18.5.2013 Official Journal of the European Union L 134/1 II (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 4632013 of 17 May 2013 amending Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council relating to fertilisers for the purposes of adapting Annexes I, II and IV thereto to technical progress (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 relating to fertilisers ('), and in particular Article 31(1) and (3) nutrients magnesium or calcium or both. Manufacturers of liming materials face a diversity of national rules leading to a distortion of the internal market. Liming materials should therefore be added to the fertiliser types described in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 in order that they may circulate freely within the internal market. Furthermore, the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) has developed EN standards for the methods of analysis of liming materials. In order to make compliance with those standards mandatory, they should be included in Annex IV to thereof, Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 laying down the methods of sampling and analysis. Whereas: (4) A transitional period should be granted to ensure that (1)  The word ‘kainit’ has been used in Table A.3 of Annex I Fﬁgiﬁrzﬁfsliﬁgfr;;aterlals are given time to adapt to to Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 as the fertiliser type ' designation for crude potassium salt. The word kainit has now come to be associated with only one specific crude potassium salt leading to a potential restriction of trade () Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 lays down for manufacturers wishing to market other sources of the tolerances with regard to the declared nutrient potassium salts. In order to counter that restriction and content. Annex I should be amended to include thus facilitate access to a broader range of potassium tolerances for liming materials. salts for farmers across the Member States, a more generic type designation for those entries should be used for that fertiliser type, and the references to kainit should be adapted accordingly. A transitional period (6)  Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 requires the control of should be granted to producers of crude potassium EC fertilisers in accordance with the methods of sampling salts to adapt the labelling to the new rules. and analysis that are laid down in Annex IV thereto. However, some of those methods are not internationally recognised and should be replaced by EN standards (2)  Lignosulphonic acid is a complex material obtained from recently developed by the European Committee for Stan- different sources of wood. As many different grades of dardisation. quality are commercially available, it is important to adapt to technical progress the quality requirements which the products must comply with in order to be ) placed on the market as an EC fertiliser. (7)  Regulation (EQ) No 2003/2003 should therefore be amended accordingly. (3) Liming materials, also known as lime fertilisers, reduce soil acidity and, in doing so, can also provide the (8)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in () O] L 304, 21.11.2003, p. 1. accordance with the opinion of the Committee estab- lished by Article 32 of Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003,