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  • This Regulation lays down temporary measures necessary to contain widespread risks to human, animal and plant health and animal welfare, in order to address serious disruptions in the functioning of Member States’ control systems in view of the crisis linked to COVID-19.
  • This Regulation shall apply until 1 September 2021.
  • This Regulation repeals the Regulations (EC) No 509/2006 (on agricultural products and foodstuffs as traditional specialities guaranteed) and (EC) No 510/2006 (on the protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs) as from 03-01-2013.
  • The Regulation contains stipulations regarding protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications, traditional specialties guaranteed, optional quality terms and the control on quality schemes.
  • The term ‘mountain products' is included as optional quality term.
  • This Regulation is repealed by Regulation (EU) 2024/1143.
  • The role of the Advisory Group will be to provide input into the preparation, revision and evaluation of the legislative proposals. In addition, the members of the Group will have the faculty to ask the competent Commission services about issues of particular interest to their sector.
  • The Advisory Group will be chaired by the Commission and will meet in principle twice a year in plenary sessions to discuss general policy issues that have an interest for all the 36 member organisations or in working groups when more technical issues are examined.
  • This consultation process will play a key role in the development of the Commission decision-making process in the area of food & feed safety, animal health and welfare, plant and human nutrition.
  • The Commission has drawn up a list of members of the Advisory Group and published it in the Official Journal of the European Union.
  • This Decision is repealed by Decision (EU) 2022/119. Applicable as from 15 July 2022.
  • Amendment of Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 10/2011. The specific migration limit is reduced from 0.6 mg BPA per kg foodstuff to 0.05. BPA may no longer be used for the manufacture of drinking cups or bottles of polycarbonate that are intended for infants and toddlers on account of their leak-free properties.
  • The migration of BPA into or onto foodstuffs of varnishes or coatings applied to materials or articles must not exceed a specific migration limit of 0.05 mg BPA per kg foodstuff.
  • BPA should not migrate from varnishes and coatings applied to materials or articles specifically intended to come into contact with food intended for infants and young children as referred to in Regulation (EU) No 609/2013, namely infant formula, follow-on formula, processed cereal-based food, baby food, food for special medical purposes developed to satisfy the nutritional requirements of infants and young children or milk-based drinks and similar products specifically intended for young children.
  • The compliance rules of Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 apply.
  • Business operators must ensure that materials and articles with varnishes or coatings are accompanied by a written declaration of compliance.
  • Materials and articles on which varnishes and coatings have been applied, and plastic materials and articles that have been legally placed on the market before 6 September 2018, may remain on the market until stocks are exhausted.
  • This Regulation is repealed by Commission Regulation (EU) 2024/3190.
  • Denmark applies national provisions on the addition of nitrites, which are more stringent than those of Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008.
  • The national provisions on the addition of nitrites to meat products contained in Order No 1044 of 4 September 2015 on food additives etc. in foodstuffs (BEK nr. 1044 af 4.9.2015, Udskriftsdato: 25.9.2017, Fødevareministeriet), which the Kingdom of Denmark notified to the Commission by letter of 10 November 2017, pursuant to Article 114(4) TFEU, are approved.
  • This Decision has expired on 8 May 2021.
  • Adoption of a new Regulation laying down supplementing rules as regards geographical indications of spirit drinks due to the new legal framework for spirit drinks.
  • Supplementing rules are laid down, in particular concerning:
    • applications for registration;
    • amendments to product specifications;
    • cancellation of the registration;
    • the register of the geographical indications
  • Implementing Regulation (EU) No 716/2013 is repealed as from 1 August 2021. 
  • This Regulation is repealed by Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/29 with effect from 18 January 2025.
 
  • Review of the existing measures with regard to the import of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station.
  • Products shall comply with the maximum level for the sum of caesium-134 and caesium-137 as set out in Annex I.
  • Annex II contains feed and food for which sampling and analysis regarding the presence of caesium-134 and caesium-137 are required before export to the Union.
  • Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/6 is repealed.
  • This Regulation contains supplementing rules on:
    • the sourcing of feed and of raw materials;
    • Union symbols;
    • limitation of product specification for traditional specialities guaranteed;
    • opposition procedures;
    • amendments to production specifications and
    • cancellation of a registration.
  • Regulations (EC) No 1898/2006 and (EC) No 1216/2007 are repealed.
  • This Regulation is repealed by Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/27 with effect from 18 January 2025.
  • This Regulation replaces Regulation (EC) No 727/97.
