Progress: Procedure completed
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Former Responsible Committee | ENVI | GROSSETÊTE Françoise ( PPE) | |
Former Committee Opinion | ECON | LANGEN Werner ( PPE) |
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
EC before Amsterdam E 100A, RoP 66_o-p4
Legal Basis:
EC before Amsterdam E 100A, RoP 66_o-p4Events
The rapporteur, Mrs GROSSETETE, recalled that current Community legislation authorised Member States to maintain national laws prohibiting the use of various additives in the production of certain foodstuffs considered as traditional in their territory, provided that certain procedures and deadlines were met. Tight restrictions had been imposed on these measures at member-state level. The Commission therefore proposed laying down various criteria for determining whether a product was traditional or not, along with the national bans that could be left in place. The rapporteur stressed that there would not be any distortion of competition, since for one thing the products could still be produced using the said additives, though in such cases they would not be labelled as a ‘traditional product’. Thanks to an amendment tabled by the rapporteur, traditional products were to be known by the same name, for example traditional German beer, traditional Greek feta cheese and so on; the rapporteur also wanted to see Danish liver paté and meatballs and Swedish fruit syrups added to the list. Commissioner van den Broek was opposed to Amendment No 1, which sought to require the use of labels stating that the product had been ‘prepared using traditional methods’. He agreed with Amendment No 2, which specified that a note be added to each product stating that it was ‘traditional German’, ‘traditional Greek’, ‘traditional French’, etc. However, he could not accept Amendment No 3, which was aimed at including traditional Danish liver paté and meatballs, because the justification for this, namely the issue of public health, did not meet the criteria laid down within the context of the Directive.
The ESC stated that there were no health grounds for justifying this proposal and that steps should be taken to prevent Member States from using prohibitions for protectionist purposes. As a result, it could only support the proposal with the following amendments: - products should be labelled with the words ‘in the tradition’, the name of the country and the product name; - the article and the recitals should spell out clearly that products so labelled could be manufactured in any Member State; - the article and the recitals should spell out clearly that products not labelled with all these three elements (i.e. tradition, country, product name) had to conform to the normal rules for additives, composition, etc.; - Member States should not put any administrative and regulatory obstacles in the way of such products.
Documents
- Final act published in Official Journal: Decision 1997/292
- Final act published in Official Journal: OJ L 048 19.02.1997, p. 0013
- Text adopted by Parliament, 2nd reading: OJ C 347 18.11.1996, p. 0049-0058
- Text adopted by Parliament, 2nd reading: T4-0514/1996
- Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading: T4-0514/1996
- Commission communication on Council's position: EUR-Lex
- Commission communication on Council's position: SEC(1996)1221
- Council position: 07368/1/1996
- Council position: OJ C 315 24.10.1996, p. 0004
- Council position published: 07368/1/1996
- Modified legislative proposal: EUR-Lex
- Modified legislative proposal: OJ C 186 26.06.1996, p. 0007
- Modified legislative proposal: COM(1996)0050
- Modified legislative proposal published: EUR-Lex
- Modified legislative proposal published: COM(1996)0050
- Text adopted by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: OJ C 032 05.02.1996, p. 0015-0021
- Text adopted by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0001/1996
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading: T4-0001/1996
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A4-0278/1995
- Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: OJ C 323 04.12.1995, p. 0005
- Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading: A4-0278/1995
- Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report: CES0973/1995
- Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report: OJ C 301 13.11.1995, p. 0043
- Legislative proposal: EUR-Lex
- Legislative proposal: OJ C 134 01.06.1995, p. 0020
- Legislative proposal: COM(1995)0126
- Legislative proposal published: EUR-Lex
- Legislative proposal published: COM(1995)0126
- Legislative proposal: EUR-Lex OJ C 134 01.06.1995, p. 0020 COM(1995)0126
- Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report: CES0973/1995 OJ C 301 13.11.1995, p. 0043
- Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A4-0278/1995 OJ C 323 04.12.1995, p. 0005
- Text adopted by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: OJ C 032 05.02.1996, p. 0015-0021 T4-0001/1996
- Modified legislative proposal: EUR-Lex OJ C 186 26.06.1996, p. 0007 COM(1996)0050
- Council position: 07368/1/1996 OJ C 315 24.10.1996, p. 0004
- Commission communication on Council's position: EUR-Lex SEC(1996)1221
- Text adopted by Parliament, 2nd reading: OJ C 347 18.11.1996, p. 0049-0058 T4-0514/1996
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