do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2169/97 by Hiltrud BREYER to the Commission. Novel food regulation No 258/97 - carrying out monitoring (SUPPLEMENTARY ANSWER)
Date: 1997-06-25
Institutions: BREYER, European Parliament
Subjects: crop production, food inspection, genetically modified organism, human nutrition, new product, research body

8. 6. 98

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 174/7

(98/C 174/26)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2165/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Demonstrability methods

1. Who will be responsible for setting up demonstration methods?

2.

3.

By which authorities and/or private institutions will the controls be carried out?

By what date is this to be done?

(98/C 174/27)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2167/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97

What method will be used to finance the setting up and maintenance of the authorities responsible for monitoring
and assessment?

(98/C 174/28)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2169/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › carrying out monitoring

Are  there  any  initiatives  aimed  at  setting  up  special  laboratories  to  carry  out  the  monitoring  duties  in  food
monitoring bodies?

(98/C 174/29)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2171/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › staff required for monitoring

1.

2.

Are the staffing requirements for the various monitoring methods available, or will they be created?

Are there to be any special training measures for staff?

(98/C 174/30)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2173/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Financial requirements for monitoring

Have additional appropriations been included in the budgets in the light of the likely duties?
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2193/97 by Hiltrud BREYER to the Commission. Novel food regulation No 258797 - Recording of, and safety guarantees for, novel food products (SUPPLEMENTARY ANSWER)
Date: 1997-06-25
Institutions: BREYER, European Parliament
Subjects: consumer protection, crop production, food inspection, genetically modified organism, human nutrition, new product, product safety, public health, withdrawal from the market

8. 6. 98

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 174/9

(98/C 174/36)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2185/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Further development of demonstration methods

What efforts are the Institutions of the EU making to facilitate further development of demonstration methods?

(98/C 174/37)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2187/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Laboratory standards

Are  there  generally  binding  procedures  and  prescribed  reporting  methods  for  the  work  to  be  carried  out  in
laboratories?

(98/C 174/38)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2189/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Submission of proof by applicants

Will it continue to be a requirement that manufacturers are obliged to forward to the monitoring authorities their
demonstration  systems,  including  samples,  antibodies  required  for  demonstration  purposes,  gene  probes  and
extraction records etc.?

(98/C 174/39)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2191/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Submission of genetically modified basic varieties and varieties

bred from them

Is it intended for the manufacturer to submit, in parallels with the tests, both genetically modified basic vartieties
and  varieties  bred  from  them  (given  that  in  some  cases  significant  changes  are  apparent  only  from  a  direct
comparison)?

(98/C 174/40)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2193/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Recording of, and safety guarantees for, novel food products

Is it intended that authorities should keep a record of the foods in which various manufacturers use genetically
modified products so that if, following consumption of such foods, there is an occurrence of a health problem
which cannot be foreseen at present, all the products in question can be recalled?
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2160/97 by Hiltrud BREYER to the Council. Novel food regulation No 258/97 - 'appropriate analysis'
Date: 1997-06-25
Institutions: BREYER, European Parliament
Subjects: crop production, food inspection, foodstuff, foodstuffs legislation, genetically modified organism, human nutrition, new product, seed, vegetable protein

C 82/38

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

17. 3. 98

(98/C 82/60)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2160/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V)

to the Council (25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › (cid:145)appropriate analysis(cid:146)

1. What is understood by (cid:145)appropriate analysis(cid:146) (novel food regulation No 258/97/EEC (1))?

2.

How is monitoring to be carried out?

(1)  OJ L 43, 14.2.1997, p. 1.

(98/C 82/61)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2162/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Council

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Demonstrability

1. What systems are to be set up for the (cid:145)appropriate analysis(cid:146)?

2. What methods will probably be used?

(98/C 82/62)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2164/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Council

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97- Demonstrability

1. Who will be responsible for establishing demonstration methods?

2.

3.

By which authorities and/or private institutions will the checks be carried out?

By what date is this to be done?

