Food Law News - FAO/WHO/WTO/Codex - 2006
10 – 14 April 2006
CODEX - Committee on General Principles (23 rd Session), Paris, France
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
The summary and conclusions of the 23rd Session of the Codex Committee on General Principles are as follows:
Matters for adoption by the Commission:
The Committee agreed to forward to the Commission:
- the Draft Terms of Reference of the Committee on Food Additives and the Committee on Contaminants in Foods (para. 29, Appendix II)
- the Draft Revised Criteria for Prioritisation Process of Compounds for Evaluation by JMPR proposed by the Committee on Pesticide Residues (para.39, Appendix III) and the recommendations on The Use of Analytical Results: Sampling Plans, Relationship between the Analytical Results, the Measurement Uncertainty, Recovery Factors and Provisions in Codex Standards proposed by the Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling (para. 44, Appendix IV)
- the Proposed Amendments to the Rules of Procedure: Duration of the Term of Office of the Members of the Executive Committee (para. 96, Appendix VI)
- the Proposed Amendments to the Procedures for the Elaboration of Codex Standards and Related Texts and to the Guidelines on the Conduct of Meetings of Codex Committee and Ad hoc Intergovernmental Task Forces (para. 129, Appendix VII)
- the Proposed Amendments to the General Principles of the Codex Alimentarius (para.136, Appendix VIII)
- recommendations concerning the adoption of Codex food safety standards as related to the use of the term “interim” (para. 148)
Other matters of interest to the Commission:
The Committee
- agreed to return the Proposed Draft Working Principles for Risk Analysis for Food Safety to Step 2/3 for redrafting and further consideration at the next session (para. 77)
- agreed to defer consideration of the Proposed Draft Revised Code of Ethics for International Trade in Foods pending advice from the Committee on Food Import and Export Inspection and Certification Systems (para. 87)
- agreed to return the document on the management of the work of the Committee on Food Hygiene to that Committee for further consideration, with a number of amendments (para. 56, Appendix V)
- agreed to consider the following questions at its next session: the proposed amendment to the terms of reference of the Coordinating Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean in the light of the views of other Coordinating Committees (para. 16); the respective roles of the Coordinators and the members of the Executive Committee elected on a geographic basis (para. 105); further amendments to the Elaboration Procedure (paras. 114 and 124); new definitions of risk analysis terms related to food safety (para. 162); and the content, structure, and presentation of the Procedural Manual (para. 176).
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