Although the EURATOM Treaty contains no explicit legal basis on nuclear safety, the Court of Justice has held in a series of cases (Case 187/87 Saarland and Others [1988] ECR 5013; Case C-70/88 Parliament v Council [1991] ECR I-4529 and Case C-29/99 Parliament v Council [2002] ECR I-11221) that it is not appropriate, in order to define the Community's competences, to draw an artificial distinction between the protection of the health of the general public and the safety of sources of ionising radiation and that therefore the Community possesses legislative competence to establish, for the purpose of health protection, an authorisation s ...[+++]ystem which must be applied by the Member States.

28. Calls on the Commission, therefore, to submit, by 31 October 2005 at the latest, a report on the stage reached in the criminal law proceedings and recovery procedures and the possible health risks stemming from the butter adulteration, a report which should also contain proposals for effective ways of curbing the health risks resulting from the adulteration of foodstuffs; points out that, when the case came to light in the year 2000, the Member States refused to disclose those findings to the Commission;

28. Calls on the Commission, therefore, to submit, by 31 October 2005 at the latest, a report on the stage reached in the criminal law proceedings and recovery procedures and the possible health risks stemming from the butter adulteration, a report which should also contain proposals for effective ways of curbing the health risks resulting from the adulteration of foodstuffs; points out that, when the case came to light in the year 2000, the Member States refused to disclose those findings to the Commission

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(3) In the light of the results of a dispute settlement case brought before the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by the United States of America and by Canada (the Hormones case)(5) and recommendations made in that respect by the WTO Dispute Settlement Body on 13 February 1998, the Commission immediately initiated a complementary risk assessment, in accordance with the requirements of the Agreement on the application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures (WTO-GATT)(6) as interpreted by the appellate body in the Hormones case, of the six hormonal substances (oestradiol 17ß, testosterone, progesterone, trenbolone acetate, zeranol and meleng ...[+++]estrol acetate) whose administration for animal growth promotion purposes is prohibited by Directive 96/22/EC.

70. Deplores the situation where trafficking in adulterated butter, organised by professional criminals could have led to health risks and represents a potential loss for the budget; calls for appropriate penalties to be imposed on the adulterators and European firms involved and for all information on this affair to be forwarded as soon as possible to the European Parliament; regrets that the Commission has failed to warn the consumer against possible health hazards after the case became public knowledge in July 2000; expects the Commission in the future to give public health concerns priority over all other investigations; notes th ...[+++]at nearly two years after the scandal was made public by OLAF, no Community financial corrections of any sort have yet been passed against the responsible undertakings involved in this affair, which is in sharp contrast with what happens with any violation of much lesser gravity (such as to produce milk over the allocated milk quota);