CELEX: 51986PC0704
Language: en
Date: 1986-12-10
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE AMENDING DIRECTIVE 76/116/EEC IN RESPECT OF FLUID FERTILIZERS

16. 1. 87                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                               No C 12/3
                Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 76/116/EEC in respect of fluid fertilizers
                                                         COM(86) 704 final
                                (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 16 December 1986)
                                                            (87/C 12/03)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES;                                 conditions laid down by the Directive and by Annexes
                                                                         I to III thereof.'
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 100                     2. The following paragraph 3 is added to Article 4:
thereof,
                                                                         '3.    Fluid fertilizers may only be marketed if
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                       directions for their correct storage are provided, in
                                                                         particular with regard to storage temperature.'
Having regard         to   the   opinion   of   the   European
Parliament,                                                           3. Chapter 'C — Fluid fertilizers' contained in Annex I
                                                                         to this Directive is added to Annex I.
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
                                                                      4. The following is inserted after the second sub-
Social Committee,
                                                                         paragraph in point 1. c) of Annex II:
Whereas         Council      Directive     76/116/EEC         of         'The additional information on the fertilizing
18 December 1975 on the approximation of the laws of                     components of fluid fertilizers may be expressed in
the Member States relating to fertilizers ('), as last                   terms of weight versus volume (kg per hectolitre or
amended by the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal,                   grams per litre).
laid down rules governing the marketing of solid ferti-                  Quantities of a fluid fertilizer shall be expressed by
lizers; whereas it has proved necessary to extend the                    mass. The expression of quantities of fluid fertilizers
scope of this Directive to cover fluid fertilizers;                      by volume shall be optional.'
Whereas Directive 76/116/EEC is also applicable to                    5. The following products and tolerances are added
fluid fertilizers, and in particular the designation 'EEC                under A.I in Annex III:
fertilizer' for fertilizers meeting the definition and having
                                                                         '— Nitrogen fertilizer solution                 0,6 %
the composition of simple and compound fertilizers set
out in this Directive,                                                    — Ammonium nitrate — urea solution             0,6 % '
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:                                                                     Article 2
                                                                      1.     Member States shall implement the measures
                             Article 1                                necessary for compliance with this Directive at the latest
                                                                      by 31 December 1987. They shall forthwith inform the
Directive 76/116/EEC is hereby amended as follows:
                                                                      Commission thereof.
 1. Article 2 is replaced by the following:
                                                                      2.     Member States shall communicate to the
     'Article 2                                                       Commission the texts of any national provisions that
                                                                      they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.
    Member States shall take all the necessary measures
    to ensure that the designation "EEC fertilizer" is used                                     Article 3
    only for fertilizers belonging to one of the fertilizer
    types listed in Annex I and complying with the                    This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
 0) OJ No L 24, 30. 1. 1976, p. 21.
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                                        containing ammonium nitrate       nitrogen, consisting of approxi-                               nitrogen. If the biuret content
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