{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1985-3703/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1985-3703/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "eur/1985/3703",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3703/85 of 23 December 1985 laying down detailed rules for applying the common marketing standards for certain fresh or chilled fish",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1985-3703",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3703/85\nof 23 December 1985\nlaying down detailed rules for applying the common marketing standards for certain fresh or chilled fish\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,\nHaving regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81 of 29 December 1981 on the common organization of the market in fishery products, as last amended by the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, and in particular Article 4 (4) thereof,\nHaving regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 103/76 of 19 January 1976 laying down common marketing standards for certain fresh or chilled fish, as last amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3396/85, and in particular Articles 6, 8 and 8a thereof,\nWhereas experience has shown the need to clarify certain provisions concerning the application of the common marketing standards laid down by Regulation (EEC) No 103/76 to ensure that these standards are more uniformly applied in the Member States;\nWhereas the grading of herring and mackerel by sample assessment, as provided for in Article 8a of Regulation (EEC) No 103/76, should be carried out so as to ensure compliance with the Community standards for these species; whereas, to ensure that extrapolation of the results of the grading by sample assessment to all the lots concerned is justified, the number of samples to be taken, the weight or volume of each sample and the methods of grading and checking the weight of the lots marketed should be specified, account being taken of the various ways in which products are offered for sale;\nWhereas, to help improve the quality of fish graded on the basis of a sampling system and to prevent the marketing of fish which is not sufficiently fresh, the Member States concerned must introduce control arrangements including inspections of the preserving facilities on the vessels landing the fish concerned;\nWhereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee Fishery Products,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulation applied (with modifications) (N.I.) (1.10.2023) by The Windsor Framework (Retail Movement Scheme: Public Health, Marketing and Organic Product Standards and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/959), regs. 1(2), 4(a), Sch. 1 (with regs. 7, 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No L 379, 31. 12. 1981, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No L 20, 28. 1. 1976, p. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No L 322, 3. 12. 1985, p. 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1985/3703/introduction",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}