CELEX: 51986PC0653(04)
Language: en
Date: 1986-11-24
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE SUPPLEMENTING DIRECTIVE 80/232/EEC ON THE APPROXIMATION OF THE LAWS OF THE MEMBER STATES RELATING TO THE RANGES OF NOMINAL QUANTITIES AND NOMINAL CAPACITIES PERMITTED FOR CERTAIN PREPACKAGED PRODUCTS

10.12.86                                    Official Journal of the European Communities                              No C 317/11
               Proposal for a Council Directive supplementing Directive 80/232/EEC on the approximation of
               the laws of the Member States relating to the ranges of nominal quantities and nominal
                                         capacities permitted for certain prepackaged products
                                                           COM(86) 653 final
                                  (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 25 November 1986)
                                                             (86/C 317/08)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
                                                                                                   Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 100                       Directive 80/232/EEC is hereby amended as follows:
thereof,                                                                1. The following sentence is hereby added to Article 5:
                                                                           'Prepackages containing the products listed in Annex
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                         I (11) may be marketed after 31 December 1988 only
                                                                           in the nominal quantities given therein.'
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-                       2. The following is added to Annex I;
liament,                                                                   '11. Knitting and/or crocheting yarns (value in g) (x)
                                                                                 of wool, fine hair, cotton, synthetic or artificial
                                                                                 fibres or mixtures thereof
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
Social Committee,                                                                10 — 25 — 50 — 100 — 150 — 200 — 250 —
                                                                                 300 — 350 — 400 — 450 — 500 — 1000.
Whereas since the adoption of Council Directive
                                                                           (') This value is the anhydrous mass of the yarn to which
80/232/EEC O , as last amended by Directive 86/96/                             the conventional humidity allowance laid down by
EEC (2), ranges of nominal quantities for certain                              Directive 71/307/EEC is applied.'
prepackaged products need to be added so as to remove
barriers to trade for those products;                                                              Article 2
                                                                        Member States shall bring into force, not later than 31
Whereas whenever possible it is advisable to ensure total               December 1987, the laws, regulations and administrative
harmonization of ranges of prepackaged products so as                   provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They
to establish a transparent market for such products,                    shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.
O O J N o L 5 1 , 2 3 . 2. 1980, p. 1.
(2) OJ No L 80, 25. 3. 1986, p. 55.