CELEX: 51978PC0346
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Date: 1978-07-14
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 2967/76 laying down common standards for the water content of frozen and deep-frozen chickens, hens and cocks (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                    COM(78)346 final.
                                                    Brussels . 14 July 1978
                               Proposal for a
                          COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC ) •
   amending Regulation (EEC ) NO 2967/76 laying down common standards
        for the water content of frozen and deep-frozen chickens ,
                                hens and cocks
               ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission)
 COM (78 ) 346 final .
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                                Explanatory ilcmorandum
In the course of examining a draft Council regulation amending Regulation ( EEC )
2967/76 , the special Committee for Agriculture       agreed that the Council would
review , on a proposition from the Commission , the conditions of applying the
analytical method provided for in Annex IV of this Regulation .
This proposal by the Commission , prepared in the light of data and of complementary
scientific work , in addition to that requested by the Council , is the subject of
the attached draft regulation .
It aupears that the determination of results using the method provided for in Annex
IV can lead to differences of interpretation which should be avoided .
Consequently, the Commission proposes that Annex IV of Regulation ( EEC ) No . 2967 /76
is withdrawn .
This proposition could be amalgamated with those already before the Council concerning
the water content of frozen fowl , ( r/1737/771 ( AGRI 475 - rev. l ) and doc . 5/241/78 -
( CSA 41 ) ) •
 ---pagebreak---                                         Proposal for
                                 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC )
                      amending Regulation (EEC ) NO 2967/76 laying
                      down common standards for the water content
                      of frozen and deep-frozen chickens , hens
                                          and cocks
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) No 2977/75           29 October 1975 °n
the common organization of the market in poultrymeat ( 1 ), as amended "by
Regulation (EEC ) No 369/76 ( 2 ), and in particular to Article 2 (2 ) thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC ) No 2967/76 of 23 November 1976 laying down
common standards for the water content of frozen and deep-frozen chickens ,
hens and cocks (3 ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC ) NO 361 /78 (4), provides
that two chemical methods of control of water content in these products may
be used , the choice being made by the Member States ;
Whereas these two methods were described in Annexes III and IV to Regulation
 (EEC ) No 2967/76 ;
Whereas an evaluation of the first results obtained from applying these methods
led to further research in specialized laboratories ;
Whereas this research has shown that the matter in which the method described
 in Annex IV is applied leads to considerable differences in the results
established ;
Whereas the situation must be avoided where these differences cast doubt on the
 efficiency of the method and lead to litigation by the industry or by consumers
 ( 1 ) OJ No
          No LL 282
                2S2 ,, 1.11.1975
                        1.11.1975 ,, P.
                                     P 77 .
 ( 2 ) OJ No L 45 , 21.2.1976 , p. 3 .
 ( 3 ) OJ No L 339 , 8.12.1976 , p.  p 1.
 (4 ) OJ No L 52 , 23.2.1978 ,. p. 1 .                                          • • • /•
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas Annex IV of Regulation .(EEC )     2967/76 should "be . repealed and the
appropriate amendments should be made to the Reguxationj
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                    Article 1
    Regulation (EEC ) Ho 2967/76 is hereby amended as follows?
1 . In Article 1 ( l), in the first subparagraph , the words "the methods of
    analysis described in Annexes III and I?" shall read "the method of
    analysis described in Annex III";
    in the third subparagraph , , the words "the test methods set out in
    Annexes III and IV" shall read "the method of analysis described in
    Annex III".        ■
2 . In the second subparagraph of Article 4 (0 the words "one of the methods
    of analysis described in Annexes III and IV , the choice "being made "by the
    Member State" shall read "the method of analysis described in Annex III".
3 . In the first subparagraph of Article 4(2 ) the words "one of the methods
    described in Annexes III and IV , the choice being made by the Member
    State" shall read "the method of analysis described in Annex III".
4. In the second subparagraph of Article 4(2 ) the words "one of the methods
    of analysis described in Annexes III and IV" shall read " the method of
    analysis described in Annex III".
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5 . The first and second subparagraphs of Article 8 are deleted .
6 . Annex IV is repealed.
                                    Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following 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 ,                                         For the
                                                           For   the Council
                                                                     Council
                                                           The President