Legal provisions of COM(2022)487 - EU position within the Council of Members of the International Olive Council (IOC), as regards the trade standard applying to olive oils and olive-pomace oils

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Article 1

The position to be taken on the Union’s behalf, within the Council of Members in its 116th session to be held between 28 November and 2 December 2022 or within the framework of a procedure for adoption of decisions by the Council of Members by an exchange of correspondence initiated before its next regular session in June 2023 as regards the revision of the trade standard applying to olive oils and olive-pomace oils COI/T.15/NC No 3/Rev. 19, shall be to support the decision to remove Annex 1 of the trade standard and simplify the delta-7-stigmastenol decision trees, and as regards the revision of the method COI/T.20/Do. No 28/REV 3 (Determination of the content of waxes and fatty acid ethyl esters by capillary gas chromatography), shall be to support the decision to include an alternative method of analysis and make some slight changes to the existing method.

Article 2

The position of the Union shall be to support technical adaptations to other IOC methods or documents if they result from the revision of the trade standard applying to olive oils and olive pomace oils COI/T.15/NC No 3/Rev. 19.

Article 3

Where the position referred to in Article 1 is likely to be affected by new scientific or technical information presented before or during the 116th session of the Council of Members, the Commission shall request that the adoption of the decision amending the trade standard applying to olive oils and olive-pomace oils and of the method of analysis for waxes and fatty acid ethyl esters be postponed until the position of the Union is established on the basis of that new information.

Article 4

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.