  • This Regulation lays down a list of products to which Regulation (EC) No 737/90 is applicable:
    • 02 meat and edible meat offal;
    • 04 dairy produce (with exception of 0408 11 20, 0408 19 20, 0408 91 20 and 0408 99 20);
    • Several vegetable and fruits and mushrooms;
    • Sausages and similar products.
  • Repealed by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1158  as from 09-08-2020. 
  • The Directive applies to products intended for or likely to be used by consumers, unless there are similar obligations or procedures for the product concerned imposed by Community law. This also includes products that provide a service. Excluding second-hand products that have antique value or that need to be repaired. This Directive mainly concerns non-food products, for food see Regulation (EC) no. 178/2002.
  • This Directive obliges manufacturers to put only 'safe' products on the market. If the producer is not based in the EU, this obligation applies to its representative in the EU, or, in absence thereof, to the importer.
  • This Directive lays down several stipulations which complement the present food safety policy:
  • Recalls: The Directive introduces a new definition: 'recalls'. It concerns all measures to be taken (by any professional in the supply chain) to recall a dangerous product that has been delivered or made available to the consumer. The Dutch authorities should be able to impose such a recall on any person in the supply chain. Up till now, the Minister of Health does not have this competence. This needs to be included in the Dutch Food and Drugs Act. In June 2005 the Dutch Parliament has passed this law, now it is pending on the approval of the Senate. The implementation period of 15 January 2004 of Directive 2001/95/EEG has been exceeded, but this will probably not have any consequences, since the current Food and Drugs Act already offers an adequate protection of the safety and health of the consumer.
    • Obligations of producers and distributors: the obligations are being extended: producers have to adapt their management is such way in order for them to be able to give warnings to the consumers in case of dangerous products but also to be able to recall these products from the consumer in case they are being charged. For -that purpose all products should have an indication of the identity and contact details of the producer. The producer is a manufacturer in the EU or the representative if the manufacturer is not established in the Community. Also the manufacturer has to keep a register of complaints.
    • Warning duty for dangerous products: Where a producer or distributor know or ought to know, on the basis of the information in their possession, that a product that they have placed on the market poses a risk to the safety or health of the consumer, the producer shall immediately inform the competent authorities. In the Food and Drugs Act this obligation will be inserted.
    • Voluntary withdrawal: In the future also voluntary measures taken by businesses concerning products which are imposing a serious risk, pursuant to the RAPEX-procedure of the involved member state, should be notified to the European Commission. In principle, concerning recalls cannot be executed 'silent' in pursuant this notification duty.
    • Export prohibition to third countries: concerning products of which the European Commission has taken emergency measures, also a export prohibition applies to third countries. Export is only permitted if the product requirements comply to the specific safety measures of third countries. If in a Decree of the Commission despite the existence of such requirements in third countries, to nevertheless pass a resolution to a general export prohibition, in this case in virtue of article 15, first paragraph of the Food and Drugs Act, can be deviated from certain in the Decision of Food and Drugs Act exemption.
  • This Directive is repealed by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/127 with effect from 22 February 2020. However, Directive 2006/141/EC shall continue to apply until 21 February 2022 to infant formula and follow-on formula manufactured from protein hydrolysates.
  • This Directive lays down compositional and labelling requirements for infant formulae and follow-on formulae intended for use by infants in good health in the Community.
  • It also provides for Member States to give effect to principles and aims of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes dealing with marketing, information and responsibilities of health authorities.
  • Member States shall adopt and publish, by 31 December 2007 at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Articles 2, 3 and 5 to 17 and Annexes I to VII.
  • The Annexes contain criteria for the composition.
  • Regulation (EC) No 466/2001 is repealed.
  • Setting of maximum levels in certain foods for nitrate, mycotoxins (aflatoxins, ochratoxin A, patulin, deoxynivalenol, zearalenone, fumonisins, T-2 and HT-2-toxin, citrinin, ergot sclerotia and argot alkaloids), metals (lead, cadmium, mercury, inorganic tin, inorganic arsenic), 3-MCPD, dioxins and PCBs, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (benzo(a)pyrene), melamine and it structural analogues, inherent plant toxins (erucic acid, tropane alkaloids and hydrocyanic acid) and perchlorate.
  • This Regulation is repealed and replaced by Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/915 as from 25 May 2023.
  • The purpose of this Directive is to approximate the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the protection of consumers interests and offers the possibility to bring into action an organization or consumer organization which are competent to commence procedures.
  • This Directive replaces Directive 98/27/EC as from 29th December 2009.
  • Repealed by Directive (EU) 2020/1828.
