Foodlaw-Reading Dr David Jukes, The University of Reading, UK
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Food Law News - EU - 2016

Council Minutes, 6 June 2016

CLAIMS – Council decision on Commission regulations on health claims

The following is an extract from the minutes of the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council meeting.

The Council decided not to oppose the adoption of the following eight Commission regulations related to health claims:

• a regulation refusing to authorise certain health claims made on foods, other than those referring to the reduction of disease risk and to children's development and health (8537/16);
• a regulation refusing to authorise a health claim made on foods and referring to children's development and health (8538/16);
• a regulation authorising a health claim made on foods and referring to children's development and health (8539/16);
• a regulation amending regulation 432/2012 establishing a list of permitted health claims made on foods other than those referring to the reduction of disease risk and to children's development and health (8540/16);
• a regulation refusing to authorise a health claim made on foods and referring to children's development and health (8583/16);
• a regulation refusing to authorise a health claim made on foods and referring to the reduction of disease risk (8609/16);
• a regulation refusing to authorise certain health claims made on foods, other than those referring to the reduction of disease risk and to children's development and health (8611/16);
• a regulation amending regulation 432/2012 establishing a list of permitted health claims made on foods other than those referring to the reduction of disease risk and to children's development and health (8681/16).

The Commission regulations are subject to the so called regulatory procedure with scrutiny. This means that now that the Council has given its consent, the Commission may adopt them, unless the European Parliament objects.