On July 27, 2004, the European Parliament Committee for Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI COM) will hold its first meeting under the sixth Parliamentary Term. During this first meeting, the newly elected Members (MEPs) will not begin their debate on the pending legislative files, but will be assigned their reporting task as a result of the Coordinators’ meeting. The Coordinators are designated by each European Political Group as a leader of the Group in a Committee. The Coordinators meet with the Chairperson of the Committee before each Committee meeting and they have the duty to designate the rapporteur (draftsperson) for each Communication on which the ENVI COM is providing a report or an opinion. The major pending files to be discussed by the new MEPs are as follows:

  • Proposal for a Regulation on nutrition and health claims made on foods (amending Directive 2000/13/EC) COM(2003)0424 (First Reading)

  • Proposal for a Directive on the protection of groundwater against pollution COM(2003)0550

  • Proposal for a Regulation on the addition of vitamins and minerals and of certain other substances to foods COM(2003)0671 (First Reading)

  • Proposal for a Regulation concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (Reach), establishing a European Chemicals Agency and amending Directive 1999/45/EC and Regulation (EC) {on Persistent Organic Pollutants} COM(2003)0644 (First Reading)

  • Proposal for a Directive amending Council Directive 67/548/EEC in order to adapt it to Regulation (EC) of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction of chemicals COM(2003)0644 (First Reading)

  • Proposal for a Directive relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in extender oils and tires (twenty-seventh amendment of Council Directive 76/769/EEC) COM(2004)0098 (First Reading)

  • Proposal for a Directive amending Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste (adaptation for new Member States) COM(2004)0127 (First Reading)

  • Proposal for a Directive relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of toluene and trichlorobenzene (twenty-eighth amendment of Council Directive 76/769/EEC) COM(2004)0320 (First Reading)

  • Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on energy end-use efficiency and energy services COM(2003)0739 (First Reading)

  • Proposal for a Directive on foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses (codification of Directive 89/398/EC) COM(2004)0290 (First Reading)

The List of MEPs for the sixth Parliamentary term is now available on the European Parliament website:
http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6/owa/p_meps2.repartition?ilg=EN&iorig=home

Committee for Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI COM):
http://www.europarl.eu.int/comparl/envi/default_en.htm

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