CELEX: 31976R1353
Language: en
Date: 1976-06-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1353/76 of 11 June 1976 on the qualities of durum wheat for which aid may be granted under the system of aid for durum wheat for the 1976/77 marketing year and amending Regulation (EEC) No 1257/76

No L 153/ 34                              Official Journal of the European Communities                             12. 6 . 76
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1353/76
                                                          of 11 June 1976
              on the qualities of durum wheat for which aid may be granted under the system
              of aid for durum wheat for the 1976/77 marketing year and amending Regula­
                                                      tion (EEC) No 1257/76
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       mining factor in those tests is the stickiness of the
COMMUNITIES,                                                         pasta product obtained therefrom when cooked ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                Whereas, although it has normal physical qualities,
Economic Community,                                                  such a variety may prove unsuitable for the manufac­
                                                                     ture of pasta products owing in particular to the elasti­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         city of the gluten thereof which makes the pasta
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                   product obtained therefrom sticky when cooked ;
tion of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by                whereas such a variety should therefore be excluded
Regulation (EEC) No 11 43/76 (2), and in particular                  from the granting of aid ;
Article 10(5) thereof,
                                                                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Whereas it is difficult to compile the list of varieties             are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                     ment Committee for Cereals,
provided for in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No
1 257/76 (3) owing to the differences between the
national catalogues of varieties and the Common Cata­
logue of Varieties of Agricultural Plant Species ;
whereas the abovementioned list should therefore not                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
be compiled for the 1976/77 marketing year ;
Whereas the criteria for determining the qualitative                                         Article 1
and technological characteristics were laid down in
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1147/76 of 17 May                        Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1257/76 is hereby
1976 on aid for durum wheat (4) ; whereas those                      amended to read as follows :
characteristics must guarantee that the durum wheat
can be processed into meal or pasta products while at                     'Aid shall be granted only for durum wheat
the same time meeting certain requirements for                            produced from the seed of varieties with certain
purposes of human consumption ;                                           qualitative and technological characteristics to be
                                                                          determined before 15 June 1976.'
Whereas, on the one hand, with regard to the physical
qualities, durum wheat for which aid may be granted
must fulfil the minimum conditions for taking over                                            Article 2
by intervention agencies as laid down in Commision
Regulation (EEC) No 1492/71 of 14 July 1971 (5), as                  For the 1976/77 marketing year, the aid provided for
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 422/72 (6) ;                   in Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 may be
                                                                     granted for durum wheat :
Whereas, on the other hand, no definitive method
which is valid at Community level has yet been formu­                — if it fulfils the minimum quality conditions for
lated for distinguishing between those varieties of                       taking over by intervention agencies laid down in
durum wheat which are suitable for processing into                        Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1492/71 ,
pasta products and those which are unsuitable ;                      — if it is produced from varieties used in the
whereas, however, tests in the Member States have
                                                                          Member States in respect of which the latter can
proved with certainty that there is in the Community                      guarantee that the pasta obtained from the
a variety called 'Durtal' which does not always have                       processing thereof is not sticky when cooked.
the characteristics required by the abovementioned
Regulation ; whereas the most representative and deter­
                                                                                              Article 3
(•) OJ No   L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No   L 130 , 19 . 5 . 1976, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No   L 143,  1 . 6. 1976, p. 1 .                               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
(4) OJ No   L 130,  19 . 5. 1976, p. 11 .
(5) OJ No   L 157,  14. 7. 1971 , p. 18 .                             following its publication in the Official Journal of
(6) OJ No   L 151 , 5 . 7 . 1972, p. 15 .                             the European Communities.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States .
          Done at Brussels, 11 June 1976.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                             Member of the Commission