CELEX: 51988PC0088
Language: en
Date: 1988-02-26
Title: Amended proposal for a Council Directive on the official inspection of foodstuffs

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                                                    COM ( 88 ) 88 final
                                                    Brussels , 26 February 1988
                     Amended proposal for a Council Directive
                     on the official inspection of foodstuffs
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                             EXPLANATORY NOTE
At Its sitting on 18 November 1987 the European Parliament delivered an
opinion on the Commission proposals set out in document C0M(86)747 final .
This proposal takes into account the amendments requested by the European
Parliament where the Commission was able to accept them .
The amendments are underlined .
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                     AMENDED PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE
                     on the official inspection of foodstuffs
In response to the opinion delivered at first reading by the European
Parliament^, under the cooperation procedure, on the proposal for a
Council Directive on the official inspection of foodstuffs^, which the
Commission had sent to the Council , the Commission has decided to amend
the proposal as follows :
1.       The first sentence of the preamble is amended as follows :
" Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic
  Community , and in particular Article 100 A thereof ". (*)
2.       The following is added to the first recital :
" Whereas trade in foodstuffs is one of the most important aspects of the
  common market ; whereas all the Member States must endeavour to protect
  the health and economic interests of their citizens ; whereas the
  protection of health must be given unconditional priority and whereas ,
  therefore , official inspection of foodstuffs must be intensified and
  harmonized ".
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^C0M(86)747 final of 30 December 1986 .
 (*) For information : the change in legal basis was notified to the
        European Parliament and to the Council on 23 July 1987 .
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  3.     The following paragraph 3 is added to Article 2 :
  "3 .   The Member States shall not exclude a product from inspection merely
         because it is intended to be exported outside the Community ."
  4.     The following paragraph 3 is added to Article 3 :
  "3 .   Inspection may be carried out without prior warning ."
  5.     Article 5(1 ) is to read as follows :
  "1 .   The following shall be subject to inspection :
         ( indents ( a ) to ( d ) unchanged )
         ( e ) packaging materials ;
         ( f ) cleaning and maintenance products and procedures ;
         ( indents ( f ) and ( g ) unchanged , but become indents (g ) and ( h )).
 6.      The following third indent is added to Article 5(2 ):
       checking by the competent authority with its own instruments of
   measurements registered by instruments installed by the undertaking;".
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7.   Article 6(1 ) is to read as follows :
"1 . Samples of the products enumerated in Article 5(1)(b ) to ( e ) may be
     taken for the purposes of analysis .  A second sample from each
     product must be taken and left at the undertaking so that it may
     have an independant check carried out by a recognized body if it so
     wishes ."
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