CELEX: 51985PC0079
Language: en
Date: 1985-03-06
Title: AMENDMENT TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE ON THE APPROXIMATION OF THE LAWS OF THE MEMBER STATES ON EXTRACTION SOLVENTS USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF FOODSTUFFS AND FOOD INGREDIENTS (COM (83) 626 FINAL OF 26 OCTOBER 1983)

23. 3. 85                             Official Journal of the European Communities                              N o C 77/7
                                                             II
                                                     (Preparatory Acts)
                                               COMMISSION
                Amendment to the proposal for a Council Directive on the approximation of the laws of
                the Member States on extraction solvents used in the production of foodstuffs and food
                                                       ingredients (*)
                                                     COM(85) 79 final
                (Submitted to the Council by the Commission pursuant to the second paragraph of Article
                                         149 of the EEC Treaty on 8 March 1985)
                                                       (85/C 77/11)
Following the opinion of the European Parliament on              solvents listed in Part II of the Annex and residues
the proposal for a Directive (2) submitted by the                permitted in food and food ingredients must be
Commission to the Council on the approximation of                established;'
the laws of the' Member States relating to extraction
solvents used in the production of foodstuffs and
food ingredients, conforming to Article 149,
paragraph 2 of the Treaty instituting the EEC,                   3. The twelfth recital is replaced by the following:
the Commission has decided to modify the
aforementioned proposal as follows:
                                                                     'Whereas in order to encourage technical progress
                                                                     Member States should not be prevented from
                                                                     authorizing provisionally under their control, as far
1. The seventh recital is replaced by the following:                 as protection of public health is concerned, the use,
                                                                     in their territory, of extraction solvents not
                                                                     provided for in this Directive pending a final
                                                                     decision at Community level;'
    'Whereas, although in general a specific limitation is
    useful, it need not be laid down for substances listed
    in Part I of the Annex which have been found
   acceptable from the point of view of safety to the            4. The fifteenth recital is replaced by the following:
   consumer when used under conditions of good
   manufacturing practice and whereas such residues,
   in the case of propane, butane and nitrous oxide
   at 1 mg/kg, of butyl, acetate, propan-2-ol and                    'Whereas 18 months is sufficient time for Member
   acetone at 5 mg/kg, and of ethyl acetate, ethanol                 States to take the necessary measures for the free
   and methanol at 10 mg/kg of the food or food                      movement of products complying with the
   ingredient      represent   technically    unavoidable            provisions of this Directive, but in some cases a
   maxima attained only in exceptional circum-                       longer period seems necessary to prohibit the use
   stances;'                                                         of extraction solvents which do not comply
                                                                     therewith so that processes used in the manu-
                                                                     facture of foodstuffs containing residues of
                                                                     extraction solvents can be adapted to the new
                                                                     requirements laid down in this Directive —'.
2. The eighth recital is replaced by the following:
                                                                 5. The following paragraph is added to Article 1 (3):
   'Whereas to take account of protection of public
   health, the conditions of use of other extraction
                                                                     'For the purposes of this Directive "solvent" means
                                                                     any substance which is capable of dissolving food, or
O COM(83) 626 final.                                                 any component of food, including any contaminant
O OJ No C 312, 17. 11. 1983, p. 3.                                  present in or on food.'
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6. Article 9 (1) is replaced by the following:                  7. Part II of the Annex is amended as follows:
   'Member States shall take all the necessary                     In the third column of the indent relating to light
   measures to ensure that the substances listed in the            petroleum, the reference relative to protein
   Annex and intended for use as extraction solvents               products and defatted flours (i.e. 20 mg/kg in the
   in foodstuffs may be marketed only if their                     protein products or flour) is replaced by:
   packagings or containers bear the following infor-              '10 mg/kg in the foodstuff containing the protein
   mation:'                                                        products and defatted flours.'