LegalizeCommission Regulation (EU) No 118/2010 of 9 February 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 900/2008 laying down the methods of analysis and other technical provisions necessary for the application of the arrangements for imports of certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
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 (1), and in particular Article 9 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 900/2008 (2) lays down the formulas, procedures and methods to be used for the determination of starch/glucose for applying Annexes II and III of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1460/96 of 25 July 1996 establishing the detailed rules for implementing the preferential trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products, as provided for in Article 7 of Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 (3).
(2) Regulation (EC) No 900/2008 has been examined by a group of experts, with a view to assessing whether that Regulation takes account of the scientific and technological evolution of the methods laid down in that Regulation. Studies and tests carried out in the framework of that examination indicate that the determination of the starch/glucose content by solubilisation by means of sodium hydroxide (prior to enzymatic degradation to glucose) and the measurement of the total glucose content using the enzymatic method with spectrophotometry as prescribed for most goods now, do not meet any longer the current technical requirements and are therefore to be updated.
(3) It is therefore appropriate to provide that the degradation of starch/glucose is to be carried out in an enzymatic way by amylase and amyloglucosidase and that the total glucose content is to be determined using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and to specify how the enzymatic method is to be carried out.
(4) Regulation (EC) No 900/2008 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(5) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 900/2008 is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 9 February 2010.
For the Commission The President José Manuel BARROSO