CELEX: 51998PC0169
Language: en
Date: 1998-03-17
Title: Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 1906/90 on certain marketing standards for poultry meat

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                               Brussels, 17.03.1998
                                               COM(1998) 169 final
                                Proposal for a
                      COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)
amending Regulation (EEC) No 1906/90 on certain marketing standards for poultry
meat.
                       (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                          EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
STANDARDS FOR POULTRYMEAT
Poultrymeat is being increasingly marketed in the form of pieces of poultry. Regulation
(EEC) No 1906/90 lays down, however, that water content absorbed during preparation
is to be checked on carcases only.
It is consequently proposed to extend these checks to pieces of poultry.
The proposed Regulation in question has no financial implications for the Community
budget.
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 ---pagebreak---                                            Proposal for a
                        COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No                         /97
                                                   of
   amending Regulation (EEC) No 1906/90 on certain marketing standards for poultry
   meat.
   THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75 of 29 October 1975 on the
   common organisation of the market in poultrymeat1, and in particular Article 2(2)
   thereof,
   Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
   Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1906/902 lays down certain marketing standards for
   poultrymeat;
   Whereas poultrymeat is being increasingly marketed in the form of cuts, whereas the
   checking of the water content should therefore be extended to certain pieces o\"
   poultrymeat,
  OJ No L 282, I.I 1.1975, p 77. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2916/95 (OJ No I
  305, 19.12.1995, p. 49).
2 OJ No L 173, 6.7.1990, pi Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3204/93 (OJ No I
  289, 24.11.1993, p. 3).
 ---pagebreak--- HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION.
                                      Article 1
Article 7(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1906/90 is hereby replaced by the following
                                      "Article 7
        The percentages of water absorption which are technically unavoidable and
        which shall not be exceeded during the preparation of fresh, frozen and
        quick-frozen carcases and cuts thereof shall be determined in accordance with
        the procedure laid down in Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75, as
        well as uniform methods of verifying compliance therewith."
                                       Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh 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
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