1.Member States shall inform the Commission of the competent authority or authorities responsible for:
prior approval of irradiation facilities,
the allocation of an official reference number for approved irradiation facilities,
official control and inspection,
withdrawal or modification of approval.
[F12. Approval shall be granted only if the facility:
meets the requirements of the joint FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission Recommended International Code of Practice for the operation of irradiation facilities used for the treatment of foods (reference FAO/WHO/CAC, Vol. XV, edition 1), and any supplementary requirement which may be adopted by the Commission. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 12(4),
designates a person responsible for compliance with all the conditions necessary for the application of the process.]
3.Each Member State shall forward to the Commission:
the names, addresses and reference numbers of the irradiation facilities which it has approved, the text of the approval document, and any decision suspending or withdrawing approval.
Furthermore the Member States shall forward to the Commission every year:
the results of checks carried out in the ionising irradiation facilities, in particular regarding the categories and quantities of products treated and the doses administered,
the results of checks carried out at the product marketing stage. Member States shall ensure that the methods used to detect treatment with ionising radiation comply with paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Annex to Directive 85/591/EEC(1) and are standardised or validated either already or as soon as possible, up to 1 January 2003 at the latest. Member States shall inform the Commission of the methods used and the Commission shall assess the use and development of these methods having regard to an opinion of the Scientific Committee for Food.
4.On the basis of the data supplied in accordance with paragraph 3, the Commission shall publish in the Official Journal of the European Communities:
the details of the facilities as well as any changes in their status,
a report based on the information provided every year by the national supervisory authorities.
Textual Amendments
F1 Substituted by Regulation (EC) No 1137/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC, with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part One.