Commission Regulation (EC) No 1557/2004 of 1 September 2004 approving operations to check conformity to the marketing standards applicable to certain fresh fruit carried out in New Zealand prior to import into the Community
Date: 2004-09-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Community certification, New Zealand, food inspection, fresh fruit, marketing standard, originating product, quality label

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1557/2004

of 1 September 2004

approving operations to check conformity to the marketing standards applicable to certain fresh
fruit carried out in New Zealand prior to import into the Community

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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), and in particular Article 10 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1148/2001
of 12 June 2001 on checks on conformity to the
marketing standards applicable to fresh fruit and vege-
tables (2) lays down the conditions for the approval of
checking operations performed by certain third countries
which so request prior to import into the Community.

On 30 April 2004, the New Zealand authorities sent the
the approval of checking
Commission a request
for
the
operations performed under the responsibility of
New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA)
for
apples, pears and kiwi fruit. Inspections of apples, pears
and kiwi fruit, aiming to determine conformity to the
marketing standards are undertaken either by Industry
Grade Inspection staff who are audited by NZFSA-
recognised auditors, or directly by NZFSA-recognised
submitted by New
auditors/inspectors. The
Zealand states
aforementioned inspection
bodies have the necessary staff, equipment and facilities
to carry out checks, that they use methods equivalent to
those referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No
1148/2001 and that the fresh fruit belonging to the
aforementioned species exported from New Zealand to
the Community meet
the Community marketing
standards.

request

that

the

(3)

incidence

The information sent by the Member States to the
Commission shows that,
in the period 1997 to 2003,
of non-conformity with marketing
the
standards among imports from New Zealand of fresh
fruit and vegetables in general and those species for
which the request was submitted in particular was very
low.

Representatives of
the New Zealand authorities have
participated in international efforts to agree marketing
standards for fruit and vegetables within the Working
Party on Standardisation of Perishable Produce and
Quality Development of the United Nations Economic
Commission for Europe
(UNECE). Moreover, New
Zealand participates in the Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) Scheme for the
Application of
for Fruit and
International Standards
Vegetables.

Checks on conformity carried out by New Zealand
should therefore be approved with effect from the date
of
the administrative cooperation
procedure provided for in Article 7(8) of Regulation
(EC) No 1148/2001.

implementation of

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

(5)

(6)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Checks on conformity to the marketing standards applicable to
apples, pears and kiwi fruit carried out by New Zealand prior to
import into the Community are hereby approved in accordance
with Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1148/2001.

Article 2

Details of the official authority and inspection body in New
Zealand, as referred to in the second subparagraph of Article
7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1148/2001, are given in Annex I to
this Regulation.

Article 3

The certificates referred to in the second subparagraph of Article
7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1148/2001,
issued following the
checks referred to in Article 1 of this Regulation, must be
drawn up on forms in conformity with the model set out in
Annex II to this Regulation.

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 47/2003 (OJ L 7, 11.1.2003,
p. 64).

(2) OJ L 156, 13.6.2001, p. 9. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 408/2003 (OJ L 62, 6.3.2003, p. 8).

It shall apply from the date of publication in the C series of the
Official Journal of the European Union of the notice referred to in
Article 7(8) of Regulation (EC) No 1148/2001, relating to the
establishment of
cooperation between the
Community and New Zealand.

administrative

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

Done at Brussels, 1 September 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission

ANNEX I

Official authority referred to in Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1148/2001:

Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

New Zealand Food Safety Authority

68-86 Jervois Quay, PO Box 2835

Wellington

New Zealand

Tel. (64-4) 463 2500

Fax (64-4) 463 2675

E-mail: nzfsa.info@nzfsa.govt.nz

Inspection body referred to in Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1148/2001:

New Zealand Food Safety Authority

68-86 Jervois Quay, PO Box 2835

Wellington

New Zealand

Tel. (64-4) 463 2500

Fax (64-4) 463 2675

E-mail: nzfsa.info@nzfsa.govt.nz

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Model certificate referred to in Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1148/2001

ANNEX II

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