European Parliament legislative resolution on the common position adopted by the Council with a view to the adoption of a European Parliament and Council directive amending Council Directive 79/373/EEC on the circulation of compound feedingstuffs and repealing Commission Directive 91/357/EEC (13292/1/2000 – C5-0002/2001 — 2000/0015(COD))
Date: 2001-04-05
Institutions: Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, European Parliament
Subjects: EU control, animal nutrition, food inspection, labelling, manufactured feedingstuffs, marketing standard, raw material

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4. Circulation of compound feedingstuffs ***II

A5-0079/2001

European Parliament legislative resolution on the common position adopted by the Council with a
view to the adoption of a European Parliament and Council directive amending Council Directive
79/373/EEC on the circulation of compound feedingstuffs and repealing Commission Directive 91/
357/EEC (13292/1/2000 (cid:129) C5-0002/2001 (cid:129) 2000/0015(COD))

(Codecision procedure: second reading)

The European Parliament,

(cid:129) having regard to the Council common position (13292/1/2000 (cid:129) C5-0002/2001) (1),

(cid:129) having regard to its position at first reading (2) on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the

Council (COM(1999) 744),

(cid:129) having regard to the amended Commission proposal (COM(2000) 780),

(cid:129) having regard to Article 251(2) of the EC Treaty,

(cid:129) having regard to Rule 80 of its Rules of Procedure,

(cid:129) having regard to the recommendation for second reading of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural

Development (A5-0079/2001),

1.

2.

Amends the common position as follows;

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

COUNCIL
COMMON POSITION

AMENDMENTS
BY PARLIAMENT

Amendment 1
RECITAL 6

(6) Accordingly, it is appropriate, at this stage, to impose a
compulsory declaration of percentage brackets by weight for all
the feed materials in compound feedingstuffs for production
animals.

(6) Accordingly, it is appropriate, at this stage, to impose a
compulsory declaration of all the feed materials as well as
their amount in compound feedingstuffs for production ani-
mals.

Amendment 2
RECITAL 8

(8) The declaration of the feed materials in feedingstuffs con-
stitutes, in certain cases, an important item of information for
stock farmers. It is therefore appropriate that, at the individual
request of the stock farmer, the person responsible for labelling
supply a detailed list of all the feed materials used and their
percentages by weight.

(8) The declaration of the feed materials in feedingstuffs con-
stitutes, in certain cases, an important item of information for
stock farmers. It is therefore appropriate that the compound
feedingstuff manufacturer or the person responsible for
labelling supply a detailed list of all the feed materials used
and their percentages by weight.

Amendment 3
RECITAL 9

(9) Moreover, it is also important that the manufacturer of com-
pound feedingstuffs should be able to choose voluntarily to supply a
detailed list of all the feed materials used and their percentages by
weight.

Deleted

(1) OJ C 36, 2.2.2001, p. 35.
(2)

(cid:145)Texts Adopted(cid:146) of 4.10.2000, Item 16.

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COMMON POSITION

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AMENDMENTS
BY PARLIAMENT

Amendment 4
RECITAL 10a (new)

(10a) The BSE crisis and the recent dioxin crisis have
shown once again that the safety of feedingstuffs can
only be guaranteed by a binding definition of permissible
feed materials. The Commission should therefore submit
to the European Parliament
and the Council by
31 December 2001 proposals for a positive list of permis-
sible feed materials for feedingstuffs.

Amendment 5
ARTICLE 1, PARAGRAPH 1, SUBPARAGRAPH b
Article 5, paragraph 1, subparagraph 1 (Directive 79/373/EEC)

(b)

the following point (l) shall be added:

Deleted

(l)

In the case of compound feedingstuffs other than those
intended for pets, the indication (cid:145)a list of
feed materials
used in this feedingstuff and their percentages by weight
may be obtained from: (cid:133)(cid:146) (name or trade name, address
the person
or registered office and telephone number of
responsible for the particulars referred to in this paragraph).

request, a manufacturer of

At a customer(cid:146)s
compound
feedingstuffs shall inform that customer of the percentage
of each feed material included in the compound feedingstuff
in question.

Amendment 6
ARTICLE 1, PARAGRAPH 4
Article 5c, paragraph 2, subparagraph a (Directive 79/373/EEC)

(a)

compound feedingstuffs intended for animals other than
pets:

(a)

compound feedingstuffs intended for animals other than
pets:
in
descending order, of their percentages by weight;

listing of the feed materials with an indication,

(i)

listing of feed materials for feedingstuffs with an indication,
in descending order, of the percentages by weight present in
the compound feedingstuff, expressed in accordance with the
brackets laid down in part C of the Annex, or

(ii) where Article 5(3)(g)

the feed
is applied,
materials with an indication, in descending order, of
their percentages by weight;

listing of

Amendment 7
ARTICLE 1, PARAGRAPH 7

7. The Annex shall be supplemented by the text given in the Annex

Deleted

to this Directive.

(The Annex proposed in the common position is accord-
ingly deleted.)