CELEX: 31976R1621
Language: en
Date: 1976-06-22 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1621/76 of 22 June 1976 laying down the minimum requirements as regards intervention for common wheat of bread-making quality

No L 180 /4                             Official Journal of the European Communities                              6 . 7. 76
                                      COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 1621 /76
                                                        of 22 June 1976
              laying down the minimum requirements as regards intervention for common
                                                wheat of bread-making quality
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                        baking test ; whereas when determing the minimum
COMMUNITIES,                                                       requirements for bread-making for the 1976/77
                                                                   marketing year, it will suffice to retain only the first
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              part of that test which relates to the sticking proper­
Economic Community,                                                ties of the dough,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tion of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1 143/76 (2 ), and in particular                                       Article 1
Article 4 (3) thereof,
                                                                   As regards the 1976/77 marketing year, common
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,                wheat shall meet the minimum requirements for
Whereas, as regards the 1976/77 marketing year, the                bread-making if it conforms to the standard quality
single intervention price for common wheat shall                   adopted in accordance with Article 3 (6) of Regulation
apply to common wheat of which the standard quality                ( EEC) No 2727/75 and if the dough obtained from
is supplemented by certain criteria relating to the                such wheat does not stick during the mechanical
minimum requirements for bread-making ; whereas                    kneading process .
such criteria must be fixed by the Council ;
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas a group of experts from various laboratories
in the European Community has drawn up a report                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
based on a series of experiments which were under­                  following its publication in the Official Journal of
taken to determine the characteristics of a European                the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Luxembourg, 22 June 1976 .
                                                                               For the Council
                                                                                 The President
                                                                                 J. HAMILIUS
 (>) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
 (2 ) OJ No L 130 , 19 . 5 . 1976, p. 1 .