Food safety: additive in feedingstuffs and in drinking water for animal nutrition

The Commission considers that the amendments improve the text of its proposal and therefore it accepts all the amendments voted by the Parliament: - provides that the opinion of the European Food Safety Authority is made public; - on the renewal of authorisations for feed additives considers that efficacy studies are not necessary to obtain a renewal of the authorisation; - a few compromise amendments previously discussed and accepted by COREPER. They concern: - a reference to the General Food Law(Regulation 178/2002) in a recital; - a priority order for the re-evaluation of additives; - a report from the Commission before 2008 on the use of coccidiostats as feed additives and available alternatives; - specific rules for the labelling of flavours; - provisional authorisation of an additive by the Commission.