Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to caseins and caseinates intended for human consumption and repealing Council Directive 83/417/EEC

Council Directive 83/417/EEC provides for the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to certain lactoproteins (caseins and caseinates) intended for human consumption. It is proposed to repeal this Directive and replace it with a new text for the following reasons:

(1) align the powers conferred on the Commission with the new distinction introduced by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU)

(2) take account of other legislation adopted in the meantime, notably with regard to food law

(3) align the compositional requirements of the products concerned to the relevant international standard issued by the Codex Alimentarius.

• Primary Source

EUR-Lex: COM(2014)174: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2014:174:FIN

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