Document ID: 31995L0008

COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 95/8/EC of 10 April 1995 amending Directive 77/535/EEC on the approximation of the laws of Member States relating to methods of sampling and analysis for fertilizers (Methods of analysis for trace elements at a concentration greater than 10 %)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 76/116/EEC of 18 December 1975 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to fertilizers (1), as last amended by Council Directive 89/530/EEC (2), and in particular Article 9 (2) thereof,
Whereas Article 8a of the Treaty establishes an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital in ensured;
Whereas Directive 89/530/EEC supplement and amends Directive 76/116/EEC in respect of the trace elements boron, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, molybdendum and zinc in fertilizers;
Whereas Commission Directive 77/535/EEC (3), as last amended by Directive 93/1/EEC (4), provides for official controls for Community fertilizers for the purpose of checking compliance with the requirements imposed by the Community provisions concerning the quality and composition of fertilizers; whereas Directive 77/535/EEC should be supplemented so that fertilizers to which Council Directive 89/530/EEC should be supplemented so that fertilizers to which Council Directive 89/530/EEC relates, can also be checked;
Whereas, in view of the scope and effects of the proposed action, the Community measures provided for by this Directive are not only necessary but also indispensable for the attainment of the stated objectives, whereas these objectives cannot be achieved by Member States individually and whereas their attainment at Community level is, in fact, already provided for by Directive 76/116/EEC;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on the Adaptation to Technical Progress of the Directives for the Removal of Technical Barriers to Trade in Fertilizers,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
Article 1
The text set out in the Annex of this Directive is hereby added to Annex II of Directive 77/535/EEC.
The methods are applicable to Community fertilizers for the determination of each trace element, the declared contant of which is more than 10 %.
Article 2
1. Member States shall bring into force the provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 31 December 1995. They shall immediately inform the Commission thereof.
When Member States adopt these provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such reference at the time of their official publication. The procedure for such reference shall be adopted by Member States.
2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the texts of the provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by the Directive.
Article 3
This Directive shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
Done at Brussels, 10 April 1995.

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