Compound feedingstuffs: marketing, tracing, labelling (amend. Directive 79/373/EEC)

The committee adopted the recommendation for second reading by Friedrich-Wilhelm GRAEFE ZU BARINGDORF (Greens/EFA, D) amending the Council's common position under the codecision procedure. The committee essentially reinstated the Commission's proposal, which was endorsed by Parliament at first reading, to list the exact percentages of the different raw materials used in compound feedingstuffs on the label or packaging leaflet. It rejected the Council's compromise whereby manufacturers need only indicate the quantities of the feed ingredients within percentage bands and should not be legally obliged to show the actual percentages. The committee was adamant that the Commission's original proposal for a full "open declaration" of feed ingredients should be reinstated and also repeated its demand for a legally binding "positive list" of authorised feed materials. It modified its first reading amendment slightly, and now set the Commission the deadline of 31 December 2001 to come up with such a list. �