Additives in feedingstuffs (amend. direct. 70/524/EEC)

The Commission's amended proposal incorporates 2 of the 5 amendments adopted by the European Parliament in plenary. It introduces a new recital highlighting that the rules of Directive 87/153/EEC need to be applied in order to ensure that the additive does not select factors resistant to antibiotics and that there is no cross resistance and it adds a paragraph stipulating a deadline of one year for clearing stocks of additives, pre-mixed feeds and feedingstuffs which do not comply with all the requirements of the directive. However, the Commission rejected the amendments seeking to: - integrate the content of the proposal for a decision laying down the groups of additives into the proposal for a directive (according to the Commission, the directive cannot be used to grant high-tech additive manufacturers exclusive rights); - make provision for the administration of additives other than in feedingstuffs to be allowed only in the case of pre-mixed vitamins and/or trace elements; - amend the comitology procedure (which is perfectly in keeping with Council decision 87/373/EEC).