Voluntary Report - public distribution

**Date:** 11/21/2003

**GAIN Report Number:** HR3023

HR3023

**Croatia**

**Agricultural Situation**

**Croatian Law on Food (English Translation)**

**2003**

**Approved by:**

![](media/image1.wmf)Sarah Hanson

U.S. Embassy

**Prepared by:**

Andreja Misir

**Report Highlights:**

Following is the English translation of the Croatian Law on Food.

Includes PSD Changes: No

Includes Trade Matrix: No

Unscheduled Report

Vienna \[AU1\]

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**THE FOOD ACT**

####### **I. GENERAL PROVISIONS** {#i.-general-provisions .unnumbered}

## Article 1

This Act shall regulate:

-   general principles and requirements relating to the hygiene and
    sanitary safety of food and feed,

-   the obligations of food business operators and feed business
    operators regarding the hygiene and sanitary safety of food,
    including feed,

-   general requirements relating to food

-   general requirements for obtaining the registration of geographical
    indications and designation of origin or the food and the
    traditional reputation of the food,

-   general requirements relating to the declaration and labelling of
    food and feed,

-   general requirements for placing food and feed on the market,

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-   general requirements for placing novel foods on the market,

-   general requirements for placing on the market food and feed which
    contains genetically modified organisms or consists of them,

-   the system of official control of food and feed,

-   the system of authorised testing laboratories and reference
    laboratories,

-   crisis and emergency management,

-   foundation of the Croatian Food Agency,

-   authority and responsibilities of the competent authorities
    regarding food and feed produced in the Republic of Croatia or
    iimported and placed on the market of the Republic of Croatia.

**Article 2**

This Act shall apply to all stages of production, processing, storage
and distribution of food and feed, except for primary production,
preparation, handling and storage of food in households intended for
personal consumption and feeding of household animals which are not
intended for sale on the market.

### Definition of Foodstuff

### Članak 3.

1)  For the purposes of this Act, the foodstuff shall be every substance
    or product -- processed, partially processed or unprocessed,
    intended for human consumption or which can be expected to be
    consumed by humans.

2)  The term foodstuff shall also include beverages, chewing gum, food
    additives and any other substance that is intentionally incorporated
    into food during its production, preparation or treatment.

3)  The term foodstuff shall also include water, namely:

-   water used for public supply of the population as potable water,

-   water used and/or incorporated into food during its production,
    preparation or treatment,

-   water packed in original packaging as table water, mineral water and
    source water.

4)  The term foodstuff shall not include:

-   feed,

-   live animals, except if they are prepared for placement on the
    market as food,

-   plants before harvesting, picking, or collecting of fruits,

-   medicines and medicinal products defined by a special regulation,

-   cosmetics defined by a special regulation,

-   tobacco and tobacco products defined by a special regulation,

-   narcotics or psychotropical substances within the meaning of the
    Uniform convention of the United Nations about the Psychotropical
    Substances, 1971,

-   residues and contaminants, as well as natural ingredients of vegetal
    and animal origin that are harmful to human health.

# Other Definitions

### Article 4

For the purposes of this Act, certain terms shall have the following
meaning:

1.  "food regulations" -- shll be this Act, implementing regulations
    adopted on the basis of this Act and other special regulations (Acts
    and the pursuant regulations) relating to food, particularly the
    hygiene and sanitary safety of foodstuffs, including all stages of
    production, processing and distribution of food and feed for food
    producing animals or animals used for food production,

2.  "food business" -- shall shall mean any undertaking, whether for
    profit or not and whether public or private, carrying out within the
    scope of its operations any or all jobs related to any stage of
    production, processing, storage, transport or distribution of
    foodstuffs,

3.  "food business operator" -- shall mean a physical or legal person,
    registered for performing certain activities relating to food
    business, responsible for unobstructed implementation of the
    provisions concerning foodstuffs within the business which it
    manages,

4.  "feed" -- shall mean any substance or product, including feed
    additives, processed, partially processed or unprocessed, intended
    for feeding of food producing animals, or animals used for food
    production,;

5.  "feed business" -- shall mean any undertaking, whether for profit or
    not and whether public or private, carrying out within the scope of
    its operations any or all jobs related to any stage of production,
    processing, storage, transport or distribtion of feed, including
    production, processing or distribution of feed intended for feeding
    animals on a private property,

6.  "feed business operator" -- shall mean any physical or legal person,
    registered for performing certain activities relating to feed
    business, responsible for ensuring unobstructed implementation of
    the provisions of feed regulations within the scope of the business
    it manages,

7.  "competent authorities " -- shall mean risk managing bodies, namely
    the Croatian Food Agency, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and
    Ministry of Health

8.  "retail trade" -- shall mean handling and/or processing or food
    and/or its processing and/or preparation and storage at the point of
    sale or delivery to the final consumer, and includes catering
    operations, institutional catering, (hospitals, nursery schools,
    schools, homes for senior citizens and alike), factory canteens,
    catering establishments like restaurants and other food service
    operations, stationary or movable food kiosks, food preparation,
    sale and catering outlets outside of the premises or location
    destined for food business, shops and wholesale outlets,

9.  "marketing" -- shall mean holding of food and feed with the purpose
    of selling, including offering for sale, selling or any other form
    of transaction, whether free or not, distribution and other forms of
    transfer, on the territory of the Republic of Croatia,

10. "risk" -- shall mean the probability and severity of adverse effect
    of hazards to human health,

11. "risk analysis" -- shall mean a procedure consisting of three
    interconnected components; risk assessment, risk management and risk
    notification

12. "risk assessment" -- shall mean a scientifically based procedures
    consisting of four stages; hazard identification, hazard
    characterisation, exposure assessment and risk characterisation,

13. "risk management" -- shall mean a procedure by which different
    possibilities of acting of the competent authorities, relating to
    risk, are compared, in cooperation with interested participants,
    taking into account risk assessment and other relevant factors, and,
    if necessary, the procedure of selecting adequate preventiva and
    control measures,

14. "risk notification" -- shall mean and interactive exchange of
    information and opinions during the whole procedure of risk
    analysis, relating to hazards and risks, competent authorities,
    consumers, food and feed producers, academic community and other
    interested parties, including the explanation of findings during
    risk assessment and the basis for making decisions during risk
    management,

15. "hazard" -- shall mean a biological, chemical or physical agent in
    the food and feed or the state of food and feed, with the potential
    to cause adverse effects to human health,

16. "traceability" **--** shall mean the possibility of tracing food,
    feed, food producing animal or animal serving for food production,
    raw material or substance intended for incorporation or expected to
    be incorporated into food or feed, in all stages of production,
    processing and distribution,

17. "stage of production, processing and distribution" -- shall mean any
    stage, including import, primary production, processing, storage,
    transport, selling or supply of final consumer with food, and, where
    related to it, import, production, manufacturing, storage,
    transport, distribution, selling of feed and supply with feed,

18. "primary production" -- shall mean the production and rearing or
    growing primary agricultural products in crop farming, cattle
    raising or fish farming (pisciculture), including harvesting and
    picking of fruits, milking and raising animals prior to slaughter,
    hunting and fishing and collecting self-grown fruits and plants,

19. "consumer" -- shall mean a physical person buying food for
    fulfilling its own needs, and not using it in any stage of food
    business,

20. "official control" -- shall mean control of hygiene, safety and
    quality of food and feed in order to establish whether the
    provisions of food regulations are met,

21. "food safety" -- shall mean the assurance that food will not cause
    adverse effects to human health if it is prepared and consumed
    taking into acoount its intended use,

22. "food hygiene" -- shall mean measures and conditions necessary for
    hazard control and assurance of fitness of food for human
    consumption, in accordance with its intended use,

23. "feed safety" -- shall mean harmlessness of feed for animals to
    animal health, and indirectly to the health of humans who consume
    products produced from those animals, with regard to the presence of
    certain biological, chemical or physical substances in feed,

24. "contaminant" (or "harmful substance") -- shall mean a biological,
    chemical and physical substance harmful to human health, which is
    not added to food on purpose, and the presence thereof in the food
    is the consequence of procedures during production (including the
    procedures carried out during the cultivation of crops and animals
    and application of veterinary medicines), processing, preparation,
    treatment, packaging, transport or storage of that foodstuff, or the
    consequence of environmental pollution,

25. "residue" ("remaining substance") **-** shall mean the remnant of
    biological or chemical substances that are permitted for using in
    certain quantities and certain stages of primary production of food,
    as well as the remnants of their metabolites and products of their
    decomposing; residues do not include food additives,

26. " food additive" - shall mean every substance which is normally not
    consumed, nor is it a typical ingredient of food, not regarding its
    nutritional value, and which is added intentionally due to
    technological and sensory characteristics or food in the
    technological procedure of production, during preparation,
    treatment, processing, moulding, packaging, transport and storing,

27. "feed additive" -- shall mean any substance which, incorporated into
    feed, may affect the characteristics of feed of the cultivation of
    food producing animals or animals used for the production of food
    intended for human consumption,

28. "food quality" -- shall mean the overall characteristics of food
    which add to its ability to satisfy the needs of the final consumer,

29. "declaration" (or "labelling") -- shall mean placement of written
    indications, commercial indications, registered trad mark, make,
    pictoral representations or symbols relating to food or feed, which
    are placed on the packaging, label or tag or on a conspicuous place
    for the consumer of unpackaged food,

30. "objects that come into direct contact with food" -- are dishes,
    accessories, equipment, devices and packaging used in food business,

31. "novel foods" -- shall mean the food and food ingredient that so far
    haven't been considerably used for human consumption in the Republic
    of Croatia,

32. "genetically modified organism" -- shall mean the organism, except
    for human beings, whose genetic material was intentionally changed
    in a way that can not be achieved by natural propagation and/or
    natural recombining,

33. "food for special dietary needs" (ili "or dietary foodstuff") --
    shall mean the food fo special composition or special way of
    production, different from usual food due to its nutritional
    characteristics, which may be intended for comsumption of infants
    and small children, people with the disturbances of digestive
    process or metabolism, and persons who are in special physiological
    states, for whom it is necessary to achieve special effects by a
    controlled intake of certain alimentary ingredients.

**II. GENERAL PRINCIPLES**

**1. Principles of the Risk Analysis**

### The Risk Analysis

### Article 5

1)  In order to achieve the main objective, which is the high level of
    protection of human life and health, the measures which are
    implemented pursuant to food regulations shall be based on risk
    assessment, except if it is not suitable due to circumstances or the
    nature of the measure.

2)  Risk assessment shall be based upon available scientific proofs and
    conductedin an independent, objective and transparent way.

3)  Risk assessment shall be conducted by the Croatian Food Agency.

#### The Risk Notification

#### Article 6

The Risk notification shall be conducted by the Croatian Food Agency in
order to provide:

-   The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Ministry of Health,
    respectively,

-   Food and feed business operators,

-   Consumers, and

-   Other competent institutions and interested parties,

With timely, reliable, objective and understandable information about
the food and feed related hazards and risks, respectively.

### Risk Management

### Article 7

1)  Risk management shall ensure that the preventive and control
    measures, taken with the objective of reducing, eliminating or
    preventing risks to human health during food consumption, be
    efficient, impartial and adequate.

2)  Risk management shall be performed by the competent authorities.

### 2. The Principle of Precaution 

### Article 8

1)  Under special circumstances, having identified, after the assessment
    of all available information, the possibility of adverse effect of a
    foodstuff on human health, but if there are some scientific doubts,
    the competent authorities may take provisional measures of risk
    management, much-needed for ensuring the highest possible level of
    human health protection to until further scientifically founded
    information necessary for the overall assesment of the risk is
    acquired.

2)  The measures taken pursuant to the paragraph 1 of this article must
    be adequate and not restrict trade more than is necessary to achieve
    high level of human health protection, taking in to account their
    technical and economical feasibility and the established state of
    the facts.

3)  The measures must be reconsidered in an adequate period of time,
    depending on the nature of the identified risk for human health and
    life, and about the type of scientifically founded information
    necessary for the clarification of scientific doubts, and for the
    carrying out of the overall risk assessment.

### 3. The Principle of Transparency

### Article 9

1)  Croatian Food Agency, directly or through authorised representatives
    of consumers or other interested groups, during preparation,
    evaluation and revision of the risk management measures, must carry
    out open and transparent public consultation, except whent the
    urgency does not permit it.

2)  If there is a justified doubt that food or feed could represent a
    risk for human or animal health, depending upon the nature,
    seriousnesst and extent of that risk, the Croatian Food Agency shall
    take measures for informing the public about the nature of the
    health risk.

3)  In the case of the paragraph 2 of this Article, it is necessary to,
    as much as possible, to identify food or feed, risk it represents,
    and the measures taken or which shall be taken in order to prevent,
    reduce or eliminate that risk.

######## **4. The Protection of the Consumers\' Interests**

**Article 10**

1)  The interest of the consumers must be protected as much as possible,

2)  The food regulations shall be directed towards the consumer
    protection and provide the basis for providing complete information
    about foodstuffs to be consumed by the consumers, and offer them in
    that way the choice of foodstuffs.

3)  It is contrary to the interest of the consumers:

-   Production and placement on the market of sanitary unsafe food and
    the food unfit for the market,

-   Fraud or intentional incorrect carrying out of the procedures in
    food business,

-   Forging the foodstuff by replacing or leaving out of the basic
    ingredients which are connected with the certain type of
    characteristic of foodstuff,

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-   Misleading the consumer by providing incorrect information on the
    declaration,

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-   Carrying out or using the procedures (advertising and alike) that
    can mislead the consumer.

**III. SANITARY SAFETY OF THE FOOD**

1.  **The Conditions for Determining Food Safety**

**Article 11**

1)  Food shall be considered sanitary safe if it cannot cause adverse
    effects to human health, if it is produced, prepared and consumed
    according to its intended use.

2)  The placement on the market of unsafe food shall not be permitted.

3)  The food shall be considered sanitary unsafe if it is:

-   Harmful to human health

-   Unfit for human consumption

**Article 12**

1)  When deciding whether some foodstuff is sanitary safe, the following
    shall be taken into account:

-   The conditions at every stage of production, processing and
    distribution of food, and the conditions of preserving and holding
    the food until selling it to the final consumer, as well

-   Information given to the final consumer, including the details on
    the declaration and the information which is generally available to
    the final consumer, relating to the avoidance of specific adverse
    effects to human health of a certain food or food category.

2)  When deciding whether certain foodstuff is harmful to human health,
    the following shall be taken into account:

-   Possible direct or indirect, short-term or long-term adverse effects
    of that food on the health of the person that consumes it and the
    effects upon future generations,

-   Possible cumulative toxic effect,

-   Special sanitary sensitivity of a special category of consumers,
    intended of that category of consumers.

3)  When deciding whether a foodstuff is unfit for human consumption, it
    should be taken into account whether this foodstuff is unacceptable
    for its intended use because of its contamination, whether by an
    external agent or in some other way, due to putrefaction, decaying
    or decomposition.

4)  When the food, which is established to be unsafe, is a part of a
    production party, series or shipment which is equal by category and
    description, all food in that production party, series or shipment
    is considered to be unsafe, except if, having performed laboratory
    analysis and/or superanalysis, the opposite is established.

**Article 13**

1)  A foodstuff shall be considered harmful to human health if:

-   it contains microorganisms or tissure parasites harmful for human
    health, bacterial toxines, micotoxines, histamine and histamine-like
    substances and other microorganisms or tissue parasites in larger
    quantities than permitted,

-   contains natural toxines or other natural toxic substances in larger
    quantities than permited,

-   contains residues of pesticides, veterinary medicines, metals and
    metaloids and other substances harmful for human health in larger
    quantities than permitted,

-   contains food additives which may not be used in a certain type of
    food, or if the quantity of the food additives present in the food
    is larger than permitted,

-   contains radionucleids in over the laid down limit, or if it is
    polluted by radiation over the permitted limit,

-   the packaging contains microorganisms or other substances that may
    have influence on the increasing of the contents of substances which
    are harmful to human health in food.

-   it is derived from dead animals or animals for which the
    slaughterhouse treatment is not permitted, from any reason.

2\) A foodstuff shall be considered unfit for human health if:

-   the sensory characteristics of the foodstuff are so changed due to
    physical, chemical, microbiological or other processes, that the
    foodstuff is not fit for human consumtion,

-   conatains substances or raw materials which are not toxicologically
    evaluated, verified and safe for human use,

-   contains mechanical impurities and admixtures which may be harmful
    for human health,

-   the packaging is so harmed that microbiological and chemical changes
    of foodstuffs are possible beyond the permitted limits.

