9 Amendments of Marusya LYUBCHEVA related to 2013/0140(COD)
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) For the performance of official controls aimed at verifying the correct application of Union agri-food chain legislation, and of the other official activities entrusted to Member State authorities by Union agri-food chain legislation, Member States should, in all the areas falling within the scope of this Regulation, designate competent authorities which act in the public interest, are appropriately resourced and equipped, and offer guarantees of impartiality and professionalism. Competent authorities should ensure the quality, consistency and effectiveness of official controls.
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 60
Recital 60
(60) Official controls and other official activities should be based on analytical, testing and diagnostic methods that meet state-of-the-art scientific standards and offer sound, reliable and comparable results across the Union. The methods used by official laboratories as well as the quality and uniformity of analytical, testing and diagnostic data generated by them should therefore be improved continuously. For that purpose, the Commission should be able to designate, and when needed, rely on the expert assistancise of, European Union reference laboratories in all those areas of the food chain where there is the need for precise and reliable analytical,sis is to be conducted for the purpose of testing and diagnostic resultis. The European Union reference laboratories should in particular ensure that national reference laboratories, accredited in accordance with European standards, and official laboratories are provided with up-to-date information on, and infrastructure and technical equipment for, the available methods, organise or participate actively in inter-laboratory comparative tests and offer training courses forin the standardisation of methods and uniform interpretation of the results of national reference laboratories or official laboratories.
Amendment 198 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 39
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 39
39. 'control authority for organic products' means a public administrative organisation of a Member State to which the competent authorities have conferred, in whole or in part, their competences for the monitoring and control of the production of organic products in relation to the application of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007, including, where appropriate, the corresponding authority of a third country or operating in a third country;
Amendment 225 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3
Article 3 – paragraph 3
3. Competent authorities responsible for the verification of compliance with the rules referred to in point (j) of Article 1(2) may confer specific official control tasks to one or more control authorities for organic products and organic production. In such cases, they shall attribute a code number to each of them.
Amendment 276 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)
(ba) the information published or made otherwise available to the public must conform to the principles of objectivity and impartiality, must not include data obtained during the conduct of official controls subject to professional secrecy, and must not deliberately seek to undermine the image of the operator concerned;
Amendment 299 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 139 in order establish a single, uniform standard for the application of the controls and verifications referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2. That standard should take into account the specific characteristics of the products and production and cover a group or groups of products subject to official controls pursuant to this Regulation;
Amendment 323 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) on operators and the activities and operations under their control, on their premises, land, crops and processes, on the storage, transport, and the use of goods and on the keeping of animals.
Amendment 328 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Competent authorities shall perform official controls with a high level of transparency and make available to the public relevant information concerning the organisation and the performance of official controlresults of the controls and the conformity of the production and products with the requirements of this Regulation. Where a threat to public health is detected, special measures shall be taken to inform the public of this.
Amendment 545 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 6
Article 33 – paragraph 6
6. Samples shall be taken, and handled in accordance with the research standards applicable to the products concerned and labelled in such a way as to guarantee their legal, scientific and technical validity.