31976R1621

No L 180 /4 6 . 7 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 1621 /76 of 22 June 1976 laying down the minimum requirements as regards intervention for common wheat of bread-making quality

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN baking test ; whereas when determing the minimum COMMUNITIES , requirements for bread-making for the 1976/77 marketing year, it will suffice to retain only the first Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European part of that test which relates to the sticking proper­ Economic Community, ties of the dough , Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/ 75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : tion of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 143/76 (2 ), and in particular Article 1 Article 4 (3) thereof, As regards the 1976/ 77 marketing year, common Having regard to the proposal from the Commission , wheat shall meet the minimum requirements for Whereas , as regards the 1976/77 marketing year, the bread-making if it conforms to the standard quality single intervention price for common wheat shall adopted in accordance with Article 3 (6) of Regulation apply to common wheat of which the standard quality ( EEC) No 2727/75 and if the dough obtained from is supplemented by certain criteria relating to the such wheat does not stick during the mechanical minimum requirements for bread-making ; whereas kneading process . such criteria must be fixed by the Council ; Article 2 Whereas a group of experts from various laboratories in the European Community has drawn up a report This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day based on a series of experiments which were under­ following its publication in the Official Journal of taken to determine the characteristics of a European the European Communities.

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

Done at Luxembourg, 22 June 1976 . For the Council

The President

J. HAMILIUS

(>) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 . (2 ) OJ No L 130 , 19 . 5 . 1976, p. 1 .