Food Law News - EU - 1996

19 December 1996: PARTICULAR NUTRITIONAL USES - Amendment to Directive 89/398 on Foods for Particular Nutritional Uses


MAFF Letter, 19 December 1996

Amendment to Directive 89/398 on Foods for Particular Nutritional Uses

Discussions on an amendment to Directive 89/398 on foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses have been underway for some time. A proposal was published in December 1994 and a Common Position was reached in June 1996. The proposal was adopted at the Environment Council on 8/9 December. The Directive reference number is not yet known.

The only amendment relates to the temporary placing on the market of products not complying with the legal requirements. The following paragraph is added to the Directive (in Article 4):

"To enable foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses and resulting from scientific and technological progress to be placed on the market rapidly, the Commission may, after consulting the Scientific Committee for Food and in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 13, authorize for a two-year period the placing on the market of foodstuffs which does not comply with the rules as to composition laid down by the specific directives referred to in Annex 1.

"If necessary, the Commission may add in the authorization decision labelling rules relating to the change in composition."


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