No L 86/14 Official Journal of the European Communities 31. 3. 83 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 778/83 of 30 March 1983 laying down quality standards for tomatoes THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1738/82 (), and in particular Article 2 (3) thereof, Whereas the quality standards for tomatoes are laid down in Annex II/2 of Regulation No 23 (}); whereas those standards were amended by Regulation No 190/ 67/EEC (%) ; Whereas a change has occurred in the production and marketing of tomatoes, particularly as regards the requirements of consumer and wholesale markets; whereas the common quality standards for tomatoes as laid down by Regulation No 23 should therefore be changed to take those new requirements into account ; Whereas such changes entail alteration of the defini- tion of the supplementary quality class as laid down by Council Regulation No 211/66/EEC(5); whereas account should be taken, in defining that class, of the economic importance to producers of the products concerned and of the need to meet consumer require- ments ; Whereas the standards are applicable at all stages of marketing ; whereas transportation over a long distance, storage for a certain length of time or the various handling operations may bring about deteriora- tion due to the biological development of the products or their tendency to perish; whereas, therefore, account should be taken of such deterioration when applying the standards at the marketing stages following dispatch ; whereas, since the products in the OJ No L 118, 20. §. 1972, p. 1. OJ No L 190, 1. 7. 1982, p. 7. OJ No 30, 20. 4. 1962, p. 965/62. OJ No 133, 29. 6. 1967, p. 2795/67. OJ No 233, 20. 12. 1966, p. 3939/66. ‘Extra’ Class have to be particularly carefully sorted and packaged, only lack of freshness or turgescence is to be taken into account only in their case; Whereas in the interest of clarity and certainty as to legal requirements for ease of use the standards thus changed should be consolidated in a single text; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fruit and Vegeables, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 The quality standards for tomatoes falling within subheading 07.01 M of the Common Customs Tariff are set out in the Annex hereto. These standards shall apply at all marketing stages, under the conditions laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72. However, at the stages following dispatch the products may show, in relation to the standards prescribed, — a slight lack of freshness and turgescence, — for the products graded in the classes other than the ‘Extra’ Class, slight deterioration due to their development and their tendency to perish. Article 2 1. The words ‘to tomatoes’ in Article 2 of Regula- tion No 23 and the word ‘tomatoes’ in Article 1 of Regulation No 211/66/EEC are hereby deleted. 2. Annex II/2 to Regulation No 23 and Annex II to Regulation No 211/66/EEC are hereby repealed. Article 3 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April 1983.