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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1372/97 by Daniel VARELA SUANZES- CARPEGNA to the Commission. Experiments on animals to monitor marine biotoxins in bivalve molluscs
Date: 1997-04-21
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: animal experimentation, consumer protection, food inspection, health control, marketing standard, mollusc, product quality, research method, toxic substance













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1372/97 by Daniel VARELA SUANZES- CARPEGNA to the Commission. Experiments on animals to monitor marine biotoxins in bivalve molluscs  


Official Journal C 045 , 10/02/1998 P. 0024 





WRITTEN QUESTION E-1372/97 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna (PPE) to the Commission (21 April 1997)Subject: Experiments on animals to monitor marine biotoxins in bivalve molluscsAccording to press reports the Commission is considering the possibility of proposing that the ban on animal experimentation to monitor marine biotoxins (DSP, PSP and ASP) be postponed.Can the Commission say whether:1. such reports are true?2. it might not be advisable to validate other alternative methods?3. it does not consider that at present and in view of the advances made in this field in recent years and the prospects for validation, the funding of research and the activities of the Community Reference Laboratory for marine biotoxins to find alternative methods might be an important objective for the laboratory?4. it considers the phosphatase inhibition method to monitor marine biotoxins in the DSP group to be an alternative to bivalve mollusc bioassay using rats? Could it be validated? What would the validation procedure be?Answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission (29 May 1997)Directive 91/492/EEC laying down the health conditions for the production and the placing on the market of live bivalve molluscs ((OJ L 268, 24.9.1991. )) stipulates that the paralytic shellfish poison (PSP) content in bivalve molluscs must be checked using the biological testing method, in association if necessary with a chemical method for detection of saxitoxin. If the results are challenged, the reference method is the biological method. Similarly, the Directive provides for the customary biological testing methods to be used to test for diarrhetic shellfish poison (DSP).The Commission may, after receiving the opinion of the Standing Veterinary Committee, recognize other analysis methods providing an equivalent level of consumer health protection. The Community Reference Laboratory for marine biotoxins is working in close cooperation with the national reference laboratories and the Commission to identify and validate new analysis techniques not requiring animal tests.The Commission does not intend to prohibit the analysis techniques laid down in Directive 91/492/EEC until scientific evidence shows that an equivalent level of consumer health protection can be guaranteed by alternative techniques.
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1369/97 by Abdelkader MOHAMED ALI to the Commission. Abolition of export refunds in the sector of milk and milk products exported to Ceuta and Melilla
Date: 1997-04-21
Institutions: European Parliament, MOHAMED ALI
Subjects: Ceuta and Melilla, EU production, GATT, cheese, export licence, export refund, international competition, milk, milk product













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1369/97 by Abdelkader MOHAMED ALI to the Commission. Abolition of export refunds in the sector of milk and milk products exported to Ceuta and Melilla  


Official Journal C 391 , 23/12/1997 P. 0075 





WRITTEN QUESTION E-1369/97 by Abdelkader Mohamed Ali (GUE/NGL) to the Commission (21 April 1997)Subject: Abolition of export refunds in the sector of milk and milk products exported to Ceuta and MelillaRegulation (EC) No 756/96 ((OJ L 103, 26.4.1996, p. 13. )) does not establish export refunds for products under CN code 406 destined for Ceuta and Melilla. In view of the isolated position of these territories, products sent there become more expensive and this problem becomes worse in the case of essential products. Other territories with similar characteristics have a special system for the supply of basic products.The absence of refunds makes the products more expensive and hence has repercussions on the services sector. This is a particularly serious situation, in view of the fact that Melilla's GDP is among the lowest and its rate of unemployment among the highest in the European Union.In view of this, will the Commission consider establishing export refunds for products under CN code 406 destined for Ceuta and Melilla?Answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission (23 May 1997)The Honourable Member is asked to refer to the answer to Written Question E-2836/96 by Mr Viola and others ((OJ C 91, 20.3.1997. )), in which the Commission explained the constraints arising from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), indicated the means at its disposal for respecting its commitments under that Agreement and at the same time preserving to a maximum the Community's milk product exports, and specified the criteria used for differentiating refunds by destination and abolishing them for certain destinations.Given the substantial reduction on refunds in cheeses that have been made since then any reintroduction of refunds for Ceuta and Melilla would have little impact on prices or the service sector.In the light of the above, the Commission is not in a position to reintroduce refunds for products of CN code 0406 exported to Ceuta and Melilla.