Report on discussions at EU Standing Committee on Food Chain and Animal Health (SCoFCAH): 19/20 June 2006

Wednesday 23 August 2006

At the 19/20 June 2006 meeting of the EU Standing Committee on Food Chain and Animal Health (SCoFCAH), a proposed package of additional implementing measures (which would amend the food hygiene legislation and the implementing measures) was presented for discussion. No votes were taken at this meeting.

The Commission would include references to colostrum in the raw milk proposals where necessary and allowed for national legislation in other areas until harmonised rules were agreed.

The Commission said they could not insert a date for the introduction of the Lawrence method for testing for Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) as they did not know when the technical problems for the test would be resolved.

The package of measures would be presented for an opinion at the July Scofcah meeting.

The documents were:

SANCO/226/2006 Rev. 6
Draft decision repealing certain decisions on implementation of some directives in relation to food hygiene and to the health regulations governing production and the placing on the market of certain products of animal origin intended for human consumption and the decisions laying down the special conditions of import of the fishery and live bivalve mollusc products.

SANCO/644/2006 Rev. 6
Draft Commission Regulation amending Regulations (EC) Nos 853/2004 and 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 and Commission Regulations (EC) Nos 2074/2005, 2075/2005 and 2076/2005 of 5 December 2005.

SANCO/10245/2006 Rev. 4
Draft Commission Decision establishing the lists of third countries from which imports of bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods and fishery products are permitted, the lists of establishments from which imports of fishery products are permitted and the lists of production areas from where live bivalve molluscs are permitted.

SANCO/10375/2006 Rev. 1
Draft Commission Decision amending Commission Decisions 2003/804/EC laying down animal health conditions and certification requirements for imports of molluscs, their eggs and gametes for further growth, fattening, relaying or human consumption and 2003/858/EC laying down animal health conditions and certification requirements for imports of live fish, their eggs and gametes intended for farming, and live fish of aquaculture origin and products thereof intended for human consumption, as regards certification requirements for live molluscs and live fish of aquaculture origin and products thereof intended for human consumption.

SANCO/685/2006 Rev. 3
Draft communication of the Commission relating to the maintenance of the decisions on the food hygiene rules. This is not a legislative document.