7 Amendments of Giuseppe CASTIGLIONE related to 2008/0050(COD)
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Labelling provides mandatory, voluntary and additional information. The mandatory information should combine basic labelling requirements and specific ones for feed materials or compound feed respectively and additional ones in case of dietetic feed. The voluntary information should be described in a product specification and certified by a supervisory body.
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) As a consequence of the BSE- and dioxin crisis, the obligation to indicate the weight percentage of all feed materials incorporated in compound feed had been introduced in 2002. In parallel, the level of food and feed safety has been meanwhile significantly improved due to Regulations (EC) No 178/2002 and No 183/2005 and their implementing measures, explicitly the focus on the responsibility of the feed and food business operators, the improved traceability system, the introduction of the HACCP principle in feed businesses and the guides to good hygiene practice in feed businesses. These positive achievements, mirrored in the notifications to the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed, justify that the obligation to indicate the weight percentage of all feed materials incorporated in compound feed should be abandoned. The exact percentages could be provided for on a voluntary basis; such information should be made subject to certification by a supervisory body.
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) Modern labelling facilitates a competitive market environment in which dynamic, efficient, innovative operators can make full use of labelling to sell their products. Having regard to both the business to business relation in the marketing of livestock feed and the relationship between the manufacturer and purchaser of pet food, Codes of good labelling for these two areas could be useful means of achieving the objectives of modern labelling. These Codes may interpretshould be in keeping with the framework given for voluntary labelling.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) Power should be conferred on the Commission in particular to decide on products prohibited for use as feed, to authorise feed intended for particular nutritional purposes, to establish a list of labelling categories of feed materials for non-food producing animals, to amend the list of voluntary labelling particulars, to lay down feed certification procedures which also cover voluntary labelling and to adapt the Annexes in the light of scientific and technical development. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, inter alia, by supplementing it, they must be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC.
Amendment 130 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 1
Article 22 – paragraph 1
1. In addition to the mandatory labelling requirements, the labelling of compound feed may also include voluntary labelling particulars, provided that the general principles laid down in Article 11 are respected and that they are subject to certification by a supervisory body.
Amendment 137 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 2 – point h a (new)
Article 22 – paragraph 2 – point h a (new)
(ha) presence/absence of a given substance;
Amendment 138 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 2 – point h b (new)
Article 22 – paragraph 2 – point h b (new)
(hb) percentage by weight of the individual feed materials.