4. Asks the Commission to clarify President Barroso's announcement, made to Parliament on 5 April 2011, that the Commission intends to lower the maximum permitted levels of radioactive contamination of foodstuffs and feedingstuffs; calls on the Commission and the Member States, acting under the appropriate EU regulation, immediately to adopt universal maximum permissible levels of radioactive contamination of food in the EU in the event of a nuclear accident which should not exceed the level set for the most vulnerable section of the population; asks the Commission, further, to withdraw the provisions in Commission Implementing Regulat ...[+++]ion (EU) No 297/2011 of 25 March 2011 which allow imports of foodstuffs and feedingstuffs originating in certain Japanese provinces which are contaminated up to the maximum levels set in Regulation (EC) No 3954/87;

B. whereas prices of all monitored commodity groups according to the FAO, surged in January, except the cost of meat. FAO's food Price Index a commodity basket that tracks monthly changes in global food prices, averaged 231 points in January and was up 3.4 per cent from December last year – the highest level since the agency started measuring food prices in 1990,

As regards the foodstuffs not yet covered by Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006, it was considered necessary and appropriate for the protection of public health to establish maximum levels for ochratoxin A in those foodstuffs that are a significant contributor to the exposure of OTA (for the whole population, or for vulnerable group of the population, or for significant part of the population) or for those foodstuffs that are not necessarily a significant contributor to the exposure of OTA, but there is evidence that there can be found a very high level of OTA in these commodities.

5) In Annex I, a footnote appearing in the currently applicable text of Annex I of Directive 89/398/EEC should be re-introduced immediately after the initial wording of point (A) " Groups of foodstuffs for particular nutritional uses for which specific provisions will be laid down by specific Directives:", as well as immediately after the initial words of point (B) "Groups of foodstuffs for particular nutritional uses for which specific provisions will be laid down by a specific Directive".

2. To enable foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses and resulting from scientific and technological progress to be placed on the market rapidly, the Commission may, after consulting the European Food Safety Authority and in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 15(2), authorise for a two-year period the placing on the market of foodstuffs which do not comply with the rules as to composition laid down by the specific directives for groups of foodstuffs for particular nutritional uses referred to in Annex I.

2. To enable foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses and resulting from scientific and technological progress to be placed on the market rapidly, the Commission may, after consulting the European Food Safety Authority, authorise for a two-year period the placing on the market of foodstuffs which do not comply with the rules as to composition laid down by the specific directives for groups of foodstuffs for particular nutritional uses referred to in Annex I.