No L 183/14 Official Journal of the European Communities 19. 7. 94 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1758/94 of 18 July 1994 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1725/79 on the rules for granting aid to skimmed milk processed into compound feedingstuffs and skimmed-milk powder intended for feed for calves THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in milk and milk products, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 230/94 (%), and in particular Article 10 (3) thereof, Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (1) of Commission Regula- tion (EEC) No 1725/79 (%), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1553/94 (%), the granting of aid for skimmed-milk powder processed into compound feedingstuffs is condi- tional upon the requirement that the latter contains not less than 2 kilograms of starch or puffed starch per 100 kilograms of finished product; Whereas Annex II footnote 2 of that Regulation specifies the laboratory methods of analysis applicable for quantita- tive starch determination; whereas, on the basis of experience which has shown these methods to be unsui- table in certain cases for the detection of starch at these low levels, it is necessary to allow Member States to use alternative methods for starch analysis; Whereas the Management Committee for Milk and Milk Products has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its chairman, : HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 1725/79 is modified as follows : 1. The annex to this Regulation is added as Annex V. 2. In Annex II, footnote 2 is replaced as follows : ‘(» The starch content is ascertained either by a quan- titative laboratory analysis, or by the control measures referred to in Article 10 (2) b which must be supplemented by the qualitative method of analysis outlined in Annex V. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September 1994. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Bmsseis, 18 July 1994. () OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13. () OJ No L 30, 3. 2. 1994, p. 1. % OJ No L 199, 1. 8. 1979, p. 1. () OJ No L 166, 1. 7. 1994, p. 49. For the Commission René STEICHEN Member of the Commission