Commission Regulation (EC) No 1851/2001

of 20 September 2001

correcting Regulation (EC) No 2571/97 on the sale of butter at reduced prices and the granting of aid for cream, butter and concentrated butter for use in the manufacture of pastry products, ice-cream and other foodstuffs

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk and milk products(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1670/2000(2), and in particular Article 15 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Annex VII to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2571/97(3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 635/2000(4), lists the specifications to be entered in the T5 control copy. A check of all language versions has discovered a typing error in that Annex.

(2) Article 22(4) of that Regulation provides for a penalty for failure to comply with a subordinate obligation and Annex III thereto indicates the tracers to be used for Formula B. Typing and translation errors were found during a check of the German version of those provisions.

(3) The necessary corrections must therefore be made to that language version.

(4) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Milk and Milk Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1. The term "Butter" in the second paragraph of the third indent of the first indent of Annex VII.B(b) to Regulation (EC) No 2571/97 is replaced by the term "Butterfett".

2. Article 22 of Regulation (EC) No 2571/97 and Annex III thereto are corrected. These corrections concern only the German version of the Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 20 September 2001.

For the Commission

Franz Fischler

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48.

(2) OJ L 193, 29.7.2000, p. 10.

(3) OJ L 350, 20.12.1997, p. 3.

(4) OJ L 76, 25.3.2000, p. 9.