Activites

• 2008/02/13 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Regulation 2008/107
  • OJ L 039 13.02.2008, p. 0008
• 2008/01/15 Final act signed
• 2008/01/15 End of procedure in Parliament
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• 2007/12/17 Council Meeting
• 2007/12/17 Act adopted by Council after Parliament's 1st reading
• 2007/06/07 Results of vote in Parliament
  • Results of vote in Parliament
  • T6-0226/2007 summary

    The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Adriana POLI BORTONE (UEN, IT) and made some amendments to the Commission’s proposal. These amendments are aimed at reinforcing Parliament's role by extending the areas in which the regulatory procedure with scrutiny should be applied. Negotiations conducted with the Commission and the Council with a view to reaching an agreement ahead of the plenary vote have resulted in a compromise package supported by all the political groups. Compared to the Commission's original proposal, Parliament's role in the execution of the Regulation has been strengthened considerably.It is recalled that on 19 January 2007, Regulation 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods entered into force. The Regulation currently only contains a list of permitted nutrition claims, including a description of their conditions of use. However, it foresees the development of an additional list of health claims based on generally accepted scientific evidence via the Article 13 procedure. This involves the submission of health claims (under the form of concise dossiers providing references on substantiation data for specific ingredient health effects and conditions of use) to national authorities, which will then send their national lists of health claims to the European Commission by 31 January 2008. Following EFSA evaluation, the European Commission will set up the ‘Community list’ of permitted health claims by end January 2010.Moreover, additional procedures have been established for the approval of health claims based on newly developed scientific evidence or including a request for the protection of proprietary data, reduction of disease risk claims and claims referring to children's development and health.The Regulation contains a variety of transition periods which apply to products already on the market, or certain claims already in use. It has currently no transition period for claims referring to children's development and healthParliament provided in its amendments that the regulatory procedure with scrutiny should apply to the following:- to adopt Community measures concerning the labelling, presentation and advertising of certain foods;- to establish derogations from certain provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006; - to establish and update nutrient profiles and the conditions and exemptions under which they can be used; - to establish and/or amend lists of nutrition and health claims; - to amend the list of foods in respect of which the making of claims is restricted or prohibited. Furthermore it provided that when data protection provisions apply, the authorisation restricted to use by an individual operator should not prevent other applicants from applying for authorisation to use the same claim. Parliament stipulated that, where at the applicant's request for the protection of proprietary data, the Commission proposes to restrict the use of the claim in favour of the applicant:- a decision on the authorisation of the claim shall be taken in accordance with the regulatory procedure (i.e the new regulatory procedure with scrutiny does not apply at this point). In such case, the authorisation, if granted, shall expire after five years;- before the expiry of the five-year period, if the claim still meets the conditions laid down in the Regulation, the Commission shall submit a proposal for authorisation of the claim without restriction for use which shall be decided on in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny.

• 2006/11/23 Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
  • A6-0404/2006
• 2006/11/21 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• 2006/10/23 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2006/10/13 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2006)0607 summary

    PURPOSE: to amend the European Parliament and Council Regulation on nutrition and health claims made on foods, in order to align it with the new Council Decision 2006/512/EC amending Decision 1999/468/EC laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (comitology).PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.CONTENT: Decision 1999/468/EC has been amended by Decision 2006/512/EC, which introduced a regulatory procedure with scrutiny (see CNS/2002/0298) to be used for the adoption of implementing measures of general scope which seek to amend non-essential elements of a basic instrument adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty, including by deleting some of those elements or by supplementing the instrument by the addition of new non-essential elements.The regulatory procedure with scrutiny should therefore be followed for measures of general scope designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation.The present proposal aims to introduce in the Regulation a reference to the new regulatory procedure with scrutiny procedure in all cases where the Commission is empowered to adopt quasi-legislative measures within the meaning of Article 2 of Decision 1999/468/EC laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred to the Commission, as amended by Decision 2006/512/EC.Due to the urgency of the matter it will be necessary that the adoption of this proposal by the Parliament and Council take place by December 2006.

  • DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_consumer/index_en.htm', 'title': 'Health and Consumers'}, KYPRIANOU Markos

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2006)0607
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A6-0404/2006
• Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T6-0226/2007
• : Regulation 2008/107
• : OJ L 039 13.02.2008, p. 0008

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)