WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/EEC/150/Add.2/Corr.1
20 May 2003
(03-2688)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
Corrigendum
The following communication, dated 14 May 2003 has been received from the
European Communities.
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Products that contain or comprise genetically modified organisms and food and feed products
produced from genetically modified organisms
Paragraph 2 is replaced by the following paragraph.
"In accordance with the co-decision procedure fores een in Article 251 of the EC-Treaty the proposal
was submitted to the European Parliament (EP), which on first reading, adopted amendments in its
opinion.  The Council, after examining these amendments, has now adopted a ' Common position with
a view to the adoption of a regulation of the Eu ropean Parliament and of the Council concerning the
labelling and traceability of genetically modified organisms and traceability of food and feed
products produced from genetically modified organisms and amending Directive 2001/18/EC' .  This
Common position, as laid down in Council Docume nt 15798/1/02 - Inter-institutional file 2001/0180
(COD) - has since been forwarded to the European Parliament (EP) for second reading.  The
Commission anticipates that the EP's 2nd reading is likely to be finalised by July 2003.  Information
on the progress of this proposal is available at:
http://europa.eu.int/prelex/detail_dossier_real.cfm?CL=en&DosId=167160
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