Geneva, 26 July 2002
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
Response from the European Commission to comments submitted by WTO Members under either or both G/TBT/N/EEC/6 and G/SPS/N/EEC/149
(Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on genetically modified food and feed - COM(2001) 425 final)
I. INTRODUCTION
II. GENERAL COMMENTS
- A. NOTIFICATION UNDER SPS
- B. OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSAL
- C. GM FOODS ARE TREATED AS IF THEY WERE INHERENTLY UNSAFE
- D. PROPOSAL MORE TRADE RESTRICTIVE THAN NECESSARY
- E. SEPARATION OF GM FOODS AND NOVEL FOODS
- F. DIFFERENCE WITH NOVEL FOOD REGULATION
- A. SUBSTANTIAL EQUIVALENCE
- B. CHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF A GM DERIVATIVE
- C. PROCESSING AIDS - ENZYMES
- D. SCOPE OF APPLICATION / AUTHORIZATION
- E. RISK ASSESSMENT AND RISK MANAGEMENT
- F. ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT
- G. ROLE OF COMPETENT AUTHORITIES
- H. "NO RISK" REQUIREMENT
- I. "SHOULD NOT MISLEAD THE CONSUMER" REQUIREMENT
- J. POST-MARKET MONITORING AND MONITORING PLANS
- K. DETECTION METHODS
- L. ROLE OF COMMUNITY REFERENCE LABORATORY
- M. OTHER LEGITIMATE FACTORS
- N. PUBLIC INFORMATION
- O. DECISIONS - TIME FRAME, APPEALS
- P. AUTONOMOUS ACTION OF MEMBER STATES
- Q. 1 % THRESHOLD FOR NON-AUTHORISED GM-MATERIAL
- A. WHAT IS THE RISK BASIS FOR LABELING?
- B. LABELING THE METHOD OF PRODUCTION AND "LIKE PRODUCTS"
- C. LABELING TERM: GENETICALLY MODIFIED OR BIO-ENGINEERED
- D. PRODUCED FROM A GMO, BUT NOT CONTAINING A GMO
- E. LABELING FOR PROCESSING AIDS - ENZYMES
- F. LABELING: RISK OF FRAUD
- G. GM-FREE LABELING
- H. LABELING THRESHOLD
- I. THRESHOLD FOR AUTHORISED AND UNAUTHORISED MATERIAL
- J. ETHICAL OR RELIGIOUS CONCERNS
- K. RISK OF UNEVEN APPLICATION OF LABELING REQUIREMENTS
- L. LINKAGE TO BIOSAFETY PROTOCOL
- M. GM FEED - AUTHORISATION AND LABELING
- N. GM FEED LABELING - UNIQUE CODES
- A. LACK OF ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE
- B. EUROPEAN GROUP ON ETHICS IN SCIENCE AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
- C. REGISTER OF AUTHORISED GM FOODS AND FEEDS
- D. EMERGENCY MEASURES: CRITERIA - ROLE OF EFSA
- E. EMERGENCY MEASURES: INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION
- F. MONITORING AND CONTROL: INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
- G. STANDARDIZED TESTING METHODOLOGIES
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