CELEX: 51985PC0607
Language: en
Date: 1985-11-19
Title: AMENDMENT OF THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE AMENDING DIRECTIVE 81/602/EEC CONCERNING THE PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN SUBSTANCES HAVING A HORMONAL ACTION AND OF ANY SUBSTANCES HAVING A THYROSTATIC ACTION

No C 313/4                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                4.12. 85
                                                                II
                                                        (Preparatory Acts)
                                                  COMMISSION
              Amendment of the proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 81/602/EEC
              concerning the prohibition of certain substances having a hormonal action and of any substances
                                                  having a thyrostatic action (')
                                                       COM(85)     607final
              (Submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 149 of
                                             the EEC Treaty on 8 November 1985)
                                                         (85/C 313/05)
Council Regulation (EEC) No . . . of . . . concerning the                                     Article 4
prohibition of certain substances having a hormonal
action and of any substances having a thyrostatic action.           The products mentioned in Article 3 are subject to the
                                                                    rules of Articles 24 to 50 of Directive 81/851 / E E C
                                                                    except for those rules which relate to the national auth-
                          Article 1
                                                                    orization of marketing.
Without prejudice to Article 4 of Directive 81/602/EEC
no derogation may be made from Article 2 of the
abovementioned Directive. However, the administering                                          Article 5
to farm animals for therapeutic purposes of oestradiol
176, testosterone and progesterone and those derivatives            In order to take account of scientific and technical
which readily yield the parent compound on hydrolysis               progress, the group of substances mentioned in Article 1
after absorption from the site of application, shall be             which may be administered to animals for therapeutic
authorized.                                                         purposes, may be supplemented or amended in
                                                                    accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 8.
                          Article 2
                                                                    Any substances which may be authorized:
The substances mentioned in Article 1 may only be
administered to farm animals that have been clearly
identified. The dosage must be recorded and the animal              — must have a favourable          effect on farm   animal
may not be slaughtered before the expiry of the                         production,
delay period laid down in application of Article 3. The
substances must be administered only by a veterinary
                                                                    — must not endanger human or animal health or harm
surgeon or by a person acting under his direction.
                                                                        the consumer by altering the characteristics of farm
                                                                        animal products,
                         Article 3
Before 1 April 1986 in accordance with the procedure                — must comply with the relevant principles and criteria
laid down in Article 8 and pursuant to the relevant                     of Directives 81/851/EEC and 81/852/EEC.
principles and criteria of Directives 81/851/EEC and
81/852/EEC there shall be established:
                                                                                              Article 6
— a list of products containing as active substances the
    substances referred to in Article 1,                            Any decision concerning the possible inclusion of
                                                                    trenbolone or zeranol in the group of substances
— the conditions of use of products contained in the                mentioned in Article 1 shall be taken by the Council,
    abovementioned list in application of Article 2, in             acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the
    particular the delay period necessary and detailed              Commission, and in conformity with the other
    provisions concerning the control of these conditions           conditions laid down in Article 5.
    of use,
— the means of identification of animals.
                                                                                             Article 7
                                                                    The maximum natural physiological levels of authorized
O OJ No C 106, 27. 5. 1985, p. 7.                                   substances shall be published by the Commission.
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                          Article 8                                                              Article 9
 1.   Where the procedure laid down in this Article is to            Directive 72/462/EEC is hereby amended as follows:
be used, matters shall without delay be referred by the              1. The following is added to Article 6:
chairman, either on his own initiative or at the request of             '2.    Member States shall not authorize the im-
 a Member State, to the Standing Veterinary Committee                   portation of animals covered by this Directive to
 (hereinafter called 'the Committee') set up by the                     which have been administered, by any means
 Council Decision of 15 October 1968.                                   whatsoever, substances having a thyrostatic action or
                                                                        substances having an oestrogenic, androgenic and
                                                                        gestagenic action, with the exception of those animals
2.    The representative of the Commission shall submit                 which have been treated for therapeutic purposes with
to the Committee a draft of the measures to be adopted.                 substances authorized for use to that end in
The Committee shall deliver its opinion on the draft                    accordance with Community provisions.'
within a time limit which the Chairman may lay down
according to the urgency of the matter. The opinion                  2. Article 20 (b) (i) is replaced by the following:
shall be delivered by a majority of forty-five votes, the               '(b) fresh meat:
votes of the Member States being weighted as provided                        (i) — from animals to which have been
for in Article 148 (2) of the Treaty. The Chairman shall                             administered, by any means whatsoever,
not vote.                                                                            stilbenes or stilbene derivatives, their salts
                                                                                     or esters, or trenbolone or zeranol, or
                                                                                     thyrostatic substances; and
3.    The Commission shall adopt the measures and                                — from animals to which have been
implement them immediately where they are in                                         administered, by any means whatsoever,
accordance with the opinion of the Committee. Where                                  other substances having an oestrogenic,
they are not in accordance with the opinion of the                                   androgenic or gestagenic action, with the
Committee or if no opinion is delivered, the Commission                              exception of those animals which have
shall immediately submit to the Council a proposal on                               been treated for therapeutic purposes with
the meaures to be taken. The Council shall act by a                                  substances authorized for use to that end
qualified majority.                                                                  in      accordance     with      Community
                                                                                    provisions.'
If within three months of the date on which a matter was                                        Article 10
referred to it the Council has not adopted any measures,
the Commission shall adopt the proposed measures and                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1986.
implement them immediately, save where the Council                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
has decided against the measures by a simple majority.              directly applicable in all Member States.
                       Proposal for a Council Directive imposing a standstill on VAT and excise duties
                                                         COM(85) 606 final
                             (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 21 November 1985)
                                                          (85/C 313/06)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES;                            away with the remission of tax on exportation and the
                                                                    imposition of tax on importation and with frontier
                                                                    controls on taxable persons as well as on private persons;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 99
thereof,
                                                                    Whereas if distortions are to be avoided, such abolition
                                                                    implies in the case of value added tax, a uniform tax
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                  base, the same number of rates and rate levels which are
                                                                    sufficiently close as between Member States;
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-
liament,
                                                                    Whereas the attainment of this objective, in the case of
                                                                    excise duties, requires that the scope and structures of
Whereas the completion of the internal market, which is             the most important excises be harmonized and their rates
one of the fundamental objectives of the Community,                 brought sufficiently close together; whereas provision
necessitates the abolition of fiscal frontiers, that is, doing      should be made to abolish other excise duties, except for