Commission Regulation (EC) No 575/2006 of  7 April 2006  amending Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the number and names of the permanent Scientific Panels of the European Food Safety Authority
Date: 2006-04-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: European Food Safety Authority, health risk, operation of the Institutions, plant health control, plant health product, scientific report

8.4.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 100/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 575/2006

of 7 April 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards
the number and names of the permanent Scientific Panels of the European Food Safety Authority

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down
the general principles and requirements of food law, establish-
ing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down
procedures in matters of food safety (1), and in particular the
second paragraph of Article 28(4) thereof,

(3)

(4)

(5)

As a result of the creation of an additional Scientific
Panel on plant health, the name of the ‘Panel on plant
health, plant protection products and their residues’ must
be changed.

Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with
Standing
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

opinion

the

the

of

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

The protection of plant health is an essential factor in the
the food chain, and recent developments
security of
entail an increasing number of scientific assessments of
plant health risks.

for

their

Panel

allows

Scientific

responsible

The expertise currently available in the European Food
Safety Authority’s
for
concerning plant health, plant protection
opinions
products
scientific
residues
and
assessments in the area of plant health to be carried
out on a limited, case-by-case basis only. Accordingly,
so as to deal with the increasing number of requests
for scientific opinions in the area of plant health, the
European Food Safety Authority has formally requested
the Commission to establish a new permanent Scientific
Panel bringing together a wide range of expertise in the
to plant health, such as ento-
various fields relevant
mology, mycology,
botany,
bacteriology,
virology,
agronomy, plant quarantine and epidemiology of plant
diseases.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Article 28(4) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 is amended as
follows:

1. point (c) is replaced by the following:

‘(c) the Panel on plant protection products and their

residues;’

2. a new point (i) is added as follows:

‘(i) the Panel on plant health.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 7 April 2006.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC)

No 1642/2003 (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 4).