CELEX: 31985D0604
Language: en
Date: 1985-12-13 00:00:00
Title: 85/604/EEC: Commission Decision of 13 December 1985 approving an amendment to the programme on the slaughter and processing of pigs in the Netherlands pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 355/77

No L 373 / 54                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                                       31 . 12 . 85
                                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                               of 13 December 1985
                     approving an amendment to the programme on the slaughter and processing of pigs in the
                                         Netherlands pursuant to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 355 / 77
                                                          ( Only the Dutch text is authentic )
                                                                   ( 85 / 604 / EEC )
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                     be subsidized ; whereas on the other hand , investment in the
                                                                                 environment such as equipment to purify waste water and to
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                            control pollution caused by noise and odours and investment
Economic Community ,                                                             in energy saving may now be considered ;
                                                                                 Whereas the purpose of this amendment is to update and
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 355 / 77 of                       prolong the programme until 1990 ; whereas it meets the
 15 February 1977 on common measures to improve the                              objectives and conditions of Regulation ( EEC ) No
conditions under which agricultural and fishery products are                     355 / 77 ;
processed and marketed (*), as last amended by Regulation
( EEC ) No 1247 / 85 ( 2 ), and in particular Article 5                          Whereas the Standing Committee on Agricultural Structure
thereof,
                                                                                 has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its
                                                                                 chairman ,
Whereas on 23 January 1985 the Netherlands Government
notified a second amendment to the programme on the
slaughter and processing of pigs approved by Commission
                                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Decision 80 / 674 / EEC ( 3 ), as first amended by Decision
 83 / 599 / EEC ( 4 ); whereas it provided further information
on 14 May and 4 June 1985 ;                                                                                Article 1
                                                                                 The amendment to the programme communicated by the
Whereas the implementation of the original programme                             Netherlands Government on 23 January 1985 and
has made a marked contribution towards enlarging                                 supplemented on 14 May and 4 June 1985 on the slaughter
slaughterhouses , which are getting closer to their optimum                      and processing of pigs pursuant to Regulation ( EEC ) No
size ; whereas investment in chilling capacity has increased                     355 / 77 is hereby approved .
appreciably and no longer constitutes the weak point in the
chain of operations linked to slaughter ; whereas on the other
hand the need for certain other investments , concerning the
environment , can be allowed for ;                                                                         Article 2
Whereas when the amended programme is being                                      This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of the
                                                                                 Netherlands .
implemented , therefore , only projects for modernizing
slaughterhouses with a technical slaughter capacity of at least
200 000 pigs per year and whose average rate of use of
slaughter capacity three years after the completion of the                       Done at Brussels , 13 December 1985 .
work is at least 60 % of their technical capacity calculated
over a period of a working year of 1 800 hours will be                                                               For the Commission
considered for Community financing ; whereas investment in
                                                                                                                      Frans ANDRIESSEN
the cutting of meat linked with slaughter will be permitted ;
whereas projects to increase chilling capacity may no longer                                                             Vice-President
(') OJ  No   L 51 , 23 . 2 . 1977 , p . 1 .
(2)  OJ No   L 130 , 16 . 5 . 1985 , p . 1 .
(') OJ  No   L 185 , 18 . 7 . 1980 , p . 43 .
(«) OJ  No   L 347 , 9 . 12 . 1983 , p . 53 .