31976R1131

No L 127 /42 15 . 5 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1131 /76 of 14 May 1976 amending Regulation (EEC) No 753/76 as regards1 certain rules for the denatura tion of skimmed-milk powder

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Article 1 Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No The text of Article 5 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 563/76 of 15 March 1976 on the compulsory purchase 753/76 is hereby amended to read as follows : of skimmed-milk powder held by intervention agen­ cies for use in feedingstuffs ( J ), and in particular '4. Without prejudice to Articles 10 and 11 of Article 9 ( 1 ) thereof, Council Directive 70/ 524/ EEC, of 23 November 1970, the sacks, packagings and containers used Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 753/76 of for the transport and storage of the skimmed-milk 31 March 1976 laying down detailed rules for the sale powder which has been denatured or incorporated of skimmed-milk powder for use in animal feed in a feedingstuff in accordance with Article 1 (2), pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 563/76 (2), lays (a) shall indicate, by means of a roman number down the conditions for denaturing skimmed-milk and a capital letter, the formula used for dena­ powder sold pursuant to that Regulation ; turing or incorporation (formulae I A to I F and II A to II F) and Whereas certain of these conditions should be amended to take into account the market availabilities (b) shall mention, in the case of denaturation in accordance with the first indent of Article 1 of certain binding agents, and to specify in the inter­ ests of clarity that the provisions concerning the incor­ (2), the composition of the denatured product. poration of minimum quantities of binding agents in no way exempts them from respecting other provi­ The information referred to in (b) need, in the case sions besides the said Regulation which concern animal feed ; whereas this concerns especially the of a bulk product, only be stated in a signed docu­ provisions of Council Directive 70/ 524/EEC of 23 ment accompanying the denatured product until the stage when it is used.' November 1970 concerning additives in feeding­ stuffs (3), as last amended by the thirteenth Commis­ sion Directive 76/ 13 / EEC of 15 December 1975 (4) ; whereas, as regards the control of the denaturation, reference should be made to Council Directive Article 2 70/373 / EEC of 20 July 1970 on the introduction of Community methods of sampling and analysis for the official control of feedingstuffs (5), as last amended by Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 753/76 is hereby amended as follows : Council Directive 72/276/EEC of 20 July 1972 (6) ;

1 . In Chapter 1 , 'Denaturing', under formulae I C and Whereas certain material errors in the text of Regula­ I F, for '250 g copper' read ' 150 g copper'. tion (EEC) No 753/76 which have been made in different languages should at the same time be corrected ; 2. In Chapter 2, 'Denaturation by direct incorporation in animal feed', the Second sentence of the intro­ Whereas the Management Committee for Milk and duction shall read as follows : Milk Products has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its Chairman , (a) in the French text :

(') OJ No L 67, 15. 3. 1976, p. 18 . ' Dans celui-ci doivent en outre etre presents, (2) OJ No L 88 , 1 . 4. 1976, p. 1 . exprimés ci-dessous en pourcentage ou en ppm (3) OJ No L 270, 14. 12. 1970, p. 1 . sur le produit fini, les constituants et les (4) OJ No L 4, 9 . 1 . 1976, p. 21 . (5) OJ No L 170, 3 . 8 . 1970, p. 2. additifs suivants (quantités minimales), incor­ h) OJ No L 171 , 29. 7. 1972, p. 39. porés selon l'une des formules ci-après :'

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(b) in the Danish text : sulphate read in each case 'iron, in the form of ' Foderet skal desuden indeholde, herefter heptahydrate ferrous sulphate' udtrykt i procent eller i ppm af det færdige (b) under formulae I E, I F, II D, II E and II F, for produkt, følgende bestanddele og tilsætning­ 'dehydrated grass meal and/or dehydrated sstoffer (mindstemængder), tilsat i henhold til alfalfa meal' read in each case 'grass meal en af de nævnte formler and/or alfalfa meal'. (c) in the Italian text : 4. The text of Chapter 3, 'General prescriptions Nonché, qui di seguito espressi in percentuale concerning denaturing and incorporation' is o in ppm sul prodotto finito, i costituenti e gli replaced by the text set out in the Annex hereto. additivi sotto specificati (quantitativi minimi) incorporati secondo una delle formule segu­ enti :'. Article 3

3. In Chapters 1 and 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its (a) under formulae I B to I F and II A to II F, for publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. 'iron, as anhydrous or heptahydrate ferrous

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

Done at Brussels, 14 May 1976.

For the Commission

P. J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

3. GENERAL PRESCRIPTIONS CONCERNING DENATURING AND INCORPORA­ TION

A. It is not permitted to submit skimmed-milk powder in its natural state or after denaturation to a chemical or physical process capable of weakening or neutralizing the effects of denaturing given in the formulae specified in Chapters 1 and 2, especially by the use of binding agents.

Anticaking and flowing agents may be used, for the application of the formulae referred to in Chapter I and in addition to the products mentioned, when incorporated to a level of 2 % in the mixture of skimmed-milk powder and its denaturing agents.

B. Fish meal, referred to in formulae I A and I B, must have at least 30 % of its particles less than 300 microns in size .

Iron sulphate referred to in formulae I B, I C, I E and I F must have at least 30 % of its particles less than 250 microns in size. Copper sulphate referred to in the same formulae must have at least 30 % of its particles less than 200 microns in size.

Starch and carboxymethylcellulose, referred to in formulae I D, I E and I F, must have at least 50 % of its particles less than 80 microns in size.

Ground cereals and oil-seed cake, referred to in formula I D, as well as crude fibre in whatever form referred to the same formula, must have a minimum of 50 % of its particles of less than 500 microns in size.

Grass meal and alfalfa meal, referred to in formulae I E and I F, must contain at least 50 % of particles not exceeding 300 microns in size.

When skimmed-milk powder is denatured in the United Kingdom, the BS 410-1969 standards are readily available, and the nearest equivalent standards to the maximum or the minimum given for the particle size can be used.

Ground cereals, referred to in formula I D, means a product that has been fully milled from a mixture of oats and barley or from a mixture of other cereals suitable only for animal feeding, or from cereals by-products, increased if necessary by added crude fibre to give a minimum crude fibre content in dry matter of at least 8-0 % .

Oil-seed cakes specified in formula I D, increased, if necessary, by added crude fibre to give a minimum crude fibre content in dry matter of at least 8-0 % .

Grass meal and alfalfa meal respectively must hive at least a minimum crude fibre content in dry matter of 20 % and 15 % .

Carboxymethylcellulose, referred to in formula I D, I E and I F, having a molecular weight of 200 000 to 500 000 and at least a 95 % level of purity, must have a total degree of substitution between 0-6 and 1-0 (x = 2 to 2-4 ; y = 0-6 to 1 ).

Fish oil and fish liver oil, referred to in formulae I C and II C, must have a free fatty acids content expressed in oleic acid of at least 7

C. The minimum quantities of the products I porated in the skimmed-milk powder, given in formulae I A to I F and II A to II F, ar hout prejudice to other provisions relating to the maximum quantitities of additives wh contained in animal feed, and in particular the provisions laid down in Council Dir 24/EEC of 23 November 1970 concerning additives in feedingstuffs.

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D. The products given in formulae I A to I F must be distributed in a uniform manner so that in two individual samples of 50 g, drawn at random from a 25 kg package, there is contained — by chemical determination — the same results as above within tolerable error limits set by the method of analysis used. The provisions adopted pursuant to Council Directive 70/373/EEC of 20 July 1970 on the intro­ duction, of Community methods of sampling and analysis for the official control of feedingstuffs, shall apply for the control of denaturation.