Where necessary, disputes shall be settled by means of a debate within the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health which was set up by means of Regulation (EC) 178/2002.

As recommended by the Scientific Steering Committee, an adequate transitional period is laid down for the phasing-out of the four remaining antibiotics, to allow animal production practices to be adapted and the antimicrobials to be replaced by alternative products.

3.3. The ESC also thinks that the Member States should adopt supervisory measures ensuring full compliance with the provisions of Directive 96/25/EC concerning feed materials which may not be circulated or used, thereby enhancing the image of livestock production and boosting consumer confidence.

(19) Whereas Decision 96/362/EC laid down certain preconditions which had to be met before the United Kingdom could dispatch from its territory gelatin made from raw materials from bovine animals; whereas those preconditions have not been fulfilled and such dispatch has not been authorised; whereas, however, in order to regularise the situation, pending further scientific knowledge and advice, it is appropriate to withdraw the possibility of dispatch of gelatin made from raw materials from bovine animals slaughtered in the United Kingdom for human food, animal feed, cosmetics pharmaceutical and medical purposes; whereas that is in con ...[+++]formity with the advice from the Multidisciplinary Scientific Committee of 3 April 1997, according to which no production can be considered safe if the base material used for gelatin production is potentially infectious;

Indeed our future survival depends on the family (1405) The Canada Committee for the International Year of the Family feels that we must support our families in order to maintain a compassionate, productive and tolerant society.

Whereas, for that purpose, it is essential to entrust to the Commission, in accordance with the Standing Veterinary Committee procedure, the task of adopting the necessary implementing measures to ensure uniform health conditions for production, placing on the market and importation of these animal products;