The Council while confirming the objectives proposed by the Commission and supported by the Parliament, considered it necessary, when drawing up its common position, to make a number of amendments to the proposal.
The Council's amendments essentially set out:
- specify the scope of certain provisions, especially those relating to emergency safeguard measures and the information system;
- make the wording of the Directive more explicit in order to improve its legal clarity;
- make the wording of the Directive more explicit in order to improve its legal clarity;
- ensure consistency of the different legislative texts on animal nutrition.
It should also be added that the Council added a reference in the title to Directives 70/524/EEC and 96/25/EC: for reasons of legal consistency, the Council considered it necessary to include in those two Directives the new definition, introduced in Directive 95/53/EC, of putting into circulation products intended for animal nutrition.
More specifically, the amendments to the Commission's proposal relate to:
- contingency operational plans drawn up by the Member States to deal with emergencies;
- checks at places of destination;
- safeguard clause;
- information systems for hazards from feedingstuffs;
- Member States annual reports on the implementation of their inspection programmes and the Commission's overall summary report.