CELEX: 51990PC0104
Language: en
Date: 1990-03-26
Title: AMENDMENT TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 986/68 LAYING DOWN GENERAL RULES FOR GRANTING AID FOR SKIMMED MILK AND SKIMMED-MILK POWDER FOR USE AS FEED

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                                            Brussels, 26 March 1990
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                        Amendment to the Proposal for a
                            COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
         amending Regulation (EEC) No 986/86 laying down general rules
           for granting aid for skimmed milk and sklmmed-mllk powder
                                 for use as feed
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            (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 149(3)
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                           EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
The aim of this amendment to the proposal for a Council Regulation which Is
the subject of Document COM(89) 448 final of 9 October 1989 is to extend
the original proposal by adding a provision on the definition of buttermilk
in powder form laid down In Article 1(d) of Regulation (EEC) No 986/68.
For technical reasons, the processing into powder of soured buttermilk can
only occur after the liquid product has been neutralized. Although it Is a
common manufacturing procedure, the present text of the Regulation does not
provide explicitly for It to be used.
The aim of this additional proposal is to clarify Regulation (EEC)
No 986/68 on this point by formally authorizing the neutralization of
soured buttermiIk.
This modification has no Impact on the budget.
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                               Amendment to the
                                Proposal for a
                           COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
      amending Regulation (EEC) No 986/86 laying down general rules for
            granting aid for skimmed milk and skimmed-mllk powder
                                for use as feed
The proposal for a Council Regulation which is the subject of Document COM
(89) 448 final is hereby amended as follows:
1.  The recital of the proposal       for   a Regulation  is replaced   by the
    fol lowing recitals:
    "Whereas Article 1(d) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 986/68, as last
    amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1115/89, defines skimmed-mllk powder In
    particular as the by-product of the processing of milk or cream into
    butter, even though naturally or artificially soured, in the form of
    powder; whereas the manufacturing technique requires that soured
    buttermilk be neutralized before being processed into powder; whereas
    that definition should be supplemented by explicitly authorizing the
    neutralization of soured buttermilk prior to its processing Into
    powder ;
    Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 3(1) of that Regulation
    provides, by way of a derogation, that the Member States which consign
    skimmed-mllk powder to another Member State are to be authorized to pay
    the aid in the place of the Member State where the skimmed-mllk powder
     is denatured or incorporated into compound feedingstuffs; whereas the
    trend in the market situation leads that derogation no longer to be
    maintained,".
2.  Article 1 of     the  proposal   for  a   Regulation is   replaced by  the
    fol lowing:
                                   "Article 1
    Regulation (EEC) No 986/68 Is hereby amended as follows:
    1.   The following sentence is added to Article 1(d):
         "Naturally or artificially soured buttermilk may be neutralized
         with a view to its processing into powder."
    2.   The second subparagraph of Article 3(1) is deleted."
 Donet at Brussels,                                        For the Council
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