CELEX: 51994PC0236
Language: en
Date: 1994-06-03
Title: Amended proposal for a EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) laying down a Community procedure for flavouring substances used in foodstuffs

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              COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMVTUNITIES
                                                                COM(94) 236 final - COD 478
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                                        Amended proposal for a
                        EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ANP COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)
                          laying down a Community procedure for flavouring substances
                                             used in foodstuffs
                  (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 189 A (2)
                                           of the EC-Treaty)
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 ---pagebreak---                                Explanatory memorandum
In response to the opinion of the European Parliament1 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 foodstuffs2and 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.
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 ---pagebreak---                    Amended proposal for a
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)
  laying down a Community procedure for flavouring substances
                     used in foodstuffs.
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 ---pagebreak--- In response to the opinion of the European Parliament3 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 foodstuffs4 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
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