CELEX: 51978PC0060
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Date: 1978-02-15
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)60  final
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                                   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)
C0::(78 ) 60 final
 ---pagebreak---                       Explanatory Me m orandum .
 Council Reflation (ESC ) NO , 2^6"/"]$ lays down coraraon standards for the
 extraneous water content of frozen and deep fro7en chickens , hens and cocks .
 The da termination of the water content of frozen birds is to be carried out
 by the application of one of two methods of chemical analysis in the Annexes
 ( III & IV ) of the Regulation . Technical problems have arisen in the application
 practice of these methods and the degree of correspondence between the results
 obtained . The problems are such that they corrnot be resolved by the 1st . March
 1978 , present date for the entry into force of the control methods . A postponement
of the date of application of the Council Regulation until 1st . October , 1978 iff
 proposed. (Certain other connected dates are changed also .)
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 ---pagebreak---                                     PROPOSITION FOR
                 COUNCIL REGULATION (SEC )
          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 OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) No 2777/75 of 29 October 1975 on
the common organization of the market in poultrymeat ( l ) , as amended by Regu­
lation (EEC ) No 369/76 ( 2 ), and in particular           Article 2 ( 2 ) thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas the implementation of the control measures provided for in 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 amended by Regulation (EEC ) No 1691/77 (4 ), is nieeting administrative
difficulties ; whereas the entry into application of such measures
 should therefore be postponed ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                     Article 1
1« In "the second ' subparagraph of Article l(l ) of Regulation ( 3ZC) - To
     2967/7 6, the date '1 July 1978 1 is replaced by *1 July 1979' .
 2• In the third paragraph of Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 2967/76 , the
     date '1 October 1978'          is     replaced by *1 March 1979' •
 3. In the second paragraph of Article 10 of Regulation (EEC ) No 2967/76 , the
      date '1 march 1978 *     is -     replaced by'l October 1978 .
 (1)  O.J. No  L 282 ,   loll . 1975 ,  P.  77 .
 (2)  O.J. No  L   45 , 21o 2.1976 ,    p.   3.
  3)  O.J. No  L 339 ,   8.12.1976 ,    p.   1.
  4)  O.J. No  L  188 , 28 . 7.1977 ,   P-  10 .
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                        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 Council
                                               The President