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Legal Basis EC Treaty (after Amsterdam) EC 152
Activites
- 2003/12/12 Final act published in Official Journal
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2003/11/17
Final act signed
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2003/11/17
End of procedure in Parliament
- #2528
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2003/09/29
Council Meeting
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2003/06/19
Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading
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T5-0284/2003
summary
The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Marit PAULSEN (ELDR, Sweden) and made a few amendments to the common position. (Please refer to the document dated 21/05/03).�
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T5-0284/2003
summary
- 2003/05/21 Vote in committee, 2nd reading
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2003/03/13
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 2nd reading
- #2486
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2003/02/20
Council Meeting
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14857/1/2002
summary
Firstly, it should be stated that the Council welcomes the fact that it has been able to incorporate several of the European Parliament's amendments in its common position and that the Commission accepts these and the other changes to its initial proposal. It hopes that this will permit rapid adoption of the Regulation. The Council, the European Parliament and the Commission agree that the Regulation should establish certain basic principles. In particular, the three Institutions agree that the Regulation should: - provide a flexible framework allowing the progressive extension of control measures to additional animal populations and pathogens; and - in principle, cover all stages of the food chain. As a consequence, the common position adopted by the Council encompasses several of the amendments that the Parliament adopted at first reading. The Commission accepts these amendments and the other modifications made to its initial proposal. - Scope : the Council agrees that the monitoring of zoonoses and zoonotic agents ought, in principle, to cover all stages of the food chain, including food and feed. The common position is therefore consistent with the relevant parliamentary amendments. To ensure consistency with the principle of subsidiarity, the common position would leave the control of zoonoses at the level of primary production to national law when such production takes place on a very small scale. The Council considers that it is not appropriate to establish Community control rules to regulate food production activities that have only a slight and localised impact on public health. However, national law would have to achieve the food safety objectives of the Regulation. - Community targets : the Council agrees that: - the Articles ought to contain more detail regarding the setting of Community targets for the reduction of the prevalence of zoonoses and zoonotic agents; - targets ought to be established in respect of all salmonella serotypes with public health significance as soon as is reasonably practicable; - it is appropriate to provide for targets both for breeding and slaughter pigs. However, the Council does not believe that it is yet appropriate to envisage targets for sheep or calves, or for other bovine animals. The common position is therefore consistent with one of the relevant parliamentary amendments and partly consistent with the others.In addition, the common position contains clarification on the scope of Community targets. These would apply to salmonella serotypes with public health significance. Since there are very many salmonella serotypes, and their impact on public health varies greatly, it is necessary to clarify how a list of those salmonella serotypes with public health significance would be drawn up. The common position does this through general criteria contained in the Articles and specific criteria laid down in the Annexes. As regards the timetable for the implementation of Community targets, the common position sets relative dates, linked to the Regulation's entry into force date. This would ensure that, whatever the final date of adoption of the Regulation, therewould always be a proper balance between the need to avoid undue delay in implementing the targets and the need to allow sufficient time to make implementation practicable. The common position also provides for an additional six months between the setting of a target the start of the obligation to carry out testing. This would ensure that Member States have time to adapt and to implement national control programmes. The common position provides for the Commission to carry out a cost/benefit analysis before proposing Community targets. To avoid the implementation of the targets from creating undue burdens for primary producers in the first few years of application of the Regulation, it provides for transitional periods. Each target for poultry would, for its first three years of application, apply only to the most prevalent salmonella serotypes (the five most frequent in human salmonellosis as regards breeding hens, and the two most frequent in human salmonellosis in the case of other poultry). The requirement for the Commission to carry out a cost/benefit analysis would not apply during these transitional periods. However, should the Commission carry out such an analysis voluntarily, and if the conclusions justify it, it would be possible to extend the requirements for poultry other than breeding hens to the five most frequent serotypes during the transitional period. - Specific control requirements : the Council agrees that the specific control