**Article 14**

The restrictive measures for placing the food on the market and the
request for withdrawing the food from the market, if there are reasons
for doubt that the food is unsafe, shall be adopted by the Minister of
Agriculture and Forestry and the Minister of Health, respectively,
according to food types, pursuant to the list of supervising contained
in the Annix of this Act, which is its integral part.

**Article 15**

1)  The foodstuff validity date thereof has expired, if determined to be
    safe by laboratory examination, and with the permission issued by
    the Ministry of Agriculuter and Forestry and the Ministry of Health,
    depending on their respective competences, may in the timeframe
    determined by the permission:

-   be reused in food productionupotrijebiti u ponovnoj proizvodnji
    hrane,

-   sold, or

-   donated

2)  The foodstuff from the paragraph 1 of this Article intended for
    donation or selling must have a special note on a conspicuous place,
    that it is a foodstuff the validity date thereof has expired, but
    which is still sanitary safe.

3)  The way of submitting the request for the conditions for the
    permission set out in the paragraph 1 of this Article shall be laid
    down by the Minister of Health with the agreement of the Minister of
    Agriculture and Forestry.

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2.  **Implementing Regulations Relating to Food Safety and Hygiene**

**Article 16**

1)  The Minister of Health, with the agreement of the Minister of
    Agriculture and Forestry shall adopt the regulations:

    -   by which certain types and quantities of toxine, microorganisms,
        ions of heavy metals and non-metals, residues of pesticiedes,
        veterinary medicines, radionucleids and other substances harmful
        to human health, like toxicologically evalueted food additives,
        substances that influence on the nutritional value of the food
        intended for special nutritional needs may be permitted of
        forbiden

    -   concerning the sanitary safety of the objects that come to the
        direct contact with foodstuffs,

    -   concerning the treatment and removal of the food that does not
        meet the laid down requirements of sanitary safety,

    -   concerning the implementation of food monitoring with the
        objective of determining the level of nutrients, contaminants,
        additives and other food ingredients, and whose objective is to
        determine the intake in the organism of certain ingredients or
        substances and the assesment of the danger for the health of the
        population,

    -   concerning the way of sampling depending on the methods for
        performing the food analysis.

2)  The Minister of Health with the previously obtained opinion of the
    Minister of Agriculture and Forestry shall adopt the regulations:

-   Concerning the sanitary safety of the potable water, table water,
    mineral and source water and the water for the production of the
    food intended for placing on the market,

-   Concerning the sanitary and hygienic conditions which must be met by
    the persons coming into the direct contact with food, as well as
    about the requirements for work clothes and the clothes necessary
    for the protections of the sanitary safety of the food,

-   Concerning the restriction or prohibition of certain conditions of
    placing the food intended for human consumption on the market,
    excluding the food of predominantly animal origin,

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-   Concerning the restriction or prohibition of use of certain raw
    materials, excluding the raw materials of predominantly animal
    origin, its nature, subsequent treatment or other characteristics.

3)  The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, with the agreement of the
    Minister of Health adopts the regulations concerning the
    implementation of any procedure in the production and preparation of
    food which may affect the hygiene and sanitary safety.

4)  The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, pursuant to the previously
    obtained opinion of the Minister of Health adopts the regulations;

-   Concerning the restricion or prohibition of certain conditions of
    placing the food of predominantly animal origin intended for human
    consumption on the market,

-   Concerning the restriction or prohibition of use of certain raw
    materials of predominantly animal origin in the production of food,
    which originate from specific sources, be it regarding the type of
    the animal, place of origin, its nature, posterior treatment or
    other characteristics.

5)  The regulations set out in this Article and the regulations set out
    in the Article 26, paragraph 1, 2, 4 and 5, Article 29 (6) and
    Article 74 (2) and (5) of this Act are adopted by the competent
    Minister pursuant to a previously acquired opinion of the Croatian
    Food Agency.

**IV. IMPORT AND EXPORT OF FOODSTUFFS**

**Import**

**Article 17**

1)  Foodstuffswhich imported into the Republic of Croatia to be placed
    on the market, must meet the requirements of food regulations.

2)  By the way of derogation from the paragraph 1 of this Article, if
    there is a special international agreement concluded between the
    Republic of Croatia and the exporting country, the foodstuff that is
    imported into the Republic of Croatia in order to be placed on the
    market must meet the requirements contained in the agreement.

**Export**

**Article 18**

1)  Foodstuffs exported from the Republic of Croatia, for the purpose of
    being placed on the market of another country, must meet the
    provisions of the food regulations.

2)  By way of derogation from paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article,
    exported from the Republic of Croatia, must meet the requirements
    determined by the Acts that are in force in the importing country.

3)  By way of derogation of paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article, if there
    is an existing international agreement concluded between the
    Republic of Croatia and the importing country, the foodstuffs
    exported from the Republic of Croatia must meet the conditions
    contained in the agreement.

**The Supervision of the Sanitary Safety of Foodstuffs upon Import**

**Article 19**

1)  The food importer must apply to the border veterinary inspector of
    the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, namely the border sanitary
    inspector of the Ministry of Health, for a request to examine the
    food consignment that has been imported for the purpose of
    establishing sanitary safety.

2)  By way of derogation of the responsibilities established in the
    Annex, the Croatian Food Agency, in cooperation with the Minister of
    Agriculture and Forestry and the Minister of Health shall establish
    the products within the marked tariff indications from the Annex,
    for which discrepancies from the responsibilities of the inspections
    established in the Annex shall be determined.

3)  Examination of the consignment for the purpose of establishing the
    sanitary safety of food is carried out at border veterinary
    crossings by the border veterinary inspector and in other places by
    the border sanitary inspector.

4)  Border veterinary crossings from paragraph 2 of this Article are
    established through an enforced regulation by the Minister of
    Agriculture and Forestry and in other places where examinations of
    consignments take place by the Minister of Health.

**Article 20**

1)  The customs office, the respective customs outpost, cannot carry out
    the customs procedure of clearing the food consignments through
    customs until the border veterinary inspector, the respective border
    sanitary inspector, according to the division of responsibilities in
    Annex 1, shall establish sanitary safety of the consignment and
    through an arrangement approves its import.

2)  It shall be the customs office\'s duty within its rights and
    responsibilities to enable the authorised border inspector from
    Article 19 of this Act, access to documentation and free performance
    of control of sanitary safety of food.

3)  Until the completion of the procedure of establishing the sanitary
    safety of food, and before the completion of the customs procedure,
    the consignments may be kept in storage in customs warehouses which
    meet the requirements from Articles 22 and 26 of this Act.

4)  The competent border veterinary inspector, the respective border
    sanitary inspector, for the purpose of verifying the sanitary safety
    of food being imported, shall reserve the right to take samples and
    have them examined in authorised laboratories.

5)  The expenses of the consignment examination fee, the issuing of the
    arrangement from paragraph 1 of this Article and the expenses of
    laboratory examinations shall be covered by the importer.

**Article 21**

1)  Upon the import of food, which according to the Regulations on Food
    shall be required to have an obligatory certificate on sanitary
    safety, the consignments must contain a regulated international
    certificate on the sanitary safety of the consignment, if it has not
    been determined otherwise by an international convention.

2)  For the food being imported, international certificates on the
    sanitary safety of the consignment can be recognised based on
    bilateral and multilateral conventions, issued by the competent
    authority of the exporting country.

3)  If the conventions from paragraph 2 of this Article are
    non-existent, the recognition of international certificates and
    other documents shall be carried out through enforced regulations
    which are adopted by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry and
    the Minister of Health, respectively.

4)  The international certificates and other documents on sanitary
    safety must be in both Croatian and latin script, and the language
    of the country they originate from.

######### **V THE RECORD BOOK AND THE APPROVAL OF FACILITIES**

**Article 22**

1)  The facility not used in the primary production of food must be
    registered in the Record Book of the Ministry of Agriculture and
    Forestry.

2)  Facilities used in the production, processing and storage of food
    must be registered in the Record Book of the Ministry of Agriculture
    and Forestry, the respective Ministry of Health, according to the
    responsibilities in the provision of general or specific food
    hygiene conditions from Article 26, paragraph 2 of this Act.

3)  Facilities used in the preparation, processing or treatment of food
    at a retail outlet, including movable and/or temporary space
    (stationary or movable food kiosks, places of sale on the market,
    movable vehicles for sale) must be registered in the records of the
    Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the respective Ministry of
    Health according to the responsibilities in the provision of general
    or specific food hygiene conditions from Article 26, paragraphs 4
    and 5 of this Act.

4)  For the purpose of registering into evidence from paragraph 3 of
    this Article, the competent offices of the State Directorate, the
    Economic Office, after the adoption of the arrangement on met
    conditions established by special regulations, must deliver a copy
    of the arrangement to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the
    Ministry of Health respectively.

5)  The facilities in which the production, processing and storage of
    food of animal origins take place must be approved according to the
    regulations on veterinary medicine.

6)  The Minister of Health can within the frame of his duties provided
    by Article 26, paragraph 2, sub-paragraph 2, paragraph 4,
    sub-paragraph 2 and paragraph 5 of this Act, adopt an enforced
    regulation by which the type of the facilities that need to be
    approved and the date by which the operators already engaged in the
    food trade in the facilities subject to the procedure of approval
    shall be established, which shall meet the conditions laid down by
    this Act and the regulations adopted and based on this Act.

7)  In facilities subject to the procedure of approval, the performance
    of the activities cannot be begun without authorisation. The
    competent authority shall approve only those objects for which
    professional supervision has been carried out for the purpose of
    meeting the established conditions.

8)  The competent Ministries in the procedure of registering into the
    Record Book issue an arrangement about registering in the Record
    Book and assign a registration number or approval number to every
    facility from paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article.

9)  The food business operators, apart from those on the retail level,
    shall ensure that the foodstuffs that they produce are marked with a
    registration number or approval number from the Record Book.

10) The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the respective Ministry of
    Health, keep records from paragraph 3 of this Article and Record
    Books of registered or approved facilities from paragraphs 1 and 2
    of this Article, and deliver this list to the Croatian Food Agency.

11) The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the respective Ministry of
    health shall through this agreement and at his request, erase the
    food business operator registered in the Record Book from paragraph
    10 of this Article, namely when it has been established that the
    operator has stopped meeting the conditions prescribed by the food
    regulations.

12) The content, form and way of keeping records and the Record Book of
    registered or approved facilities and the procedure of marking with
    a registered number or approval number are provided for by the
    Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, the Minister of Health,
    respectively.

##### *Temporary prohibition of business operations*

##### *Article 23*

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Ministry of Health
respectively, may temporarily prohibit the performance of operations in
facilities from Article 22 of this Act in the following cases:

1)  When during inspectoral supervision it is established that the
    facility had been used contrary to the provisions of food
    regulations,

2)  When such a procedure is crucial or effective in order to ensure the
    sanitary safety of food.

**The expenses for the procedure of facilitiesapproval**

**Article 24**

1)  For the facilities from Article 22, paragraphs 5 and 6 of this Act
    which are subject to the procedure of approval, the competent
    Minister shall establish a Professional Commission.

2)  The expenses for the Commission's activities from paragraph 1 of
    this Article shall be determined by the competent Minister and
    covered by the applicant of the request.

**VI THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE FOOD BUSINESS OPERATORS**

**General Responsibility for Hygiene and Sanitary Safety of Food**

**Article 25**

For every harm to human health caused due to consumption of sanitary
unsafe food, the food business operators in all phases of production,
processing, distribution and sales shall be held responsible.

**General and Specific Conditions of Food Hygiene**

**Article 26**

1)  The food business operators on the level of primary production must
    ensure systematical implementation of general and specific
    conditions of food hygiene determined by the Minister of Agriculture
    and Forestry through an enforced regulation.

2)  The operators in the production, processing, storage and transport
    of food must ensure systematic implementation of general and
    specific conditions of food hygiene which are determined by shall
    mean of enforced regulations by:

    \- the Minister of Health for the rest of the food.

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3)  The operators in retail trade must meet the general and minimal and
    technical conditions determined by trade regulations.

4)  The operators that prepare, process or treat and refrigerate and/or
    store foodstuffs in retail space must ensure systematic
    implementation of specific hygiene conditions determined by shall
    mean of enforced regulations by:

    \- The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry for foodstuffs of
    predominantly animal origins;

    \- The Minister of Health for the rest of the foodstuffs.

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5)  Food business operators in catering must ensure systematic
    implementation of general and/or specific hygiene conditions
    determined by shall mean of an enforced regulation by the Minister
    of Health in accordance with the Minister of Tourism.

**Responsibilities Regarding fFod Not meeting the Provided
Requirements**

**Article 27**

1\) If the food business operator is aware of or has reasonable doubt
that the food he imported, produced, placed on the market or distributed
does not meet the sanitary safety requirements, it shall be the
obligation thereof to immediately begin the procedure of preventing the
placement of such food on the market, namely the withdrawal of such food
from the market in cases when the product is no longer under his
immediate control and consequently inform the Ministry of Agriculture
and Forestry or the Ministry of Health respectively about this matter.

2\) If the food has already reached the consumer, the food business
operator must effectively and accurately inform the consumers about the
reasons for the withdrawal of the food and if necessary require the
consumer to return the food already acquired, when other measures are
not enough to achieve a high level of health safety.

3)  The food business operator in retail or distributional activities
    which does not have direct influence on the packaging, declaration,
    sanitary safety of food within the frames of its activities must
    begin the procedure of withdrawal of food from the market which does
    not meet the requirements on sanitary safety when it receives a
    notification or a decision which orders the measures to be taken
    respectively on this matter.

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3)  The food business operator must give crucial information for tracing
    the food to the competent authorities.

4)  The food business operator must cooperate and mus not prevent
    another person from cooperating with the competent authorities in
    the measures taken in order to decrease the risk that is the result
    of the food that they supply or supplied the market with.

**R equirements Regarding the Traceability of Food**

##### *Article 28*

1)  The traceability must be determined on all levels of production,
    processing and distribution of foodstuffs, raw materials of
    vegetable and animal origins, food producing animals or animals used
    in food production, including the tracing of any other sort of
    material intended for incorporation or which shall be incorporated
    into food.

2)  The food business operators must establish a system of keeping
    records, namely the data base and ensure the procedures, which will
    enable them to identify at any given moment every legal and natural
    person that has supplied them with food, animals producing food or
    that serve to produce food or any other materials intended for the
    production or that can be expected to be used in the production of
    food.

3)  The food business operators must establish a data base and ensure
    the procedures which shall enable them to identify other food
    business operators to which they delivered food at any given moment.

4)  The food business operators must keep the information from
    paragraphs 2 and 3 for three years and upon request make them
    available to the competent authorities.

5)  The food placed on the market or most likely to be placed on the
    market, must be declared or identified in some other way through
    provided documentation or other information in order to ensure the
    traceability.

**Requirements Regarding the Self-Control System**

**Article 29**

1)  The food business operators, apart from the level of primary
    production must establish and enforce regular control of hygienic
    conditions of production in every object under his control by means
    of enforcing of the preventive procedure of self-control, developed
    according to the following principles of system\'s analysis of
    danger and critical control points ( hereinafter referred to as:
    HACCP):

    -   to identify all dangers which must be prevented, eliminated or
        diminished to an acceptable level

    -   to identify the critical control points in places where control
        is essential for preventing or the removal of dangers or their
        decreasing to an acceptable level;

    -   to determine the critical limits on the critical control points
        which separate the acceptable from the unacceptable for the
        prevention, removal and decreasing of identified dangers;

    -   to determine and enforce effective procedures of systematic
        monitoring of critical control points;

    -   to determine corrective procedures when the monitoring system
        warns that the critical control point is not under control;

    -   to determine the verification procedures for the purpose of
        establishing the effectiveness of enforcing the measures
        specified in sub-paragraphs 1 to 5 of this paragraph; the
        verification procedures must regularly be carried out by the
        objects and the competent inspectors in the objects;

    -   to determine the documents and records suitable to the nature
        and scope of the work which will present an effective
        implementation of the measures specified in sub-paragraphs 1 to
        6 of this paragraph..

2)  The food business operator on the level of primary production must
    establish and enforce regular control of hygienic conditions of
    production in every object under his control by enforcing the
    preventive procedure of self-control, developed according to good
    production practices.

