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High contaminant level Baltic caught oily fish no longer EU marketable
Swedish Parliamentary Notice
of
21st November 2001
Declaration by Finland and Sweden at the adoption of the Council Regulation amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 466/2001 setting maximum levels for certain contaminants in foodstuffs
As regards the derogation for Finland and Sweden laid down in article 1(a):
While recalling that the problem with high levels of dioxins is restricted to fatty species of fish such as Baltic herring and Baltic salmon, Finland and Sweden undertake to ensure that fish originating from the Baltic region with higher dioxin levels than those set in the now adopted regulation will not be marketed in other Member States.
Fatty species of fish such as Baltic herring and Baltic salmon will not be marketed in other Member States until monitoring and surveillance show that the limits in the regulation is not exceeded.
To this end, use will be made of the Commission regulation laying down detailed rules as regards informing consumers about fishery and aquaculture products (2065/2001). This regulation will come into force on 1 January 2002 and will require the area in which a species is caught to be specified.
Thus regulation 2065/2001 will provide the basis to guarantee that fatty species such as Baltic herring and Baltic salmon, as well as products containing these species, will not be marketed to other Member States unless they comply with the requirements of the regulation 466/2001.
Finland and Sweden will inform the Commission and the Member States of the details concerning the measures, for example traceability, to be taken before the entering into force of the regulation amending regulation 466/2001.
As regards third countries Finland and Sweden will comply fully with the future requirements as drafted in the Common Position on the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety.
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