CELEX: 51980PC0829
Language: en
Date: 1980-12-05
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A DIRECTIVE to modify certain directives concerning the approximation of the laws of Member States relating to foodstuffs insofar as concerns the majority quorum of votes within the procedure provided for the functioning of the Standing Committee on Foodstuffs (presented by the Commission to the Council)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                         COM(80)829 final
                                         Brussels , 5th December 1980
                   PROPOSAL FOR A DIRECTIVE
    to modify certain directives concerning the approximation
   of the laws of Member States relating to foodstuffs insofar
       as concerns the' majority quorum of votes within the
          procedure provided for the functioning of
            the Standing Committee on Foodstuffs
         (presented by the Commission to the Council )
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    /The Accession, of Greece to th® European Economic Ccmiaunity necessitated
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      •the amendment of the number of votes which- constitute the majority quartern
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        of votes under the procedure of the Standing Committee for Foodstuffs for                                                                    ?
     which provision is made in every direotive relating to the approximation 1 j
     of the laws of Member States concerning foodstuffs .                                                                                            j
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     The majority quorum of votes will change from the forty one votes to
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     forty five votes because of the Accession of the new Member State *                                                                   '
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     The Act of Accession provides in Annex . I. tinder the heading concerning
     the approximation of legislations , a list of most of the directives
     adopted "by the Council , concerning foodstuffs , in whioh. the majority :
     quorum of votes is to be taken to have been so amended.                                                          Nevertheless ,
     by an omission, Council Directive 76/®93/eSC dated 23 November 1976*
     relating to the approximation of the laws of Member States concerning
     materials and objects intended to come into contact with foodstuffs , was
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    Moreover , following the signing of the Act of Accession two other
       directives were adopted by the Council , namely Directive 7 9/693/EEC of
       24 July 1979 concerning the approximation of the laws of Member States
       relating to fruit jams , jellies and marmalades and chestnut pur£e as well
       as Direotive 8o/777/EEC^ of 15 July 1980 concerning the approximation of
       the legislations of Member States relating to the exploitation and marketing'
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        of natural mineral waters *
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       The objective of this proposal for a direotive is to modify in the three
        directives oited above , the majority quorum of vot-as , in a manner which
     will permit the proper functioning of the procedure of the Standing
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         Committee for Foodstuffs for whioih provision is made in the directives *
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    I                Proposal for a Directive to modify certain directives concerning            J
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    i                the approximat i on of the laws of Member States relating to food–           i
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                     the procedure provided for the functioning of the Standing
                                           - Committee of Foodstuffs
       THE COUNCIL OF 3HE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
    Having regard to the Aot of Accession' of Greeoe and in particular Artiole
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  ■ 146 thereof ,                                             j
    Having regard to the proposal of the Commission,
      Whereas , on account of the aooession of Greece to the European Economic
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  , Community it is necessary to change the number of votes which constitute
  ja majority quorum of votes within the prooedure- for the Standing
  'Committee on Foodstuffs provided for in Artiole 10 of direotive 76/893/EEc\
  jin Artiole 13 of direotive 79/693/eBC? and in Artiole 12 of direotive
  , 80/777/EEC3î                                       : .
   HAS ADOPTED OHE PRESENT DIRECTIVEl                         j           *
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                                                      Article 1
       In Artiole 10(2) of direotive No. 76/893/EEC "forty one" shall be replaced
    "by "forty five" with effeot from the 1 January 1981*
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                                                    . Article 2
       In Artiole 13(2) of direotive No, 79/693/EEC "forty one" shall be replaced
  'by "forty five" with effect from the 1 January 1981*
                                                      Article 3
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       In Artiole 12(2) of direotive No# 8O/777/EE0 "forty one" shall be replaced j
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    by "forty five" with effect from the 1 January 1981 *                                           |
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              Tins directive is addressed to the Member States.
             |Done at                                                    For the Council
                                                                        The President
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