3)  The initial harmonisation verification of the HAACP plans for
    objects from paragraph 1 of this Article shall be carried out by the
    Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Ministry of Health
    respectively, according to the authorities determined in article 26,
    paragraphs 2, 4 and 5 of this Act.

4)  If the results of the self-controls specified in paragraph 1 of this
    Article reveal the existence of health risks for people, the food
    does not meet the requirements provided by the requirements of
    sanitary safety and the food business operator must take measures
    according to Article 27 of this Act.

5)  The conditions for the implementation of the self-control system in
    objects from paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article shall be determined
    through enforced regulations by the Minister of Agriculture and
    Forestry, the Minister of Health respectively, according to the
    authorities determined in Article 26, paragraphs 2 and 4 of this
    Act.

6)  The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, the Minister of Health
    respectively, can in the implemented regulations from paragraph 5 of
    this Article establish exceptions from the provisions from paragraph
    1 of this Article for specific food business operators, especially
    small operators, specific categories of operators in retail and the
    production of traditional products under the condition that the
    primary level of hygiene is ensured through the implementation of
    the self-control procedure, developed according to good production
    practices.

######### **VII NOVEL FOODS**

**The Categories of Novel Foods**

**Article 30**

1)  The following categories shall be considered part of the novel
    foods:

-   food and food ingredients which contain genetically modified
    organisms or are composed of such ( hereinafter referred to as
    :GMO);

-   food and food ingredients, excluding food additives (aromas and
    enzymes), produced from the GMO, but which do not contain any GMOs;

-   food or food ingredients with new or intentionally modified primary
    molecular structure;

-   food and food ingredients which consist of micro-organisms, fungi or
    algae or are isolated from them;

-   food or food ingredients which consist of animals or vegetables,
    mineral or synthetic materials or have been derived from them,
    excluding food and food ingredients resulting from traditional ways
    of reproduction or for which it has been long for a long time that
    they are safe to be consummated;

-   food and food ingredients which have undergone a production
    procedure which is no longer being used, and in cases when it causes
    significant changes in the system or structure of food or food
    ingredients which have an effect on their food value, the metabolism
    or the level of undesirable materials.

2)  The categories of novel foods specified in paragraph 1 of this
    Article must not :

    -   present a danger for the consumer,

    -   mislead the consumer,

    -   differ from foods or food ingredients which they are intended to
        replace in such and extent that their normal consumption would
        be nutritionally disadvantageous for the consumer.

3)  The provisions of this Act and special regulations shall be applied
    on the categories of new food from paragraph 1, sub-paragraphs 1 and
    2 of this Article.

**The Marketing of Novel Foods**

**Article 31**

1)  For the marketing of novel foods for the first time in the Republic
    of Croatia, the applicant must obtain an approval according to the
    provisions of this Act and the special regulation.

2)  The approval from paragraph 1 of this Article shall be issued by the
    Minister of Health in accordance with the Minister of Agriculture
    and Forestry and based on the previously obtained scientific expert
    statement of the Croatian Food Agency.

3)  The approval for placing the food and food ingredients on the market
    which contain or consist of GMO and food and food ingredients
    produced from GMO but not necessarily containing them, shall be
    issued by the Minister of Health in accordance with the Minister of
    Agriculture and Forestry and based on the previously obtained
    scientific opinion of the Croatian Food Agency..

4)  The conditions and the procedure for issuing the approval set out in
    paragraph 1 of this Article shall be provided by the Minister of
    Health in accordance with the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.

> **The Record Book on Issued Approvals for Placing Novel Food on the
> Market**
>
> **Article 32**

1)  The Ministry of Health shall keep the Record Book on the issued
    approvals for placing novel food on the market.

2)  The content, form and way of keeping the Record Book from paragraph
    1 of this Article are provided by the Minister of Health.

> **The Prohibition of Novel Food Marketing**
>
> **Article 33**

1)  If there are any scientific discrepancies regarding the harmful
    effect of novel foods on the people\'s health, especially food and
    food ingredients containing genetically modified organisms or
    consisting of them, the Minister of Health in accordance with the
    Minister of Agriculture and Forestry can temporarily prohibit the
    marketing of such food for the purpose of preventing or decreasing
    the possibility of negative influences on the health of the people.

2)  The Minister of Health in accordance with the Minister of
    Agriculture and Forestry shall permanently prohibit the placement of
    new food on the market, especially food and food ingredients
    containing genetically modified organisms or consisting of such, if
    based on the scientific risk estimate it is established as harmful
    to the health of the people.

3)  The Government of the Republic of Croatia, upon the suggestion of
    the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Ministry of Health or
    the Croatian Food Agency, may temporarily of permanently prohibit
    the import of novel foods containing genetically modified organisms
    in case of lack of the relevant scientific information and knowledge
    about the possible extent of the negative consequences to human life
    and health.

**Harmless Removal of Novel Foods**

**Article 34**

Novel foods, especially food and food ingredients containing genetically
modified organisms or consisting of them, that do not meet the
requirements of sanitary safety provided by this Act, must harmlessly be
removed pursuant to a special regulation.

**VIII FOOD QUALITY**

**Article 35**

1)  Food business operators shall be allowed to produce and place on the
    market foodstuffs of compulsory quality, including the foodstuffs
    without provided quality requirements, if the food meets the
    requirements of the provisions on sanitary safety and the
    information in the declaration.

2)  The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry with a previously received
    expert statement from the Minister of Health shall adopt the
    implemented regulations which regulate food quality for the purpose
    of:

    -   protecting the interests of the consumer;

    -   enabling the consumers to make a selection regarding the food
        which they consume;

3)  The implemented regulations from paragraph 2 of this Article shall
    establish the requirements regarding:

    -   the classification, categorisation and terminology of
        foodstuffs,

    -   the sensor characteristics and composition of foodstuffs,

    -   the sort and quality of raw materials, additives and other
        materials used in the production and processing of foodstuffs,

    -   technological procedures applied in the production and
        processing of foodstuffs,

    -   methods of sampling and analytical methods for the purpose of
        controlling food quality,

    -   additional or specific data that needs to be specified on the
        food declaration.

**IX THE INDICATION OF THE TRADITIONAL REPUTATION OF FOOD**

**Article 36**

1)  Food (foodstuff) may be marked with the indication \"traditional
    reputation\", if it is produced through the use of traditional raw
    materials or has a traditional composition or has been produced or
    processed in the traditional way and it is distinguished by its
    special characteristics regarding other similar food from the same
    category.

2)  Foodstuffs from paragraph 1 of this Article shall be e determined
    with an implemented regulation by the Minister of Agriculture and
    Forestry.

3)  The producers and processors and the Associations of Producers
    and/or Processors (hereinafter referred to as: Associations) shall
    have the right to apply for a request to receive the indication
    \"traditional reputation\", regardless of the legal form or
    composition of the Association, which produce or process such food
    (foodstuffs). The applicants must enclose along with the request a
    specification for the food product.

4)  The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry shall provide conditions
    and procedure for recognising special food (foodstuff)
    characteristics, the contents of the specification and establishes a
    Commission for issuing the \"traditional reputation\" indication.

**Article 37**

1)  The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry keeps a Record Book of food
    products which refer to the \"traditional reputation\" indication.

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1)  The content, form and way of keeping the Record Book from paragraph
    1 of this Article, is provided for by the Minister of Agriculture
    and Forestry.

**Article 38**

1)  The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry shall establish an
    arrangement on entering items into the Record Book from Article 37
    of this Act based on the request of the Association, if the
    compulsory conditions are met.

2)  The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry shall through an
    arrangement erase from the Record Book the food product established
    to have stopped meeting the compulsory conditions

X DESIGNATION OF ORIGIN AND GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS OF FOOD

**1 Designation of Origin**

**Article 39**

1)  A designation of origin shall be the name of a region, specific
    place or, in exceptional cases, the name of the country used in
    indicating the food (foodstuff):

    -   which originates from that region, the respective place or from
        that country, and

    -   whose quality and characteristics, essentially or exclusively
        incur under the influence of special natural and human factors
        of a specific geographical environment and its production,
        processing and preparation in its entirety take place in that
        geographical area.

2)  By way of derogation from the provisions from paragraph 1 of this
    Article, the geographical indications that have a proven traditional
    characteristics, an exceptional reputation and are well known shall
    be registered as indications of authenticity, when the raw materials
    for the food product originate from a wider or different area from
    the processing area, under the condition:

    -   that the area of the production of raw materials is limited,

    -   that special conditions exist for the production of the raw
        materials,

        3.  That the raw materials from paragraph 2 of this Article
            shall be only live animals, meat and milk.

        4.  That the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry establishes
            those foods which may have the designation of origin with a
            compulsory regulation.

        5.  That the areas and conditions from paragraphs 1 and 2 of
            this Article and the methods of control are closely
            determined by shall mean of a compulsory regulation by the
            Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.

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# 2 The Geographical iIdication

**Article 40**

1)  The geographical indication shall be considered the name of the
    region, specific place or, in special cases, the name of the country
    used in indicating foods:

    \- Which originates from that region, the respective place or from
    that country and,

    \- which has specific quality, reputation or some other
    characteristic which is assigned to its geographical origins, and
    its production and/or processing and/or preparation takes place in
    that geographical area.

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2)  The foods that may have the geographical indication shall be
    determined by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry by a
    compulsory regulation.

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2)  The areas and conditions from paragraph 1 of this Article and
    methods of control are closely shall be provided for by a compulsory
    regulation by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.

# 3 The Registration of Traditional Geographical and Non-geographical Terms 

**Article 41**

Traditional geographical or non-geographical terms used for indicating
food (food products) that originate from a specific region or another
specific place can be registered as indications of authenticity, if that
food product meets the conditions specified in Article 39, paragraph 2
of this Act.

**4 Terms that cannot be registered**

**Article 42**

1)  The following cannot be registered as an indication of authenticity
    or a geographical indication:

    -   the term which does not meet the requirements provided by this
        Act,

    -   the term whose registration could due to its reputation,
        familiarity and length of usage mark usage be misleading to the
        consumers about the true identity of the food product,

    -   the term which is inconsistent with the term of the plant sort
        or animal sort which may mislead the public and the consumers
        about the origins of the food product concerned,

    -   the term which, although it refers to a specific place or
        specific region in which the food product was originally
        produced or placed on the market, has become a common term for
        that product (generic term).

        2\) When establishing if one term has become generic in the
        sense of the provisions of paragraph 1, sub-paragraph 4 of this
        Article, all factors have to be considered, especially the
        existing situation in the geographical area from which this term
        originates and the areas where this product is used.

        10\) During the period of protection, registered terms cannot
        become generic terms.

**5 Registration Procedure**

**Article 43**

1)  The procedure for the registration of origin designation or
    geographical indications shall be carried out by the Ministry of
    Agriculture and Forestry.

2)  The procedure set out in paragraph 1 of this Article shall begin by
    submitting a registration application.

3)  In the procedure from paragraph 1 of this Article the reimbursement
    of costs for the procedure shall be paid as provided by the Minister
    of Agriculture and Forestry.

4)  A complaint cannot be filed against the arrangements and conclusions
    established in the procedure from paragraph 1 of this Article,
    however an administrative lawsuit can be filed.

5)  The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry shall establish a
    Commission for the registration of designation of origin and
    geographical indications.

**Persons Authorised for Submitting the Registration Application**

**Article 44**

1)  The registration application for the designation of origin or
    geographical indications for an individual food product may be
    submitted by a group of producers and/or processors of that product.

2)  The term group from paragraph 1 of this Article shall include every
    association of producers and/or processors of a specific food
    product (hereinafter referred to as: Association), regardless of the
    legal status that Association may have.

3)  An individual producer and/or processor, regardless of whether it is
    a legal or natural person, may submit a request from paragraph 1 of
    this Article only if:

    -   during the period that the request is submitted he is the only
        producer, the respective processor of the food product for which
        he is requesting the registration of the designation of origin
        or geographical indication in a specific geographical area;

    -   it is the only one using authentic and unchangeable local
        procedures;

    -   the geographical area has characteristics that greatly differ
        from the characteristics of neighbouring areas and/or if the
        characteristics of the product are different.

**The Contents of the rRegistration Form**

**Article 45**

1)  The registration form shall contain:

-   a registration request for indications of authenticity or
    geographical indications containing, in particular: information
    about the applicant, including information about the Association
    submitting the request and about each individual producer, the
    respective processor who is a member of that Association, with
    evidence showing that the conditions have been met which are
    provided by this Act;

-   the specification of the product.

    2.  Information that the request contains and the content of the
        specification from paragraph 1 of this Article shall be closely
        determined by a compulsory regulation by the Minister of
        Agriculture and Forestry.

        **6 The Geographical Indications and Designation of oOigin
        Records**

        **Article 46**

1\) The designation of origin and geographical indications shall be
entered into the Register of the designation of origin and the
respective Register of geographical indications kept by the Ministry of
Agriculture and Forestry on the day the arrangement on the adoption of
the registration request comes into effect.

2\) The content, form and method of keeping the Register from paragraph
1 of this Article shall be provided for by the Minister of Agriculture
and Forestry.

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## 7 The Right to Use Registered Indications

**Article 47**

1)  All producers and processors of the food product for which the
    indication has been registered shall have the right to use
    registered designation of origin or geographical indication provided
    they meet the conditions specified by this Act and regulations
    established and based on this Act (authorised users).

    2\) Authorised users from paragraph 1 of this Article shall have the
    right to use registered indications only for indicating that product
    which meets the requirements of the specification from Article 45,
    paragraph 1, sub-paragraph 2 of this Act.

    3\) It shall be prohibited to use registered indications contrary to
    paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article.

    4\) Authorised users from paragraph 1 of this Article shall be
    entered into the Record Book of Users of Registered Designation of
    Origin or into the Record Book of Users of Registered Geographical
    Indications kept by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.

    5\) The procedure of entering and erasing users and the content,
    form and method of keeping the Record Book from paragraph 4 of this
    Article shall be determined by a compulsory regulation by the
    Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.

    **Article 48**

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1)  The terms registered as the designation of origin or geographical
    indications must not :

-   be used for commercial purposes, directly or indirectly, for
    indicating those food products which are not included in the
    registration, if such products are comparable to products which are
    included in the registration, or if the reputation of the protected
    term is used through such usage;

-   misuse, imitate or use for the purpose of creating
    misunderstandings, even if the right origins of the food product are
    specified, including the usage of the protected term in the
    translation or accompanied by such expressions as: «style», «type»,
    «method», «produced in», «imitation» and such;

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-   be used in a way which creates misunderstandings about the origins,
    authenticity, sort or crucial characteristics of the food product on
    the outer or inner packaging, the advertising material or the
    documents regarding the product also on the container of the
    packaged products which could draw the wrong conclusion about its
    origins;

-   be used in any other way that could mislead the public about the
    true origins of the food product.

> 2\) If the registered term contains in itself the term of the food
> product which is considered to be a generic term, the usage of that
> generic term on the appropriate food products shall not be considered
> to be the type of usage described in paragraph 1, sub-paragraphs 1 and
> 2 of this Article.

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# 8 Relations Towards the Brand Names

## Article 49

The registered designation of origin or geographical indication bears no
influence on the value and the usage of the brand name which was in good
faith registered before the date the registration request for that
indication had been filed.

**9 International Registration**

**Article 50**

## 

## The international registration of designation of origin or geographical indications shall be carried out based on the International Agreement on the Mutual Protection of Designation of Origin and Geographical Indications, which is binding on the Republic of Croatia. 

1)  An unregistered term or one no longer used in the country of its
    origins, cannot be registered as an designation of origin or a
    geographical indication in the Republic of Croatia

    **10 The Civil Law Protection**

    **Article 51**

    The provisions of the Act which determines the geographical
    indications of the product and services shall be applied to the
    civil law protection of the registered indications of authenticity
    or geographical indications.

######### **XI DECLARATION OR LABELLING AND ADVERTISING OF FOOD**

**General Requirements for Declaration or Labelling of Food**

##### *Article 52*

1)  The food which is placed on the market of the Republic of Croatia
    must have a declaration.

2)  The declaration shall include all written indications, a market
    indication, trade mark, brand name, picture or symbol referring to
    the food and is placed on the packaging, a sticker or tag should be
    placed on the documents and all notifications that accompany or
    refer to that food.

3)  The declaration must be written in Croatian, in Latin script, must
    be visible, legible and understandable.

