Foodstuffs and food ingredients: extraction solvents used in the production. Recast

The European Parliament adopted, by 634 votes to 13 with 19 abstentions, a legislative resolution amending the Commission’s proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the laws of the Member States on extraction solvents used in the production of foodstuffs and food ingredients (recast). The report had been tabled for consideration in plenary József SZAJER (EPP-ED, HU) on behalf of the Committee on Legal Affairs. The amendment was agreed between Parliament and Council. It inserted in Annex II Part A the repealed directive with a list of the latter’s successive amendments.