The Commission's amended proposal incorporates the following amendments adopted by the European Parliament:
- account to be taken of groups of producers who develop self-regulating systems in order to combat the illegal use of growth promoters, offering consumers a full guarantee that products do not contain hormones, and provision to be made for the possibility of granting aid,
- the Commission to inform the Member States and the European Parliament every year of the application of national plans to fight hormones in the various regions of the Union,
- Member States which consider that controls in another Member State are no longer being carried out to notify immediately the competent authority in that Member State, which will take suitable action to check the efficacy of controls,
- if the event of failure to cooperate or obstruction by abattoir staff or animal keepers during monitoring inspections, appropriate criminal and/or administrative sanctions to be taken,
- if it is proven that the person in charge of the abattoir has helped to conceal the use of illegal substances, Community aid to which the guilty party is entitled to be suspended for one year.