Food and food ingredients treated with ionising radiation

PURPOSE: to establish a Community list of foods and food ingredients treated with ionising radiation. COMMUNITY MEASURE: directive 1999/3/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council. CONTENT: the implementing directive of framework directive 1999/2/EC establishes, without prejudice to the definitive Community positive list, an initial positive list of food and food ingredients, hereinafter referred to as "foodstuffs", that may be treated with ionising radiation. This liste is limited to a single category of foodstuff (dried aromatic herbs, spices and vegetable seasonings). Other foodstuffs may be added to this list, but only as a result of a codecision procedure. In the meantime, the Member States may, under certain conditions, maintain existing restrictions. ENTRY INTO FORCE: 20/03/1999. DEADINE FOR TRANSPOSITION: 20/09/2000.