Commission Regulation (EC) No 508/2008Show full title

A. DEFINITION OF ‘HULLED GRAINS’ (SHELLED OR HUSKED) AND ‘PEARLED GRAINS’ U.K.

I. ‘Hulled grains’ includes shelled and husked grains U.K.

1. Shelled grains: U.K.

are cereal grains which have a large part of the pericarp removed or bracted cereal grains (see Explanatory Notes to tariff heading No 10.03: grains) with the bracts removed which cling to the pericarp (as for example with bearded barley) or which enclose the pericap so firmly that the bracts cannot be detached by threshing etc. (as with oats).

2. Husked grains U.K.

are grains (in the case of barley, with the bracts removed) which have the major part of the pericarp and tegument (testa) removed.

II. ‘Pearled grains’ include U.K.

1. First class grains: U.K.

(a)

grains which correspond to the following definition:

pearled cereal grains, principally barley, which have the whole of the tegument, pericarp, germ and the major part of the outer layer and aleuronic layer removed, and which are of uniform size and rounded form, and

(b)

which in addition meet the following requirements:

(i)

regularity of the grains:

• 75 % of the grains must not exceed 20 % of the dm(1);

• 94 % of the grains added progressively between 3 % and 97 % must not exceed 30 % of the dm(1);

• 100 % of the grains must not exceed 50 % of the dm(1);

(ii)

determination of regularity by sieve analysis using sieves with round holes.

2. Second class grains: U.K.

grains which correspond to the definition under II.1(a).

(1)

dm = the median value obtained from the graph of the results of sieve analysis at the point at which 50 % of the product has passed through the sieve.