(98/C 82/63)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2166/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Council

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Nivel food regulation No 97/258 › Monitoring requirements

What method will be used to finance the setting up and maintenance of the authorities responsible for monitoring
and assessment?

(98/C 82/64)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2176/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Council

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Demonstration methods

In order to distinguish a genetically engineered product from a product which is not genetically engineered, will
only the proof of the protein created by the new gene be used?
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2163/97 by Hiltrud BREYER to the Commission. Novel food regulation No 258/97 - Demonstrability (SUPPLEMENTARY ANSWER)
Date: 1997-06-25
Institutions: BREYER, European Parliament
Subjects: consumer information, crop production, food inspection, foodstuffs legislation, genetically modified organism, human nutrition, new product

C 174/6

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

8. 6. 98

3. What form will the labelling take for processed goods which consist only to a limited extent of products for
which labelling is obligatory (e.g. ready meals with many additives)?

Have any proposals already been made for the form of labelling for the products under 1, 2 and 3, and what

4.
information is to be provided in each case?

(98/C 174/22)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2157/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(23 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Form and content of labelling

Is there any provision for involving national authorities, consumer associations and environmental groups etc. in
making and discussing proposals before the form of labelling is finally agreed?

(98/C 174/23)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2159/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel  food  regulation  No  258/97  ›  Unintentional  inclusion  in  tradcitional  foods  of  substances  for

which labelling is obligatory

1. What  procedure  is  to  be  adopted  towards  products  which,  while  not  consisting  of  genetically  modified
products, may (unintentionally) contain elements of such products?

Is  there  any  provision,  in  these  cases,  for  monitoring  and,  where  appropriate,  labelling  (e.g.  honey  and

2.
honey products with pollen from transgenic plants)?

3.

Are products containing pollen to be tested to ensure that consumption poses no health risk?

(98/C 174/24)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2161/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › (cid:145)appropriate analysis(cid:146)

1. What is undertstood by (cid:145)appropriate analysis(cid:146) (novel food regulation No 258/97/EEC (1))?

2.

How is monitoring to be carried out?

(1)  OJ L 43, 14.2.1997, p. 1.

(98/C 174/25)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2163/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Demonstrability

1. What demonstration systems are to be drawn up for the prescribed (cid:145)appropriate analysis(cid:146)?

2. What methods will probably be used?
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2199/97 by Hiltrud BREYER to the Commission. Novel food regulation No 258/97 - Recording data on novel food products (SUPPLEMENTARY ANSWER)
Date: 1997-06-25
Institutions: BREYER, European Parliament
Subjects: data collection, database, foodstuffs legislation, genetically modified organism, human nutrition, new product

C 174/10

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

8. 6. 98

(98/C 174/41)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2195/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Recording the origins of novel food products

Are manufacturing firms obliged, as part of quality control, to keep a record of the origin of all ingredients used
in food production and, where required, to forward such records to the authorities?

(98/C 174/42)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2197/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Assessing the effects of the consumption of novel food products

1.
How, and by whom, is the monitoring system called for by the Scientific Committee for Food (opinion on
the assessment of novel foods, III/5915/97) for gathering information on the short- and long-term effects of the
consumption of novel foods to be carried out once it has been introduced?

2. What data are to be recorded and over what period?

3. Will the results of the monitoring programme be made available to the public?

(98/C 174/43)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2199/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Recording data on novel food products

What authorities are responsible, pursuant to the novel food regulation, for recording data in databases on all
products which are approved or which have been registered?

(98/C 174/44)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2201/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Access to data on novel food products

Will there be public access to these data banks, or will some data be subject to confidentiality?

