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Council Directive 82/471/EEC of 30 June 1982 concerning certain products used in animal nutrition

Official Journal L 213 , 21/07/1982 P. 0008 - 0014

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COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 30 June 1982 concerning certain products used in animal nutrition (82/471/EEC)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic community, and in particular Articles 43 and 100 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (3),

Whereas livestock production occupies a very important place in the agriculture of the Community and satisfactory results depend to a large extent on the use of appropriate and good quality feedingstuffs;

Whereas the existence of rules concerning feedingstuffs is essential to an increase in agricultural productivity;

Whereas consumption of feed proteins is continually rising in the Community due to the ever increasing needs of livestock production;

Whereas this increasing demand has been accompanied in recent years by an appreciable decline in the supply on the world market of certain protein feedingstuffs;

Whereas this shortage has caused the feedingstuffs industry to carry out research into substitution products to assure the availability of supplies;

Whereas the provisions laid down in the Member States by law, regulation or administrative action concerning these products, in so far as they exist, differ as regards their basic principles ; whereas it follows that they directly affect the establishment and functioning of the common market and should therefore be harmonized;

Whereas these substitution products are produced by new technical processes and it is therefore desirable to regulate their marketing as feedingstuffs or constituents of feedingstuffs by prescribing, for each group concerned, which individual products shall be authorized and under what conditions of use;

Whereas it is necessary, before including a new product in one of the groups concerned, to ascertain that it has the required nutritional value ; whereas it must be established that these products, when used sensibly, have no detrimental effect on human or animal health or on the environment and do not harm the consumer by impairing the distinctive features of animal products;

Whereas, in order to ensure compliance with the fundamental principles laid down for the authorization, a dossier should be submitted officially by a Member State for products belonging to certain groups ; whereas, in order to facilitate the examination of the substances concerned, these dossiers should be prepared in accordance with the common guidelines to be set by the Council not later than the date of application of the Directive;

Whereas it is desirable, pending a Community decision, to allow Member States temporarily to maintain the national authorizations they have granted for products which do not at present appear in the Annex to the Directive or for specific products meeting in certain cases other conditions ; whereas, however, for products obtained from yeasts of the "Candida" variety and cultivated on n-alkanes a Community decision should be taken within two years of the notification of this Directive;

Whereas non-protein nitrogenous compounds, by reason of their indirect provision of protein, must be subject to the provisions of this Directive ; whereas it is consequently desirable to amend with regard to its Annexes Council Directive 70/524/EEC of 23 November 1970 concerning additives in feedingstuffs (4), which temporarily regulates the use of products of this group; (1) OJ No C 197,...

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