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Commission Regulation (EC) No 217/2002 Article 4

Article 4

1. The Member States or the signatories to the contracts referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 may agree: - to reduce the limit fixed in Article 2(2) for any of the products concerned, fix specific limits for each of the defects referred to in Article 3 or increase the minimum size referred to in Article 3(c), - to define defects in addition to those referred to in Article 3, in respect of which the percentage of defective fruit is to be included in the total referred to in Article 2(2). 2. The Member States may authorise the contracting parties to increase the limit fixed in Article 2(2) by a maximum of 15 % for each of the products concerned. 3. The provisions adopted under this Article shall be specified in the contracts.

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