(98/C 174/45)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2203/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Publication of data on novel food products

Will both the scientific data that have been submitted and the evaluation of such data be published?
97/402/EC: Commission Decision of 25 June 1997 adopting the forecast supply balance for banana production, consumption, imports and exports for the Community for 1997 (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1997-06-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, EU production, import, supply balance sheet, tariff quota, tropical fruit













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COMMISSION DECISION of 25 June 1997 adopting the forecast supply balance for banana production, consumption, imports and exports for the Community for 1997 (Text with EEA relevance) (97/402/EC)THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 of 13 February 1993 on the common organization of the market in bananas (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 (2), and in particular Article 20 thereof,Whereas Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 provides for a forecast supply balance to be drawn up each year on the basis of a number of market parameters; whereas the main purpose of the supply balance is to establish the outlook for Community production and consumption and the forecast for imports of traditional ACP bananas, and hence the supply requirements for the Community market and the requisite tariff quota;Whereas the Management Committee for Bananas has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its chairman,HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:Article 1 The forecast supply balance for banana production, consumption, imports and exports for the Community for 1997 shall be as shown in the Annex hereto.Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States.Done at Brussels, 25 June 1997.For the CommissionFranz FISCHLERMember of the Commission(1) OJ No L 47, 25. 2. 1993, p. 1.(2) OJ No L 349, 31. 12. 1994, p. 105.ANNEX PROVISIONAL BALANCE SHEET FOR BANANAS, 1997 >TABLE>
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2181/97 by Hiltrud BREYER to the Commission. Novel food regulation No 258/97 - Demonstration of genetic modification
Date: 1997-06-25
Institutions: BREYER, European Parliament
Subjects: consumer information, consumer protection, crop production, environmental protection, food inspection, foodstuffs legislation, genetically modified organism, human nutrition, labelling, new product

25. 2. 98

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 60/109

(98/C 60/185)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2199/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Recording data on novel food products

What authorities are responsible, pursuant to the novel food regulation, for recording data in databases on all
products which are approved or which have been registered?

(98/C 60/186)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2201/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Access to data on novel food products

Will there be public access to these data banks, or will some data be subject to confidentiality?

(98/C 60/187)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2203/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Publication of data on novel food products

Will both the scientific data that have been submitted and the evaluation of such data be published?

(98/C 60/188)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2205/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Transparency of authorizations of novel food products

1.

2.

How will the requisite level of long-term public transparency and information be guaranteed?

Are the consumer organizations to be informed of all the products that have been authorized?

3. What guarantees are there that this information will be complete and up-to-date?

Joint answer
to Written Questions E-2113/97, E-2115/97, E-2117/97, E-2119/97,
E-2121/97, E-2123/97, E-2127/97, E-2129/97, E-2131/97, E-2133/97, E-2135/97, E-2137/97,
E-2139/97, E-2141/97, E-2143/97, E-2145/97, E-2147/97, E-2149/97, E-2151/97, E-2153/97,
E-2155/97, E-2157/97, E-2159/97, E-2161/97, E-2163/97, E-2165/97, E-2167/97, E-2169/97,
E-2171/97, E-2173/97, E-2175/97, E-2177/97, E-2179/97, E-2181/97, E-2183/97, E-2185/97,
E-2187/97, E-2189/97, E-2191/97, E-2193/97, E-2195/97, E-2197/97, E-2199/97, E-2201/97,
E-2203/97 and E-2205/97
given by Mr Bangemann on behalf of the Commission

(17 September 1997)

The Commission is collecting the information it needs to answer the question. It will communicate its findings as
soon as possible.
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2167/97 by Hiltrud BREYER to the Commission. Novel food regulation No 97/258 (SUPPLEMENTARY ANSWER)
Date: 1997-06-25
Institutions: BREYER, European Parliament
Subjects: competence of the Member States, crop production, financing, food inspection, foodstuffs legislation, genetically modified organism, human nutrition, new product, research body

8. 6. 98

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 174/7

(98/C 174/26)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2165/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Demonstrability methods

1. Who will be responsible for setting up demonstration methods?

2.

3.

By which authorities and/or private institutions will the controls be carried out?

By what date is this to be done?

(98/C 174/27)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2167/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97

What method will be used to finance the setting up and maintenance of the authorities responsible for monitoring
and assessment?

(98/C 174/28)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2169/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › carrying out monitoring

Are  there  any  initiatives  aimed  at  setting  up  special  laboratories  to  carry  out  the  monitoring  duties  in  food
monitoring bodies?