4)  The declaration must contain the following information:

-   the name of the food under which it is sold;

-   the List of ingredients;

-   the quantity of specific ingredients or the category of the
    ingredients;

-   the Net quality for the packaged food;

-   the Expiry date;

-   storage conditions, where necessary, whether they can influence on
    the duration of the food, respectively;

-   the name and address of the producer or the person who packages the
    food and/or places it on the market;

-   for imported products, one must put next to the name and address of
    the producer, the name and address of the importer's head office and
    the country of origin;

-   the details about the place of origin if the absence of this
    information could be misleading for the consumer about the true
    origins of the food;

-   instructions and usage where necessary for proper handling;

-   for beverages containing more than 1,2% vol. of alcohol, and the
    true strength of the alcohol by the volume.

**Food Inappropriate for the Market**

**Article 53**

1)  It shall be prohibited to place on the market food which is
    inappropriate for the market.

2)  Food shall be considered to be inappropriate if:

    -   The declaration does not have an expiry date provided for by the
        producers, if the expiry date is illegible or if it has run out;

    -   The components of the nutritious materials in the food do not
        correspond with the indications on the declaration;

    -   It contains approved materials or ingredients bigger or smaller
        quantities than those prescribed in the enforced regulations.

**The Declaration or Labelling of Food**

**Article 54**

1)  The information on the declaration and method of declaring and food
    labelling must not be misleading for the consumer and especially:

-   regarding the food characteristics, its nature, identity,
    components, quantity, duration, origins, methods its of production;

-   regarding the attribution of effects and characteristics to the food
    that does not have them;

-   by creating misconceptions that the food has some special
    characteristics and that all similar food has such characteristics.

2)  Not all food can be attributed the characteristics of preventing,
    healing or recovering from diseases or refer to such characteristics
    through declaration and methods of declaring.

3)  Prohibitions and restrictions from paragraph 1 of this Article shall
    also refer to:

-   the presentation of food, especially its shape, appearance or
    packaging, the materials used for the packaging, the method and
    place on which it is displayed and exhibited;

-   food advertising

**The Regulations on Food Declaration**

**Article 55**

1)  The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry in accordance with the
    Minister of Health shall adopt an enforced regulation which shall
    provide the method of declaring or indicating, presenting and
    advertising and specifying the nutritional values of food.

2)  The Minister of Health shall establish the enforced regulation by
    which he provides for the indication of food for special food
    requirements (diet food) in accordance with the food regulations.

3)  The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry shall provide for special
    indications of products of animal origins pursuant to this Act and
    the regulations on veterinary medicine.

4)  The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, the respective Minister of
    Health upon establishing the regulations from paragraphs 1,2 and 3
    of this Article can specify:

-   that certain information regarding food be put on the declaration
    for packaged food or specified in some other way for food which is
    not packaged;

-   that special information regarding food be declared in another way;

-   that common meanings of terms under which the food is placed on the
    market are established;

-   special requirements regarding the declaration or indication of only
    specific groups of products.

**Advertising Alcoholic Beverages**

**Article 56**

1)  It shall be prohibited to advertise alcoholic beverages through the
    press, the public media, all forms of advertising in public places,
    objects and traffic vehicles, books, magazines, calendars and
    clothes, also stickers, posters and leaflets if those stickers,
    posters and leaflets are separated from the packaging of the
    alcoholic beverages.

2)  By way of derogation from paragraph 1 of this Article, advertising
    of beer, wine and fruit wine shall be permitted in accordance with a
    special regulation.

3)  Advertising from paragraph 1 of this Article shall be considered to
    be all forms of direct and indirect advertising, including the
    distinguishing of the name of the producer of the alcoholic
    beverages for advertising purposes including the distribution of
    alcoholic beverages for advertising purposes.

4)  The provision of paragraph 1 of this Article shall not refer to
    professional books, magazines and other professional
    publicationswhich publish information about the characteristics of
    alcoholic beverages if those professional publications are intended
    exclusively for the producers or the vendors of those products.

5)  The provision of paragraph 1 of this Article shall not refer to the
    situation of consumer's being informed about the characteristics of
    alcoholic beverages in objects in which they are sold. The Minister
    of Health shall establish an enforced regulation by which he shall
    specify the conditions and methods of informing the consumers about
    the characteristics of alcoholic beverages which isn't considered to
    be advertising in the sense specified in paragraph 1 of this
    Article.

**The Declaration or Labelling of Novel Foods**

**Article 57**

1)  Novel foods placed on the market of the Republic of Croatia, apart
    from the general declaration or indication requirements from Article
    42 of this Act, must also contain on the declaration additional
    special information to keep the consumers informed about all the
    characteristics and features by which the novel food or its
    ingredient no longer corresponds to the existing food or food
    ingredient.

2)  In that case the declaration must contain information about the
    changed characteristics or features including the method used to get
    that indication or characteristic.

3)  The food and food ingredients containing or consisting of GMOs, must
    have a visible indication that it contains or consists of GMOs
    including the term GMO.

4)  The indication must clearly state "genetically modified organisms"
    or contain the sentence "This product contains genetically modified
    organisms."

5)  The food and food ingredients originating from GMOs but not
    containing them must have a visible indication that they originate
    from GMOs.

6)  The requirements regarding the declaration of novel food shall be
    provided for by an enforced regulation by the Minister of Health in
    accordance with the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.

**XII OFFICIAL CONTROL OF SANITARY SAFETY AND FOOD HYGIENE**

**Official Control of Sanitary Safety and Food Hygiene**

**Article 58**

Official control of sanitary safety and food hygiene includes one or
more of the following activities:

-   inspectoral control;

-   sampling and analysis;

-   inspection of declarations, documentation and official records;

-   inspection of records from Article 28 of this Act;

-   inspection of enforcement and effectiveness of the self-control
    system of the object based on the inspection of the records and
    documentation specified in Article 29 of this Act.

**The Inspectoral Control**

##### *Article 59*

1)  The inspectoral control for the purpose of official control of
    sanitary safety and food hygiene shall be enforced by sanitary
    inspectors and border sanitary inspectors, the respective veterinary
    inspectors and border veterinary inspectors and other state
    officials who are authorised for this by the competent Minister.

2)  The inspectoral control from paragraph 1 of this Article shall be
    enforced pursuant to the provisions of this Act and special
    regulations if they are not contrary to the provisions of this Act.

##### *The general Principles of Inspectoral Control*

**Article 60**

1)  The onspectoral control of sanitary safety and food hygiene from
    Article 59 of this Act shall be enforced:

-   Regularly and in accordance with the priorities established by the
    risk estimate;

-   Always when there is reason to believe that the provided
    requirements have not been met.

    2.  Inspectoral control must be enforced by using the appropriate
        measures for the future goal

    3.  Inspectoral control must cover all levels of production,
        processing and distribution.

    4.  Inspectoral control should be enforced without being previously
        announced.

##### *The Contents of Inspectoral Control*

##### *Article 61*

##### *The following shall be subject to inspectoral control which is enforced for the purpose of official control of sanitary safety and food hygiene:*

-   the position of the object- locations, condition of the object, the
    office, the environment, the production plants, transportation
    vehicles used in the food trade, especially the conditions
    established in Articles 22 and 26 of this Act;

-   an inspection of health and hygienic state of the personnel and
    objects that come in direct contact with food;

-   raw materials, ingredients, technological tools and other things
    used in the preparation and production of food;

-   half-products;

-   ready made food;

-   cleaning and maintenance substances used in procedures that are
    applied in the food trade;

-   procedures applied production or processing of food;

-   canning methods

**Sampling for Laboratory Analysis**

**Article 62**

1)  For the purpose of official control of sanitary safety of food
    samples of raw materials, ingredients, technological tools and other
    materials used in the preparation and production of food,
    half-products, ready food, objects that come in direct contact with
    food including substances for cleaning and maintenance that are used
    in the food trade can be taken.

2)  The food business operators must for the purpose of sampling enable
    free access to the necessary quantities of food, objects and
    substances from paragraph 1 of this Article.

**XIII OFFICIAL CONTROL OF FOOD QUALITY**

##### *Official Control of Food Quality*

##### *Article 63*

Official control of food quality shall include one or more of the
following activities:

-   inspectoral control;

-   sampling and analysis;

-   inspection of the contents of declarations, written materials and
    documents.

##### *The Inspectoral Control*

**Article 64**

1)  Inspectoral control for the purpose of official control of food
    quality shall be enforced in retail.

2)  Inspectoral control from paragraph 1 of this Article shall be
    enforced by the sanitary, the respective veterinary inspectors
    depending on the authorities established in Appendix 1 of this Act.

3)  The inspection of the contents of the declaration for the purpose of
    official control of food quality in retail shall be carried out by
    economic inspectors of the State Inspectorate. In exceptional cases
    that imply the possibility of violation of the provisions on food
    quality, the economic inspectors of the State Inspectorate can while
    inspecting the contents of the declaration also implement sampling
    and analysis.

4)  By way of derogation from paragraph 1 of this Article, the
    inspectoral control for the purpose of official control of food
    quality with a protected geographical indication, indication of
    authenticity and indication of traditional reputation, including the
    food for which this has been provided for by a special regulation
    shall be implemented also in production.

5)  The inspectoral control in production and retail for the purpose of
    official control of food quality with a protected geographical
    indication, indication of authenticity and an indication of
    traditional reputation shall be implemented by the economic
    inspectors of the State Inspectorate.

6)  The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry can authorise legal persons
    for estimating the conformity of production and processing of food
    and products with a geographical indication, an indication of
    authenticity and an indication of traditional reputation.

7)  The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, in accordance with the
    Director of the State Bureau of Standards and Metrology shall issue
    an enforced regulation which determines the system of determining
    the conformity and the conditions which must be met by the legal
    persons in order to implement the procedure of estimating the
    conformity from paragraph 5 of this Article.

**The General Principles of Inspectoral Control**

##### 

**Article 65**

1)  Inspectoral control for the purpose of official control of food
    quality shall be implemented:

-   regularly;

-   inspectoral control must be implemented through the use of
    appropriate measures for the goal.

2)  Inspectoral control should be implemented without it being
    previously announced.

##### *The Contents of Inspectoral Control*

##### *Article 66*

##### *Inspectoral control from Article 64, paragraph 2 of this Act which shall be implemented for the purpose of official control of food quality includes:*

-   the verification of the information and meeting the compulsory
    requirements regarding the declarations or indications, including
    the claims on the characteristics of the food based on the written
    material and documents including the declaration of food;

-   inspecting the components of the ready food.

1)  The inspectoral control from Article 64 paragraph 3 of this Act
    which is being implemented for the purpose of official control of
    food quality includes the inspection of the declaration for the
    purpose of checking the general declaration requirements specified
    in Article 52, paragraphs 1, 3 and 4 of this Act, and as an
    exception the inspection of the components of ready food.

2)  The inspectoral control from Article 64, paragraph 64 of this Act
    which is being implemented for the purpose of official control of
    food quality includes:

    -   the control of production and processing conditions when
        regarding food quality;

    -   the control of the origins of raw materials and ingredients used
        in the production and preparation of food;

    -   the control of food components;

    -   the control of technological procedures applied in the
        production and preparation of food;

    -   inspections of declarations, written materials, records and
        documents.

**Sampling for Laboratory Analysis**

**Article 67**

1)  For the purpose of official control of food quality in retail trade,
    sanitary, the respective veterinary inspectors can for laboratory
    purposes of analysis take food samples.

2)  For the purpose of official control of food quality set out in the
    Article 64, paragraphs 3 and 4 of this Act, economic inspectors of
    the State Inspectorate can for laboratory purposes of analysis take
    food samples.

3)  Food business operators must for the purpose of sampling enable free
    access to the necessary food qualities from paragraphs 1 and 2 of
    this Article.

**XIV GENERAL PROVISIONS GOVERNING THE OFFICIAL FOOD CONTROL**

######## **General Provisions**

##### *Article 68*

1)  When the competent inspector during inspectoral control shall
    discovers or has reason to suspect that there has been a violation
    of the food provisions, he shall take all the necessary measures so
    that the food business operator corrects the established
    irregularities.

2)  The owner, proprietor, the responsible person, the employee in the
    facility or another person that found himself in the facility that
    the competent inspector has entered must not:

    -   Keep information from the inspector or not provide the required
        assistance,

    -   Consciously give out a false statement.

3)  No one must disturb the inspector in the performance of his duties.

4)  No one without a written permit from the competent inspector can
    take any measures determined by the food regulations with the aim of
    correcting the established irregularities.

5)  The competent inspector must implement inspectoral control according
    to the authorisations, duties and responsibilities given to him by
    this Act including the special regulations if they are not contrary
    to this Act.

#####  *Authorisations of the Authorised Inspector*

##### *Article 69*

The authorised inspector can:

-   at any time, even when work operations are being carried out enter
    and object he considers to be a place where food is produced,
    processed, packaged or stored and conduct inspectoral control in
    order to establish the existence, nature and scope of any trade
    concerning food;

-   prohibit the use of space, machines, equipment, plants and tools in
    the object;

-   inspect any food in any object that he considers to be subject to
    the food provisions, take samples of food and inspect anything that
    he considers to be used or could be used for the production of food;

-   prohibit import of unhealthy, inappropriate food and determine the
    procedures when dealing with such food;

-   stop, search or detain a vehicle, ship or airplane that he believes
    to be carrying food, examine the food and take samples of the food;

-   open and inspect a container or package that he believes contains
    food, examine the contents and take samples;

-   request inspection of books, documents or other records kept in any
    medium that he believes contains any information that is important
    for implementing the provisions of this Act regarding any sort of
    food, make copies or take extracts from those documents;

-   seize and keep the food if he believes that the provisions of this
    Act or the conditions of the approval issued pursuant to this Act
    have been violated;

-   perform another activity for which he is authorised through special
    regulations.

**Responsibilities of the Authoprised Inspector**

**Article 70**

The authorised inspector during the process of enforcing the
authorisation determined in Article 69 of this Act and upon the request
of the person that those actions regard must:

-   return the food which he confiscated when it is certain that it
    meets the requirements of the provisions of this Act;

-   if the food does not meet the requirements of the provisions of this
    Act and if the owner or proprietor of the food agrees to have it
    destroyed or eliminated, determine a way of eliminating or
    destroying it;

-   to determine the measures for harmless destruction of food/feed
    containing genetically modified organisms;

-   if he does not receive approval from sub-paragraph 2 f this Act,
    after a written noticed has been delivered to the owner or
    proprietor, he must organise the destruction or elimination of that
    food.

##### *The responsibilities of the authorised inspector*

##### *Article 71*

No information regarding the business of the food business operators
which has been obtained during official controls by the authorised
inspector or which refers to risk analysis must be revealed without
written consent of the food business operators, except in cases when:

-   it is crucial for the enforcement of this Act and when it has been
    approved by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, the respective
    Minister of Health;

\- it is necessary in order to conduct the procedure based on a
submitted report after the inspectoral control has been carried out.

######## **The Annual Programme of Inspections and Reports**

**Article 72**

1)  In order to carry out inspectoral control, annual programs for
    enforcing official controls shall be developed which contain the
    following:

-   the number and type of inspectoral controls that are going to be
    carried out;

-   the number and type of objects that will be included in the
    inspectoral control;

-   the criteria applied to the construction of the program;

-   the required financial assets.

2)  In order to conduct inspectoral control, annual reports on the
    conducted official controls shall be developed which contain the
    following:

-   the number and type of carried out inspectoral controls;

-   the number and type of objects in which the inspectoral control was
    carried out; information on violations and criminal offences;

-   the measures taken in cases where the requirements determined and
    based on this Act.

3)  The programs and reports from paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Act
    regarding official control of food safety shall be developed by the
    Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Ministry of Health,
    depending on the responsibility, and are approved by the
    Administrative Council of the Croatian Food Agency.

4)  The programs and reports from paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Act
    regarding the official control of food quality shall be developed by
    the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry,
    and the State Inspectorate and are approved by the Administrative
    Council of the Croatian Food Agency.

**XV THE AUTHORISED TESTING AND REFERENCE LABORATORIES**

##### *The Authorised Testing Laboratories*

**Article 73**

1)  Laboratory analyses of the samples from Articles 20, 62 and 67 of
    this Act, taken for the purpose of official food control, sjhll be
    carried out by laboratories authorised by the Minister of
    Agriculture and Forestry and the Minister of Health, depending on
    the responsibility.

