Annexes to COM(2016)373 - EU position with regard to certain decisions to be adopted in the framework of the International Olive Council (IOC)

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ANNEX

The Union shall support, subject to any future review on the basis of new developments, the following draft decisions on the standardisation for the physical, chemical and organoleptic characteristics of olive oils and olive-pomace oils and on the harmonisation of methods of analysis:

DECISION revising the trade standard applying to olive oils and olive pomace oils (COI/T.15/Rev…): modification of the limit of ethyl esters.

DECISION revising the trade standard applying to olive oils and olive pomace oils (COI/T.15/Rev…): modification of the limits of heptadecanoic, heptadecenoic and eicosenoic acids.

DECISION revising the trade standard applying to olive oils and olive pomace oils (COI/T.15/Rev…): modification of the limit of the specific extinction coefficient at wavelength 270 nm (K270).

DECISION revising the trade standard applying to olive oils and olive pomace oils (COI/T.15/Rev…): official notification of the ISO methods adopted with a view to achieving full harmonisation and inclusion of a reference to the new peroxide value method.

DECISION adopting the new method of analysis for the determination of the peroxide value (COI/T.20/Doc. No…).