99/634/EC: Commission Decision of 9 September 1999 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 (notified under document number C(1999) 2705)(Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1999-09-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: European cooperation, foodstuff, foodstuffs legislation, human nutrition, public health, scientific cooperation

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 9 September 1999

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

(notified under document number C(1999) 2705)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(1999/634/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 examination of questions
relating to food (1), and in particular Article 3 thereof,

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

(2) Whereas Commission Decision 94/652/EC (3) has estab-
tasks to be
lished the inventory and distribution of
undertaken 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 inventory and distribution of tasks;

(3) Whereas the inventory of tasks should be established
and updated having regard to the need for the protec-
tion of public health within the Community and the
requirements of Community legislation in the foodstuffs
sector;

(4) 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;

(5) Whereas the measures provided for by this Decision are
the Standing

in accordance with the opinion of
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 frame-
work of cooperation by Member States in the scientific exam-
ination of questions relating to food is hereby replaced by the
Annex to this Decision.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 9 September 1999.

For the Commission

Karel VAN MIERT

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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ANNEX

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

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 flavouriong substances

Denmark (coordinator)

31 December 2000

— To prepare reports for the safety evaluation of chemically defined

flavouring substances

— To establish and maintain a physical and electronic archive of the
available toxicological an exposure data for the substances concerned

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

2.

Microbiology

2.3. Microbiological risk assessment

France (coordinator)

30 Juni 1999

Collection from participating Member States of information on methodo-
logy 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 (1)

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 unsched-
uled and urgent questions related to food contaminants

3.2.

Specific questions

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

3.2.6. Provision of validated methods to support
regarding 3-monochloropropanediol
protein (HVP) and other foods

(3-MCPD)

the SCF recommendations
in hydrolised vegetable

Italy, United Kingdom
(joint coordinators)

All the Member States (1)

31 December 2000

Netherlands, Sweden
(joint coordinators)

31 December 1999

Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France,
Italy, Finland, United Kingdom (1)

United Kingdom (coordinator)

30 June 2000

Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain,
Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Austria (1)

3.2.7. Évaluation de l'absorption alimentaire d'ochratoxine A par la population

Italy (of coordinator)

31 December 2000

des États membres de l'UE

Denmark, Germany, Spain, France,
Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal,
Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom (1)

7.

Nutrition, allergies and health

7.3.

Collection of data on products intended for use in very low calorie diets

Netherlands (coordinator)

1 September 2000

7.4.

Study of the enzymes used in foodstuffs and collation of data on their
safety

Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France,
Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Finland,
Sweden, United Kingdom (1)

France (coordinator)

31 December 1999

Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain,
Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal,
Finland, United Kingdom

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Subject, nature and extent of the task

Member States to which
the task is distributed

Time limit for
completion

8.

8.1.

9.

9.1.

Packaging materials

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

Official food control

Preparation of a working document in support of the uniform inter-
pretation of
legislative standards and the laboratory quality standards
prescribed under Directive 93/99/EEC

Netherlands (coordinator)

31 December 2002

Denmark, Germany, France, Ireland,
Italy, Finland, Sweden, United
Kingdom (1)

United Kingdom (coordinator)

31 December 2000

Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece,
Spain, France, Ireland, Italy,
Netherlands, Austria, Portugal,
Finland, Sweden (1)

(1) Norway participates in this task.