CELEX: 31976R1131
Language: en
Date: 1976-05-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1131/76 of 14 May 1976 amending Regulation (EEC) No 753/76 as regards certain rules for the denaturation of skimmed-milk powder

No L 127/42                                Official Journal of the European Communities                               15 . 5 . 76
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1131 /76
                                                           of 14 May 1976
                amending Regulation (EEC) No 753/76 as regards1 certain rules for the denatura
                                                   tion of skimmed-milk powder
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                                             Article 1
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          The text of Article 5 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No
563/76 of 15 March 1976 on the compulsory purchase                    753/76 is hereby amended to read as follows :
of skimmed-milk powder held by intervention agen­
cies for use in feedingstuffs ( J ), and in particular                     '4.     Without prejudice to Articles 10 and 11 of
Article 9 ( 1 ) thereof,                                                   Council Directive 70/524/EEC, of 23 November
                                                                           1970, the sacks, packagings and containers used
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 753/76 of                           for the transport and storage of the skimmed-milk
31 March 1976 laying down detailed rules for the sale                      powder which has been denatured or incorporated
of skimmed-milk powder for use in animal feed                              in a feedingstuff in accordance with Article 1 (2),
pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 563/76 (2), lays
down the conditions for denaturing skimmed-milk                            (a) shall indicate, by means of a roman number
powder sold pursuant to that Regulation ;                                       and a capital letter, the formula used for dena­
                                                                                turing or incorporation (formulae I A to I F
                                                                                and II A to II F) and
Whereas certain of these conditions should be
amended to take into account the market availabilities                     (b) shall mention, in the case of denaturation in
of certain binding agents, and to specify in the inter­                         accordance with the first indent of Article 1
ests of clarity that the provisions concerning the incor­                       (2), the composition of the denatured product.
poration of minimum quantities of binding agents in
no way exempts them from respecting other provi­
sions besides the said Regulation which concern                             The information referred to in (b) need, in the case
animal feed ; whereas this concerns especially the                          of a bulk product, only be stated in a signed docu­
 provisions of Council Directive 70/ 524/EEC of 23                          ment accompanying the denatured product until
 November 1970 concerning additives in feeding­                             the stage when it is used.'
 stuffs (3), as last amended by the thirteenth Commis­
 sion Directive 76/ 13/ EEC of 15 December 1975 (4) ;
 whereas, as regards the control of the denaturation,
 reference     should       be  made      to  Council   Directive                                Article 2
 70/373/ EEC of 20 July 1970 on the introduction of
 Community methods of sampling and analysis for the
 official control of feedingstuffs (5), as last amended by            Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 753/76 is hereby
 Council Directive 72/276/EEC of 20 July 1972 (6) ;                    amended as follows :
 Whereas certain material errors in the text of Regula­                1 . In Chapter 1 , 'Denaturing', under formulae I C and
 tion (EEC) No 753/76 which have been made in                              I F, for '250 g copper' read ' 150 g copper'.
 different languages should at the same time be
 corrected ;
                                                                       2. In Chapter 2, 'Denaturation by direct incorporation
                                                                           in animal feed', the Second sentence of the intro­
 Whereas the Management Committee for Milk and                             duction shall read as follows :
 Milk Products has not delivered an opinion within the
 time limit set by its Chairman,                                           (a) in the French text :
 (') OJ   No  L  67, 15. 3. 1976, p. 18 .                                       ' Dans celui-ci doivent en outre etre presents,
 (2) OJ   No  L  88 , 1 . 4. 1976, p. 1 .                                       exprimés ci-dessous en pourcentage ou en ppm
 (3) OJ   No  L  270, 14. 12. 1970, p. 1 .                                      sur le produit fini, les constituants et les
 (4) OJ   No  L  4, 9 . 1 . 1976, p. 21 .
 (5) OJ   No  L  170, 3. 8 . 1970, p. 2.                                        additifs suivants (quantités minimales), incor­
 h) OJ No L 171 , 29. 7. 1972, p. 39.                                            porés selon l'une des formules ci-après :'
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   (b) in the Danish text :                                            sulphate read in each case 'iron, in the form of
        'Foderet      skal desuden   indeholde,   herefter             heptahydrate ferrous sulphate'
        udtrykt i procent eller i ppm af det færdige               (b) under formulae I E, I F, II D, II E and II F, for
        produkt, følgende bestanddele og tilsætning­                   'dehydrated grass meal and/or dehydrated
        sstoffer (mindstemængder), tilsat i henhold til                alfalfa meal' read in each case 'grass meal
        en af de nævnte formler                                        and/or alfalfa meal'.
