OTHER BUSINESS, FUTURE WORK AND DATE AND PLACE OF NEXT SESSION

(Agenda Item 7)

Future Work

82) The Delegation of Indonesia proposed to consider amendments to the temperatures during storage, transport, loading and discharge of fats and oils in Table 1 of the Code of Practice. The Committee agreed that the Delegation should present a short paper indicating the justification for the changes proposed at the next session, in order to decide whether new work was required on an amendment to the Code in this respect.

83) The Committee agreed that its future work would include the following items, as a result of the discussions held during the session:

• Draft Standard for Olive Oils and Olive Pomace Oils
• Proposed Draft Amendments to the Standard for Named Vegetable Oils
  • Super palm olein (prepared by Malaysia)
  • Mid-oleic sunflower oil (prepared by the United States)
  • Inclusion of new desmethylsterol data and tocopherol and tocotrienol data for palm olein, palm stearin, rapeseed oil (high erucic acid) and mustard oil
  • Inclusion of new data on oils expressed in mg/kg in Table 3

• Draft Standard for Fat Spreads
• Proposed Draft Amendments to the List of Acceptable Previous Cargoes and the List of Banned Previous Cargoes

Date and Place of Next Session

84) The Committee was informed that the next session was tentatively scheduled to be held in London, United Kingdom, in early 2003, the final arrangements to be determined in consultation between the host country and Codex Secretariats, subject to the approval of the Commission.