CELEX: 51993PC0250
Language: en
Date: 1993-07-07
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION laying down the groups of additives used in animal nutrition being the subject of an authorization linked to the person responsible for marketing them

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                             COM(93) 250 final
                                             Brussels, 07 July 1993
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                             Proposal for a
                            COUNCIL DECISION
       laying down the groups of additives used in animal nutrition
        being the subject of an authorization linked to the person
                      responsible for marketing them
                      (presented by the Commission)
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                           Explanatory memorandum
The proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 70/524/EEC provides
that, for the safety of animal and human health and to protect the
environment, authorization of additives belonging to certain groups will, in
future, be linked to the person responsible for marketing them.
This proposal for a Decision lists the said groups.
 ---pagebreak---                                  Proposal for a
                               COUNCIL DECISION
         laying down the groups of additives used in animal nutrition
           being the subject of an authorization linked to the person
                        responsible for marketing them
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
and in particular Article 43 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the commission*,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament^,
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee3,
Whereas Council Directive 70/524/EEC of 23 November 1970 concerning
additives in feedingstuffs4, as last amended by council Directive
 ../../EEC^, provides for a definition of the additives which must be
granted an authorization linked to the person responsible for marketing
them; whereas the groups of additives subject to such authorization must be
specified;
Whereas these groups cover high-technology additives with a very specific
composition;
Whereas, in order to make it possible to adapt this Decision, provision
should be made for a procedure introducing close cooperation between the
Member States and the Commission within the standing Committee for
Feedingstuffs established by Decision 70/372/EEC,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
                                   Article 1
Additives belonging to the groups set out in the Annex to this Decision
shall be governed by the procedure laid down in Directive 70/524/EEC for
the purposes of obtaining an authorization linked to the person responsible
for marketing them.
                                   Article 2
Amendments to be made to the Annex as a result of advances in scientific
and technical knowledge shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure
laid down in Article 3.
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4 OJ No L 270, 14.12.1970, p. 1.
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                                  Article 3
Where the procedure laid down in this Article is to be applied, the
Commission shall be assisted by the Standing Committee for Feedingstuffs,
set up by Council Decision 70/372/EEC of 20 July 197 0, hereinafter referred
to as "the committee".
The representative of the Commission shall submit to the committee a draft
of the measures to be taken. The committee shall deliver its opinion on the
draft within a time limit which the chairman may lay down according to the
urgency of the matter. The opinion shall be delivered by the majority laid
down in Article 148(2) of the Treaty in the case of decisions which the
Council is required to adopt on a proposal from the commission. The votes of
the representatives of the Member States within the committee shall be
weighted in the manner set out in that Article. The chairman shall not vote.
The commission shall adopt the measures envisaged if they are in accordance
with the opinion of the committee.
If the measures envisaged are not in accordance with the opinion of the
committee, or if no opinion is delivered, the Commission shall, without
delay, submit to the Council a proposal relating to the measures to be
taken. The Council shall act by a qualified majority.
If, on the expiry of a period to be laid down in each act to be adopted by
the Council under this paragraph but which may in no case exceed three
months from the date of referral to the council, the Council has not acted,
the proposed measures shall be adopted by the Commission.
                                 Article 4
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at         ,
                                                For the Council
                                                The President
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                                    ANNEX
The groups of additives being the subject of an authorization linked to the
person responsible for marketing them are as follows :
   -antibiotics;
   -coccidiostats and other medicinal substances;
   -growth promoters.
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