   (c) in the Italian text :
                                                                4. The text of Chapter 3, 'General prescriptions
         Nonché, qui di seguito espressi in percentuale            concerning denaturing and         incorporation'   is
        o in ppm sul prodotto finito, i costituenti e gli          replaced by the text set out in the Annex hereto.
        additivi sotto specificati (quantitativi minimi)
        incorporati secondo una delle formule segu­
        enti :'.                                                                        Article 3
3. In Chapters 1 and 2                                          This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
   (a) under formulae I B to I F and II A to II F, for          publication in the Official Journal of the European
        'iron, as anhydrous or heptahydrate ferrous             Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 14 May 1976.
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                             P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                      Member of the Commission
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                                                          ANNEX
          3. GENERAL PRESCRIPTIONS CONCERNING DENATURING AND INCORPORA­
                                                           TION
          A. It is not permitted to submit skimmed-milk powder in its natural state or after denaturation to a
              chemical or physical process capable of weakening or neutralizing the effects of denaturing given
              in the formulae specified in Chapters 1 and 2, especially by the use of binding agents.
              Anticaking and flowing agents may be used, for the application of the formulae referred to in
              Chapter I and in addition to the products mentioned, when incorporated to a level of 2 % in the
              mixture of skimmed-milk powder and its denaturing agents.
          B. Fish meal, referred to in formulae I A and I B, must have at least 30 % of its particles less than
              300 microns in size .
              Iron sulphate referred to in formulae I B, I C, I E and I F must have at least 30 % of its particles
              less than 250 microns in size. Copper sulphate referred to in the same formulae must have at
              least 30 % of its particles less than 200 microns in size.
              Starch and carboxymethylcellulose, referred to in formulae I D, I E and I F, must have at least
              50 % of its particles less than 80 microns in size.
              Ground cereals and oil-seed cake, referred to in formula I D, as well as crude fibre in whatever
              form referred to the same formula, must have a minimum of 50 % of its particles of less than
              500 microns in size.
              Grass meal and alfalfa meal, referred to in formulae I E and I F, must contain at least 50 % of
              particles not exceeding 300 microns in size.
              When skimmed-milk powder is denatured in the United Kingdom, the BS 410-1969 standards
              are readily available, and the nearest equivalent standards to the maximum or the minimum
              given for the particle size can be used.
              Ground cereals, referred to in formula I D, means a product that has been fully milled from a
              mixture of oats and barley or from a mixture of other cereals suitable only for animal feeding, or
              from cereals by-products, increased if necessary by added crude fibre to give a minimum crude
              fibre content in dry matter of at least 8-0 % .
              Oil-seed cakes specified in formula I D, increased, if necessary, by added crude fibre to give a
              minimum crude fibre content in dry matter of at least 8-0 % .
              Grass meal and alfalfa meal respectively must hive at least a minimum crude fibre content in dry
              matter of 20 % and 15 % .
              Carboxymethylcellulose, referred to in formula I D, I E and I F, having a molecular weight of
              200 000 to 500 000 and at least a 95 % level of purity, must have a total degree of substitution
              between 0-6 and 1-0 (x = 2 to 2-4 ; y = 0-6 to 1 ).
               Fish oil and fish liver oil, referred to in formulae I C and II C, must have a free fatty acids
               content expressed in oleic acid of at least 7
           C. The minimum quantities of the products I              porated in the skimmed-milk powder, given
               in formulae I A to I F and II A to II F, ar          hout prejudice to other provisions relating to
               the maximum quantitities of additives wh               contained in animal feed, and in particular
               the provisions laid down in Council Dir               24/EEC of 23 November 1970 concerning
               additives in feedingstuffs.
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        D. The products given in formulae I A to I F must be distributed in a uniform manner so that in
           two individual samples of 50 g, drawn at random from a 25 kg package, there is contained — by
           chemical determination — the same results as above within tolerable error limits set by the
           method of analysis used.
           The provisions adopted pursuant to Council Directive 70/373/EEC of 20 July 1970 on the intro­
           duction, of Community methods of sampling and analysis for the official control of feedingstuffs,
           shall apply for the control of denaturation.