measures for laying hens should apply to all salmonella serotypes with public health significance. However, it does believe that it would not be practicable to extend the specific control measures for breeding flocks beyond the two most common serotypes in the short term. Consequently, the common position incorporates one of the two relevant parliamentary amendments, but not the other. To be consistent with the approach adopted for Community targets, the common position provides for relative dates for the introduction of specific control measures. It clarifies that detailed rules on how to check compliance with the objective of salmonella-free poultry meat would be laid down through comitology, at the latest one year before the requirement applies. - Comitology : the Council agrees that, while it should be possible to amend technical provisions contained in the Annexes through comitology, criteria governing such amendments ought to appear in the Articles. The common position is therefore consistent with the objective of the relevant parliamentary amendments. - Intra-Community trade : the common position makes clear that the special measures concerning salmonella that currently apply to live animals dispatched to Finland and Sweden would continue to apply after entry into force of the Regulation. Moreover, as the Commission proposed, the Regulation would contain a mechanism making it possible, for a transitional period, to apply additional requirements to trade with other Member States whose national control programmes go beyond the minimum requirements of the Regulation. The same mechanism would allow the requirements concerning Sweden and Finland to be updated. The Council agrees that it is superfluous for this mechanism to cover food, since the Regulation laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin should containan equivalent mechanism. The Council cannot accept the application of the mechanism to control measures taken to combat zoonotic agents other than salmonella. It believes that it would be disproportionate for failure to have a national control programme approved on time to exclude a Member State from intra-Community trade. Consequently, while it can accept the parliamentary amendment on the first point, it cannot accept those on the two others. - Financial Issues : the Council agrees that national control programmes must have regard to the financial implications for food and feed business operators of control measures. The common position therefore incorporates the relevant parliamentary amendment. In addition, the common position provides for the Commission to report on financial issues and, if appropriate, to make proposals, within three years of entry into force of the Regulation. So as not to prejudice the content of this report, and the outcome of discussions on any Commission proposals within the European Parliament and the Council, the common position on the Directive on the monitoring of zoonoses and zoonotic agents includes a consequential modification to the amendment to Article 29 of Decision 90/424/EEC. The modified amendment would provide for Community co-financing of up to 50% to be available, in principle, for any costs incurred implementing mandatory control measures, enabling the decision on the level of resources to be allocated to Community co-financing to be taken in the light of the Commission's report. As regards minimum sampling requirements, the common position would maintain an obligation for food business operators to have samples taken and analysed, but would not specify who should meet the costs of these activities. To ensure transparency, Member States would have to include in their national control programmes details of any financial assistance provided to food and feed business operators. - Relationship with other legislation : the common position incorporates amendments to ensure consistency with Regulation 178/2002/EC. In particular, Article 2 now imports the definitions of that Regulation rather than repeating some of them. The common position provides for free-standing definitions of "herd" and "flock", obviating the need for the reader to consult separate acts to understand their meaning. - Consultation of the European Food Safety Authority : the Council agrees that the Commission should consult the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) before proposing specific control methods. The common position would also require the Commission to consult EFSA before proposing Community targets. The Council does not believe, however, that it is appropriate to make consultation compulsory in all cases. It should be necessary only in cases where the Commission's proposal would have a significant impact on public health. The common position is therefore consistent with the one of the relevant parliamentary amendments but only partially consistent with the other. The common position incorporates parliamentary amendments: - ensuring that the recitals are consistent with the Articles; - enabling Member States to designate more than one competent authority for the purposes of the Directive, provided that there is co-operation between the authorities and a single contact point for the Commission; - providing for the Commission's Food and Veterinary Office to monitory third countries' control programmes; - on Community controls. The common position does not incorporate amendments: - proposing amendments to the recitals that are not consistent with the Articles or the Annexes; - proposing a political statement rather than a legal obligation; - shortening the deadline for reports; - extending national control programmes to food of plant origin. The Council agrees that laboratories should have to keep pace with any updating of the relevant EN/ISO standard. It considers that it would