Article 1U.K.
1.The Community methods for the analysis of wine making it possible, in the context of commercial transactions and all control operations, to:
establish the composition of the products listed in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87,
check whether these products have been subjected to treatments in violation of authorized oenological practice,
are those set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
2.For substances for which reference methods and usual methods are prescribed, the results obtained by the use of the reference methods shall prevail.
Article 2U.K.
For the purposes of applying this Regulation:
the repeatability shall be the value below which the absolute difference between the two single test results obtained on identical test material, under the same conditions (same operator, same apparatus, same laboratory and a short interval of time), may be expected to lie with a specified probability;
the reproducibility shall be the value below which the absolute difference between two single test results obtained identical test material, under different conditions (different operators, different apparatus and/or different laboratories and/or different time), may be expected to lie with a specified probability.
The term ‘single test result’ shall be the value obtained when the standardized test method is applied fully and once to a single sample.
Unless otherwise stated, the probability shall be 95 %.
Article 3U.K.
1.Automated analytical methods shall be acceptable, under the responsibility of the Director of a laboratory on condition that the accuracy, repeatability and reproducibility of the results are at least equivalent to those of the results obtained by the analytical methods listed in the Annex.
Where a dispute arises, the methods listed in the Annex may not be replaced by automated methods.
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Textual Amendments
Textual Amendments
Article 4U.K.
Wherever mention is made of water for solution, dilution, or washing purposes, this shall mean distilled water or demineralized water of equivalent purity. All chemicals shall be of analytical reagent quality except where otherwise specified.
Article 5U.K.
Regulation (EEC) No 1108/82 is repealed.
However Article 1 (4) of that Regulation shall apply until 31 December 1990.
Article 6U.K.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply with effect from 1 October 1990.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.