Introductory text

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff^f1, and in particular Article 9(1)(a) thereof,

Whereas:

In order to ensure that preparations of a kind used in animal feeding (CN 2309) receive uniform treatment on import throughout the Community, it is necessary that, when laying down analytic methods, account should be taken of the scientific and technological evolution of those methods.

In accordance with the third Commission Directive 72/199/EEC of 27 April 1972 establishing Community methods of analysis for the official control of feedingstuffs^f2, for the determination of the starch content in preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, the polarimetric method (also called: modified Ewers method), described in point 1 of Annex I to that Directive is to be applied.

In the light of studies carried out by the experts of the customs laboratories of the Member States it is necessary to provide that where the polarimetric method laid down in Directive 72/199/EEC cannot be applied for the determination of the starch content in the mentioned preparations, an enzymatic analytical method should be applied. It is therefore appropriate to specify how that enzymatic method is to be carried out.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature Section of the Customs Code Committee,

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