Division 6.1 Council Directive 79/373/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the circulation of compound feedingstuffs

As regards Directive 79/373/EEC, the Commission should be empowered to adopt exceptions to the prescriptions on the packaging of feedingstuffs and to amend the Annex. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of Directive 79/373/EEC, inter alia, by supplementing it with new non-essential elements, they must be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC.

Accordingly, Directive 79/373/EEC is hereby amended as follows:

1. 1..

   Article 4(2) shall be replaced by the following:

   ‘2.

   The Commission shall adopt exceptions to the principle of paragraph 1 to be authorised at Community level. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, inter alia, by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 13(3), provided that the identity and quality of the compound feedingstuffs concerned are ensured.’;

2. 2..

   Article 10 shall be replaced by the following:

   ‘Article 10

   In the light of advances in scientific and technical knowledge, the Commission shall:

   1. (a)

      establish categories grouping several feed materials;

   2. (b)

      adopt methods of calculating the energy value of compound feedingstuffs;

   3. (c)

      adopt amendments to the Annex.

   All the above measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, inter alia, by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 13(3).’;

3. 3..

   Article 13(3) shall be replaced by the following:

   ‘3.

   Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.’.