Concerning Directive 2001/114/EC, EU dairy industry and exporters of milk powders and condensed milk have for a long time requested a modification of the rules on protein contents in such products to put them in line with international standards (Codex) of a minimum content of 34% expressed in fat free dry matter.

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with a flour and/or starch base, representing not less than 40 % of the weight of the constituents calculated in terms of dry matter, mixed with milkfat and other ingredients such as sugar (sucrose), eggs or egg yolk powder, milk powder, salt, etc., with a milkfat content by weight exceeding 90 % of the total fat content, not including the fat forming part of the normal composition of the ingredients;

PREPARATIONS TO BE ADDED TO FLOUR OR DOUGH USED FOR MAKING ORDINARY BAKERS' OR FINE BAKERS' WARES CONSISTING , ON THE ONE HAND , OF MORE THAN 50 % ( BY WEIGHT OF THE DRY MATTER ) OF FOODSTUFFS SUCH AS SUCROSE , FATS , CEREAL FLOUR AND MILK POWDER AND , ON THE OTHER HAND , OF AN EMULSIFIER AND , POSSIBLY , OF VARIOUS OTHER INGREDIENTS , SHALL BE CLASSIFIED UNDER COMMON CUSTOMS TARIFF SUB-HEADING :

WHEREAS PROVISION MUST BE MADE TO ENSURE UNIFORM APPLICATION OF THE NOMENCLATURE OF THE COMMON CUSTOMS TARIFF WITH A VIEW TO THE CLASSIFICATION OF PREPARATIONS TO BE ADDED TO FLOUR OR DOUGH USED FOR MAKING ORDINARY BAKERS' OR FINE BAKERS' WARES AND CONSISTING , ON THE ONE HAND , OF MORE THAN 50 % ( BY WEIGHT OF THE DRY MATTER ) OF FOODSTUFFS SUCH AS SUCROSE , FATS , CEREAL FLOUR AND MILK POWDER AND , ON THE OTHER HAND , OF AN EMULSIFIER AND , POSSIBLY , OF VARIOUS OTHER INGREDIENTS ;

Moving to normal food aid, 78 900 tonnes of food products (cereals, milk powder, sugar, beans, dried fish, etc.) worth some 46 million ECU were distributed in 50 developing countries via NGOs in 1985.