2)  The samples shall be taken and delivered to an authorised testing
    laboratory by the authorised inspector.

3)  The costs of the performed analyses of food produced in the Republic
    of Croatia shall be covered by the competent authority and if the
    food does not meet compulsory requirements based on this Act and/or
    the information specified on the declaration, the food business
    operator who either produces and/or places the food on the market
    shall cover the costs.

4)  The list of testing laboratories which states the type of
    laboratories and the analyses they are authorised to perform shall
    be published in the Official Gazette once a year.

##### 

##### *Article 74*

1)  The authorised testing laboratories from Article 73, paragraph 1 of
    this Act can be authorised to perform the following:

    -   basic activities;

    -   specialised activities;

    -   specialised activities with the possibility of publishing
        international certificates.

2)  Testing laboratories authorised to perform the basic activities must
    meet the conditions determined by the enforced regulations which are
    based on this Act and which shall be adopted by the Minister of
    Agriculture and Forestry, the respective Minister of Health.

3)  The testing laboratories authorised to perform specialised
    activities must meet the conditions determined by good laboratory
    practice.

4)  The testing laboratories authorised to perform specialised
    activities to issue international certificates must meet the
    conditions determined by the appropriate standards and must be
    accredited by an independent institution.

5)  The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, the respective Minister of
    Health can also determine special conditions that must be met by the
    testing laboratories from paragraph 1, sub-paragraphs 2 and 3 of
    this Article.

6)  The assessment and authorisation procedure of testing laboratories
    from paragraph 1 of this Article shall be regulated by the Minister
    of Agriculture and Forestry, the respective Minister of Health
    through enforced regulations with the opinion of the Director of the
    State Bureau of Standards and Metrology. The accreditation,
    assessment and authorisation of testing laboratories can refer to
    individual analysis or groups of analyses and for individual food
    groups.

7)  The authorised testing laboratories must participate in the
    appropriate programs of testing of qualification.

**Reference Laboratories**

##### *Article 75*

1)  For each analysis performed for the purpose of official control of
    food safety or the quality of food, the Minister of Agriculture and
    Forestry, the respective Minister of Health shall authorise one
    laboratory as a reference laboratory for that analysis. One
    laboratory can be a reference laboratory for more analyses.

2)  The reference laboratories must meet the conditions determined by
    the appropriate standards and must be accredited by an independent
    institution.

3)  The reference laboratories from paragraph 1 of this Article shall:

-   counsel the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Ministry of
    Health, depending on the responsibility, when authorising
    laboratories equipped to perform analyses for the purpose of
    official control;

-   coordinate and offer support, including training and other services
    for laboratory activities concerning technical standards and
    methodologies of analyses which they perform;

-   organise matched tests of standardised samples and participate in
    them on a national and international level for the purpose of
    monitoring the qualifications of the testing laboratories;

-   make sure that the laboratories use the inner system of the work
    quality insurance system (including evaluation methods, keeping
    records, storage of reagents, the safety and routine calibration of
    equipment).

4)  The costs of financing reference laboratories for performing the
    activities stated in paragraph 3 of this Article shall covered by
    the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the respective Ministry of
    Health.

5)  The list of reference laboratorieswhich specifies the analyses for
    which they are authorised as reference laboratories to perform,
    shall be published in the "Official Gazette" once a year.

**XVI CRISIS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT**

##### *Urgent Measures for Ensuring Food Safety*

##### *Article 76*

1)  When the competent Ministers from Article 16 of this Act shall
    establish that the food presents a serious hazard for the health of
    the people or the environment and that such a risk cannot be
    eliminated in a satisfactory way, they can depending on the gravity
    of the situation order one or more measures from paragraphs 3 and 4
    of this Article.

2)  The competent Minister can order the measures from paragraphs 3 and
    4 of this Article without the accordance or opinion of another
    Minister, if the urgency of the situation does not allow it to be
    any different.

3)  If the food is of domestic origins, the measures from paragraph 1 of
    this Article can be::

\- the temporary prohibition of marketing or using the food;

-   determining special conditions for the specified food;

-   determining the measures for harmless elimination of the specified
    food;

\- other, appropriate temporary measures.

4)  If the food originates from import, the measures from paragraph 1 of
    this Article can be:

    -   the temporary prohibition of import of food from the exporting
        country or parts of the exporting country or the country of
        transit;

    -   determining special measures for the specified food from the
        exporting country or parts of the exporting country or the
        country of transit;

    -   determining the measures for harmless elimination of the
        specified food;

    -   other, appropriate temporary measures.

##### *The General Plan for Crisis Management*

##### *Article 77*

1)  The Croatian Food Agency in cooperation with the Ministry of
    Agriculture and Forestry and the Ministry of health can construct a
    general plan for dealing with a crisis in the field of food safety.

2)  The plan from paragraph 1 of this Article, adopted by the Government
    of the Republic of Croatia shall determine the types of risks
    originating from food which can directly or indirectly be hazardous
    for the health of the people and which are not likely to be
    eliminated or reduced to an acceptable level through the application
    of the existing provisions of this Act or which cannot be regulated
    in the appropriate way through the application of the provisions
    from chapter XII of this Act.

3)  The plan from paragraph 1 of this Article shall determine the
    practical procedures which are crucial when dealing with a crisis,
    including the organisation of a crisis unit in the competent
    authorities, staffing equipping it with staff through the
    application of the principles of transparency and determining the
    communication strategy between the Croatian Food Agency, the
    Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Ministry of Health, other
    competent authorities of the State Directorate and institutions, the
    consumers and the food business operators.

**XVII FEED**

> **Requirements Regarding Feed Safety**

**Article 78**

1)  It shall be prohibited to place unsafe feed on the market.

2)  Feed shall be considered to be unsafe for usage if it is harmful for
    the health of the animals that produce food or are used in the
    production of food; therefore the food produced from these animals
    is considered to be unsafe for human consumption.

3)  When the feed which does not meet the requirements of food safety is
    a part of a production series or consignment of the same feed, it
    shall be assumed that all feed in that production series or
    consignment is also defective, unless after laboratory analysis and
    super-analysis it is established to be otherwise.

**Article 79**

1)  When there are grounds for suspicion that the feed is unsafe, the
    Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry shall take measures of
    restricting the marketing of the feed, its withdrawal from the
    market respectively.

2)  The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry shall adopt enforced
    regulations which shall determine:

-   requirements regarding feed safety;

-   hygienic conditions when dealing with feed;

-   introduction of the system of self-control and its application on
    the feed business operators for the purpose of ensuring the safety
    of the feed being placed on the market;

-   conditions regarding professional employees, space and equipment
    which must be met by the laboratories in order to perform analyses
    and super analyses of the feed;

-   prohibition or restriction of using specific raw materials in the
    production of feed which originate from specific sources, either
    according to the animal sort, origins of the meat, its nature,
    retrospective processing or other characteristics;

-   other conditions regarding feed considered to be crucial in order to
    ensure that the feed meets all the requirements of feed safety.

**The Import and Export of Feed**

**Article 80**

1)  The provisions of Articles 17 and 18 of this Act shall apply to the
    import and export of feed in the Republic of Croatia.

2)  The feed importer must submit a request for the examination of the
    food consignment he is importing to the border veterinary inspector
    of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to determine the feed
    safety.

3)  The customs office, the respective customs branch office cannot
    perform the procedure of clearing the feed consignment through
    customs until the border veterinary inspector establishes the
    sanitary safety of the consignment and with an arrangement approves
    its import.

4)  The customs office must within its rights and duties enable the
    border veterinary inspector access to all documentation and
    undisturbed control of feed safety.

5)  Until the end of the procedure of establishing the feed safety and
    before the customs procedure, the consignments can be stored in the
    customs warehouses.

6)  The border veterinary inspector, for the purpose of verifying the
    safety of the feed being imported, shall have the right to take
    samples and have them analysed in authorised laboratories.

7)  The reimbursement of costs for the examination of the consignment,
    the issuing of the arrangement from paragraph 3 of this Article and
    the costs of laboratory testing are covered by the importer.

**The Registration into the Record Book of the Facilities**

**Article 81**

The provisions of the Regulations on Veterinary Medicine shall apply to
the registration into the Record Book (registration and/or approval) of
the facilities in which feed is produced or stored.

**The Obligations and Responsibilities of Feed Business Operators**

**Article 82**

The obligations and responsibilities of feed business operators
regarding:

-   hygiene and food/feed safety;

-   necessary procedures that need to be taken if the feed does not meet
    the compulsory requirements;

-   introduction of the system of self-control in objects used in the
    feed business;

-   introduction of a system that shall enable feed tracing;

shall be in accordance with committments and responsibilities of the
food business operators provided in Chapter VI of this Act.

**Marketing Feed Consists of or Containing GMOs**

**Article 83**

1)  When placing feed and feed ingredientsthat consist of or contain
    GMOs, the request applicant must obtain an approval that is in
    accordance with the provisions of this Act and a special regulation.

2)  The approval from paragraph 1 of this Article shall be issued by the
    Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and based on the previously
    obtained scientific opinion of the Croatian Food Agency.

3)  The conditions and procedure for issuing the approval from paragraph
    1 of this Article shall be provided for by the Minister of
    Agriculture and Forestry in accordance with the Minister of
    Environmental Protection and Physical Planning.

4)  The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry shall keep a Record Book on
    issued approvals for marketing feed and feed ingredients containing
    or consisting of GMOs.

5)  The contents form and methods of keeping the Record Book from
    paragraph 4 of this Article shall be provided for by the Minister of
    Agriculture and Forestry.

6)  The Government of the Republic of Croatia on the proposition of the
    Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Ministry of Health or the
    Croatian Food Agency can prohibit temporary or permanent import of
    feed containing genetically modified organisms if there is a lack of
    scientific information and knowledge on the possible proportions of
    negative consequences on the life and health of people.

**Harmless Elimination of Feed Containing GMOs**

**Article 84**

Feed and feed ingredients containing or consisting of GMOs, which have
been established not to meet the requirements of sanitary safety
provided by this Act, must be harmlessly eliminated in accordance with
the special regulations.

**Declaration and Indication of Feed**

**Article 85**

Feed declaration must meet the general requirements from Article 52 of
this Act and the regulation adopted by the Minister of Agriculture and
Forestry.

**Declaration and Indication of Feed Containing or Consisting of GMOs**

**Article 86**

1)  Feed and feed ingredients containing or consisting of GMOs marketed
    in the Republic of Croatia, among the general declaration or
    indication requirements from Article 52 of this Act must contain on
    the declaration, packaging and accompanying documentation a visible
    indication that it contains or consists of GMOs and which GMO or its
    contents it contains.

2)  The indication must clearly state the following" This products
    contains a genetically modified organism."

3)  More detailed requirements regarding feed and feed ingredients
    declaration containing or consisting of GMOs shall be provided for
    by an enforced regulation by the Minister of Agriculture and
    Forestry.

**Official Feed Control**

**Article 87**

1)  Official feed safety and hygiene control shall include activities
    from Article 58 of this Act.

2)  Inspectoral control of feed safety and hygiene control including
    feed additives shall be conducted by the veterinary and border
    veterinary inspection.

3)  Inspectoral control from paragraph 2 of this Article shall be
    conducted in accordance with the provisions of this Act and special
    regulations if they are not contrary to the provisions of this Act.

4)  Inspectoral control from paragraph 2 of this Article must include
    all levels of production, processing and distribution.

5)  The provisions of Articles 60 and 61 of this Act shall be applied to
    both the inspectoral control and the inspectoral control contents of
    feed.

6)  The general provisions contained in chapter XIV of this Act shall be
    applied to official feed control.

**Taking Samples for Laboratory Analysis of Feed**

**Article 88**

1)  Samples of raw materials, ingredients, technological tools and other
    materials used in the preparation and production of feed, ready
    feed, objects coming in direct contact with feed ,including cleaning
    and maintenance substances used in the feed business can be taken in
    order to officially control feed safety and for the purpose of
    laboratory analyses.

2)  The feed business operators must for the purpose of sampling, enable
    free access to the necessary quantities of the feed, objects and
    instruments from paragraph 1 of this Article.

**Authorised Testing and Reference Laboratories**

**Article 89**

1)  Laboratory analyses of samples from Article 88 of this Act taken for
    the purpose of official feed control shall be conducted by testing
    laboratories authorised by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.

2)  The samples shall be taken and delivered to the authorised
    laboratory by the authorised inspector.

3)  The costs of the performed analyses of feed produced in the Republic
    of Croatia shall be covered by the competent authority, if the feed
    does not meet the requirements provided for and based on this Act
    and/or the specified information on the declaration, the costs shall
    be covered by the feed business operator who produces and/or places
    it on the market.

4)  The list of testing laboratories containing the type of laboratories
    and analyses for which they are authorised, shall be issued by the
    Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in the Official Journal, once a
    year.

5)  The provisions of Article 24 of this Act shall be applied to the
    authorised testing laboratories from paragraph 1 of this Article.

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6)  The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry shall appoint one
    laboratory for each analysis performed for the purpose of official
    feed safety control as a reference laboratory for that analysis.

7)  The reference laboratories must meet the conditions determined by
    the appropriate standards and must be accredited by and independent
    institution.

8)  The reference laboratories from paragraph 1 of this Article shall:

-   council the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry when authorising
    the laboratories trained to perform analyses for the purpose of
    official control;

-   coordinate and offer support, including training and other services
    to the laboratory activities regarding technical standards and
    methodologies of analyses which they perform;

-   organise matched tests of standardised samples and participate in
    them on a national and international level for the purpose of
    monitoring the qualifications of the testing laboratories;

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-   make sure that the laboratories use the inner system of ensuring the
    work quality (including evaluation methods, keeping records, storage
    reagents, safety and routine calibration of equipment).

9)  The costs of financing reference laboratories for performing the
    activities specified in paragraph 8 of this Article shall be covered
    by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.

10) The list of reference laboratories which specifies the analyses they
    are authorised to perform as reference laboratories shall be issued
    by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in the Official Gazette,
    once a year.

**Dealing with a Crisis and Emergencies**

**Article 90**

The provisions of Articles 76 and 77 of this Act shall be applied to
urgent measures for ensuring feed safety and the construction of a
general plan for dealing with a crisis in the field of feed safety.

**XVIII THE CROATIAN FOOD AGENCY**

**General Provisions**

##### *Article 91*

1)  This Act hereby shall establishe the Croatian Food Agency
    (hereinafter referred to as: the Agency). The Agency shall conduct
    scientific and professional business in the sense of this Act
    regarding feed safety and hygiene.

2)  The Agency shall serve as a legal person with rights and obligations
    provided by this Act and the Agency Statute.

3)  The head office of the Agency shall be in Zagreb.

4)  The Agency shall be entered to the judicial records.

5)  The Administrative Council of the Agency shall adopt a Statute in
    accordance with the Government of the Republic of Croatia.

6)  The Agency shall reportto the Government of the Republic of Croatia
    that exercises rights and obligations of the Republic of Croatia as
    its founder.

7)  The Agency can, with previous authorisation of the Ministry of
    Agriculture and Forestry and the Ministry of Health, entrust the
    Croatian National Institute of Public Health and the Croatian
    Veterinary Institute and other legal persons with public authorities
    as provided for by the special regulations to perform individual
    official activities from its scope of activity.

8)  The funds for performing the work of the Agency shall be provided
    from the State Budget of the Republic of Croatia.

9)  The Agency shall have its own proceeds from other activities which
    it organises and implements within the activity.

10) The Agency shall be a non-profit legal person.

11) The means for establishing and starting up the Agency are ensured
    from the State Budget of the Republic of Croatia for the year 2003
    in the amount of 9.000.000,00 kunas.

12) The Institutions Act shall be applied to those issues which are not
    regulated by this Act.