(98/C 174/29)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2171/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › staff required for monitoring

1.

2.

Are the staffing requirements for the various monitoring methods available, or will they be created?

Are there to be any special training measures for staff?

(98/C 174/30)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2173/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Financial requirements for monitoring

Have additional appropriations been included in the budgets in the light of the likely duties?
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2191/97 by Hiltrud BREYER to the Commission. Novel food regulation No 258/97 - Submission of genetically modified basic varieties and varieties bred from them (SUPPLEMENTARY ANSWER)
Date: 1997-06-25
Institutions: BREYER, European Parliament
Subjects: crop production, food inspection, foodstuffs legislation, genetically modified organism, human nutrition, new product

8. 6. 98

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 174/9

(98/C 174/36)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2185/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Further development of demonstration methods

What efforts are the Institutions of the EU making to facilitate further development of demonstration methods?

(98/C 174/37)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2187/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Laboratory standards

Are  there  generally  binding  procedures  and  prescribed  reporting  methods  for  the  work  to  be  carried  out  in
laboratories?

(98/C 174/38)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2189/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Submission of proof by applicants

Will it continue to be a requirement that manufacturers are obliged to forward to the monitoring authorities their
demonstration  systems,  including  samples,  antibodies  required  for  demonstration  purposes,  gene  probes  and
extraction records etc.?

(98/C 174/39)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2191/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Submission of genetically modified basic varieties and varieties

bred from them

Is it intended for the manufacturer to submit, in parallels with the tests, both genetically modified basic vartieties
and  varieties  bred  from  them  (given  that  in  some  cases  significant  changes  are  apparent  only  from  a  direct
comparison)?

(98/C 174/40)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2193/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Recording of, and safety guarantees for, novel food products

Is it intended that authorities should keep a record of the foods in which various manufacturers use genetically
modified products so that if, following consumption of such foods, there is an occurrence of a health problem
which cannot be foreseen at present, all the products in question can be recalled?
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2196/97 by Hiltrud BREYER to the Council. Novel food regulation No 258/97 - Assessing the effects of the consumption of novel food products
Date: 1997-06-25
Institutions: BREYER, European Parliament
Subjects: administrative transparency, consumer information, dissemination of information, food inspection, foodstuff, foodstuffs legislation, human nutrition, marketing, new product

17. 3. 98

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 82/43

Joint answer
to Written Questions E-2192/97 and E-2204/97

(28 October 1997)

Without prejudice to the national provisions in this field, it is already stipulated - for example, in Article 5 of the
Regulation quoted by the Honourable Member - that a summary of the notification should be published. The
same applies to the decisions to be taken under Article 7(3) of the same Regulation.

These  provisions  should  make  it  easier  for  a  Member  State  to  implement  Article  12  of  the  Regulation,  if
necessary, in order to restrict or suspend trade in or use in its territory of a food or food ingredient which may
endanger health.

Finally, without prejudice to Article 10 of the Regulation, the national provisions in this field or - if appropriate -
Article  22  of  Directive  90/220/EEC  (1),  Article 14  provides  for  a  report  by  the  Commission  on  the
implementation of the Regulation and for the monitoring (cid:147)of its impact on consumer information.(cid:148)

(1)  OJ L 117, 8.5.1990.

(98/C 82/79)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2196/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Council

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Assessing the effects of the consumption of novel food products

How, and by whom, is the monitoring system called for by the Scientific Committee for Food (opinion on
1.
the assessment of novel foods, III/5915/97) for gathering information on the short- and long-term effects of the
consumption of novel foods to be carried out once it has been introduced?

2. What data are to be recorded and over what period?

3. Will the results of the monitoring programme be made available to the public?

Answer

(28 October 1997)

As the Committee referred to by the Honourable Member comes under the Commission, she should apply to the
latter for information on the programme in question.

(98/C 82/80)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2198/97

by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Council

(25 June 1997)

Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Recording data on novel food products

What authorities are responsible, pursuant to the novel food regulation, for recording data in databases on all
products which are approved or which have been registered?