Human consumption: new sweeteners additives, sucralose and salt of aspartame (amend. Directive 94/35/EC)

The Commission's amended proposal fully incorporated 2 of the 8 amendments adopted by the European Parliament at first reading: the amendment concerning the recital on cyclamates and the amendment on the transposition of the directive. The Commission rejected the other amendments. The Commission had agreed to an amendment tabled by Parliament for the plenary requesting to reduce the maximum permitted dose of cyclamates for soft drinks to 250 mg/l and to extend this limit to milk and juice based drinks. This amendment had been deleted when Parliament adopted an amendment in the plenary requesting a value of 100 mg/l for these food categories. In keeping with its position expressed in the plenary, the Commission now proposed to reduce the dose of cyclamates to 250 mg/l in soft drinks and to extend this reduction to milk and juice based drinks.