be impracticable, however, to require compliance with the current standard by 1 January 2004. Instead, the common position would give laboratories 24 months from entry into force of the Regulation to do so. Finally, compared to the Commission's initial proposal, the common position would: - delete the definition of "prevalence", which was superfluous since the Regulation always uses the term in a non-technical manner to describe general objectives; - clarify the procedure for the approval of national control programmes and food and feed business operators' control programmes and the required content of national control programmes; - if necessary to compensate for a different epidemiological situation and to secure equivalent guarantees, make it possible to establish requirements for third countries different from Community targets; - provide for the Regulation to apply six months after its entry into force (that is, at the same time as the repeal of Directive 92/117/EEC); and clarify the minimum sampling requirements and specific control requirements for flocks of breeding hens.�
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14857/1/2002
summary
- #2468
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2002/11/28
Council Meeting
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2002/11/27
Modified legislative proposal published
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COM(2002)0684
summary
The Commission accepts 26 of the 36 amendments proposed by Parliament. These include the following: - the involvement of feed industry together with the food industry in the control measures to control zoonoses; - exempting the production for domestic use from the scope of the Regulation; - requiring Member States, when drawing up national control programmes, to take into account the costs and benefits in order to achieve appropriate distribution of costs; - the FVO will be involved in monitoring the existence of equivalent control programmes in third countries; - broadening certain predefined control measures for salmonella positive flocks of laying hens; - transferring certain criteria from annexes to articles; - consultation of the EFSA is compulsory before adopting decisions concerning specific control measures. Amendments aiming to tighten and add salmonella reduction targets are partly taken into account in the proposal. The target for laying hens is extended to cover all salmonella serotypes with public health significance and a new target for slaughter pigs is added. Proposals to add new targets for calves, other cattle and sheep are rejected. The Commission rejects Parliament's amendment adding an overriding objective to avoid completely the presence of zoonotic agents in the feed and food chain. This objective is impossible to achieve. The Commission also rejected the following: - amendments seeking to add controls of food and other products of plant origin to the scope of the controls; - the addition of an objective to prohibit the use of any antibiotics for preventative purposes or to promote growth in animals. This is outside the scope of the Regulation. - granting transitional additional guarantees for regions with lower prevalence of zoonotic agents; requiring Member States without an approved control programme to be excluded from intra-Community trade in the relevant animals or products; - shortening the time allowed for Member States to submit their reports; - shortening the deadline for laboratories to apply international standards for quality assurance schemes.�
- DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_consumer/index_en.htm', 'title': 'Health and Consumers'}],
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COM(2002)0684
summary
- #2456
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2002/10/14
Council Meeting
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2456
summary
The Council held a policy debate on this issue, on the basis of a Presidency's compromise suggestions and took note that the Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Greek delegations still disagreed at this stage with the current wording on the financing issue. The Council agreed to instruct the Permanent Representatives Committee to pursue the in-depth examination of the dossier in order to report back to the Council at its forthcoming session with a view to reaching a possible political agreement. The Presidency's compromise addresses three key issues, whose main elements are: - Scope of control measures : the Community target established for breeding flocks of Gallus gallus for a transitional period of three years shall cover the five most frequent salmonella serotypes in human salmonellosis. For laying hens broilers and turkeys, during the above mentioned period, Community targets shall cover two serotypes with a possible extension to five serotypes; - timetable for their implementation and their financing : the dates for the implementation of the provisions on controls are expressed in months after the entry into force of the Regulation; - financing of the measures : all costs incurred implementing mandatory control measures would, in principle, be eligible for Community co-financing. However, a decision on the level of resources to be allocated would be taken at a later stage.�
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2456
summary
- #2445
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2002/07/15
Council Meeting
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X017
summary
