We're talking Neptune Bulk Terminals and Vancouver Wharves, all loading facilities that handle grains and grain products.

Member States are recommended to take the necessary measures to ensure that the good practices for preventing and reducing the presence of opium alkaloids in poppy seeds and poppy seed products, as described in the Annex to this Recommendation, are implemented by all operators involved in the production and processing of poppy seeds.

During the consultations, some parties asked for tighter regulation on abandonment of sidings used for loading grain or loading producer cars on the Prairies.

The stakeholders reported problems with divergent practices, depending on the organisation of the operator in the port of loading.

(h)‘user’ means a natural or legal person other than an operator who possesses a scheduled substance and is engaged in the processing, formulation, consumption, storage, keeping, treatment, filling into containers, transfer from one container to another, mixing, transformation or any other utilisation of scheduled substances.

Whereas the characteristic of 'double zero' rape seed is a lower glucosinolate content, which facilitates its incorporation in animal feed; whereas the first subparagraph of Article 2 (4) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2681/83 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 534/90 (4), lays down a maximum authorized content of 20 micromoles per gram for seed of that description; whereas, however, the second subparagraph of that provision provides for a temporary exception until the end of the 1990/91 marketing year to enable the operators to adapt to the new quality requirements; whereas experience has shown that provision should be ma ...[+++]de for a further exception to permit such adaptation;