98/177/EC: Commission Decision of 19 February 1998 amending Decision 94/652/EC establishing the inventory and distribution of tasks to be undertaken within the framework of cooperation by Member States in the scientific examination of questions relating to food (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1998-02-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: European cooperation, foodstuff, foodstuffs legislation, human nutrition, public health, scientific cooperation

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 19 February 1998

amending Decision 94/652/EC establishing the inventory and distribution of
tasks to be undertaken within the framework of cooperation by Member States
in the scientific examination of questions relating to food

(Text with EEA relevance)

(98/177/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 93/5/EEC of 25
February 1993 on assistance to the Commission and
cooperation by the Member States in the scientific exam-
ination of questions relating to food (1), and in particular
Article 3 thereof,

Whereas Commission Decision 94/458/EC (2) has laid
administrative management of
down rules on the
cooperation in the scientific examination of questions
relating to food;

Whereas Commission Decision 94/652/EC (3) has estab-
lished the inventory and distribution of tasks to be under-
taken within the framework of cooperation by Member
States in the scientific examination of questions relating
to food; whereas Article 3 of Directive 93/5/EEC provides
for the updating at least every six months of the in-
ventory and distribution of tasks;

Whereas the inventory of tasks should be established and
updated having regard to the need for the protection of
public health within the Community and the require-
ments of Community legislation in the foodstuffs sector;

Whereas the tasks should be distributed having regard to
the scientific expertise and resources available within the

Member States and in particular, within the institutes
which will be participating in the scientific cooperation;

Whereas the measures provided for by this Decision are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Standing
Committee for Food,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The Annex to Decision 94/652/EC establishing the
inventory and distribution of
tasks to be undertaken
within the framework of cooperation by Member States
in the scientific examination of questions relating to food
is hereby replaced by the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 19 February 1998.

For the Commission

Martin BANGEMANN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 52, 4. 3. 1993, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 189, 23. 7. 1994, p. 84.
(3) OJ L 253, 29. 9. 1994, p. 29.

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Inventory of tasks to be undertaken by Member States within the framework of cooperation by the
Member States in the scientific examination of questions relating to food

ANNEX

Subject, nature and extent of the task

Member States to which the task
is distributed

Time limit for
completion

1.

Flavouring substances

1.1.

Chemically defined flavouring substances

Denmark (coordinator)

31 December 2000

(cid:190) To prepare reports for the safety evaluation of chemically

defined flavouring substances

(cid:190) To establish and maintain a physical and electronic archive
the available toxicological and exposure data for the

of
substances concerned

Germany, Spain, France, Ireland,
Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, United
Kingdom

2.

Microbiology

2.3. Microbiological risk assessment

France (coordinator)

31 December 1998

Collection from participating Member States of information on
methodology and data to underpin a process for microbiological
risk assessment at the European level

Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Spain,
Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Austria,
Portugal, Finland, Sweden, United
Kingdom

3.

Contaminants

3.1. General questions

3.1.1. Unscheduled and urgent questions

To coordinate the collection of data in the Member States
required for risk assessment by the Scientific Committee for
Food in response to unscheduled and urgent questions related to
food contaminants

3.2.

Specific questions

Italy, United Kingdom
(overall coordinators)

All the Member States

31 December 1999

3.2.5. Preparation of a working document in support of a EU risk
evaluation on dioxins and related PCBs as food contaminants,
covering the estimated dietary intakes in individual Member
States

Netherlands, Sweden
(overall coordinators)

Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy,
Finland, United Kingdom

31 December 1999

6.

Novel foods

6.1. Collection of data on potential adverse effects of novel micro-
organisms, including those which are genetically modified, on
intestinal flora

Ireland (coordinator)

31 December 1998

Denmark, Germany, Spain, Italy,
Netherlands, United Kingdom

7.

Nutrition, allergies and health

7.2. Consideration of

for appropirate
the epidemiological basis
measures for the protection of public health in respect of food
allergy

United Kingdom (coordinator)

30 June 1998

Belgium, Denmark, Germany,
Greece, France, Ireland, Italy,
Netherlands, Portugal, Finland,
Sweden

8.

8.1.

Packaging materials

Preparation of summary data sheets or reports for the risk assess-
ment of the substances used for or present in food contact
materials

Netherlands (coordinator)

31 December 2002

Denmark, Germany, France, Italy,
Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom