2002/916/EC: Commission Decision of 21 November 2002 amending Decision 94/652/EC as regards updating the inventory 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) (notified under document number C(2002) 4447)
Date: 2002-11-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, foodstuff, foodstuffs legislation, public health, scientific cooperation

L 319/28

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Official Journal of the European Communities

23.11.2002

COMMISSION DECISION

of 21 November 2002

amending Decision 94/652/EC as regards updating the inventory 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(2002) 4447)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2002/916/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 the fourth indent of Article
3(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Commission Decision 94/458/EC of 29 June 1994 (2)
lays down rules on the administrative management of
cooperation in the scientific examination of questions
relating to food.

Commission Decision 94/652/EC (3), as last amended by
Decision 2001/773/EC (4), establishes the inventory and
distribution of tasks to be undertaken within the frame-
work of cooperation by Member States in the scientific
examination of questions relating to food.

The updating of
tasks should take
the inventory of
account of the need for the protection of public health
within the Community and the requirements of Commu-
nity legislation in the foodstuffs sector.

(4)

(5)

(6)

The tasks should be distributed having regard to the
scientific expertise and resources available within the
Member States, and in particular the institutes which will
be participating in the scientific cooperation.

Decision 94/652/EC should be amended accordingly.

The measures provided for by this Decision are in accor-
dance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on
the Food Chain and Animal Health,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The Annex to Decision 94/652/EC is replaced by the text in
the Annex to this Decision.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 21 November 2002.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

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.
(4) OJ L 290, 7.11.2001, p. 9.

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ANNEX

‘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

Denmark (coordinator)

31 May 2005

Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands, Austria,
Portugal, Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom

1.

1.1.

Flavouring substances

Chemically defined flavouring substances as
listed in the register in the Annex to Commis-
sion Decision 1999/217/EC of 23 February
1999:

— to prepare reports for the safety evaluation
of chemically defined flavouring substances
according to the
evaluation programme
referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EC)
No 2232/96,

— to establish and maintain a physical and
electronic archive of the available toxicolog-
ical and exposure data for the substances
concerned.

3.

Contaminants

3.1.

General questions

3.1.1. Unscheduled and urgent questions:

Italy, United Kingdom (joint coordinators)

31 December 2002

— 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 ques-
tions related to food contaminants

3.2.

Specific questions

3.2.9. Collection and collation of data on levels of 3-
(3-MCPD) and related

monochloropropanediol
substances in foodstuffs.

3.2.10. Collection of occurrence data of fusarium toxins
in food and assessment of dietary intake by the
population of EU Member States.

3.2.11. Assessment of

the dietary exposure to lead,
cadmium, mercury and arsenic of the population
of the EU Member States.

All the Member States (*)

Sweden, United Kingdom (joint coordinators)

31 October 2002

Denmark, Germany, France, Ireland, Netherlands,
Austria, Finland (*)

Germany (coordinator)

28 February 2003

Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands,
Austria, Portugal, Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom (*)

Italy, Sweden (joint coordinators)

31 December 2002

Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain, France,
Ireland, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Finland, United
Kingdom (*)

3.2.12. Collection of occurrence data on polynuclear

France (coordinador)

30 April 2003

aromatic hydrocarbons in food.

3.2.13. Assessment of the dietary exposure to organotin
compounds of the population of the EU Member
States.

8.

8.1.

Packaging materials

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

(*) Norway participates in this task.’

Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain, Ireland,
Italy, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Finland, United
Kingdom (*)

Italy (coordinador)

31 December 2002

Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, France, Nether-
lands (*)

Netherlands (coordinator)

31 December 2002

Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Finland, Sweden,
United Kingdom (*)