Council Directive 79/1005/EEC of 23 November 1979 amending Directive 75/106/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making-up by volume of certain prepackaged liquids

COUNCIL DIRECTIVE  of 23 November 1979  amending Directive 75/106/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making-up by volume of certain prepackaged liquids  (79/1005/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (3),
Whereas the field of application of Council Directive 76/211/EEC of 20 January 1976 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making-up by weight or by volume of certain prepackaged products (4) is different from that of Council Directive 75/106/EEC of 19 December 1974 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making-up by volume of certain prepackaged liquids (5);
Whereas, therefore, the fields of application of the two Directives should be aligned as regards the volumes of the prepackages to which they relate;
Whereas at the time of the adoption of Directive 75/106/EEC, the Council, with a view to providing better protection for the consumer, requested the Commission to submit before 31 December 1980 a new proposal reducing the list of nominal volumes in Annex III by eliminating values that were too close to one another;
Whereas Council Directive 71/354/EEC of 18 October 1971 relating to the approximation of the laws of the Member States on units of measurement (6) was last amended by Directive 76/770/EEC (7);
Whereas pursuant to Article 7 (2) of Directive 75/106/EEC, Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom have five years in which to implement that Directive ; whereas this Directive should therefore take account of that time limit;
Whereas certain Member States will find it difficult to reduce the number of nominal volumes ; whereas, therefore, provisions should be made for a transitional period for these Member States which does not, however, impede intra-Community trade in the products in question or jeopardize implementation of this Directive in the other Member States,