##### *Activity of the Agency*

**Article 92**

1\) The activity of the Agency shall be to analyse risks regarding
food/feed safety:

1.  within the activities of risk assessment, the Agency shall :

\- look for, collects and analyses scientific and technical information
for the purpose of distinguishing and monitoring risks that have direct
or indirect influence on the hygiene and safety of food /feed and for
that purpose it establishes a system of departments of the State
Directorate, institutions and other legal persons that are active in the
field of scientific food/feed safety;

-   in cooperation with the Croatian National Institute for Public
    Health and the Croatian Veterinary Institute and other authorised
    legal persons enforce monitoring of food/feed safety;

-   perform activities for the purpose of identifying and distinguishing
    the risks that appear regarding food/feed safety;

-   eonstructs scientific studies necessary for promoting risk
    assessments in the field of food/feed safety;

-   establishe unique methodologies of risk assessment on all levels of
    production, processing and distribution of food/feed;

2.  within the frame of risk notification, the Agency shall:

-   inform on the risks and offers professional and scientific opinions
    to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Ministry of
    Health, the food/feed business operators, the consumers and other
    legal persons concerning the hazards and safety of food/feed;

-   establishe a system of fast alarming and for that purpose accepts
    and forwards all information regarding food hazards and establishes
    a central information system for exchanging information;

3.  Within the frame of risk management, the Agency shall together with
    the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Ministry of Health
    coordinate those activities regarding the official control of
    food/feed safety and the development and formation of regulations in
    the field of food/feed.

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2)  Apart from performing the activities from paragraph 1 of this
    Article, the Agency shall also:

    -   develop guide books for good production practices, guide books
        for the application of the HACCP system and guide books for good
        laboratory practice;

    -   offer scientific opinion regarding the nourishment of people,
        feed and other issues regarding the health and well-being of
        animals and the health of plants;

    -   cooperate with international institutions and organisations that
        deal in issues of food and nourishment.

3\) The Agency shall perform other activities determined by this Act,
Statute and other regulations.

**The Bodies of the Agency**

**Article 93**

The Bodies of the Agency shall be:

-   Management Board,

-   Director,

-   Advisory Council

-   Scientific Council and scientific committees

##### *The Structure and Mandate of the Management Board*

##### *Article 94*

1)  The Management Board of the Agency shall have seven members,
    appointed by the Government of the Republic of Croatia upon the
    joint proposal of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry and the
    Minister of Health.

2)  The Management Board of the Agency shall consist of the Assistant
    MInister of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry for the
    veterinary issues, the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of
    Agriculture and Forestry for agri-food policy issues, the Assistant
    Minister of the Ministry of Health for sanitary control and the
    representative of the Croatian Institute of Public Health, and the
    remaining three members of the Management Board shall be appointed
    by the Government of the Republic of Croatia on the basis of a
    public tender.

3)  The mandate of the members of the Management Board shall be four
    years.

4)  The President of the Management Board shall be elected by the
    members of the Board among themselves for the period of three years.

##### 

##### *The Tasks and the Way of Operating of the Management Board*

##### *Article 95*

1)  The Management Board of the Agency shall:

-   approve and adopt, respectively, the internal regulations of the
    Agency and its integral parts,

-   adopt the opinion about the regulations in the food and feed area
    laid down by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the
    Ministry of Health,

-   adopt the financial regulations of the Agency that establish the
    procedure of the withdrawal of funds and the fulfilment of the
    Agency's budget from the State Budget, pursuant to the Act about the
    fulfilment of the State Budget of the Republic of Croatia,

-   ensure that the Agency performs its functions and exercises the
    tasks which are assigned to it pursuant to this Act,

-   ensure that the working programmes of the Agency be pursuant to the
    regulations and the policy of priorities of the Government in the
    area of food safety and food hygiene,

-   provide the public, , with the access to agendas, minutes and other
    documents from the meetings of the Management Board, including the
    internal regulations of the Agency, procedural regulations of the
    Management board and the financial regulations of the Agency, in as
    short a period as possible

-   adopt the Programme of activities for a maximum period of four years

-   adopt, before January 31 every year, the Program of Agency's Work
    for the period until December 31 of the following year,

-   adopt the General Report on the Agency's Work in the previous year,
    before March 30, every year.

    2.  The Management Board of the Agency adopts decisions by the
        majority of the votes of its members.

    3.  The Management Board of the Agency meets at the call of the
        President or the Director or at the joint call or request of
        three of their members.

**The Director**

**Article 96**

###### The director and the deputy director of the Agency shall be appointed by the Management Board of the Agency from the candidates that are nominated by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, with the approval of the Minister of Health, following a public tender. 

###### The mandate of the director and the deputy director shall be five years.

###### The director shall manage+ the Agency\'s business, represent and act on behalf of the Agency, be responsible for the business and the legality of the Agency\'s business, submit proposals for the Agency\'s documents to the Management Board, with the purpose of their adoption, fulfill the decisions of the Management Board, and perform other jobs within the competence thereof, pursuant to the Law, Statute or other official acts.

##### *Advisory Council*

##### *Article 97*

1)  The advisory council shall have thirteen members, including: two
    representatives of the competent Ministry for agriculture and food
    industry and for veterinaryaffairs, two representatives of the
    competent Ministry of health, one representative competent for
    environmental protection and eight members from the institutions,
    associations of consumers, chambers and associations which have
    interests in the area of hygiene and food safety of food and feed.

2)  The members of the Advisory council from the ministries shall be
    appointed by the Management Board upon proposal of the competent
    ministers, and the other members shall be selected on the basis of a
    public tender.

3)  The members of the Advisory council may not be the members of the
    Management Board,, Scientific Council or scientific committees.

4)  The Advisory Council shall advise the director on conducting the
    Agency's business.

5)  The tasks and the way of working of the Advisory Council, headedby
    the director of the Agency, shall be laid down by the Statute and
    other general official acts of the Agency.

###### **Scientific Council and Scientific Committees**

###### **Article 98**

###### 

###### The Agency shall have the Scientific Council and scientific committees, as expert bodies for determining scientific opinions within the scope of the Agency. 

2\) The scope and the number of the members of the Scientific Council,
and the scope, number of the scientific committees with the number of
its members, and the procedure and the way of working shall be laid down
by the Statute and other general official acts of the Agency, pursuant
to the international rules and regulations.

###### **Scientific Expert Statements** 

###### **Article 99**

1\) The Scientific council shall provide scientific expert statemetns :

-   At the request of the Management Board, in relation to any issue
    within its competence, and in all cases for which the national
    legislation provides for the consultation with the Scientific
    Council,

-   At its own initiative, about the issues within its competence.

2\) The requests set out in the paragraph 1, subparagraph 1 of this
Article must be accompanied by all necessary information explaining
which scientific issue is addressed.

3\) The Scientific Council shall issue its scientific opinion within the
period which is set out in the request for the opinion, except if
objective circumstances prevent it.

4\) If more different requests were submitted in relation to the same
issue, or if the request is not pursuant to the pargraph 2 of this
Article, if it is unclear, or if the Scientific Council has already
given its opinion about a particular issue and concluded that there is
no new information that shoul be considere, it can either refuse the
request, or propose that it be amended in agreement with the director.
The refusal must be explained to the Management Board.

##### 

##### *Remunerations and Expenses*

##### *Article 100.*

The members of the Management Board, Advisory Council, Scientific
council and scientific committees of the Agency shall be entitled to the
remuneration for their work and the compensation for the work-related
expenses, and the amount of the compensation and remuneration is
established by the Government of the Republic of Croatia.

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######### **XIX. PENAL PROVISIONS**

**Article 101**

1\) Any legal person shall be punished by a fine of 100.000,00 to
500.000,00 kn if:

-   It places novel foods on the market contrary to the Article 31 (1)
    of this Act,

-   Declares or labels novel foods contrary to the Article 57 of this
    Act,

-   Places feed on the market contrary to the Article 83 (1) of this
    Act,

-   Declares or labels feed contrary to the Article 86 of this Act.

    2.  For the offences set aout in the paragraph 1 of this Article,
        the person responsible within the legal person shall be punished
        by a fine from 5.000,00 to 10.000,00 kn.

    3.  For the offences set out in the paragraph 1 of this Article, a
        physical person shall be punished by a fine of 5.000,00 to
        10.000,00 kn.

##### *Article 102*

1\) Any legal person shall be punished for the offence by a fine from
kaznom od 50.000,00 to 100.000,00 kn, if it:

-   Places food on the market contrary to the Article 11 (2) of this
    Act,

-   Imports food contrary to the Article 17 (1) of this Act,

-   Performs its business in an unregistered facility contrary to the
    Article 22 (2) of this Act,

-   Performs actions contrary to Article 27 of this Act,

-   Performs actions contrary to the Article 29 (1), (2) and (5) of this
    Act,

-   Places feed on the market contrary to the Article 78 (1) of this
    Act.

2)  For the offences set out in the paragraph 1 of this Article, the
    person responsible within the legal person shall be punished by a
    fine from 5.000,00 to 10.000,00 kn.

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2)  For the offences set out in the paragraph 1 of this Article, a
    physical person shall be fined by a fine from 5.000,00 to 10.000,00
    kn.

**Article 103**

1)  A legal person shall be punished by a fine of 30.000,00 to 70.000,00
    kn , if it:

-   Performs the actions contrary to the Article 15 (2) of this Act,

-   Performs its activity in an unregistered facility contrary to the
    Article 22 (1) of this Act,

-   Performs the actions contrary to the Article 25 (1) of this Act,

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-   Performs the activities contrary to the Article 28 of this Act,

-   Uses the indication «traditional reputation» contrary to the Article
    36 of this Act,

-   Uses the geopraphical indications and designations of origin
    contrary to the Article 47 (1) and (2) of this Act,

-   Performs actions contrary to the Article 48 (1) of this Act,

-   Declares food contrary to the Article 52 of this Act,

-   performs acitivities contrary tot he Article 53 paragraph 1 of this
    Act;

-   declares of labels food contrary to the Article 54 of this Act.

2)  For the offences set out in the paragraph 1 of this Article, the
    person responsible within the legal person shall be punished by a
    fine from 5.000,00 to 10.000,00 kn.

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2)  For the offences set out in the paragraph 1 of this Article, a
    physical person shall be punished by a fine of 5.000,00 to 10.000,00
    kn.

**Article 104**

Any physical person that shall act contrary to the Article 68(2), (3)
and (4) of this Act shall be punished for this offence by a fine from
5.000,00 to 10.000,00 kn.

XX\. TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS

##### *Article 105*

1)  The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry shall, within the period of
    one year following the day of entering in force of this Act, adopt
    the regulations pursuant to:

    -   Article 55 (1) and (3),

    -   Article 79 (2),

    -   Article 83 (3) and (5),

    -   Article 85,

    -   Article 86 (3) of this Act

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1)  The Minister of Health shall, within the period of one year
    following the day of entering in force of this Act adopt the
    regulations pursuant to:

-   Article 15 (3),

-   Article 31 (4),

-   Article 32 (2),

-   Article 55. (2),

-   Article 56 (6),

-   Article 57 (7) of this Act

**Article 106**

1)  The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry shall, within the period of
    two years following the day of entering into force of this Act,
    adopt the regulations pursuant to:

-   Article 26 (1),

-   Article 35 (2) of this Act.

2)  The Minister of Health shall, in the period of two years following
    the day of entering into force of this Act, adopt the regulations
    pursuant to the Article 26 (5) of this Act.

3)  The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry and the Minister of Health,
    respectively, shall, within the period of two years following the
    day of entering into force of this Act adopt the regulation pursuant
    to:

-   Article 16,

-   Article 21 (3),

-   Article 22 (6) and (12),

-   Article 26 (2) and (4),

-   Article 29 (6) of this Act.

**Article 107**

The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry and the Minister of Health
shall, within the period of three years following the day of entering
into force of this Act adopt the regulations pursuant to:

-   Article 36 (4),

-   Article 37 (2),

-   Article 39 (5),

-   Article 40 (3),

-   Article 45 (2),

-   Article 46 (2),

-   Article 47 (5),

-   Article 64 (7),

-   Article 74 (2), (5), and (6) of this Act.

**Article 108**

Implementing regulations set out in the Article 105, 106 and 107 of this
Act, except for regulations set out in Article 106 (3) (3) and Article
107 (1) to (8) of this Act shall be adopted following the previous
opinion of the Agency.

**Article 109**

1)  The Government of the Republic of Croatia shall appoint members of
    the Management Board of the Agency and the provisional director of
    the Agency within the term of three months following the day of
    entering in force of this Act.

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1)  The Management Board of the Agency shall be committed to adopt the
    Statute within the period of four months, and other general
    documents within the period of six months, respectively, following
    the day of appointment.

2)  The provisional director of the Agency shall be committed to make
    the preparations for the commencement of the work of the Agency and
    to submit the application for entering the Agency into the court
    registrar within the period of three months following the day of
    appointment.

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##### 

##### *Article 110*

The permits for placing on the market novel foods set out in the Article
31 of this Act and feed which contains of consists of GMO, set out in
the Article 83 of this Act, shall not be issued until the adoption of
the implementing regulations laid down in the Article 31 (4) and Article
83 (3) and (5) of this Act..

**Article 111**

Until the adoption of implementing regulations pursuant to the Articles
105, 106 and 107 of this Act, the regulations adopted on the basis of
the Act about Sanitary Safety and Sanitary Control of Foodstuffs and
General Purpose Objects, ("Official Gazette" No 1/97), Veterinary Act
("Official Gazette", 70/97 and 105/01), Standardisation Act ("Official
Gazette", 55/96), Cattle Breeding Act ("Official Gazette", 70/97) and
the Act about the geographical indications of products and services
("Official Gazette"; 78/99)

**Article 112**

On the day of entering in force of this Act, the provisions of the Act
about Sanitary Safety and Sanitary Control of Foodstuffs and General
Purposes Objects, ("Official Gazette" No 1/97) shall cease to be
applicable in its part referring to foodstuffs and objects that come
into immediate contact with food.

**Article 113**

This Act shall enter into force on the eighth day after its publishing
in "Official Journal", except for the provisions of the Article 29,
Article 74 (4), and Article 75 of this Act which become applicable from
the day of expiration of the term of 3 years since the day of entering
in force of this Act.

