Treaty,

Article 1

Directive 80/232/EEC is hereby amended as follows:

1. The following paragraph is added to Article 5:

Whereas:

(1) In order

to promote

the body of
Community legislation, all ranges of nominal quantities
for pre-packaged products should be included in a single
legislative text, namely Council Directive 80/232/EEC (1).

transparency of

(2) For

the

this

reason,

range of nominal weights

for
pre-packaged products, which have been laid down in
Article 4 of Council Directive 77/436/EEC of 27 June
1977 on the approximation of the laws of the Member
States relating to coffee extracts and chicory extracts (2),
as last amended by Council Directive 85/573/EEC of 19
December 1985 (3), should no longer be located in the
product-specific Directive.

(3) Directive 1999/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the
Council of 22 February 1999 relating to coffee extracts and
chicory extracts (4) repeals Directive 77/436/EEC as of 13
September 2000 and contains a recital noting the intention
to include in Directive 80/232/EEC a range of nominal
weights for pre-packaged products for the products under
its scope.

(4) The mandatory Community range for nominal quantities
for coffee extracts and chicory extracts continues to be
necessary to protect consumers and to enable these

=Pre-packages containing the products listed in point 12 of
Annex I may be marketed only in the nominal quantities
given in point 12.>

2. Annex I is amended as shown in the Annex I hereto.

Article 2

Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and
administrative provisions necessary to comply with this
Directive by . . . at the latest (5) They shall forthwith inform
the Commission thereof.

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain
a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a
their official publication.
reference on the occasion of
Member States shall determine how such reference is to be
made.

Article 3

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

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

(1) OJ L 51, 25.2.1980, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 172, 12.7.1977, p. 20.
(3) OJ L 372, 31.12.1985, p. 22.
(4) OJ L 66, 13.3.1999, p. 26.

(5) The date of entry into force of this Directive.

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ANNEX I

The following point is added to Annex I of Directive 80/232/EEC:

12. Coffee extracts and chicory extracts (g)

50 ? 100 ? 200 ? 250 (for mixtures of coffee extracts and chicory extracts only and for coffee extracts intended
exclusively for use in automatic vending machines) ? 300 (for coffee extracts only) ? 500 ? 750 ? 1 000 ?
2 000 ? 2 500 ? 3 000 ? 4 000 ? 5 000 ? 6 000 ? 7 000 ? 8 000 ? 9 000 ? 10 000