Commission Regulation (EC) No 46/2003 of 10 January 2003 amending the marketing standards for fresh fruit and vegetables as regards mixes of different types of fresh fruit and vegetables in the same sales package
Date: 2003-01-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: fresh fruit, fresh vegetable, marketing standard, packaging, sale

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 46/2003

of 10 January 2003

amending the marketing standards for fresh fruit and vegetables as regards mixes of different types
of fresh fruit and vegetables in the same sales package

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 of 28
October 1996 on the common organisation of the market in
fruit and vegetables (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
545/2002 (2), and in particular Article 2(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Under Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96, fresh
fruit and vegetables covered by marketing standards
adopted under Article 2 of
that Regulation may be
placed on sale, sold, delivered or marketed only where
they comply with those marketing standards. All those
standards lay down that all the products contained in
the same package must be of the same type.

Packages containing different types of fruit and vegeta-
bles are becoming more common on the market in
response to demand from certain consumers. All the
marketing standards for fresh fruit and vegetables should
therefore be amended to authorise this practice under
the terms of Commission Regulation (EC) No 48/2003
of 10 January 2003 laying down the rules applicable to
mixes of different types of fresh fruit and vegetables in
the same sales package (3).

(3)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Fresh Fruit and Vegetables,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following paragraph is added to point A (Uniformity) of
Title V (Provisions concerning presentation) in the Annex to
the Regulations listed in the Annex to this Regulation:

‘Notwithstanding the preceding provisions in this point,
products covered by this Regulation may be mixed, in sales
packages of a net weight of less than three kilograms, with
different types of fresh fruit and vegetables on the condi-
tions laid down by Commission Regulation (EC) No 48/
2003 (*).

(*) OJ L 7, 11.1.2003, p. 65.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the 20th day
following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 10 January 2003.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 84, 28.3.2002, p. 1.
(3) See page 65 of this Official Journal.

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ANNEX

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1292/81 (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1135/2001 (2).

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2213/83 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1508/2001 (4).

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 899/87 (5), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 843/2002 (6).

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1591/87 (7), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1135/2001.

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1677/88 (8), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 888/97 (9).

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 410/90 (10), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 888/97.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 831/97 (11), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1167/1999 (12).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1093/97 (13), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1615/2001 (14).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2288/97 (15).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 963/98 (16), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1135/2001.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 730/1999 (17).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1168/1999 (18), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 848/2000 (19).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1455/1999 (20), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2706/2000 (21).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2335/1999 (22).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2377/1999 (23).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2561/1999 (24), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 532/2001 (25).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2789/1999 (26), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 716/2001 (27).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 790/2000 (28), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 717/2001 (29).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 851/2000 (30).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 175/2001 (31).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 912/2001 (32).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1508/2001.

(1) OJ L 129, 15.5.1981, p. 38.
(2) OJ L 154, 9.6.2001, p. 9.
(3) OJ L 213, 4.8.1983, p. 13.
(4) OJ L 200, 25.7.2001, p. 14.
(5) OJ L 88, 31.3.1987, p. 17.
(6) OJ L 134, 22.5.2002, p. 24.
(7) OJ L 146, 6.6.1987, p. 36.
(8) OJ L 150, 16.6.1988, p. 21.
(9) OJ L 126, 17.5.1997, p. 11.
(10) OJ L 43, 17.2.1990, p. 22.
(11) OJ L 119, 8.5.1997, p. 13.
(12) OJ L 141, 4.6.1999, p. 4.
(13) OJ L 158, 17.6.1997, p. 21.
(14) OJ L 214, 8.8.2001, p. 21.
(15) OJ L 315, 19.11.1997, p. 3.
(16) OJ L 135, 8.5.1998, p. 18.
(17) OJ L 154, 9.6.2001, p. 9.
(18) OJ L 93, 8.4.1999, p. 14.
(19) OJ L 141, 4.6.1999, p. 5.
(20) OJ L 103, 28.4.2000, p. 9.
(21) OJ L 167, 2.7.1999, p. 22.
(22) OJ L 311, 12.12.2000, p. 35.
(23) OJ L 281, 4.11.1999, p. 11.
(24) OJ L 287, 10.11.1999, p. 6.
(25) OJ L 310, 4.12.1999, p. 7.
(26) OJ L 79, 17.3.2001, p. 21.
(27) OJ L 336, 29.12.1999, p. 13.
(28) OJ L 100, 11.4.2001, p. 9.
(29) OJ L 95, 15.4.2000, p. 24.
(30) OJ L 100, 11.4.2001, p. 11.
(31) OJ L 103, 28.4.2000, p. 22.
(32) OJ L 26, 27.1.2001, p. 24.

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Commission Regulation (EC) No 1543/2001 (1).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1615/2001 (2).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1619/2001 (3).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1799/2001 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 453/2002 (5).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2396/2001 (6).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 843/2002.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 982/2002 (7).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1284/2002 (8).

(1) OJ L 129, 11.5.2001, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 203, 28.7.2001, p. 9.
(3) OJ L 214, 8.8.2001, p. 21.
(4) OJ L 215, 9.8.2001, p. 3.
(5) OJ L 244, 14.9.2001, p. 12.
(6) OJ L 72, 14.3.2002, p. 9.
(7) OJ L 325, 8.12.2001, p. 11.
(8) OJ L 150, 8.6.2002, p. 45.