L 276/62 Official Journal of the European Union 21.10.2011 COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION of 20 October 2011 amending Implementing Decision 2011/303/EU as regards the date of application (notified under document C(2011) 7373) (Only the Dutch text is authentic) (2011/700/EU) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agri- cultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agri- cultural products (Single CMO Regulation) ('), and in particular Article 43(m), in conjunction with Article 4 thereof, Whereas: (1) By Commission Implementing Decision 2011/303/EU (?) the use of new methods for grading pig carcasses in the Netherlands was authorised. That Decision is to apply from 3 October 2011. On 9 September 2011 the competent authorities of the Netherlands informed the Commission about practical problems in several slaught- erhouses with the timely implementation of the new methods and asked to postpone the application until 2 January 2012. (2 Implementing Decision 2011/303/EU should therefore be amended accordingly. (3)  The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of the Agri- cultural Markets, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Article 1 In Article 4 of Implementing Decision 2011/303/EU, ‘3 October 2011" is replaced by ‘2 January 2012 Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Done at Brussels, 20 October 2011. For the Commission Dacian CIOLOS Member of the Commission () O] L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1. () O] L 136, 24.5.2011, p. 95.