31976R1353

No L 153/ 34 Official Journal of the European Communities 12 . 6 . 76

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1353/76 of 11 June 1976 on the qualities of durum wheat for which aid may be granted under the system of aid for durum wheat for the 1976/77 marketing year and amending Regula­ tion ( EEC) No 1257/76

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN mining factor in those tests is the stickiness of the COMMUNITIES, pasta product obtained therefrom when cooked ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas, although it has normal physical qualities, Economic Community, such a variety may prove unsuitable for the manufac­ ture of pasta products owing in particular to the elasti­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No city of the gluten thereof which makes the pasta product obtained therefrom sticky when cooked ; 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­ tion of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by whereas such a variety should therefore be excluded from the granting of aid ; Regulation (EEC) No 11 43/76 (2), and in particular Article 10(5) thereof, Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ Whereas it is difficult to compile the list of varieties ment Committee for Cereals, provided for in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1 257/76 (3) owing to the differences between the national catalogues of varieties and the Common Cata­ logue of Varieties of Agricultural Plant Species ; whereas the abovementioned list should therefore not HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : be compiled for the 1976/77 marketing year ;

Whereas the criteria for determining the qualitative Article 1 and technological characteristics were laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1147/76 of 17 May Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1257/76 is hereby 1976 on aid for durum wheat (4) ; whereas those amended to read as follows : characteristics must guarantee that the durum wheat can be processed into meal or pasta products while at 'Aid shall be granted only for durum wheat the same time meeting certain requirements for produced from the seed of varieties with certain purposes of human consumption ; qualitative and technological characteristics to be determined before 15 June 1976.' Whereas, on the one hand, with regard to the physical qualities, durum wheat for which aid may be granted must fulfil the minimum conditions for taking over Article 2 by intervention agencies as laid down in Commision Regulation (EEC) No 1492/71 of 14 July 1971 (5), as For the 1976/77 marketing year, the aid provided for last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 422/72 (6) ; in Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 may be granted for durum wheat : Whereas, on the other hand, no definitive method which is valid at Community level has yet been formu­ — if it fulfils the minimum quality conditions for lated for distinguishing between those varieties of taking over by intervention agencies laid down in durum wheat which are suitable for processing into Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1492/71 , pasta products and those which are unsuitable ; — if it is produced from varieties used in the whereas, however, tests in the Member States have Member States in respect of which the latter can proved with certainty that there is in the Community guarantee that the pasta obtained from the a variety called 'Durtal' which does not always have processing thereof is not sticky when cooked. the characteristics required by the abovementioned Regulation ; whereas the most representative and deter­

Article 3 (•) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 130 , 19 . 5 . 1976, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 143, 1 . 6. 1976, p. 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day (4) OJ No L 130, 19 . 5. 1976, p. 11 . (5) OJ No L 157, 14. 7. 1971 , p. 18 . following its publication in the Official Journal of (6) OJ No L 151 , 5 . 7 . 1972, p. 15 . the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 11 June 1976. For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission