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DRAFT REPORT (COM(2023)0639 – C90381/2023 – 2023/0369(COD))

On the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directives 1999/2/EC, 2000/14/EC, 2011/24/EU and 2014/53/EU as regards certain reporting requirements in the fields of food and food ingredients, outdoor noise, patients’ rights, and radio equipment

ENVI-PR-757100

Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety · Rapporteur: Ivan Vilibor Sinčić

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This is the rapporteur's draft report on a Commission proposal to amend Directives 1999/2/EC, 2000/14/EC, 2011/24/EU and 2014/53/EU on reporting requirements for food, outdoor noise, patients' rights and radio equipment. The rapporteur proposes amendments that add labelling and reporting duties for irradiated food and oppose reducing food controls. The amendments require irradiated food to carry the ISO 7010 ionising radiation symbol, require member states to send annual reports on irradiation checks and facilities, and require the Commission to publish that information and an annual report. The rapporteur argues that the Commission proposal lowers food safety standards and that the 25% reduction in reporting burdens should be achieved in other areas instead.

Committee position. The rapporteur proposes to amend the Commission proposal by adding labelling and reporting requirements for irradiated food and by stating that food safety standards must not be reduced. He opposes the reduction of food controls and calls for increased reporting and control requirements.

Key points

  1. The draft report concerns a proposal to amend four directives on reporting requirements in food, outdoor noise, patients' rights and radio equipment.
  2. Amendment 1 adds to Recital 1 that control of products in the European Single Market, especially in new member states, is not sufficient and needs better legislation and standards.
  3. Amendment 2 adds to Recital 2 that simplifying reporting must not reduce food safety standards, especially on irradiated food, and that the 25% reduction should be achieved in other areas.
  4. Amendment 3 requires foodstuffs treated with ionising radiation to be labelled with the ISO 7010 symbol for ionising radiation in addition to any other required labelling.
  5. Amendment 4 requires member states to send the Commission annual results of checks in irradiation facilities and at the marketing stage, information on detection methods, and recorded information from all irradiation facilities for each ionising radiation source, including for imported food.
  6. Amendment 5 requires the Commission to publish in the Official Journal the details of facilities, all recorded information for each ionising radiation source, information on imported irradiated food, and an annual report from national supervisory authorities.
  7. The rapporteur states that deleting certain provisions of Directive 1999/2/EC has no equivalent replacement in Regulation (EU) 2017/625 and may favour uncontrolled imports of irradiated food and weaken controls within the EU.
  8. The rapporteur says the Commission proposal lowers standards rather than raising them, and that studies on the safety of irradiated foods are over thirty years old and should be updated.
  9. The rapporteur calls for transparency, with consumer information published in one place and in all languages, and for reporting and food control requirements to be increased rather than reduced.

Who is affected

  • Member states, which must send annual reports on irradiation checks and facilities to the Commission.
  • Food businesses, which must label irradiated food with the ISO 7010 ionising radiation symbol.
  • Consumers, who would receive more information on irradiated food and facilities.
  • The Commission, which must publish information and an annual report on irradiation.

Figures and deadlines

  • 25% reduction in reporting burdens, which the rapporteur says should be achieved in other areas.

Legal basis: Article 294(2) and Article 114 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.