Using its right of scrutiny under the delegated acts procedure, the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment (ENVI) rejected, on 12 February, with 31 votes in favour, 23 against and two abstentions, the European Commission's proposal for a new definition of engineered nanomaterials. In a cross-party resolution drafted by Christa Klass (EPP, Germany), Asa Westlund (S&D, Sweden), Frederique Ries (ALDE, Belgium), Carl Schlyter (Greens-EFA, Sweden) and Kartika Tamara Liotard (GUE-NGL, Netherlands), MEPs criticised the Commission's proposal for exempting a long list of food additives from the labelling obligation. They also rejected its proposal for a nano-particles threshold of 50% for an ingredient to qualify as 'nano', saying that it is too low.
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