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II 
(Preparatory Acts) 
COMMISSION 
Amendment to the proposal for a Council Directive on the approximation of the laws of 
the Member States on extraction solvents used in the production of foodstuffs and food 
ingredients (*) 
COM(85) 79 final 
(Submitted to the Council by the Commission pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 
149 of the EEC Treaty on 8 March 1985) 
(85/C 77/11) 
Following the opinion of the European Parliament on 
the proposal for a Directive (2) submitted by the 
Commission to the Council on the approximation of 
the laws of the' Member States relating to extraction 
solvents used in the production of foodstuffs and 
food ingredients, conforming to Article 149, 
paragraph 2 of the Treaty instituting the EEC, 
the Commission has decided to modify the 
aforementioned proposal as follows: 
1. The seventh recital is replaced by the following: 
'Whereas, although in general a specific limitation is 
useful, it need not be laid down for substances listed 
in Part I of the Annex which have been found 
acceptable from the point of view of safety to the 
consumer when used under conditions of good 
manufacturing practice and whereas such residues, 
in the case of propane, butane and nitrous oxide 
at 1 mg/kg, of butyl, acetate, propan-2-ol and 
acetone at 5 mg/kg, and of ethyl acetate, ethanol 
and methanol at 10 mg/kg of the food or food 
ingredient represent technically unavoidable 
maxima attained only in exceptional circum­
stances;' 
2. The eighth recital is replaced by the following: solvents listed in Part II of the Annex and residues 
permitted in food and food ingredients must be 
established;' 
3. The twelfth recital is replaced by the following: 
'Whereas in order to encourage technical progress 
Member States should not be prevented from 
authorizing provisionally under their control, as far 
as protection of public health is concerned, the use, 
in their territory, of extraction solvents not 
provided for in this Directive pending a final 
decision at Community level;' 
4. The fifteenth recital is replaced by the following: 
'Whereas 18 months is sufficient time for Member 
States to take the necessary measures for the free 
movement of products complying with the 
provisions of this Directive, but in some cases a 
longer period seems necessary to prohibit the use 
of extraction solvents which do not comply 
therewith so that processes used in the manu­
facture of foodstuffs containing residues of 
extraction solvents can be adapted to the new 
requirements laid down in this Directive —'. 
'Whereas to take account of protection of public 
health, the conditions of use of other extraction 
O COM(83) 626 final. 
O OJ No C 312, 17. 11. 1983, p. 3. 5. The following paragraph is added to Article 1 (3): 
'For the purposes of this Directive "solvent" means 
any substance which is capable of dissolving food, or 
any component of food, including any contaminant 
present in or on food.' 
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6. Article 9 (1) is replaced by the following: 
'Member States shall take all the necessary 
measures to ensure that the substances listed in the 
Annex and intended for use as extraction solvents 
in foodstuffs may be marketed only if their 
packagings or containers bear the following infor­
mation:' 7. Part II of the Annex is amended as follows: 
In the third column of the indent relating to light 
petroleum, the reference relative to protein 
products and defatted flours (i.e. 20 mg/kg in the 
protein products or flour) is replaced by: 
'10 mg/kg in the foodstuff containing the protein 
products and defatted flours.'