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| 0201   | Meat of bovine  | V          | V            | V            |
|        | animals, fresh  |            |              |              |
|        | or chilled:     |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0202   | Meat of bovine  | V          | V            | V            |
|        | animals,        |            |              |              |
|        | frozen:         |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0203   | Meat of swine,  | V          | V            | V            |
|        | fresh, chilled  |            |              |              |
|        | or frozen:      |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0204   | Meat of sheep   | V          | V            | V            |
|        | and goats,      |            |              |              |
|        | fresh, chilled  |            |              |              |
|        | or frozen:      |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 020500 | Meat of horses, | V          | V            | V            |
|        | asses, mules    |            |              |              |
|        | and hinnies,    |            |              |              |
|        | fresh, chilled  |            |              |              |
|        | or frozen:      |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0206   | Edible meat     | V          | V            | V            |
|        | offal of the    |            |              |              |
|        | following       |            |              |              |
|        | animal species: |            |              |              |
|        | bovine animals, |            |              |              |
|        | swine, sheep,   |            |              |              |
|        | goats, horses,  |            |              |              |
|        | donkeys, mules, |            |              |              |
|        | hinnies fresh,  |            |              |              |
|        | chilled of      |            |              |              |
|        | frozen:         |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0207   | Meat and edible | V          | V            | V            |
|        | internal organs |            |              |              |
|        | (offal) of the  |            |              |              |
|        | poultry of      |            |              |              |
|        | heading 0105,   |            |              |              |
|        | fresh, chilled  |            |              |              |
|        | or frozen:      |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0208   | Other meat and  | V          | V            | V            |
|        | edible meat     |            |              |              |
|        | offal, fresh,   |            |              |              |
|        | chilled or      |            |              |              |
|        | frozen:         |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 020900 | Pig fat, free   | V          | S            | V            |
|        | of lean meat    |            |              |              |
|        | and poultry     |            |              |              |
|        | fat, not        |            |              |              |
|        | rendered or     |            |              |              |
|        | otherwise       |            |              |              |
|        | extracted,      |            |              |              |
|        | frozen, salted, |            |              |              |
|        | in brine, dried |            |              |              |
|        | or smoked:      |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0210   | Meat and edible | V          | S            | V            |
|        | meat offal,     |            |              |              |
|        | salted, in      |            |              |              |
|        | brine, dried or |            |              |              |
|        | smoked; edible  |            |              |              |
|        | flour and meals |            |              |              |
|        | of meat or meat |            |              |              |
|        | offal:          |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0301   | Live fish       | V          | V            | V            |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0302   | Fish, fresh or  | V          | V            | V            |
|        | chilled,        |            |              |              |
|        | excluding fish  |            |              |              |
|        | filets and      |            |              |              |
|        | other fish meat |            |              |              |
|        | of heading 0304 |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0303   | Fish, frozen,   | V          | V            | V            |
|        | excluding fish  |            |              |              |
|        | filets and      |            |              |              |
|        | other fish meat |            |              |              |
|        | of heading      |            |              |              |
|        | 0304:           |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| **Ta   | **DESCRIPTION** | **PR       | **RETAIL**   | **IMPORT**   |
| riff** |                 | ODUCTION** |              |              |
|        |                 |            |              |              |
| **CN   |                 |            |              |              |
| Code** |                 |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0304   | Fish filets and | V          | V            | V            |
|        | other fish meat |            |              |              |
|        | (whether or not |            |              |              |
|        | ground or       |            |              |              |
|        | minced), fresh, |            |              |              |
|        | chilled or      |            |              |              |
|        | frozen:         |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0305\* | Fish, dried,    | V          | S            | V            |
|        | salted or in    |            |              |              |
|        | brine; smoked   |            |              |              |
|        | fish, whether   |            |              |              |
|        | or not cooked   |            |              |              |
|        | before or       |            |              |              |
|        | during the      |            |              |              |
|        | smoking         |            |              |              |
|        | process;        |            |              |              |
|        | flours, meals   |            |              |              |
|        | and pellets of  |            |              |              |
|        | fish, fit for   |            |              |              |
|        | human           |            |              |              |
|        | consumption:    |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0306\* | Crustaceans     | V          | S            | V            |
|        | (crabs) whether |            |              |              |
|        | in shell or     |            |              |              |
|        | not, live,      |            |              |              |
|        | fresh, chilled, |            |              |              |
|        | frozen, dried,  |            |              |              |
|        | salted or in    |            |              |              |
|        | brine;          |            |              |              |
|        | crustaceans     |            |              |              |
|        | (crabs) in      |            |              |              |
|        | shell and       |            |              |              |
|        | cooked by       |            |              |              |
|        | steaming or     |            |              |              |
|        | boiling in      |            |              |              |
|        | water, whether  |            |              |              |
|        | or not chilled, |            |              |              |
|        | dried, salted   |            |              |              |
|        | or in brine;    |            |              |              |
|        | flours, meals   |            |              |              |
|        | and pellets of  |            |              |              |
|        | crustaceans,    |            |              |              |
|        | fit for human   |            |              |              |
|        | consumption     |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0307\* | Molluscs        | V          | S            | V            |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | in shell, live, |            |              |              |
|        | fresh, chilled, |            |              |              |
|        | frozen, salted  |            |              |              |
|        | or in brine;    |            |              |              |
|        | aquatic         |            |              |              |
|        | n               |            |              |              |
|        | on-vertebrates, |            |              |              |
|        | excluding       |            |              |              |
|        | crustaceans and |            |              |              |
|        | molluscs, live, |            |              |              |
|        | fresh, chilled, |            |              |              |
|        | frozen, dried,  |            |              |              |
|        | salted or in    |            |              |              |
|        | brine; flours,  |            |              |              |
|        | meals and       |            |              |              |
|        | pellets of      |            |              |              |
|        | aquatic         |            |              |              |
|        | invertebrates:  |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0401   | Milk and cream, | V          | S            | V            |
|        | n               |            |              |              |
|        | on-concentrated |            |              |              |
|        | and without     |            |              |              |
|        | sugar or other  |            |              |              |
|        | sweeteners      |            |              |              |
|        | added:          |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0402   | Milk and cream, | V          | S            | V            |
|        | concentrated or |            |              |              |
|        | with sugar and  |            |              |              |
|        | other           |            |              |              |
|        | sweeteners      |            |              |              |
|        | added:          |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0403\* | Buttermilk,     | V          | S            | V            |
|        | curdled milk    |            |              |              |
|        | and cream,      |            |              |              |
|        | yoghurt, kephir |            |              |              |
|        | and other       |            |              |              |
|        | fermented or    |            |              |              |
|        | acidified milk  |            |              |              |
|        | and cream,      |            |              |              |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | concentrated ,  |            |              |              |
|        | or containing   |            |              |              |
|        | added sugar or  |            |              |              |
|        | other           |            |              |              |
|        | sweetening      |            |              |              |
|        | matter, or      |            |              |              |
|        | flavoured or    |            |              |              |
|        | containing      |            |              |              |
|        | added fruit,    |            |              |              |
|        | nuts or cocoa:  |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0404   | Whey, whether   | V          | S            | V            |
|        | or not          |            |              |              |
|        | concentrated,   |            |              |              |
|        | or containing   |            |              |              |
|        | added sugar or  |            |              |              |
|        | other           |            |              |              |
|        | sweetening      |            |              |              |
|        | matter;         |            |              |              |
|        | products which  |            |              |              |
|        | consist of      |            |              |              |
|        | natural milk    |            |              |              |
|        | constituents,   |            |              |              |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | containing      |            |              |              |
|        | added sugar or  |            |              |              |
|        | other           |            |              |              |
|        | sweetening      |            |              |              |
|        | matter:, not    |            |              |              |
|        | elsewhere       |            |              |              |
|        | specified or    |            |              |              |
|        | included:       |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| **Ta   | **DESCRIPTION** | **PR       | **RETAIL**   | **IMPORT**   |
| riff** |                 | ODUCTION** |              |              |
|        |                 |            |              |              |
| **CN   |                 |            |              |              |
| Code** |                 |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0405\* | Butter and      | V          | S            | V            |
|        | other fats and  |            |              |              |
|        | oils derived    |            |              |              |
|        | from milk;      |            |              |              |
|        | dairy spreads:  |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0406   | Cheese and      | V          | S            | V            |
|        | curd:           |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 040700 | Poultry and     | V          | V            | V            |
|        | birds' eggs, in |            |              |              |
|        | shell, fresh,   |            |              |              |
|        | preserved or    |            |              |              |
|        | cooked:         |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0408\* | Poultry and     | V          | S            | S            |
|        | birds' eggs,    |            |              |              |
|        | not in shell    |            |              |              |
|        | and egg yolks,  |            |              |              |
|        | fresh, dried,   |            |              |              |
|        | cooked by       |            |              |              |
|        | steaming or     |            |              |              |
|        | boiling in      |            |              |              |
|        | water, moulded, |            |              |              |
|        | frozen or       |            |              |              |
|        | otherwise       |            |              |              |
|        | preserved       |            |              |              |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | containing      |            |              |              |
|        | added sugar or  |            |              |              |
|        | other           |            |              |              |
|        | sweetening      |            |              |              |
|        | matter::        |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 04     | Natural honey   | V          | S            | V            |
| 090000 |                 |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0410   | Edible products | V          | S            | V            |
| 0000\* | of animal       |            |              |              |
|        | origin, not     |            |              |              |
|        | elsewhere       |            |              |              |
|        | specified or    |            |              |              |
|        | included        |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 05     | Guts, bladders  | V          | S            | V            |
| 040000 | and stomachs of |            |              |              |
|        | animals (other  |            |              |              |
|        | than fish),     |            |              |              |
|        | whole and       |            |              |              |
|        | pieces thereof, |            |              |              |
|        | fresh, chilled, |            |              |              |
|        | frozen, salted, |            |              |              |
|        | in brine, dried |            |              |              |
|        | or smoked       |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0701   | Potato, fresh   | S          | S            | S            |
|        | or chilled:     |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 07     | Tomato, fresh   | S          | S            | S            |
| 020000 | or chilled:     |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0703   | Onion, shallot, | S          | S            | S            |
|        | garlic, leek    |            |              |              |
|        | and other       |            |              |              |
|        | alliaceous      |            |              |              |
|        | vegetables,     |            |              |              |
|        | fresh or        |            |              |              |
|        | chilled:        |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0704   | Cabbage,        | S          | S            | S            |
|        | cauliflower,    |            |              |              |
|        | kohlrabi, kale  |            |              |              |
|        | and similar     |            |              |              |
|        | edible          |            |              |              |
|        | brassicas,      |            |              |              |
|        | fresh or        |            |              |              |
|        | chilled:        |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0705   | L               | S          | S            | S            |
|        | ettuce(*Lactuca |            |              |              |
|        | sativa*) and    |            |              |              |
|        | chicory         |            |              |              |
|        | (*Cichorium     |            |              |              |
|        | spp*.), fresh   |            |              |              |
|        | or chilled:     |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0706   | Carrots,        | S          | S            | S            |
|        | turnips, red    |            |              |              |
|        | beet, saslsify, |            |              |              |
|        | celeriac,       |            |              |              |
|        | radish and      |            |              |              |
|        | other similar   |            |              |              |
|        | edible roots,   |            |              |              |
|        | fresh or        |            |              |              |
|        | chilled:        |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 070700 | Cucumbers and   | S          | S            | S            |
|        | gherkins, fresh |            |              |              |
|        | or chilled      |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0708   | Leguminous      | S          | S            | S            |
|        | vegetables,     |            |              |              |
|        | shelled or      |            |              |              |
|        | unshelled,      |            |              |              |
|        | fresh or        |            |              |              |
|        | chilled         |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0709   | Other           | S          | S            | S            |
|        | vegetables,     |            |              |              |
|        | fresh or        |            |              |              |
|        | chilled:        |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0710   | Vegetables      | S          | S            | S            |
|        | (non-cooked or  |            |              |              |
|        | cooked in water |            |              |              |
|        | or steamed),    |            |              |              |
|        | frozen:         |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| **Ta   | **DESCRIPTION** | **PR       | **RETAIL**   | **IMPORT**   |
| riff** |                 | ODUCTION** |              |              |
|        |                 |            |              |              |
| **CN   |                 |            |              |              |
| Code** |                 |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0711   | Provisionally   | S          | S            | S            |
|        | preserved       |            |              |              |
|        | vegetables      |            |              |              |
|        | (e.g. with      |            |              |              |
|        | sulphur         |            |              |              |
|        | dioxide, in     |            |              |              |
|        | salted water,   |            |              |              |
|        | in sulphur      |            |              |              |
|        | water or in     |            |              |              |
|        | other           |            |              |              |
|        | preservative    |            |              |              |
|        | solutions), but |            |              |              |
|        | unsuitable in   |            |              |              |
|        | that state for  |            |              |              |
|        | immediate       |            |              |              |
|        | consumption:    |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0712   | Dried           | S          | S            | S            |
|        | vegetables,     |            |              |              |
|        | whole, in cuts, |            |              |              |
|        | in wedges,      |            |              |              |
|        | broken or in    |            |              |              |
|        | powder, but     |            |              |              |
|        | still           |            |              |              |
|        | unprepared:     |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0713   | Dried           | S          | S            | S            |
|        | leguminous      |            |              |              |
|        | vegetables, in  |            |              |              |
|        | peas, peeled,   |            |              |              |
|        | unpeeled or     |            |              |              |
|        | broken:         |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0714   | Manioc,         | S          | S            | S            |
|        | arrowroot,      |            |              |              |
|        | salep,          |            |              |              |
|        | Jerusalem       |            |              |              |
|        | artichokes,     |            |              |              |
|        | sweet potato or |            |              |              |
|        | similar roots   |            |              |              |
|        | and tubers with |            |              |              |
|        | high starch or  |            |              |              |
|        | inulin content, |            |              |              |
|        | fresh, chilled, |            |              |              |
|        | frozen or       |            |              |              |
|        | dried, whole or |            |              |              |
|        | cut or in       |            |              |              |
|        | pellets; the    |            |              |              |
|        | sap of sago     |            |              |              |
|        | tree:           |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0801   | Coconuts,       | S          | S            | S            |
|        | Brazil nuts,    |            |              |              |
|        | cashew nuts,    |            |              |              |
|        | fresh or dried, |            |              |              |
|        | peeled or       |            |              |              |
|        | unpeeled:       |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0802   | Other nuts,     | S          | S            | S            |
|        | fresh or dried, |            |              |              |
|        | peeled or       |            |              |              |
|        | unpeeled:       |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 080300 | Bananas,        | S          | S            | S            |
|        | including       |            |              |              |
|        | plantains,      |            |              |              |
|        | fresh or dried: |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0804   | Dates, figs,    | S          | S            | S            |
|        | pineapples,     |            |              |              |
|        | avocados,       |            |              |              |
|        | guavas, mangoes |            |              |              |
|        | and             |            |              |              |
|        | mangosteens,    |            |              |              |
|        | fresh or dried: |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0805   | Citrus fruit,   | S          | S            | S            |
|        | fresh or dried: |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0807   | Melons          | S          | S            | S            |
|        | (including      |            |              |              |
|        | watermelons)    |            |              |              |
|        | and papaws      |            |              |              |
|        | (papayas),      |            |              |              |
|        | fresh:          |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0808   | Apples, pears   | S          | S            | S            |
|        | and quinces:    |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0809   | Apricots,       | S          | S            | S            |
|        | cherries,       |            |              |              |
|        | peaches,        |            |              |              |
|        | (including      |            |              |              |
|        | nectarines),    |            |              |              |
|        | plums and       |            |              |              |
|        | sloes, fresh:   |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0810   | Other fruit,    | S          | S            | S            |
|        | fresh:          |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0811   | Fruit and nuts, | S          | S            | S            |
|        | uncooked or     |            |              |              |
|        | cooked by       |            |              |              |
|        | steaming or     |            |              |              |
|        | boiling in      |            |              |              |
|        | water, frozen,  |            |              |              |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | containing      |            |              |              |
|        | added sugar or  |            |              |              |
|        | other           |            |              |              |
|        | sweetening      |            |              |              |
|        | matter:         |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0812   | Fruit and nuts, | S          | S            | S            |
|        | provisionally   |            |              |              |
|        | preserved (for  |            |              |              |
|        | example in      |            |              |              |
|        | sulphur         |            |              |              |
|        | dioxide, in     |            |              |              |
|        | salted water,   |            |              |              |
|        | in sulphur      |            |              |              |
|        | water or other  |            |              |              |
|        | preservative    |            |              |              |
|        | solutions), but |            |              |              |
|        | unsuitable in   |            |              |              |
|        | that state for  |            |              |              |
|        | immediate       |            |              |              |
|        | consumption:    |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| **Ta   | **DESCRIPTION** | **PR       | **RETAIL**   | **IMPORT**   |
| riff** |                 | ODUCTION** |              |              |
|        |                 |            |              |              |
| **CN   |                 |            |              |              |
| Code** |                 |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0813   | Fruit, dried,   | S          | S            | S            |
|        | except for      |            |              |              |
|        | those from      |            |              |              |
|        | tariff numbers  |            |              |              |
|        | 0801 to 0806;   |            |              |              |
|        | mixtures of     |            |              |              |
|        | nuts or dried   |            |              |              |
|        | fruit of this   |            |              |              |
|        | chapter:        |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 08     | Peel of citrus  | S          | S            | S            |
| 140000 | fruits and      |            |              |              |
|        | melons          |            |              |              |
|        | (including      |            |              |              |
|        | watermelons),   |            |              |              |
|        | fresh, chilled, |            |              |              |
|        | dried or        |            |              |              |
|        | provisionally   |            |              |              |
|        | preserved in    |            |              |              |
|        | salted water,   |            |              |              |
|        | sulphur water   |            |              |              |
|        | or other        |            |              |              |
|        | preservative    |            |              |              |
|        | solutions.-     |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0901   | Coffee, whether | S          | S            | S            |
|        | or not roasted  |            |              |              |
|        | or              |            |              |              |
|        | decaffeinated;  |            |              |              |
|        | coffee husks    |            |              |              |
|        | and skins,      |            |              |              |
|        | coffee          |            |              |              |
|        | substitutes     |            |              |              |
|        | containing      |            |              |              |
|        | coffee in any   |            |              |              |
|        | proportion      |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0902   | Tea, whether or | S          | S            | S            |
|        | not flavoured   |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 09     | Maté            | S          | S            | S            |
| 030000 |                 |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0904   | Pepper of the   | S          | S            | S            |
|        | genus *Piper*;  |            |              |              |
|        | dried or        |            |              |              |
|        | crushed or      |            |              |              |
|        | ground fruits   |            |              |              |
|        | of the genus    |            |              |              |
|        | *Capsicum* or   |            |              |              |
|        | the genus       |            |              |              |
|        | *Pimenta*:      |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 09     | Vanilla         | S          | S            | S            |
| 050000 |                 |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0906   | Cinnamon and    | S          | S            | S            |
|        | cinnamon-tree   |            |              |              |
|        | flowers:        |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 09     | Cloves (whole   | S          | S            | S            |
| 070000 | fruit, cloves   |            |              |              |
|        | and stems):     |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0908   | Nutmeg, mace    | S          | S            | S            |
|        | and cardamoms:  |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0909   | Seeds if anis,  | S          | S            | S            |
|        | badian, fennel, |            |              |              |
|        | coriander,      |            |              |              |
|        | cumin or        |            |              |              |
|        | caraway;        |            |              |              |
|        | juniper         |            |              |              |
|        | berries:        |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 0910   | Ginger,         | S          | S            | S            |
|        | saffron,        |            |              |              |
|        | turmeric        |            |              |              |
|        | (curcuma),      |            |              |              |
|        | thyme, bay      |            |              |              |
|        | leaves, curry   |            |              |              |
|        | and other       |            |              |              |
|        | spices:         |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1006   | Rice:           | S          | S            | S            |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 110100 | Wheat or meslin | S          | S            | S            |
|        | flour:          |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1102   | Cereal flours,  | S          | S            | S            |
|        | other than      |            |              |              |
|        | wheat or        |            |              |              |
|        | meslin:         |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1103   | Cereal groats,  | S          | S            | S            |
|        | meal and        |            |              |              |
|        | pellets:        |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1104   | Cereal grains   | S          | S            | S            |
|        | otherwise       |            |              |              |
|        | worked (for     |            |              |              |
|        | example,        |            |              |              |
|        | hulled, rolled, |            |              |              |
|        | flaked,         |            |              |              |
|        | pearled, sliced |            |              |              |
|        | or kibbled),    |            |              |              |
|        | except rice of  |            |              |              |
|        | heading 1006;   |            |              |              |
|        | germ of         |            |              |              |
|        | cereals, whole, |            |              |              |
|        | rolled, flaked  |            |              |              |
|        | or ground:      |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1105   | Flour, meal,    | S          | S            | S            |
|        | powder, flakes, |            |              |              |
|        | granules and    |            |              |              |
|        | pellets of      |            |              |              |
|        | potatoes:       |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| **Ta   | **DESCRIPTION** | **PR       | **RETAIL**   | **IMPORT**   |
| riff** |                 | ODUCTION** |              |              |
|        |                 |            |              |              |
| **CN   |                 |            |              |              |
| Code** |                 |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1106   | Flour, meal and | S          | S            | S            |
|        | powder of the   |            |              |              |
|        | dried           |            |              |              |
|        | leguminous      |            |              |              |
|        | vegetables of   |            |              |              |
|        | heading 0713,   |            |              |              |
|        | of sago, or of  |            |              |              |
|        | roots or tubers |            |              |              |
|        | of heading 0714 |            |              |              |
|        | or of the       |            |              |              |
|        | products of     |            |              |              |
|        | Chapter 8:      |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1107   | Malt, whether   | S          | S            | S            |
|        | or not roasted: |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1108   | Štarches;       | S          | S            | S            |
|        | inulin:         |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 11     | Wheat gluten,   | S          | S            | S            |
| 090000 | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | dried:          |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 120100 | Soya beans,     | S          | S            | S            |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | broken:         |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1202   | Groundnuts, not | S          | S            | S            |
|        | roasted or      |            |              |              |
|        | otherwise       |            |              |              |
|        | cooked, whether |            |              |              |
|        | or not shelled  |            |              |              |
|        | or broken:      |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 12     | Copra           | S          | S            | S            |
| 030000 |                 |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 120400 | Linseed,        | S          | S            | S            |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | broken:         |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1205   | Rape or colza   | S          | S            | S            |
|        | seeds, whether  |            |              |              |
|        | or not broken:: |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 120600 | Sunflower       | S          | S            | S            |
|        | seeds, whether  |            |              |              |
|        | or not broken:  |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1207   | Other           | S          | S            | S            |
|        | oleaginous      |            |              |              |
|        | seeds and       |            |              |              |
|        | fruits, whether |            |              |              |
|        | or not broken:  |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1208   | Flours and      | S          | S            | S            |
|        | meals of oil    |            |              |              |
|        | seeds or        |            |              |              |
|        | oleaginous      |            |              |              |
|        | fruits, other   |            |              |              |
|        | than those of   |            |              |              |
|        | mustard:        |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1210   | Hop cones,      | S          | S            | S            |
|        | fresh or dried, |            |              |              |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | ground,         |            |              |              |
|        | powdered or in  |            |              |              |
|        | the form of     |            |              |              |
|        | pellets;        |            |              |              |
|        | lupulin:        |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1212   | Locust beans,   | S          | S            | S            |
|        | seaweeds and    |            |              |              |
|        | other algae,    |            |              |              |
|        | sugar beet and  |            |              |              |
|        | sugar cane,     |            |              |              |
|        | fresh, chilled, |            |              |              |
|        | frozen or       |            |              |              |
|        | dried, whether  |            |              |              |
|        | or not ground;  |            |              |              |
|        | fruit stones    |            |              |              |
|        | and kernels and |            |              |              |
|        | other vegetable |            |              |              |
|        | products        |            |              |              |
|        | (including      |            |              |              |
|        | unroasted       |            |              |              |
|        | chicory roots   |            |              |              |
|        | of the variety  |            |              |              |
|        | Cichorium       |            |              |              |
|        | intybus         |            |              |              |
|        | sativum):       |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1213   | Cereal straw    | S          | S            | V            |
| 0000\* | and husks,      |            |              |              |
|        | unprepared,     |            |              |              |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | chopped,        |            |              |              |
|        | ground, pressed |            |              |              |
|        | or in the form  |            |              |              |
|        | of pellets:     |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1214\* | Swedes,         | S          | V            | V            |
|        | mangolds,       |            |              |              |
|        | fodder roots,   |            |              |              |
|        | hay, lucerne    |            |              |              |
|        | (alfalfa),      |            |              |              |
|        | clover,         |            |              |              |
|        | sainfoin,       |            |              |              |
|        | forage kale,    |            |              |              |
|        | lupines,        |            |              |              |
|        | vetches and     |            |              |              |
|        | similar forage  |            |              |              |
|        | products,       |            |              |              |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | in the form of  |            |              |              |
|        | pellets:        |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| **Ta   | **DESCRIPTION** | **PR       | **RETAIL**   | **IMPORT**   |
| riff** |                 | ODUCTION** |              |              |
|        |                 |            |              |              |
| **CN   |                 |            |              |              |
| Code** |                 |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 150100 | Pig fat         | V          | S            | V            |
|        | (including      |            |              |              |
|        | lard) and       |            |              |              |
|        | poultry fat,    |            |              |              |
|        | other than that |            |              |              |
|        | of heading 0209 |            |              |              |
|        | or 1503:        |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 150200 | Fats of bovine  | V          | S            | V            |
|        | animals, sheep  |            |              |              |
|        | or goats, other |            |              |              |
|        | than those of   |            |              |              |
|        | heading 1503:   |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 150300 | Lard stearin,   | V          | S            | V            |
|        | lard oil,       |            |              |              |
|        | oleostearin,    |            |              |              |
|        | oleo-oil and    |            |              |              |
|        | tallow oil, not |            |              |              |
|        | emulsified or   |            |              |              |
|        | mixed or        |            |              |              |
|        | otherwise       |            |              |              |
|        | prepared:       |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1504   | Fats and oils   | V          | S            | V            |
|        | and their       |            |              |              |
|        | fractions, of   |            |              |              |
|        | fish or marine  |            |              |              |
|        | mammals,        |            |              |              |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | refined, but    |            |              |              |
|        | not chemically  |            |              |              |
|        | modified:       |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 15     | Other animal    | V          | S            | V            |
| 060000 | fats and oils   |            |              |              |
|        | and their       |            |              |              |
|        | fractions,      |            |              |              |
|        | whether refined |            |              |              |
|        | of not, but not |            |              |              |
|        | chemically      |            |              |              |
|        | modified:       |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1507   | Soya bean oil   | S          | S            | S            |
|        | and its         |            |              |              |
|        | fractions,      |            |              |              |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | refined, but    |            |              |              |
|        | not chemically  |            |              |              |
|        | modified:       |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1508   | Groundnut oil   | S          | S            | S            |
|        | and its         |            |              |              |
|        | fractions,      |            |              |              |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | refined, but    |            |              |              |
|        | not chemically  |            |              |              |
|        | modified:       |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1509   | Olive oil and   | S          | S            | S            |
|        | its fractions,  |            |              |              |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | refined, but    |            |              |              |
|        | not chemically  |            |              |              |
|        | modified:       |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 151000 | Other oils and  | S          | S            | S            |
|        | their           |            |              |              |
|        | fractions,      |            |              |              |
|        | obtained solely |            |              |              |
|        | from olives,    |            |              |              |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | refined, but    |            |              |              |
|        | not chemically  |            |              |              |
|        | modified,       |            |              |              |
|        | including       |            |              |              |
|        | blends of these |            |              |              |
|        | oils or         |            |              |              |
|        | fractions with  |            |              |              |
|        | oils or         |            |              |              |
|        | fractions of    |            |              |              |
|        | heading 1509:   |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1511   | Palm oil and    | S          | S            | S            |
|        | its fractions,  |            |              |              |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | refined, but    |            |              |              |
|        | not chemically  |            |              |              |
|        | modified:       |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1512   | Sunflower,      | S          | S            | S            |
|        | safflower or    |            |              |              |
|        | cotton-seed oil |            |              |              |
|        | and fractions   |            |              |              |
|        | thereof,        |            |              |              |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | refined, but    |            |              |              |
|        | not chemically  |            |              |              |
|        | modified:       |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1513   | Coconut(copra), | S          | S            | S            |
|        | palm kernel or  |            |              |              |
|        | babassu oil and |            |              |              |
|        | fraction        |            |              |              |
|        | thereof,        |            |              |              |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | refined, but    |            |              |              |
|        | not chemically  |            |              |              |
|        | modified:       |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| **Ta   | **DESCRIPTION** | **PR       | **RETAIL**   | **IMPORT**   |
| riff** |                 | ODUCTION** |              |              |
|        |                 |            |              |              |
| **CN   |                 |            |              |              |
| Code** |                 |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1514   | Rape, colza or  | S          | S            | S            |
|        | mustard oil and |            |              |              |
|        | fractions       |            |              |              |
|        | thereof,        |            |              |              |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | refined, but    |            |              |              |
|        | not chemically  |            |              |              |
|        | modified:       |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1515   | Other fixed     | S          | S            | S            |
|        | vegetable fats  |            |              |              |
|        | and oils        |            |              |              |
|        | (including      |            |              |              |
|        | jojoba oil) and |            |              |              |
|        | their           |            |              |              |
|        | fractions,      |            |              |              |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | refined, but    |            |              |              |
|        | not chemically  |            |              |              |
|        | modified:       |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1516\* | Animal or       | S          | S            | S            |
|        | vegetable fats  |            |              |              |
|        | and oils and    |            |              |              |
|        | their           |            |              |              |
|        | fractions,      |            |              |              |
|        | partly or       |            |              |              |
|        | wholly          |            |              |              |
|        | hydrogenated,   |            |              |              |
|        | in              |            |              |              |
|        | ter-esterified, |            |              |              |
|        | re-esterified,  |            |              |              |
|        | whether or not  |            |              |              |
|        | refined, but    |            |              |              |
|        | not further     |            |              |              |
|        | prepared:       |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1517\* | Margarine,      | S          | S            | S            |
|        | edible mixtures |            |              |              |
|        | or              |            |              |              |
|        | preparationsof  |            |              |              |
|        | vegetable or    |            |              |              |
|        | animal fat or   |            |              |              |
|        | oil of this     |            |              |              |
|        | chapter, other  |            |              |              |
|        | than edible fat |            |              |              |
|        | or oil or their |            |              |              |
|        | fractions of    |            |              |              |
|        | heading 1516:   |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 160100 | Sausages and    | V          | S            | V            |
|        | similar         |            |              |              |
|        | products, of    |            |              |              |
|        | meat, meat      |            |              |              |
|        | offal or blood: |            |              |              |
|        | food            |            |              |              |
|        | preparations    |            |              |              |
|        | based on these  |            |              |              |
|        | products:       |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1602   | Other prepared  | V          | S            | V            |
|        | or preserved    |            |              |              |
|        | meat, meat      |            |              |              |
|        | offal or blood: |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 160300 | Extracts and    | V          | S            | V            |
|        | juices of meat, |            |              |              |
|        | fish,           |            |              |              |
|        | crustaceans,    |            |              |              |
|        | molluscs, or    |            |              |              |
|        | other aquatic   |            |              |              |
|        | invertebrates:  |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1604\* | Prepared or     | V          | S            | V            |
|        | preserved fish, |            |              |              |
|        | caviar or       |            |              |              |
|        | caviar          |            |              |              |
|        | substitutes     |            |              |              |
|        | prepared from   |            |              |              |
|        | fish eggs:      |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1605   | Crus            | V          | S            | V            |
|        | taceans(crabs), |            |              |              |
|        | molluscs and    |            |              |              |
|        | other aquatic   |            |              |              |
|        | invertebrates,  |            |              |              |
|        | prepared or     |            |              |              |
|        | preserved:      |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1701   | Cane or beet    | S          | S            | S            |
|        | sugar, and      |            |              |              |
|        | chemically pure |            |              |              |
|        | sucrose, in     |            |              |              |
|        | solid form:     |            |              |              |
+--------+-----------------+------------+--------------+--------------+

