Foodstuffs: labelling, presentation and advertising (amend. Directive 79/112/EEC)

In adopting the recommendation by Mr SCHNELLHARDT (PPE, D), the European Parliament amended various aspects of the Council's common position: - it reintroduced an amendment relating to the trade description of foodstuffs, which should correspond to the name provided for in the European Community provisions applicable to it or, in the absence of such provisions, to the name customary in the Member State in which it is sold to the final consumer. The sales name used in the Member State of production should be supplemented by further information on the label (where this was necessary to prevent confusion with a comparable product in the Member State of marketing); - it added a derogation for products comprising a single ingredient (where the trade name was identical with the ingredient name or where the trade name enabled the nature of the ingredient to be clearly identified); - it stipulated that starches or modified starches that may contain "gluten" should always be described with their designation of origin. �