Novel Foods - Impact assessment
This research paper was undertaken at the request of the European Parliament’s Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI). It provides a complementary impact assessment, reviewing and updating the 2008 European Commission Impact Assessment of a proposal for a Regulation replacing Regulation (EC) No. 258/97 on Novel Foods and Novel Food Ingredients. In particular, it assesses the impacts of the Commission’s 2013 proposal on the various parties concerned, i.e., EU-level and Member State-level decision-makers, European consumers, and the food industry. This complementary impact assessment focuses on key aspects of the 2013 proposal, namely: the scope of its ‘Novel Foods’ definition; the efficiency and the impact of the centralised authorisation procedures on the various parties concerned; the role of national authorities and agencies in the centralised system, and the proposed Regulation’s coherence with other EU regulatory requirements.
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- agri-foodstuffs
- AGRI-FOODSTUFFS
- drafting of EU law
- economic analysis
- ECONOMICS
- EU institutions and European civil service
- European Food Safety Authority
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- food industry
- food inspection
- health
- impact study
- industrial structures and policy
- INDUSTRY
- market approval
- marketing
- medical plant
- new product
- plant product
- political framework
- POLITICS
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- supervisory body
- TRADE