{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1986-1764/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1986-1764/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "eur/1986/1764",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1764/86 of 27 May 1986 laying down minimum quality requirements for products processed from tomatoes under the production aid scheme",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1986-1764",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. The products shall be considered as complying with Article 5 (2) when the following tolerances for defects are not exceeded:\nblemishes: 35 cm 2 aggregate area;\npresence of peel (peeled tomatoes):\nwhole style: 300 cm 2 aggregate area,\nnon-whole: 1 250 cm 2 aggregate area;\nabsence of peel (unpeeled tomatoes):\nwhole style: 300 cm 2 aggregate area,\nnon-whole: 1 250 cm 2 aggregate area.\nThe tolerances fixed are per 10 kg net weight.\n2. For the purposes of paragraph 1:\n(a) ‘ blemishes ’ means areas into which lesions on the surface have penetrated and as a result thereof contrast strongly in colour or texture with the normal tomato tissue and should normally have been removed during processing;\n(b) ‘ peel ’ means both peel adhering or not adhering to the tomato flesh and peel found loose in the container.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2318/89 of 28 July 1989 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1764/86 on minimum quality requirements for tomato-based products eligible for production aid."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1986/1764/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:04:59.708846+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}