CELEX: 51996PC0212
Language: en
Date: 1996-05-21
Title: Amended proposal for a EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL DIRECTIVE amending Directive 95/2/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on food additives other than colours and sweeteners

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                      Brussels, 21.05.1996
                                                      COM(%) 212 final
                                                      95/0114 (COD)
                                Amended proposal for a
           EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL DIRECTIVE
amending Directive 95/2/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on food additives
                           other than colours and sweeteners
            (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 189 a (2)
                                    of the EC-Treaty)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                               Explanatory memorandum
In response to the opinion of the European Parliament1 delivered on 28 March 1996
on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council Decision amending
Directive 95/2/EC of the European Parliament and Council Directive on food
additives other than colours and sweeteners COM(95)0177 - 95/0114 (COD)2 and
in accordance with the second paragraph of Article 189A of the Treaty establishing
the European Economic Community, the Commission has decided to amend the
above mentioned proposal.
The Commission accepts the amendment concerning:
- The modification of the denomination of the substance, which is in accordance
with the denomination used in international trade.
The Commission does not accept the amendment concerning:
    the number H408 to be assigned, since ii is not in accordance with the number
used in international trade, and does not follow rules by which additives containing
the same active principle are indicated by the same E-number completed by an
alphabetical subscript.
- the additional footnote, which is considered superfluous, because the amendment
to Directive 95/2 does not change the strict dispositions concerning babyfoods
already contained in Directive 95/2/EC which includes already the prohibition for
use of E407a.
 1
    not yet published
 2
   O.I C163 29.6.95 p 12
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In response to the opinion of the European Parliament3 delivered on 28 March 1996
on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council Decision amending
Directive 95/2/EC of the European Parliament and Council Directive on food
additives other than colours and sweeteners COM(95)0177 - 95/0114 (COD)4 and
in accordance with the second paragraph of Article 189A of the Treaty establishing
the European Economic Community, the Commission has decided to amend the
above mentioned proposal as follows:
The table in the annex is replaced by the following table:
              Original proposal                     Amended proposal
E407a Alternatively refined               E407a Processed Euchema seaweed
carrageenan
3
  not yet published
4
  OJ CI63 29.6.95 p 12
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