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". – Madam President, I wish to thank the rapporteur, Mrs Paulsen, and the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy for their recommendation for second reading on the Council common position for adopting a European Parliament and Council directive on desirable substances in animal feed.
To conclude, I once again thank Mrs Paulsen for the excellent work she has done on this file.
The measures in the Council common position are a key element of the comprehensive strategy to improve the safety of feed. Prohibition of dilution will reduce the overall contamination load of animal feed. Operators across the production chain will also be obliged to put in place passive systems and good manufacturing practices to ensure that the feed materials and the feedstuffs they produce are safe.
The setting of action levels will act as an early warning system, triggering a proactive approach to identify sources and pathways of contamination and to take measures to eliminate them.
The Commission cannot accept Amendments Nos 1, 2 and 3 as adopted by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy.
Regarding Amendment No 1, the Commission considers that the possibility of returning non-compliant products intended for animal feed to the country of origin has to be maintained. The Commission shares, however, Parliament's concerns in this regard and agrees, therefore, that this return can only happen under strict conditions.
Regarding Amendments Nos 2 and 3 on the date of application, the Commission cannot accept the time period of six months. Instead, sufficient time is needed to transpose these far-reaching measures into national legislation. Serious efforts have to be made by the operators to apply the measures in practice. The Commission is therefore pleased that compromise Amendments Nos 4, 5 and 6 have been tabled for this plenary session to replace Amendments Nos 1, 2 and 3.
I should confirm that the compromise amendments are – should you decide to keep them on the table – acceptable to the Commission. These compromise amendments address the Commission's reasons for non-acceptance of the first three amendments. Therefore the Commission can accept Amendments Nos 4, 5 and 6. The Commission will also try to persuade the Council to do likewise.
I wish also to inform you that a revision of the maximum levels of the undesirable substances in Annex I is foreseen. The Commission has already requested the Scientific Committee for Animal Nutrition to provide updated scientific risk assessments. These assessments are the key scientific input to the revision of the Annex.
The Commission hopes to finalise this review as soon as possible. It should be available before this directive becomes applicable."@en1
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