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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-219/annex/division-6/division-6.2",
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  "legislation": "eur/2009/219",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 219/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part Two",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-219",
  "path": "annex/division/6/division/6.2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "6.2",
  "heading": "Council Directive 82/471/EEC of 30 June 1982 concerning certain products used in animal nutrition",
  "text": "As regards Directive 82/471/EEC, the Commission should be empowered to adopt amendments and to lay down the criteria required to define the products included in the Directive. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of Directive 82/471/EEC 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. On the grounds of urgency, it is necessary to apply the urgency procedure provided for in Article 5a(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC for the adoption of amendments to the Directive.\nAccordingly, Directive 82/471/EEC is hereby amended as follows:\n1.. Article 6 is hereby amended as follows:\n(a) paragraph 1 shall be replaced by the following:\n‘1. Amendments to be made to the Annex as a result of developments in scientific or technical knowledge shall be adopted by the Commission. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 13(3). In the case of the products referred to in Sections 1.1 and 1.2 of the Annex, the Commission shall consult the Scientific Committee for Animal Nutrition and the Scientific Committee for Food.\nHowever, in the case of products obtained from yeasts of the “Candida” variety and cultivated on n-alkanes, referred to in Article 4(1), the Commission shall adopt a position within two years of notification of this Directive, after consulting the Scientific Committee for Animal Nutrition and the Scientific Committee for Food.’;\n(b) paragraph 3 shall be replaced by the following:\n‘3. Criteria making it possible to define the products included in this Directive, particularly the criteria of composition and purity and the physico-chemical and biological properties, may be laid down by the Commission in the light of scientific and technical knowledge. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 13(3).’;\n2.. in the second subparagraph of Article 7(2), the words ‘the procedure laid down in Article 13’ shall be replaced by the words ‘the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 13(2).’;\n3.. Article 8(3) shall be replaced by the following:\n‘3. If the Commission considers that amendments to this Directive are necessary to alleviate the difficulties referred to in paragraph 1 and to ensure the protection of human or animal health, it shall adopt such measures. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, shall be adopted in accordance with the urgency procedure referred to in Article 13(4). The Member State that has adopted safeguard measures may in that event retain them until the amendments have entered into force.’;\n4.. Article 13 shall be amended as follows:\n(a) paragraph 3 shall be replaced by the following:\n‘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.’;\n(b) the following paragraph shall be added:\n‘4. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1), (2), (4) and (6) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.’;\n5.. Article 14 shall be deleted.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 213, 21.7.1982, p. 8."
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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