CELEX: 31972R2335
Language: en
Date: 1972-10-31 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2335/72 of the Commission of 31 October 1972 implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1349/72 on the production and marketing of eggs for hatching and of farmyard poultry chicks

32                             Official Journal of the European Communities
   8.11.72                        Official Journal of the European Communities                    No L 252/1
                      REGULATION (EEC) No 2335/72 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                of 31 October 1972
                implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1349/72 on the production and
                         marketing of eggs for hatching and of farmyard poultry chicks
   THE    COMMISSION     OF THE EUROPEAN . COM­              should be published in the .Official Journal of
   MUNITIES, .                                               the European Communities ;
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the              Whereas Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No
   European Economic Community;                              1349/72 provides that the distinguishing mark
                                                             for eggs wfych are not marked before incuba­
   Having regard to Council Regulation No                    tion and are marketed as industrial eggs must
   122/67/EEC1 of 13 June 1967 on the common                 be specified;
   organisation of the market in eggs, as last
   amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1261/72,2                  Whereas statistics on which short-term and
   and in particular Article 15 thereof; '                   long-term forecasts are based must be compar­
                                                             able; whereas to this end the form of monthly
   Having regard to Council Regulation No                   .returns from Member States should be harmo­
   123/67/EEC3 of '13 June 1967 on the common                nised; whereas this would be facilitated by the
   organisation of the market in poultrymeat, ^s             use of a    standard return form where the
   last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2727/71 ,4            administrative machinery of a Member State
, and in particular Article 15 thereof;                      is such that the essential information cannot be .
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC)                 collected in any other way;
   No 1349/725 of 27 June 1972 on the production             Whereas it is for each Member State to provide
   and marketing of eggs for hatching and of                 for the penalties to be imposed for infringe­
   farmyard poultry chicks, and in particular                ments of these provisions;
   Article 17 thereof; '
                                                             Whereas, to ensure that Regulation (EEC)
   Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1349/72 laid                  No 1349/72 is uniformly applied, provision
   down certain rules for the production and                 should be made for a regular flow of informa­
   marketing of eggs for hatching and of farmyard            tion between the Member States and the Com­
   poultry chicks; whereas, if these rules are to be         mission;          '.
   applied, implementing provisions must be
   adopted, in particular as regards the allocation          Whereas the measures provided for in this
   of distinguishing numbers, the markings to be             Regulation are in accordance with the Opinion
   made on eggs and the communications neces­                of the Management Committee for Poultrymeat
 ' sary;                                                     and Eggs;
   Whereas each establishment must be given a
   registration number based on a code so drawn
   up in each Member State that it is possible
   to    determine   the    activities in which the          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
   establishment is engaged; whereas, so that this
   code may be available to all concerned, it
                                                                                  Article 1
   1 OJ No 117, 1.9.6.1967, p. 2293/67.                      1 . All applications for registration shall be
   2 OJ No L 132, 18.6.1971 , p. 1 .                         addressed, to the competent authority of the
   3 OJ No 117, 19.6.1967, p. 2301/67.
   4 OJ No L 282; 23.12.1971 , p. 8 .                        Member State in whose territory the establish­
   5 OJ No L 148, 30.6.1972, p. 7.                           ment is located. This authority shall allocate
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to the establishment a distinguishing number           It shall be sent by the Member States not later
comprising the capital letters                         than the 20th of each month .
B for Belgium, D for Germany,
F for France, I for Italy,                                                 Article 5
L for Luxembourg and NL for the Netherlands,
                                                       Member States who do not have the necessary
followed by an identifying number so allocated         administrative machinery for collecting the
that it is possible to determine the activity in       information required under Article 9 (1) of
which the establishment is engaged.                    Regulation (EEC) No 1349/72 from hatcheries
                                                       shall use the standard return form (part I)
                                                       shown in Annex I.
2.     The Member States shall, before 1 Novem­
ber 1972, inform the Commission of the code
used in allocating distinguishing numbers by
which the activity in which the establishment                              Article 6
is engaged can be determined.
                                                       The markings to be made on packings and
The Commission shall publish in the Official           tapes shall be made in indelible black ink in
Journal of the European Communities the code           letters or figures at least 20 mm high and
used by each Member State.                             10 mm wide, drawn at least 1 mm thick.
                     Article 2
                                                                           Article 7
1.     Eggs for hatching shall be marked indi­
vidually in indelible black ink. The letters or        Member States shall take all measures necessary
figures shall be at least 2 mm high and 1 mm           to penalize infringements of the provisions of
thick.                                                 the Regulations relating to the production and
                                                       marketing of eggs for hatching and of farmyard
                                                       poultry chicks.
2.     The tape provided for in Article 5 (2) of
Regulation (EEC) No 1349/72 shall be green
and shall be of a standard form determined
by the competent authority. Each Member                                    Article 8  •
State exercising the power conferred by the
same paragraph shall, before 1 November 1972,          The application of Regulation (EEC) No 1349/72
send a specimen of such standard tape to the           in the Member States shall be reviewed regularly
other Member States and to the Commission.             in accordance with the procedure laid down in
                                                       Article 18 of Regulation Nos 122/67/EEC and
The tape must be affixed in such a way that            123/67/EEC.
none of the particulars on the packing is
totally or partially concealed.