  • The Directive applies to water for domestic purposes and all the water used in the food industry for the production, and treatment of products for human consumption, unless the authorities have confirmed that the water cannot have a negative impact on the quality of the food for the consumer.
  • The Directive contains microbiological and chemical criteria, among other criteria.
  • This Directive is repealed with effect from 13 January 2023 by Directive (EU) 2020/2184.
  • Commission Decision (EU) 2018/702 approved Danish national provisions on the addition of potassium nitrite (E 249) and sodium nitrite (E 250) (nitrites) to meat products contained in Order No 1044 of 4 September 2015 on additives in foodstuffs (BEK nr 1044 af 4.9.2015, Udskriftsdato: 25.9.2017, Fødevarerministeriet).
  • The European Commission approved the extension of the national provisions for a period of three years.
  • This Decision expired on 5 May 2024.
  • Member States shall, during the years 2020, 2021 and 2022, take and analyse samples for the pesticide/product combinations, as set out in Annex I.
  • The number of samples of each product, including foods for infants and young children and products originating from organic farming, shall be as set out in Annex II.
  • Guidance on validation of methods and procedures for quality assurance in the analysis of pesticide residues in food and feed has been published on the Commission website.
  • Entry into force: 01-01-2020. Replaces Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/555.
  • Repealed as from 01-01-2021. However, as regards samples tested in 2020, it shall continue to apply until 1 September 2021.
  • Member States shall, during the years 2024, 2025 and 2026, take and analyse samples for the pesticide/product combinations as set out in Annex I.
  • The number of samples of each product to be taken and analysed shall be as set out in Annex II.
  • Repeal of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/741. However, as regards samples tested in 2023, it shall continue to apply until 1 September 2024.
  • This Regulation is repealed by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/989.
  • Member States shall take and analyze samples of the combinations of products and pesticides listed in Annex I in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
  • The number of samples from each product, including food for infants and young children, and products derived from organic farming is set out in Annex II.
  • Guidance on validation of methods and procedures for quality assurance in the analysis of pesticide residues in food and feed has been published on the Commission website.
  • Replaces Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/660.
  • Repealed as from 01-01-2020 by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/533. It shall continue to apply until 1 September 2020 for samples tested in 2019.
  • Genetically modified oilseed rapes (Brassica napus L.), as specified in point (b) of the Annex to this Decision, are assigned the following unique identifiers, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 65/2004:
    • The unique identifier ACS-BNØØ5-8 × ACS-BNØØ3-6 × MON-ØØØ73-7 for genetically modified oilseed rape Ms8 × Rf3 × GT73
    • The unique identifier ACS-BNØØ5-8 × MON-ØØØ73-7 for genetically modified oilseed rape Ms8 × GT73;
    • The unique identifier ACS-BNØØ3-6 × MON-ØØØ73-7 for genetically modified oilseed rape Rf3 × GT73.
  • Member States shall, during the years 2021, 2022 and 2023, take and analyse samples for the pesticide/product combinations, as set out in Annex I.
  • The number of samples of each product, including foods for infants and young children and products originating from organic farming, shall be as set out in Annex II.
  • Guidance on validation of methods and procedures for quality assurance in the analysis of pesticide residues in food and feed has been published on the Commission website.
  • This Regulation is repealed by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/601 as from 1 January 2022. However, as regards samples tested in 2021, it shall continue to apply until 1 September 2022.
  • This Directive is repealed with effect from 1 January 2022, see Directive (EU) 2019/771.
  • The purpose of this Directive is the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States on certain aspects of the sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees in order to ensure a uniform minimum level of consumer protection in the context of the internal market.
  • Consumer goods are: any tangible movable item, with the exception of goods sold by way of execution; water and gas when they are not put up for sale in a limited volume or set quantity and electricity.
  • Authorisation of the placing on the market of products containing, consisting of or produced from genetically modified maize MON 87419.
  • The authorisation holder shall be Bayer CropScience LP, represented in the Union by Bayer Agriculture BV.
  • This Decision shall apply for a period of 10 years from 17 October 2023.

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1256 of 23 July 2019 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/943 on emergency measures suspending imports of dried beans from Nigeria, as regards extending its period of application

Regulation (EU) 2018/1670 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 amending Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 as regards nominal quantities for the placing on the Union market of single distilled shochu produced by pot still and bottled in Japan

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1307 of 26 July 2019 authorising the placing on the market of products containing, consisting of or produced from genetically modified maize MON 87403 (MON-874Ø3-1), pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council