Food Law News - UK - 2004


FSA Consultation Letter, 16 Setpember 2004

ADDITIVES - Consultation on draft regulations relating to food additives other than colours or sweeteners (fifth amendment)

Consultation on draft regulations implementing European Parliament and Council Directive 2003/114/EC amending Directive 95/2/EC on food additives other than colours and sweeteners for the fifth time. Responses are requested by: 9 December 2004

Consultation details

European Parliament and Council Directive 95/2/EC on food additives other than colours and sweeteners sets out a list of authorised miscellaneous additives, the foodstuffs in which they may be used and their conditions of use. It has been amended on four previous occasions.

Directive 2003/114/EC

Directive 2003/114/EC of 22 December 2003, which was published in the Official Journal of the European Communities (L 283) on 29 January 2004, amends Directive 95/2/EC for the fifth time. The key changes are as follows:

The proposed regulations

The Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995 have been amended four times (in 1997, 1999, 2001 and 2003) to implement amendments to Directive 95/2/EC. The draft Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2004 will implement the provisions of Directive 2003/114/EC in England.

Member States are required to implement the provisions of Directive 2003/114/EC into national legislation before 27 July 2005 and to prohibit products that do not comply with the Directive by 27 January 2006. It is planned that the new regulations will come into force in England during February 2005.

Devolved administrations

Colleagues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are drawing up their own regulations to implement the new Directive and are carrying out similar consultation exercises.

For a copy of the draft regulation, see the consultation letter at: http://www.food.gov.uk/foodindustry/Consultations/consulteng/foodadd5thamend


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