Commission Directive 97/8/EC of 7 February 1997 amending Council Directive 74/63/EEC on undesirable substances and products in animal nutrition (Text with EEA relevance)

• Published date: 19 February 1997
• Subject Matter: Animal feedingstuffs,Approximation of laws
• Official Gazette Publication: Official Journal of the European Communities, L 48, 19 February 1997

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Commission Directive 97/8/EC of 7 February 1997 amending Council Directive 74/63/EEC on undesirable substances and products in animal nutrition (Text with EEA relevance)

Official Journal L 048 , 19/02/1997 P. 0022 - 0030

COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 97/8/EC of 7 February 1997 amending Council Directive 74/63/EEC on undesirable substances and products in animal nutrition (Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 74/63/EEC of 17 December 1973 on undesirable substances and products in animal nutrition (1), as last amended by Directive 96/25/EC (2), and in particular Article 6 thereof,

Whereas Directive 74/63/EEC provides for regular updating of its Annexes to take account of advances in scientific and technical knowledge;

Whereas, in the light of experience and to improve clarity, the Articles to which the Annexes to Directive 74/63/EEC relate should be listed in the title of the Annexes to Directive 74/63/EEC;

Whereas feed materials containing levels of undesirable substances and products in excess of those indicated for those feed materials in Annex I to Directive 74/63/EEC may only be supplied to compound feed manufacturers approved in accordance with the provisions of Council Directive 95/69/EC of 22 December 1995 laying down the conditions and arrangements for approving and registering certain establishments and intermediaries operating in the animal feed sector (3); whereas those undesirable substances and products, as already announced in Directive 96/25/EC on the circulation of feed materials, where they are not already listed in respect of certain feed materials in Part A of Annex II to Directive 74/63/EEC, should be included in the list in Part B of Annex II to Directive 74/63/EEC opposite the corresponding feed materials;

Whereas Directive 96/25/EC has replaced the terms 'straight feedingstuffs` and 'raw materials` with 'feed materials`, it would seem sensible to adapt the Annexes to this new terminology;

Whereas Directive 74/63/EEC provides for a consolidated version of the Annexes to be adopted at regular intervals in order to incorporate the amendments made on account of advances in scientific and technical knowledge; whereas, since the adoption of the Directive, the Annexes have been amended a number of times; whereas, by...