CELEX: 51993PC0060
Language: en
Date: 1993-02-16
Title: Amended proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) laying down marketing standards for certain milk and non-milk fats and fats composed of plant and animal products

No C 62 / 10                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                       4 . 3 . 93
                                                                 II
                                                         (Preparatory Acts)
                                                   COMMISSION
               Amended proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) laying down marketing standards for
                       certain milk and non-milk fats and fats composed of plant and animal products
                                                           (93 /C 62 / 14)
                                                        COM(93) 60 final
               (Submitted by the Commission pursuant to Article 149 (3) of the EEC Treaty on 16 February
                                                                1993 )
In response to the opinion delivered by Parliament on                       account of situations peculiar to certain third
19 November 1992 on the proposal for a Regulation,                          countries .' is deleted ;
sent by the Commission to the Council on 22 January
1992 , laying down marketing standards for certain milk                 6, in Annex II, part A, first column, the wording
and non-milk fats and fats composed of plant and animal                     'provided these substances are neither of plant origin
products, and pursuant to Article 149 (3) of the Treaty                     nor of animal origin other than of milk origin' is
establishing the European Economic Community, the                           replaced by 'provided that those substances are not
Commission has decided to amend the aforementioned                          used for the purpose of replacing, in whole or in
proposal as follows :                                                       part, any milk constituent.' ;
  1 , in the third recital, the wording 'whereas fats                   7 , in Annex II, part A, third column, second paragraph,
      composed of various fats including milk fats have                     the wording 'solely and directly' is inserted after the
      benefited in particular from this, with the result that               wording 'The product obtained';
      global consumption of butter has fallen ;' is deleted ;
                                                                        8 , in Annex II, part A, second column, after point 2 , a
 2 , in the fourth recital , the wording 'aforementioned                    new point 2 (a) is inserted as follows :
      products' is replaced by 'products covered by this                    '2 (a) Recombined butter.';
      Regulation';
                                                                        9, in Annex II, part A, third column, after the second
 3 , in the thirteenth recital, the wording 'not having a                   paragraph, a new paragraph is inserted opposite the
      fat content of between 20 and 95 % by weight are                      new point 2 (a) as follows :
      not called into question by this Regulation.', is
      replaced by 'which fall outside the scope of this                     'The product obtained by a recombination process
      Regulation basically are not called into question by                  from milk, cream, butter, anhydrous milk fat,
      it.';                                                                 butteroil or concentrated butter of a milk fat content
                                                                            of not less than 80 °/o and less than 90 % and of a
 4 , the text of Article 2 (2) is replaced by the following :               maximum water content of 16 % and a maximum
                                                                            dry non-fat milk material content of 2 % . A frac­
      '2 . Only those products defined in Article 1 which                   tionation process may be applied.';
      meet the requirements set out in Annex II may be
      supplied or transferred to the ultimate consumer                 10 . at the end of Annex II, a sentence is inserted as
      either directly or through restaurants , hospitals,                   follows :
      canteens or similar establishments .';
                                                                            'The milk fat component of the products may be
 5 , in Article 7 (2), the wording 'The Council, acting by                  changed only by physical processes . However, no
      a qualified majority on a proposal from the                           change is permitted for butter, falling within Part A,
      Commission, shall provide for derogations to take                     second column, point 2 .'.