Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 2001/110/EC relating to honey

The aim of the proposal to amend Directive 2001/110/EC relating to honey is to:

(a) align the existing Commission implementing powers with the provisions laid down in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFUE); and

(b) in the context of the judgment of the Court of Justice in case C-442/09, and, without prejudice to the application of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 on genetically modified food and feed to honey containing genetically modified (GM) pollen, clarify explicitly the status of pollen as a constituent particular to honey rather than an ingredient of honey.

EUR-Lex: COM(2012)530: Follow the progress of this document through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2012:530:FIN

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