During the Standing Committee held on June 11, 2018, EU Member States postponed the deadline for Commission Recommendation (EU) 2017/84 on the monitoring of mineral oil hydrocarbons in food.
Member States agreed on the extension of the submission deadline until October 1, 2019, instead of February 28, 2019, as it was foreseen in the Commission Recommendation (EU) 2017/84. Although several Member States were in favor of an extension of the deadline until 2020, the Commission proposed to collect data by October 1, 2019, and to assess at that stage whether a further data collection is needed.