Council Decision (EU) 2024/1811 of 20 June 2024 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the Council of Members of the International Olive Council (IOC), as regards two methods of analyses and the IOC trade standard for olive oils and olive pomace oils
The position to be taken on the Union’s behalf, within the Council of Members of the International Olive Council (IOC) at its 119th session, to be held between 18 and 25 June 2024, 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 November 2024 on the decisions amending the Trade Standard applying to olive oils and olive pomace oils and of the method for organoleptic assessment of virgin olive oils and the method to determine the content of waxes and ethyl esters of fatty acids by capillary column gas chromatography, is set out in the Annex to this Decision.
Technical adaptations to other methods or documents of the IOC may be agreed to by the representatives of the Union in the Council of Members of the IOC (the ‘Council of Members’) without further decision of the Council if those technical adaptations result from amendments related to the revision of the Trade Standard for olive oils and olive pomace oils or from amendments related to the method for organoleptic assessment of virgin olive oils and the method to determine the content of waxes and ethyl esters of fatty acids by capillary column gas chromatography.
Where the position referred to in Article 1 is likely to be affected by new scientific or technical information presented before or at the 119th session of the Council of Members, the representatives of the Union shall request that the adoption of the decisions amending the Trade Standard applying to olive oils and olive pomace oils and of the method for organoleptic assessment of virgin olive oils and the method to determine the content of waxes and ethyl esters of fatty acids by capillary column gas chromatography be postponed until the position of the Union is established on the basis of that new information.
This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.
Supplementary provisions
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ANNEX
The European Union shall support the following amendments to the IOC trade standard and methods of analysis at the 119th session of the Council of Members of the IOC to be held between 18 and 25 June 2024 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 November 2024:
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the revision of the trade standard applying to olive oils and olive pomace oils COI/T.15/NC No 3/Rev. 19 to insert the new revision of the method for the organoleptic assessment of virgin olive oils;
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revise the method COI/T.20/Doc. No 15/Rev. 10 (Sensory analysis of olive oil — Method for the organoleptic assessment of virgin olive oils) on reports from tasting panels;
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correct the method COI/T.20/Doc. No 28/Rev. 3 (Determination of the content of waxes and ethyl esters of fatty acids by capillary column gas chromatography) regarding the expression of results.
Technical adaptations to other methods or documents of the IOC may be agreed to by the representatives of the Union in the Council of Members of the IOC without further decision of the Council if they result from amendments referred to in the first paragraph.
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