                                                                           Article 9
                     Article 3
                                                       Before 30 January of each year, and for the
Eggs for hatching which are not marked before          first time before 30 January 1974, the Member
being incubated and are marketed as industrial         States shall send to the Commission a list of
eggs shall bear a green circle of a diameter of        hatcheries drawn up on the standard form set
at least 12 mm, drawn at least 3 mm thick.             out in Annex II .
                     Article 4                                            Article 10
The standard return form of the monthly                Until 30 November 1974 the standard return
summary provided for in Article 10 of Regula­          form provided for in Article 4 shall be sent not
tion (EEC) No 1349/2 is shown in the Annex.            later than the 30th of each month.
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                 Article 11 '                                           Article 12
On 1 February 1973, the following shall be          The arrangements introduced by this Regulation
added to the list in Article 1 (1): DK for          shall apply from 1 December 1972.
Denmark, EIR for Ireland and UK for the
United Kingdom.
          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
          Member States .
          Done at Brussels, 31 October 1972.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                      The President
                                                                    S. L. MANSHOLT
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                                                                    ANNEX 1
              Monthly summary of production and marketing of eggs for hatching and of farmyard
                                                                 poultry chicks
        Country:                    •                   Month :                                      Years :                1000 units
                                                                      PART I
A. Eggs for hatching                           Cocks, hens , chickens                  Ducks           Geese         Turkeys       Guinea-fowl
    placed in incubation
                                      Laying            Meat            Mixed
    Grandparent, parent
    and utility1
B. How chicks are used                         Cocks, hens , chickens                  Ducks           Geese         Turkeys       Guinea-fowl
                                      Laying            Meat            Mixed
    Grandparent and
    parent females
    Utility females for
    laying                                       X                              XX X X
                               X
                                                                                                 !xxx
    Males and females
    for fattening
    Cockerels for sexing
    — grandparent —
    parent — laying
                                                         Ύ
                                                                                x
1 Where possible Member States shall distinguish between grandparent, parent and utility.
                                                                    PART II
                                                           External trade in chicks
    Imports from third                         Cocks , hens, chickens                  Ducks           Geese         Turkeys       Guinea-fowl
    countries
                                      Laying            Meat           Mixed
    Grandparent and
    parent females                                                                  •                                              ■
    Utility                                                                       -                -
                                                                                                                                 .
    Exports to third                          Cocks, hens , chickens                   Ducks           Geese         Turkeys      Guinea-fowl
    countries
    Grandparent and
                                      Laying            Meat           Mixed
                                                                                                                \/
    parent females                                                                  •                •
                                                                                                                A                  ■
    Utility
 To be sent to:            1 . Directorate General for Agriculture                      2 . Statistical Office of the
                                Division for Poultry Products                               European Communities,
                                B - 1040 Brussels                                           Agricultural Statistics,
                                rue de la Loi 200                                           Luxembourg 1
                                                                                            Centre Louvigny
                                                                                            P.O. Box 1907
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                                                              ANNEX II
                                        STRUCTURE AND UTILISATION OF HATCHERIES
                The table covers only those hatcheries which were operating in the previous year.
                Multiple activity hatcheries are to be included under each type of poultry actually produced.
Country:                                             Region1:                                      Year:
                                                                            Cocks, hens, chickens
   Capacity for each size classification         Number2             Capacity2                        Utilisation3
                                                                                            Laying       Meat            Mixed
  1 001 to     10 000
 10 001 to    20 000
 20 001 to    50 000
 50 001 to 100 000
100 001 to 200 000
more than 200 000
                              Total
                                                            Ducks                                        Geese
                                              Number       Capacity2    Utilisation3        Number     Capacity2        Utilisation3
  1 001 to      2 000
  2 001 to      5 000
  5 001 to     10 000
 10 001 to     20 000
 20 001 to     50 000
 50 001 to 100 000
100 001 to 200 000
more than 200 000
                              Total
                                                                                                                (cont'd overleaf)
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                                                              ANNEX 11 {cont'd)
                                                                 Turkeys                                     Guinea-fowl
    Capacity for each size classification
                                                   Number        Capacity2 Utilisation3        Number         Capacity2  Utilisation3
   1 001 to      2 000
   2 001 to      5 000
   5 001 to     10 000
  10 001 to    20 000
  20 001 to 50 000
  50 001 to 100 000
 100 001 to 200 000
more than 200 000
                               Total
To be sent to:                   1 . Directorate-General for Agriculture             2 . Statistical Office of the
                                      Division for Poultry Products                      European Communities,
                                      B - 1040 Brussels                                  Agricultural Statistics,
                                      rue de la Loi 200                                  Luxembourg 1
                                                                                         Centre Louvigny
                                                                                         P.O. Box 1907
1  Region:     Belgium :          one region only
               Germany:           Bundesländer
               France:            régions de programme
               Italy:             regioni
               Luxembourg:        one region only
               Netherlands:       one region only.
2  In thousands.
3 Eggs placed in incubation in the preceding year, in thousands.