Commission Proposal

The 5th Framework Programme must be more flexible, both in its research activities and in the decision-making process. The Commission proposes that a simplified decision-making procedure should apply to research policy, including the use of qualified majority voting rather than unanimity in the Council of Ministers. 

Commission proposals on labelling of food additives and flavourings from GM sources (amendment to Commission Regulation 50/2000 awaited)... 

REACH. In 2003 the EU Commission proposed a new chemicals policy -REACH (Registration, Evaluation, and Authorisation of Chemicals). The biocides used in AF products are still registered through the BPD, but the other paint constituents as with all other chemical constituents produced or imported > 1 ton/year on the European market will need to be partly or fully risk assessed under REACH. The legislation is expected to enter into force in 2007 (EU, 2003b). 

The Commission proposes a 10-year programme focusing on R D and demonstration, with an overall... 

Working on the subject between 1986 and 1998, the EU Scientific Committee of Food (SCF), an independent expert body advising the European Commission on health matters, concluded that the food irradiation process posed no problem for health over a wide ranged of uses, if used under prescribed conditions and endorsed for authorization of 17 irradiated foods/food classes [129]. The Commission proposal in December 1998 for an EU directive contained eight food categories and three products. 

In June, 1984, the EU Commission proposed amending Directive 81/602 to allow the use of natural hormones, and in July the EU Council president requested the European Parliament for an opinion on this proposal. In October, 1985, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the Commission s proposal. The resolution claimed that scientific information about the five hormonal substances was far from complete and that considerable doubt therefore exists about the desirability of their use and of their effect on human health. It endorsed a ban on zeranol and trenbolone on the grounds that their safety has not been conclusively proven, and rejected the proposed authorization of the three natural hormones except for therapeutic purposes. 

In November 2000, the Commission proposed the creation of a European Food Authority (EFA), which would take over responsibility for much of the food safety risk assessment work at present carried out by the Commission and... 

NRC (1992). U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Proposed guidance document on the testing of mixed radioactive and hazardous waste, 57 FR 10508 (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington). 

SCHER has existed since 2004, having replaced a previous committee that had a similar area of responsibility.4 The severe criticism and perceived failure of the EU in managing the BSE crisis and Belgian dioxin scare were important reasons behind reorganising the scientific advisory system (Byrne 2003 Jansson 2008 Rhinard 2003). The Commission, however, considers scientific committees to be significant for the quality of risk management and policy decisions. As stated in the Rules of Procedure for the scientific committees Sound and timely scientific advice is an essential requirement for Commission proposals, decisions and policy relating to... 

The Authority will provide scientific advice which will serve as the scientific basis for the preparation of Community legislation in the field falling imder its mandate. In this respect there is a clear separation of the responsibility of the risk assessment function and that of risk management which will remain the responsibility of the Community Institutions, i.e. the European Commission and Parliament and the Council. The Authority will become the point of reference with respect to risk assessment. Its precise role will evolve over time but its role with respect to the authorisation process had become clearer following the publication of a number of recent Commission proposals. In such a proposal on smoke flavourings used or intended for use in or on foods [4], the Commission proposed that dossiers should be submitted directly to the Authority, and within a predetermined period of time the opinion of the Authority should be returned to the Commission which will remain responsible for the development of proposals on food law. The Commission following consultation of Member States in the newly created Standing Committee for the Food Chain and Animal Health will ultimately take decisions. 

The commission proposed to represent the classification of glucides as shown in the following diagram ... 

For the conjugate lipides the commission proposed that the term phosphatides be replaced by phospholipides and phosphoaminolipides, defined as ... 

The practice has been established of naming the different phosphoaminolipides phospholipides. But what the commission proposed to name phospholipides are most currently termed phosphatidic acids. 

European Commission. Proposal for a guideline on the definition of a potential serious risk to public health, November 2005. 

The term clinical pharmaceutical scientist was originally developed within the profession of pharmacy and was applied to pharmacy practitioners who became scientists. The concept of a CPS originated with the Millis Commission in 1975, which described the need for people who are equally skilled and trained in a science and in pharmacy practice. This commission proposed the vision of training skilled pharmacy practitioners in research to increase the number and variety of clinical pharmacists. " Since the original definition, the concept has evolved, and. several subsequent definitions have... 

Adapted from Taylor CR. Report of the Immunohistochemistry Steering Committee of the Biological Stain Commission. "Proposed format Package insert for immunohistochemistry products." Biotech Histochem. 1992 67 110-11 7. 

European Commission Proposal for Gasoline Fuelled Vehicles... 

In the eighties, the european countries started to show some interest to that problem. It is only in June 1984 that the EC Commission proposed standarts of permissible pollutants in the exhaust gas from motor vehicles to be introduced in Europe these standarts were approved by the Ministers of the Environment one year later. Very quickly, a number of Academic research laboratories started working on the subject, and namely on the development of new catalysts. We thought that a need for exchange of results and of ideas had appeared and I have initiated the organization of international meetings on this topics at the University of Brussels under the title Catalysis and Automotive Pollution Control associated with the acronym CAPoC-... 

Particular EQS for prey tissue have been included in the Commission proposal on environmental quality standards just for mercury, hexachlorobenzene and hexachlorobutadiene. 

It was only on June 27/28,1985 - after about two years of uncoordinated tug-of-war - that an agreement could be formulated by the EC Council of Environmental Ministers - with the exception of Denmark - on the basis of an EC Commission proposal specifying the exhaust emission levels and the introduction dates. 

FIG.2 ESTIMATION OF PARTICULATE EMISSIONS FROM 1985 TO 2010 IN EUROPE FOLLOWING ECE COMMISSION PROPOSAL. 

The contrast between the Commission proposal and US type standards is further illustrated in Figures 5, 6, 7 and 8. The figures show that not only can overall emissions be reduced, even with fairly large vehicle population growth, the pollution from individual categories can also be substantially lowered. 

FIG.5 ESTIMATION OF PARTICULATE EMISSIONS IN EUROPE FROM 1985 TO 2010. COMPARISON BETWEEN ECE COMMISSION PROPOSAL AND U.S. STANDARDS. 

On June 10,1980, the Commission proposed a rule under Section 27(e) that would have required manufacturers of urea-formaldehyde foam insulation to alert purchasers and prospective purchasers to certain possible acute health effects. 45 Fed. Reg. 39434. The Commission s rule was never adopted because the Agency subsequently decided to propose a ban on urea-formaldehyde insulation based on evidence indicating that formaldehyde may be carcinogenic. The Commission finalized that ban in a rule published on April 2, 1982. 47 Fed. Reg. 14366. In the preamble to the final rule, the Commission explained why warnings relating to the carcinogenic hazards presented by urea-formaldehyde would not be sufficient to protect consumers. 47 Fed. Reg. 14401. 

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