31994R1758

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1758/94 of 18 July 1994 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1725/79 on the rules for granting aid to skimmed milk processed into compound feedingstuffs and skimmed-milk powder intended for feed for calves

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 (1) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in milk and milk products, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 230/94 (2), and in particular Article 10 (3) thereof,

Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (1) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1725/79 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1553/94 (4), the granting of aid for skimmed-milk powder processed into compound feedingstuffs is conditional upon the requirement that the latter contains not less than 2 kilograms of starch or puffed starch per 100 kilograms of finished product;

Whereas Annex II footnote 2 of that Regulation specifies the laboratory methods of analysis applicable for quantitative starch determination; whereas, on the basis of experience which has shown these methods to be unsuitable in certain cases for the detection of starch at these low levels, it is necessary to allow Member States to use alternative methods for starch analysis;

Whereas the Management Committee for Milk and Milk Products has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its chairman,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EEC) No 1725/79 is modified as follows:

1. The annex to this Regulation is added as Annex V.

2. In Annex II, footnote 2 is replaced as follows:

'(2) The starch content is ascertained either by a quantitative laboratory analysis, or by the control measures referred to in Article 10 (2) b which must be supplemented by the qualitative method of analysis outlined in Annex V.'

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September 1994.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 18 July 1994.

For the Commission

René STEICHEN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13.

(2) OJ No L 30, 3. 2. 1994, p. 1.

(3) OJ No L 199, 1. 8. 1979, p. 1.

(4) OJ No L 166, 1. 7. 1994, p. 49.

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