
Article 1 
The position to be taken on the Union's behalf within the Council of Members during its 109th session from 17 June to 21 June 2019, or within the framework of a procedure for adoption of decisions by the Council of Members by an exchange of correspondence to be initiated before its next regular session in November 2019, as regards trade standards applying to olive oils and olive pomace oils, is set out in the Annex.
Article 2 
If the position referred to in Article 1 is likely to be affected by new scientific or technical information presented before or during the 109th session of the Council of Members, the Union shall request that the adoption by the Council de Members of decisions modifying trade standards applying to olive oils and olive pomace oils be postponed until the position of the Union is established on the basis of that new information.
Article 3 
This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.
Done at Luxembourg, 14 June 2019.
For the Council
The President
E.O. TEODOROVICI
ANNEX

The Union shall support the following amendments to the IOC methods at the 109th session of the Council of Members from 17 June to 21 June 2019, or within the framework of a procedure for adoption of decisions by the Council of Members by an exchange of correspondence to be initiated before its next regular session in November 2019:

— the revision of method COI/T.20/Doc. No 19/Rev. 5 (‘Spectrophotometric investigation in the ultraviolet’) by removing an absolute value and revising precision values;
— the revision of method COI/T.20/Doc. No 42-2/Rev. 3 (‘Precision values of the methods of analysis adopted by the International Olive Council’) by revising the precision values related to the methods COI/T.20/Doc. No 19 and COI/T.20/Doc. No 26;
— the revision of method COI/T.20/Doc. No 26/Rev.4 (‘Determination of the sterol composition and content and alcoholic compounds by capillary gas chromatography’) by revising the title, precision and figure margins and chromatograms.
Technical adaptations to other methods or documents of the IOC may be agreed to by the representatives of the Union in the Council of Members without further decision of the Council if those technical adaptations result from amendments referred to in the first paragraph.
