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###### **COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMVTUNITIES**

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                           COM(94) 236 final - COD 478

                           Brussels» 03.06.1994

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V» m Amended proposal for a

          EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ANP COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)

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**laying down a** **Community** **procedure for flavouring substances**
**used in foodstuffs**

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        (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 189 A (2)
                    of the EC-Treaty)

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              Explanatory memorandum

In response to the opinion of the European Parliament [1] delivered on 5 May 1994

on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) laying
down a Community procedure for flavouring substances used in foodstuffs [2] and in

accordance with Article 189a of the EC Treaty, the Commission has decided to

amend the above mentioned proposal.

The Commission accepted amendments concerning:

• The order of the recitals because of the importance of the regulation for

   public health.

The Commission did not accept the amendments concerning:

• the recital and the articles forseeing a special procedure for flavouring

   substances made with genetically modified organisms because the proposal

   gives sufficient guarantee for a toxicological evaluation by the

   Scientific Committee for Food and it is not necessary to create different

   procedures for different flavours.

• The transmission of draft measures to be adopted by the Commission because

   of its contradiction with the existing agreements between the Commission

   and the Parliament

• publication of the flavouring substances in the form of codes in order to

   protect the intellectual property because of its incompatibility with the

   principle of the positive list and transparency

• the role of the Scientific Committee for Food in the establishment of the

   positive lists because this Committee has an advisory role and not a

   Regulatory role.

'O.J
2 O.J No CI, 4.1.1994, p.22

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Amended proposal for a

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)

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laying down a Community procedure for flavouring substances
used in foodstuffs.

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In response to the opinion of the European Parliament [3] delivered on 5 May 1994
on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) laying
down a Community procedure for flavouring substances used in foodstuffs [4] and in
accordance with Article 189a of the EC Treaty, the Commission has decided to
amend the above mentioned proposal as follows:

   Original Commission Proposal Amended proposal

                               Recital 2 a (new)

                        Whereas laws relating to flavourings

                         for use in foodstuffs should take

                        account primarily of human health
                        requirements but also, within the
                         limit required for the protection of

                        health, of economic and technical

                        needs

         Recital 5

Whereas laws relating to flavourings delete

for use in foodstuffs should take

account primarily of human health

requirements but also, within the

limit required for the protection of

health, of economic and technical

needs

3 O.J
#### 4 O.J No CI, 4.1.1994, p.22 V

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**ISSN 0254-1475**

##### **COM(94) 236 final**

## **DOCUMENTS**

##### **EN 04** Catalogue number : CB-CO-94-248-EN-C ISBN 92-77-69621-4

**Office** **for** **Official Publications** **of the** **European Communities**

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