12 Amendments of Heide RÜHLE related to 2008/0002(COD)
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) However, foods derived from cloned animals and their descendants should be excluded from the scope of this Regulation. They should be dealt with in a specific regulation, adopted under the codecision procedure, and not be subject to the common procedure. Pending the entry into force of this Regulation, the Commission should put forward a corresponding legislative proposal. Pending the entry into force of a regulation on cloned animals, a moratorium should be imposed on the placing on the market of foods manufactured from cloned animals and their descendants.
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 6 b (new)
Recital 6 b (new)
(6b) Little is known at present about the health implications of foods containing nanoparticles manufactured by means of nanotechnological procedures. In keeping with the precautionary principle, the use of nanoparticles in the manufacturing of foods should be suspended until scientific findings concerning the implications of their use are available.
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 10 a (new)
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) Foods of animal origin manufactured by feeding animals with genetically modified products are not at present labelled as such. In order to create transparency for consumers and to prevent distortions of competition on the market for feedingstuffs and animal products, this Regulation should lay down provisions governing the labelling of these products.
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 2 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notwithstanding paragraph 2(b), this Regulation shall lay down labelling rules for foods manufactured from animals fed with genetically modified feedingstuffs.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 2 – paragraph 3
Article 2 – paragraph 3
3. Where necessary, it may be determined in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 14(23) whether a type of food falls within the scope of this Regulation.
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
(a) "novel food" means in this Regulation: (i) food that has not been used for human consumption to a significant degree within the Community before 15 May 1997; and does not fall within the scope of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003. The use of a food exclusively as or in a food supplement shall not be sufficient to show whether it has been used for human consumption to a significant degree within the Community before 15 May 1997. However, if a food has been used exclusively as or in a food supplement prior that date, it can be placed on the Community market after that date for the same use without being considered as novel food. Further criteria for assessing if a food has been used for human consumption to a significant degree within the Community before 15 May 1997, which are designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, inter alia by supplementing it, may be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 14(3). (ii) food of plant or animal origin when to the plant and animal is applied a non- traditional breeding technique not used before 15 May 1997 and the food does not fall within the scope of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003; and (iii) food to which is applied a new production process, not used before 15 May 1997, where that production process gives rise to significant changes in the composition or structure of the food which affect its nutritional value, metabolism or level of undesirable substances, and the food does not fall within the scope of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – letter a – point ii
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – letter a – point ii
(ii) food of plant or animal origin when to the plant and animal is applied a non- traditional breeding technique not used- not including cloning - not used commercially before 15 May 1997; and
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – letter b a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – letter b a (new)
(ba) ‘produced from animals fed with genetically modified feedingstuffs’ means that feedingstuffs containing genetically modified organisms were used to feed the animals from which the food in question originates.
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 6 – paragraph 2 (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 2 (new)
Where there is no scientific evidence as to the health implications of a novel food, the food may not be included in the Community list.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 6 – paragraph 3 (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 3 (new)
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. By way of derogation from the third paragraph of Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No [common procedure], the updating of the Community list with a novel food, other than traditional food from third countries, shall be decided in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 14(23) in cases where newly developed scientific evidence and proprietary data are protected in accordance with Article 12.
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 11 a (new)
Article 11 a (new)