Annex

The following amendment to the specification for the protected geographical indication ‘Nieheimer Käse’ is approved:

• Method of production:

  In the sentence ‘Cooking salt (2,5-3,5 %) and possibly caraway seed (0,01-0,03 %) are then added to the mass, which is mixed until distribution is even.’, the text in parentheses, ‘(0,01-0,03)’ following ‘caraway seed’ is replaced with ‘(0,1-0,3 %)’.

• Justification:

  • The requester, an association of producers of the product in question, contends that over the 65 years in which ‘Nieheimer Käse’ has been produced, the addition of caraway seed has always represented 0,1-0,3 %.

  • The quantity mentioned in the summary published in the Official Journal of the European Union in this connection (‘0,01-0,03’) is the result of a drafting error. The missing % sign was added upon publication in the Deutsches Markenblatt of 23 September 2005. The extra zeros after the comma would result in a corresponding addition of caraway seed (of only one to three ten thousandths of the total weight) to the product, which would be barely perceptible.