After many years of negotiation, the “Hygiene Package” has been finalised. This Package which consists of three new Regulations and two Directives aims to create a single, transparent hygiene policy applicable across the entire food chain. It will replace the current general Directive 93/43/EEC on food hygiene and the many sector-specific Directives on foods of animal origin, which have developed gradually since 1964. The multiplicity of these existing Directives, the intermingling of different disciplines, (hygiene, animal health, official controls) and the existence of different hygiene regimes for products of animal origin and other food have led to the detailed and complex situation currently in existence. The situation should be improved with this new legislation which recasts the legal requirements and separates aspects of food hygiene from animal health and official control issues.
The new hygiene legislation will be applicable as of 1st January 2006 and consists of the following:
1) Regulation (EC) No. 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs.
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2004/l_139/l_13920040430en00010054.pdf
(2) Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules on the hygiene of foodstuffs.
http://europa.eu.it/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2004/l_139/l_13920040430en00550205.pdf
(3) Regulation (EC) No. 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption.
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2004/l_139/l_13920040430en02060320.pdf
(4) Council Directive 2002/99/EC of 16 December 2002 (OJ L18, p.11, 23.01.2003) laying down the animal health rules governing the production, processing, distribution and introduction of products of animal origin for human consumption.
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2003/l_018/l_01820030123en00110020.pdf
(5) Directive 2004/41/EC (OJ L157, p33, 30/04/2004) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 repealing certain Directives concerning food hygiene and health conditions for the production and placing on the market of certain products of animal origin intended for human consumption and amending Council Directives 89/662/EEC and 92/118/EEC and Council Decision 95/408/EC.
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2004/l_157/l_15720040430en00330044.pdf
Source: FSAINEWS June 28, 2004, publication of new hygiene legislation (http://newsweaver.ie/fsai/e_article000275300.cfm?x=b3htQHs,b1nvnsyL)
The new hygiene legislation will be applicable as of 1st January 2006 and consists of the following:
1) Regulation (EC) No. 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs.
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2004/l_139/l_13920040430en00010054.pdf
(2) Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules on the hygiene of foodstuffs.
http://europa.eu.it/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2004/l_139/l_13920040430en00550205.pdf
(3) Regulation (EC) No. 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption.
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2004/l_139/l_13920040430en02060320.pdf
(4) Council Directive 2002/99/EC of 16 December 2002 (OJ L18, p.11, 23.01.2003) laying down the animal health rules governing the production, processing, distribution and introduction of products of animal origin for human consumption.
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2003/l_018/l_01820030123en00110020.pdf
(5) Directive 2004/41/EC (OJ L157, p33, 30/04/2004) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 repealing certain Directives concerning food hygiene and health conditions for the production and placing on the market of certain products of animal origin intended for human consumption and amending Council Directives 89/662/EEC and 92/118/EEC and Council Decision 95/408/EC.
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2004/l_157/l_15720040430en00330044.pdf
Source: FSAINEWS June 28, 2004, publication of new hygiene legislation (http://newsweaver.ie/fsai/e_article000275300.cfm?x=b3htQHs,b1nvnsyL)