The Council held an orientation debate on the zoonoses dossier on the basis of the Presidency's questionnaire. It instructed the Permanent Representatives Committee to pursue its work on the dossier in the light of this debate, with a view to enabling the Council to reach political agreement on the proposals later in the year. The Commission presented these proposals - a directive on monitoring zoonoses and a regulation on the control of salmonella and zoonotic agents - in October 2001 with a view to revising the current regulations in order to improve the control and monitoring of these diseases transmissible from animals to man. The Danish Presidency submitted a questionnaire, which was broadly supported by several delegations, with a view to solving the outstanding issues. On the financial aspect, a cost/benefit analysis provided by the Commission when proposing specific targets to control zoonoses and a report on financial issues are envisaged. On the scope of control measures, the setting of clear criteria in the regulation to define salmonella serotypes of public health significance is suggested. The Presidency also suggests a revised timetable for the establishment of Community targets and the introduction of testing depending on animal species and stages in the food chain.�
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X017
summary
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2002/05/15
Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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T5-0236/2002
summary
The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Marit PAULSEN (ELDR, Sweden) on salmonella and other zoonotic agents. (Please refer to the document dated 17/04/02.) Members made it clear that whilst the purpose of the Regulation is to control salmonella to reduce prevalence, the overriding objective in the long term is to prevent zoonotic agents from entering the human and animal food chain by detecting and controlling them at the earliest stage possible. Regions which have achieved a high level of proteciton by means of apporved control programmes should be allowed, during a transitional perid, to impose corresponding requirements in respect ofp roducts imported into their territory. Equivalent measures for the control of zoonoses must also be implemented in third countries exporting to the Community at the same time as measures are applied in the Community. Member States on whose territory an inspection is carried out are under a positive duty to provide all necessary assistance to the experts to enable them to carry out their tasks. Finally, the latest date for laboratories to apply quality assurance systems conforming to the current EN/ISO Standard had been brought forward one year to 2004.�
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T5-0236/2002
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- 2002/05/14 Debate in Parliament
- 2002/04/17 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
- #2377
- 2001/10/23 Council Meeting
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2001/09/03
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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2001/08/01
Legislative proposal published
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COM(2001)0452
summary
PURPOSE: To control salmonella and other food-borne zoonotic agents. CONTENT: The proposed Regulation seeks to encompass a fundamental review towards the control of zoonotic diseases. In principle all zoonotic agents would be covered by this Directive. However, the specific control requirements cover certain types of salmonella only. An extension of other pathogens would be possible should epidemiological studies justify such action. Control activities should take place primarily during primary production of animals and where necessary at subsequent stages of the food chain. The proposal creates a framework for a pathogen reduction policy for selected zoonotic agents in selected farming animal populations. Targets would be set for certain salmonella serotype in laying hens, broilers and their breeders and for turkey and pig breeders. Implementing pathogen reduction systems would be done through the establishment of national control programmes. At the same time however, the regulation encourages own-initiative actions by the private sector. Accordingly, Member States should encourage food businesses to establish their own control programmes. The Regulation further suggests that certain control methods should not be used. For example, the use of antibiotics or vaccination in animals may require future scrutiny. Concerning trade in live animals or hatching eggs, a basic element of the proposal is to ensure that the purchaser knows the status of the holding of origin of the animals. In intra-community trade there is a need to use a health certification system. As regards third countries, equivalent measures would be required for importation of relevant live animals and hatching eggs into the Community. Lastly, the proposal establishes the framework for designating the Community reference Laboratories and National Reference Laboratories and to define their respective tasks. It also lays down the quality requirements for laboratories participating in control programmes.�
- DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_consumer/index_en.htm', 'title': 'Health and Consumers'}],
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COM(2001)0452
summary
Documents
- Legislative proposal published: COM(2001)0452
- Debate in Council: 2377
- Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0120/2002
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0236/2002
- Debate in Council: X017
- Debate in Council: 2456
- Modified legislative proposal published: COM(2002)0684
- Council position published: 14857/1/2002
- Committee recommendation tabled for plenary, 2nd reading: A5-0195/2003
- Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading: T5-0284/2003
- : Regulation 2003/2160
- : OJ L 325 12.12.2003, p. 0001-0015
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