Activities of Mario PIRILLO related to 2013/0140(COD)
Reports (1)
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health, plant reproductive material, plant protection products and amending Regulations (EC) No 999/2001, 1829/2003, 1831/2003, 1/2005, 396/2005, 834/2007, 1099/2009, 1069/2009, 1107/2009, Regulations (EU) No 1151/2012, [….]/2013 and Directives 98/58/EC, 1999/74/EC, 2007/43/EC, 2008/119/EC, 2008/120/EC and 2009/128/EC (Official Controls Regulation) PDF (1 MB) DOC (1 MB)
Amendments (15)
Amendment 96 #
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 rely on the expert assistance of European Union reference laboratories in all those areas of the food chain where there is the need for precise and reliable analytical, testing and diagnostic results. The European Union reference laboratories should in particular ensure that national reference laboratories and official laboratories are provided with up-to-date information on available methods, organise or participate actively in inter-laboratory comparative tests and offer training courses for national reference laboratories or official laboratories. Tasks will be entrusted to European Union official laboratories after it has been ascertained that the Commission does not have the appropriate scientific and technical expertise to carry out activities that would otherwise be entrusted to the European Union official laboratories. The latter laboratories will be chosen through a public selection procedure.
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 60 a (new)
Recital 60 a (new)
(60a) Article 32(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 and Article 21(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 confer respectively on the European Union reference laboratory for genetically modified food and feed and on the European Union reference laboratory for feed additives, specific tasks as part of the authorisation procedure for genetically modified food or feed, or feed additives, relating, in particular, to the testing, evaluation and validation of the method of detection or analysis proposed by applicants. Experience shows that knowledge and expertise in the testing, evaluation and validation of methods in the context of the authorisation procedure is crucial in order to provide a high-level, state-of-the- art contribution to the efficiency of official controls. Laboratories designated as such under Article 32(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 and Article 21(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 should therefore act as European Union reference laboratories for the purposes of this Regulation.
Amendment 310 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 5
Article 8 – paragraph 5
5. Official controls shall be performed as much as possible in a manner that minimises the burden on the operators; to that end, where the same operator is subject to various official controls over the same period, the competent authority shall aggregate them.
Amendment 357 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. To ensure the consistency and transparency of the rating process throughout Europe in accordance with paragraph 3 of this article, the Commission shall establish, by means of implementing acts and in consultation with stakeholders, objective, representative criteria for the rating system to be applied nationally;
Amendment 379 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. To the extent that this is necessary for the performance of official controls or of other official activities, operators shall, where required by the competent authorities, give staff of the competent authorities and staff of the delegated bodies, where specific official control tasks have been delegated in accordance with the provisions of Article 25, access to:
Amendment 494 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 22 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) uniform specific requirements for the performance of official controls and uniform minimum frequency of such official controls, concerning the manufacture, placing on the market, entry into the Union, labelling, packaging, transport, storage, parallel trade and use of plant protection products, having regard, in addition to the criteria referred to in Article 8(1), to the need to ensure the safe and sustainable use of plant protection products and to combat illegal trade of such products;
Amendment 497 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
Article 22 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
(ca) uniform specific requirements for the establishment of a register or database concerning production, packaging and storage facilities;
Amendment 502 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 23 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. In relation to the rules referred to in point (j) of Article 1(2), the delegated acts for the implementation of Regulation No 834/2007 (CE) referred to in paragraph 1 shall lay down rules on:
Amendment 949 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 112 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
Article 112 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) the information on fees referred to in paragraph 2 of Article 83 on transparency;
Amendment 951 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 113 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 113 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the annual reports submitted by the Member States in accordance with Article 112, which shall include the information on fees referred to in paragraph 2 of Article 83 on transparency;
Amendment 1001 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 128 a (new)
Article 128 a (new)
Article 128a Supporting developing countries 1. With a view to ensuring that developing countries can comply with the provisions of this Regulation, measures may be taken, and may be implemented for as long as they continue to have a demonstrable impact, to support the following activities: - compliance with the conditions governing the entry into the Union of animals and goods; - drafting of guidelines on the organisation of official controls on products to be exported to the Union; - sending of European Union or Member State experts to developing countries to assist with the organisation of official controls; - involvement of control staff from developing countries in training programmes or courses. 2. The Commission shall be empowered, pursuant to Article 139, to adopt delegated acts setting out provisions covering the forms of support for developing countries referred to in paragraph 1.
Amendment 1026 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 136 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Article 136 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Irrespective of the financial advantage sought, the severity of the penalties should also reflect the degree of risk of damage to consumers' health.
Amendment 1044 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 142 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 142 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The designation of each of the European Union reference laboratories referred to in Annex VII to Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 shall continue to apply until such time as, in each of the areas concerned, a European Union reference laboratory is designated in accordance with Article 91(2) of this Regulation, without prejudice to Article 91(3a) thereof.
Amendment 1051 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 153 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii
Article 153 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii
Regulation (EC) No 834/2007
Article 27 – paragraphs 3 to 6 and 8 to 14
Article 27 – paragraphs 3 to 6 and 8 to 14
(ii) paragraphs 23 to 6 and 8 to 14 are deleted;
Amendment 1053 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 153 – paragraph 2
Article 153 – paragraph 2
Regulation (EC) No 834/2007
Article 27, 30(2)
Article 27, 30(2)
5. Articles 27(3 to 6) and (8 to 14) and 30(2) of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 shall continue to apply until the date to be determined in the delegated act to be adopted in accordance with paragraph 3.