CELEX: 51987PC0125
Language: en
Date: 1987-03-19
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 2731/75 FIXING STANDARD QUALITIES FOR COMMON WHEAT, RYE, BARLEY, MAIZE AND DURUM WHEAT

No C 102/10                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                                    15. 4. 87
                                                                     II
                                                             (Preparatory Acts)
                                                       COMMISSION
               Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 2731/75 fixing standard
                                   qualities for common wheat, rye, barley, maize and durum wheat
                                                            COM(87) 125 final
                                    (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 25 March 1987)
                                                              (87/C 102/10)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                    1) Physical quality criteria:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                           (a) durum wheat of a sound and fair marketable
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                                    quality, free from abnormal smell and live
thereof,                                                                            pests, amber yellow to brown in colour, with a
                                                                                    vitreous    section    of   translucent,    horny
                                                                                    appearance;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common orga-                                  (b) total percentage of matter other than durum
nization of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by                           wheat grains of unimpaired quality: 25 % , of
Regulation (EEC) No                  , and in particular Article 3                  which:
(5) thereof,
                                                                                    — percentage of durum wheat grains which
                                                                                        have wholly or partly lost their vitreous
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                                        aspect (mitadine): 20 %,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia-                                — percentage of broken grains: 2 %,
ment,                                                                               — percentage of grain impurities: 2 % ("grain
                                                                                        impurities" means shrivelled grains, grains
Whereas, in view of the increase in production and                                      damaged      by pests, grains        showing
consumption of durum wheat, more stringent quality                                      discoloration of the germ, mottled grains,
conditions must be applied for the purposes of                                          grains affected with fusariosis and grains
intervention; whereas this implies modification of the                                  overheated during drying),
standard quality; whereas, therefore, the requirements                              — percentage of sprouted grains: 0,5 %,
relating to moisture content and specific weight for
durum wheat should be reinforced and technological                                  — percentage of miscellaneous impurities:
criteria should be included in the definition of the                                    0,5 % ("miscellaneous impurities" means
standard quality for that cereal,                                                       extraneous seeds, damaged grains, extra-
                                                                                        neous matter, husks, ergot, decayed grains,
                                                                                        dead insects and fragments of insects);
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                                    (c) specific weight: 80 kilogrames per hectolitre;
                                                                                (d) moisture content: 13 °/o.
                               Article 1
                                                                            2) Technological quality criteria:
Regulation (EEC) No 2731/75 (2) is hereby amended as
follows:                                                                        (a) protein content (N x 5,7)         not  less   than
                                                                                    12,5 % of dry matter;
1. Article 5 is replaced by the following:                                      (b) gluten content not less than 8,75 % of dry
                                                                                    matter;
     Article 5                                                                  (c) Hagberg falling number not less than 250,
                                                                                    including 60 seconds preparation (agitation)
    The standard quality for which the target price and
                                                                                    time.'
    the intervention price for durum wheat are fixed is
    defined as follows:
                                                                         2. In Article 6, point (b) is replaced by the following:
                                                                            '(b) the methods required for determining:
0) O J N o L 2 8 1 , 1. 11. 1975, p. 1.                                           — matter other than basic cereals of unimpaired
O OJ No L 281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 22.                                                   quality,
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        — moisture content,                                                For durum wheat,
        — durum wheat grains which have lost their                         — mottled grains: are grains which show brown
            vitreous aspects,                                                  to brownish black discoloration on parts
        — tannia content,                                                      other than the germ,
        — the machinability of the dough,
                                                                           — grains affected with fusariosis: are grains
        — the protein content,                                                 whose pericarp is contaminated with Fusarium
        — the gluten content,                                                  mycelium; such grains look slightly shrivelled,
        — the Zeleny index,                                                    wrinkled and have pink or white diffuse
        — the Hagberg falling number,                                          patches with an ill-defined outline.'
        shall be drawn up in accordance with the
        procedure laid down in Article 26 of Regulation           5. In the Annex, the following point is added:
        (EEC) No 2727/75.'                                            '6. Grains which      have    lost their vitreous aspect
                                                                          (mitadine)
3. In the Annex, at point 2 (b), the second sentence is
   deleted.                                                               Mitadine grains of durum wheat are grains whose
                                                                          kernel cannot be regarded as entirely vitreous.'
4. In the Annex, point 2 (d) is replaced by the following:
    'Annex                                                                                   Article 2
   (d) Grains showing discoloration of the germ,
                                                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
        mottled grains and grains affected with fusariosis.
                                                                  following its publication in the Official Journal of the
        Grains showing discoloration of the germ are              European Communities.
        those of which the tegument is coloured brown
        to brownish black and of which the germ is                It shall apply with effect from 1 July 1987.
        normal and not sprouting. For common wheat,
        grains showing discoloration of the germ are              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
        disregarded up to 8 %.                                    directly applicable in all Member States.