Brussels, 10/12/2012 (Agence Europe) - While awaiting the European Parliament's first reading position, the Health Council adopted a general approach on Friday 7 December with regard to the alignment of the European Commission's competences - foreseen by five so-called “breakfast” directives - with the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), and in particular with its Article 290 on delegated acts (this treaty was modified following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty). The five so-called breakfast directives focus on coffee and chicory extracts, cocoa and chocolate products, sugars, fruit jams, and dehydrated milk. Article 290 provides for the possibility for the EU's co-legislators (the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament) to delegate to the Commission the power to amend or supplement certain non-essential elements of legislative acts. Subject to the conditions of the delegation of powers, the Council and Parliament can also decide to revoke this delegation or to object to a Commission delegated act. The objectives, the content, the scope and duration of a delegation must be defined in each basic act. (IL/transl.fl)