{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-543/annex-I/part-B/part-2/division-II/division-B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-543/annex-I/part-B/part-2/division-II/division-B.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2011/543",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 of 7 June 2011 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 in respect of the fruit and vegetables and processed fruit and vegetables sectors",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-543",
  "path": "annex/I/part/B/part/2/division/II/division/B",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "B",
  "heading": "Maturity requirements",
  "text": "The citrus fruit must have reached an appropriate degree of development and ripeness, account being taken of criteria proper to the variety, the time of picking and the growing area.\nMaturity of citrus fruit is defined by the following parameters specified for each species below:\nminimum juice content,\nminimum sugar/acid ratio,\ncolouring.\nThe degree of colouring shall be such that following normal development the citrus fruit reach the colour typical of the variety at their destination point.\nFor the varieties Mandora and Minneola the minimum sugar/acid ratio is 6,0:1 until the end of the marketing year commencing 1 January 2023.\nMinimum juice content (per cent)\nMinimum sugar/acid ratio\nColouring\nLemons\n20\nMust be typical of the variety. Fruit with a green (but not dark green) colour is allowed, provided it satisfies the minimum requirements as to juice content\nSatsumas, clementines, other mandarin varieties and their hybrids\nSatsumas\n33\n6,5:1\nMust be typical of the variety on at least one third of the surface of the fruit\nClementines\n40\n7,0:1\nOther mandarin varieties and their hybrids\n33\n7,5:1\nOranges\nBlood oranges\n30\n6,5:1\nMust be typical of the variety. However, fruit with light green colour not exceeding one fifth of the total surface area of the fruit is allowed, provided it satisfies the minimum requirements as to juice content.\nOranges produced in areas with high temperatures and high relative humidity conditions during the developing period having a green colour exceeding one fifth of the surface area of the fruit are allowed, provided they satisfy the minimum requirements as to juice content.\nNavels group\n33\n6,5:1\nOther varieties\n35\n6,5:1\nMosambi, Sathgudi and Pacitan with more than one fifth green colour\n33\nOther varieties with more than one fifth green colour\n45\nCitrus fruit meeting these maturity requirements may be ‘degreened’. This treatment is only permitted if the other natural organoleptic characteristics are not modified.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/428 of 12 July 2018 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 as regards marketing standards in the fruit and vegetables sector."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Calculated as described in the OECD guidance on objective tests, available at: http://www.oecd.org/agriculture/fruit-vegetables/publications."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "For the varieties Mandora and Minneola the minimum sugar/acid ratio is 6,0:1 until the end of the marketing year commencing 1 January 2023."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2011/543/annex/I/part/B/part/2/division/II/division/B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:50:06.655648+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."
}