23.8.2002 Official Journal of the European Communities L227/51 COMMISSION DECISION of 13 August 2002 amending Decision 2001/651/EC establishing the typical process standard deviation of the fat content of butter imported from New Zealand under Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1374/98 laying down detailed rules for the application of the import arrangements and opening tariff quotas for milk and milk products and repealing Decision 2000/432/EC (notified under document number C(2002) 3157) (2002/667EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk and milk products (!), as last amended by Commission Regula- tion (EC) No 509/2002 (3, Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 of 14 December 2001 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards the import arrangements for milk and milk products and opening tariff quotas (}), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1165/ 2002 (*), and in particular Article 40(1) thereof, Whereas: (1) Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 lays down a procedure for the verification of the fat content of New Zealand butter presented for release into free circulation in the Community under the current access quota speci- fied under quota number 09.4589 of Annex IILA to that Regulation. This procedure is based on statistical princi- ples. An essential element of this procedure is the use of a typical process standard deviation of the fat content of butter made according to a defined specification in a specified production plant and known in advance by the control authorities in Member States where the declara- tion for release into free circulation in the Community is presented. The identification of the factories and the corresponding typical process standard deviation are contained in Commission Decision 2001/651/EC (°). 1 () OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48. () OJL79,22.3.2002, p. 15. () OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 29. () OJ L 170, 29.6.2002, p. 49. () OJ L 229, 25.8.2001, p. 24. 5 (2)  The New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s Food Assurance Authority (MAF Food) by letter dated 5 July 2002 notified the Commission of new registered factory names and in some cases new registered factory numbers. The Annex to Decision 2001/651/EC should therefore be amended, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Article 1 The Annex to Decision 2001/651/EC is replaced by the Annex to this Decision. Atticle 2 This Decision shall apply to imports of butter in respect of which IMA 1 certificates were issued from the third day following the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. Atrticle 3 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 13 August 2002. For the Commission J. M. SILVA RODRIGUEZ Agriculture Director-General