Foodstuffs :honey

After having voted to alter the legal basis (Article 100a rather than Article 43 of the EC Treaty) and adopted all the amendments proposed by the Committee on the Environment to the proposal concerning the simplification of the vertical directives on food, the European Parliament, in response to a request from Mr Paul LANNOYE (Greens, B), postponed its vote on the legislative proposals. Mr LANNOYE gave as grounds for his request for postponement the Commission's refusal to accept a large number of Parliament's amendments. �