CELEX: 31971R2502
Language: en
Date: 1971-11-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2502/71 of the Commission of 22 November 1971 amending Regulation (EEC) No 95/69 on the marking of packings of industrial eggs

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                                    Official Journal of the European Communities                                     959
23.11.71                             Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 258/9
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2502/71 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                  of 22 November 1971
                  amending Regulation (EEC) No 95/69 on the marking of packings of industrial eggs
THE     COMMISSION       OF    THE   EUROPEAN      COM­         Whereas the measures pr6vided for in this Regulation
MUNITIES,                                                       are in accordance with the Opinion of the
                                                                Management Committee for Poultrymeat and Eggs ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community;
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to Council Regulation No
122/67/EEC1 of 13 June 1967 on the common                                                 Article 1
organisation of the market in eggs, as last amended
by Regulation (EEC) No 1261 /712 ;                              The following provisions shall be substituted for the
                                                                provisions of Article 7 (2) (c) of Regulation (EEC)
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    No 95 /69 :
1619/683 of 15 October 1968 on marketing standards                  £ (c) the marking "INDUSTRIAL EGGS" in black
for eggs, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                                capital letters, 2 cm high, and the marking
730/694 and in particular Article 22 (c) thereof;                          "unsuitable for human consumption" in
                                                                           black letters at least 0-8 cm high, in one or
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                           more languages of the Community.'
No 95/69 of 17 January 1969 implementing
Regulation (EEC) No 1619/685 on marketing                                                 Article 2
standards for eggs, as amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 927/69,° specifies that industrial eggs shall be             Until 1 April 1972, bands and labels not bearing the
marketed in packings with a band or a label bearing,            marking 'unsuitable for human consumption' shall be
inter alia, the marking 'industrial eggs';                      considered as complying with the provisions of
                                                                Regulation (EEC) No 95/69 .
Whereas it appears that in certain Member States
these words could lead to confusion as regards the                                        Article 3
use of eggs, because of legal provisions in other
fields ; whereas the marking should therefore be                Before 1 April 1972 each Member State shall provide
supplemented by a statement that the eggs are not               the other Member States and the Commission with a
suitable for human consumption;                                 specimen of the band and the label.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 22 November 1971 .
                                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                                          The President
                                                                                     Franco M. MALFATTI
1 OJ No 117, 19.6.1967, p. 2293/67.
2 OJ No L 132, 18.6.1971, p. 1.
3 OJ No L 258, 21.10.1968, p. 1 .
4 OJ No L 96, 23.4.1969, p. 2.
5 OJ No L 13 , 18.1.1969, p. 13 .
6 OJ No L 120, 21.5.1969, p. 6.