Legislative resolution embodying Parliament's opinion on the proposal for a Council Directive relating to honey (COM(95)0722 C4-0403/96 96/0114(CNS))(Consultation procedure)
1. 10. 1999 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 279/91 Tuesday 4 May 1999 − having regard to Rule 58 of its Rules of Procedure, − having regard to the report of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection and the opinion of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens’ Rights (A4-0401/97), 1. Approves the Commission proposal, subject to Parliament’s amendments; Calls on the Commission to alter its proposal accordingly, pursuant to Article 250(2) of the EC 2. Treaty; Calls on the Council to notify Parliament should it intend to depart from the text approved by 3. Parliament; Asks to be consulted again should the Council intend to make substantial modifications to the 4. Commission proposal; 5. Instructs its President to forward this opinion to the Council and Commission. II. Proposal for a Council Directive relating to honey (COM(95)0722 − C4-0403/96 − 96/0114(CNS)) The proposal was approved with the amendments adopted at the sitting of 14 January 1998 (1) and the following amendments: TEXT PROPOSED BY THE COMMISSION (*) AMENDMENTS BY PARLIAMENT (Compromise amendment 75) * Recital 7 Whereas, as the Commission stressed in its Communication to the European Parliament and the Council of 24 June 1994 on European apiculture, the Commission is encouraging the development of harmonised methods of analysis to permit verification of compliance with quality specifications for the different honeys resulting from their botanical or geographical origin, in order to combat fraud; whereas work is being done in this connection by the Ispra Joint Research Centre and the industrial circles concerned; Whereas, as the Commission stressed in its Communication to the European Parliament and the Council of 24 June 1994 on European apiculture, the Commission should ensure the prompt development of harmonised methods of analysis to make it possible to ensure compliance with the composition- al characteristics and the truthfulness of any additional specific statement for all honey marketed in the European Union; * Amendment 15 falls (Compromise amendment 76) * Article 2(2) 2. Member States may provide for the indication of the country of origin for honeys which do not originate in the Community. 2. Without prejudice to paragraph 1, the country of origin must be indicated on the label of honeys which originate in a country outside the Community. (1) OJ C 34, 2. 2. 1998, p. 86. (*) OJ C 231, 9. 8. 1996, p. 10. * Amendment 19 falls