# COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1115/2006

of 20 July 2006

amending Regulation (EEC) No 3703/85 laying down detailed rules for applying the common marketing standards for certain fresh or chilled fish

## Preamble

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 of 17 December 1999 on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products [^1] , and in particular Article 2(3) and Article 3(4) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2406/96 of 26 November 1996 laying down common marketing standards for certain fishery products [^2] , and in particular Article 8(4) and Article 9 thereof,

Whereas:

**(1)** Regulation (EC) No 2406/96 lays down common marketing standards for certain fishery products. Detailed rules for applying those standards are laid down in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3703/85 [^3] .

**(2)** Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 2406/96 provides for the possibility of grading pelagic species on the basis of a system of sampling so as to ensure compliance with the common marketing standards for these species.

**(3)** Following the amendment to Regulation (EC) No 2406/96 by Commission Regulation (EC) No 790/2005 [^4] , common marketing standards were also fixed for sprat.

**(4)** The detailed rules for the grading and weighing for pelagic species laid down by Regulation (EEC) No 3703/85 do currently not apply to sprat. That Regulation should therefore be amended in order to cover that species also.

**(5)** The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fishery Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

## **Article 1**

Regulation (EEC) No 3703/85 is amended as follows:

**1.** in Annex I, the entry set out in the Annex to this Regulation is added;

| 2. | ‘8.: Sprat of the species *Sprattus sprattus* ’. | ‘8. | Sprat of the species *Sprattus sprattus* ’. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ‘8. | Sprat of the species *Sprattus sprattus* ’. |  |  |

## **Article 2**

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the *Official Journal of the European Union* .

## Final provisions

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 20 July 2006. *For the Commission* Joe BORG *Member of the Commission*

[^1] [OJ L 17, 21.1.2000, p. 22](http://publications.europa.eu/resource/oj/JOL_2000_017_R_TOC) . Regulation as amended by the 2003 Act of Accession.

[^2] [OJ L 334, 23.12.1996, p. 1](http://publications.europa.eu/resource/oj/JOL_1996_334_R_TOC) . Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 790/2005 ( [OJ L 132, 26.5.2005, p. 15](http://publications.europa.eu/resource/oj/JOL_2005_132_R_TOC) ).

[^3] [OJ L 351, 28.12.1985, p. 63](http://publications.europa.eu/resource/oj/JOL_1985_351_R_TOC) . Regulation as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3506/89 ( [OJ L 342, 24.11.1989, p. 11](http://publications.europa.eu/resource/oj/JOL_1989_342_R_TOC) ).

[^4] [OJ L 132, 26.5.2005, p. 15](http://publications.europa.eu/resource/oj/JOL_2005_132_R_TOC) .

Species Size Volume m 3 Coefficients ‘Sprat 1 1 0,92 ’

[^1]: . Regulation as amended by the 2003 Act of Accession.
[^2]: . Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 790/2005 ().
[^3]: . Regulation as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3506/89 ().
[^4]: .