6. The Committee agreed that the draft revised food hygiene provisions proposed by the Committee on Food Hygiene should be forwarded to the Commission for adoption and inclusion in Section K – Relations between Commodity and General Committees.
7. The Committee was informed of the discussions held at the Coordinating Committees for Asia and for Europe concerning the definition of Core Functions of Codex Contact Points for inclusion in the Procedural Manual. The Committee agreed that this matter would be considered by its next session and that the proposals put forward by the CCASIA would be circulated for comments as a basis for discussion.
8. The Committee noted that the Code of Principles concerning Milk and Milk Products was being converted into a Codex standard and agreed to propose the following amendment to the Terms of Reference of the Committee on Milk and Milk Products:
To elaborate world-wide standards, codes and related texts for milk and milk products
9. The Observer from IDF proposed to replace "for" with "concerning" to adapt the Terms of Reference to the current programme of work of the Committee.
10. The Delegation of Malaysia indicated that it had reservations on certain labelling aspects of the Draft General Standard for Use of Dairy Terms and brought to the attention of the Committee the contradiction between the status of the draft standard in the report of the 5th Session of the CCMMP and the report of the 26th Committee on Food Labelling. The Secretariat recalled that the draft standard had been forwarded to the Commission at Step 8 subject to the endorsement of the labelling provisions and that it would be referred to the CCFL for that purpose, as indicated in the report of the last CCFL (ALINORM 99/22) and in accordance with current procedures.
11. The Committee noted that the Coordinating Committee for Europe had requested some clarification on the application of Rule VII concerning the participation of Members as observers in the subsidiary bodies of the Commission in relation to Rule III establishing the composition of the Executive Committee (ALINORM 99/19, para. 46). It was agreed that a paper would be prepared for consideration by the next session with a view to clarifying the application of Rule VII.
12. In reply to a question from the Delegation of India on the information exchange through Internet between WHO and member countries, the Representative of WHO informed the Committee that the newly appointed Director-General was undertaking work to improve information technology in WHO and to strengthen communication with national authorities.
