Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1401 of 7 March 2024 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2104 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards marketing standards for olive oil
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1401of 7 March 2024amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2104 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards marketing standards for olive oilTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 671, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2013/1308/oj., and in particular Article 75(2), thereof,Whereas:(1)Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2104Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2104 of 29 July 2022 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards marketing standards for olive oil, and repealing Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2568/91 and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 29/2012 (OJ L 284, 4.11.2022, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2022/2104/oj). lays down rules on the characteristics of the olive oils referred to in Part VIII, points 1 to 6, of Annex VII to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.(2)The limit values for the characteristics of olive oil laid down in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2104 reflect the trade standard for olive oil and olive-pomace oil of the International Olive Council (IOC)https://www.internationaloliveoil.org/what-we-do/chemistry-standardisation-unit/standards-and-methods/. (hereinafter, "IOC Trade Standard").(3)At its 116th IOC session which took place on 30 November 2022, the IOC adopted Decision DEC-III.2/116-VI/2022 amending the IOC Trade Standard as regards the limit of Δ-7-stigmastenol for all categories of olive oil. The Union voted in favour of this amendment, in accordance with Council Decision (EU) 2022/2391Council Decision (EU) 2022/2391 of 25 November 2022 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the Council of Members of the International Olive Council, as regards the trade standard applying to olive oils and olive-pomace oils (OJ L 316, 8.12.2022, p. 86, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2022/2391/oj)..(4)In order to ensure the implementation at Union level of the most recent international standard on limit values for the parameter Δ-7-stigmastenol established by the IOC, Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2104 should be amended accordingly,HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: