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E.E.C. Harmonization program and its impact and status on E.E.C. legislation for vegetable proteins
Author(s) -
Kinch Anthony
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02671458
Subject(s) - harmonization , legislation , european community , european commission , commission , economic community , council of ministers , resizing , agriculture , member states , business , international trade , political science , law , public administration , european union , economy , economics , geography , physics , archaeology , acoustics
The paper reviews a number of difficulties facing expansion of the use of vegetable proteins in foods in the present and future policital and economic environments of the European Community. Integration of vegetable proteins into a wide spectrum of food products could be affected by existing market organizations for agricultural products for which they are substitutes. On the procedural plane, there are possibilities for change in the wake of the enlargement of the Community, and the author traces the procedural steps by which Community legislation is proposed by the European Commission, and adopted by the Council of Ministers. The author ends by outlining the conditions under which the European Commission would find it both necessary and desirable to consider making a proposal for the harmonization of the laws of member states concerning vegetable protein, and points to the need for broad agreement between national administrations, consumer organizations and industry if such a proposal is to have any prospect of being adopted.