Verordening 2013/609 - Voor zuigelingen en peuters bedoelde levensmiddelen, voeding voor medisch gebruik en de dagelijkse voeding volledig vervangende producten voor gewichtsbeheersing - Hoofdinhoud

SUMMARY OF:

Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 — foods for infants, young children and special medical purposes, as well as total diet replacement for weight control

SUMMARY

WHAT DOES THE REGULATION DO?

It seeks to ensure better consumer protection in respect of the content and marketing of foods for infants, young children and special medical purposes, as well as of total diet replacement for weight control.

It also seeks to provide greater legal certainty for businesses operating in the sector and for national authorities applying the rules.

KEY POINTS

Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 replaces a plethora of rules that had built up over 3 decades and become both complex and fragmented.

The new law strengthens provisions on foods for vulnerable population groups that need particular protection, such as infants and children up to 3 years old, overweight or obese people and people with specific medical conditions, e.g. people with metabolism disorders.

The current 3 lists of substances (including minerals and vitamins) that can be added to these foods have been replaced by a single list.

The regulation also delegates responsibility to the European Commission to adopt, by means of delegated acts, specific compositional and labelling rules for the following categories of foods:

infant and follow-on formulae;

processed cereal-based foods and other baby foods;

for special medical purposes; and

total diet replacement for weight control.

In the future, gluten-free and very low gluten foods will be governed by Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 828/2014 ensures the transfer of these rules to that regulation and is applicable as of 20 July 2016.

Likewise, by means of a further delegated act, the Commission is to transfer rules that regulate meal replacement for weight control to Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods.

The Commission is also required to prepare reports on:

milk-based drinks (so called ‘growing-up milks’) and similar products intended for young children so as to analyse the necessity to establish special compositional and labelling rules for this kind of product;

food intended for sportspeople so as to analyse the need to draw up special compositional and labelling rules.

If the Commission decides that specialist legislation is not required for these foods, they would be expected to then be covered by general food legislation, namely Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods.

In addition, the Commission will examine how to ensure that gluten-intolerant people are adequately informed of the difference between food that is specially produced, prepared and/or processed to reduce the gluten content by at least one gluten-containing ingredient and food that is made exclusively from naturally gluten-free ingredients.

FROM WHEN DOES THE REGULATION APPLY?

It applies from 20 July 2016, except for Article 11 (compositional and information requirements), Article 16 (updating the EU list), Article 18 (delegated acts) and Article 19 (urgency procedure), all of which apply from 19 July 2013.

BACKGROUND

Dietetic foods/foods for specific groups on the European Commission’s website

ACT

Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 on food intended for infants and young children, food for special medical purposes, and total diet replacement for weight control and repealing Council Directive 92/52/EEC, Commission Directives 96/8/EC, 1999/21/EC, 2006/125/EC and 2006/141/EC, Directive 2009/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Regulations (EC) No 41/2009 and (EC) No 953/2009 (OJ L 181, 29.6.2013, pp. 35-56)

RELATED ACTS

Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods (OJ L 404, 30.12.2006, pp. 9-25). Successive amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 have been incorporated into the basic text. This consolidated version is for reference only.

Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 on the provision of food information to consumers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1924/2006 and (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Commission Directive 87/250/EEC, Council Directive 90/496/EEC, Commission Directive 1999/10/EC, Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Directives 2002/67/EC and 2008/5/EC and Commission Regulation (EC) No 608/2004 (OJ L 304, 22.11.2011, pp. 18-63). See consolidated version.

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 828/2014 of 30 July 2014 on the requirements for the provision of information to consumers on the absence or reduced presence of gluten in food (OJ L 228, 31.7.2014, pp. 5-8)

last update 03.02.2016

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