Traduction de «groupe codex alimentarius » (Français → Anglais) :

At international level the 1987 Codex Alimentarius established the general principle that the addition of nutrients to foods should be allowed for the purpose of preventing or correcting a demonstrated deficiency of one or more nutrients in the population or specific sub-groups of the population.

Europe should continue to play a full part, in particular in the OECD and the Codex Alimentarius, and notably its Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Task-Force on Biotechnology, to promote within these organisations the development and periodic review of harmonised guidelines with respect to the risk analysis, the labelling and the traceability of products derived from modern biotechnology.

Europe should continue to play a full part, in particular in the OECD and the Codex Alimentarius, and notably its Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Task-Force on Biotechnology, to promote within these organisations the development and periodic review of harmonised guidelines with respect to the risk analysis, the labelling and the traceability of products derived from modern biotechnology.

Strengthen cooperation relations between the WTO and other multilateral organisations, ensure that the panels and appellate body seek the opinion of the relevant organisations in cases involving other international conventions and for this opinion to be published, provide for the possibility of appealing against WTO decisions to another multilateral organisation, improved guarantees for the precautionary principle through revision of the SPS Agreement and reform of Codex Alimentarius to ensure that it conforms with the principles of democratic supervision required by the WTO, include in the preamble of the agreement establishing the WTO ...[+++]the objectives of the eradication of poverty, the promotion of fair and sustainable development, the protection of the environment and compliance with basic social standards.

It is recalled that the panel had found in its reports of 18 August 1997 that the EU import prohibition of beef treated with hormones violated three provisions of the Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures (the SPS Agreement), namely because it was not based on a risk assessment, was inconsistent with the level of sanitary protection adopted with regard to different substances which posed the same health risk to humans, and because it was not based on existing international standards adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission which the panel had found to be mandatory.

In fact, Canada's food regulatory system is held in such high esteem internationally that the Codex Alimentarius committee on food labelling asked us to chair the working committee to revise the proposed draft of the Codex standard for the labelling of food biotechnology products.