+--------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| **Ta   | **D          | **           | **RETAIL**   | **IMPORT**   |
| riff** | ESCRIPTION** | PRODUCTION** |              |              |
|        |              |              |              |              |
| **CN   |              |              |              |              |
| Code** |              |              |              |              |
+--------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1702   | Other        | S            | S            | S            |
|        | sugars,      |              |              |              |
|        | including    |              |              |              |
|        | chemically   |              |              |              |
|        | pure         |              |              |              |
|        | lactose,     |              |              |              |
|        | maltose,     |              |              |              |
|        | glucose and  |              |              |              |
|        | fructose, in |              |              |              |
|        | solid form;  |              |              |              |
|        | sugar syrups |              |              |              |
|        | not          |              |              |              |
|        | containing   |              |              |              |
|        | added        |              |              |              |
|        | flavouring   |              |              |              |
|        | or colouring |              |              |              |
|        | matter;      |              |              |              |
|        | artificial   |              |              |              |
|        | honey,       |              |              |              |
|        | whether or   |              |              |              |
|        | not mixed    |              |              |              |
|        | with natural |              |              |              |
|        | honey;       |              |              |              |
|        | caramel:     |              |              |              |
+--------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1703   | Molasses     | S            | S            | S            |
|        | resulting    |              |              |              |
|        | form the     |              |              |              |
|        | extraction   |              |              |              |
|        | or refining  |              |              |              |
|        | of sugar:    |              |              |              |
+--------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1704   | Sugar        | S            | S            | S            |
|        | c            |              |              |              |
|        | onfectionery |              |              |              |
|        | (including   |              |              |              |
|        | white        |              |              |              |
|        | chocolate),  |              |              |              |
|        | not          |              |              |              |
|        | containing   |              |              |              |
|        | cocoa:       |              |              |              |
+--------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 18     | Cocoa beans, | S            | S            | S            |
| 010000 | whole or     |              |              |              |
|        | broken, raw  |              |              |              |
|        | or roasted:  |              |              |              |
+--------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1803   | Cocoa paste, | S            | S            | S            |
|        | whether or   |              |              |              |
|        | not          |              |              |              |
|        | defatted:    |              |              |              |
+--------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 18     | Cocoa        | S            | S            | S            |
| 040000 | butter, fat  |              |              |              |
|        | and oil:     |              |              |              |
+--------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 18     | Cocoa        | S            | S            | S            |
| 050000 | powder, not  |              |              |              |
|        | containing   |              |              |              |
|        | added sugar  |              |              |              |
|        | or other     |              |              |              |
|        | sweetening   |              |              |              |
|        | matter:      |              |              |              |
+--------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1806   | Chocolate    | S            | S            | S            |
|        | and other    |              |              |              |
|        | food         |              |              |              |
|        | preparations |              |              |              |
|        | containing   |              |              |              |
|        | cocoa:       |              |              |              |
+--------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1901   | Malt         | S            | S            | S            |
|        | extract;     |              |              |              |
|        | food         |              |              |              |
|        | preparations |              |              |              |
|        | of flour,    |              |              |              |
|        | groats,      |              |              |              |
|        | meal, starch |              |              |              |
|        | or malt      |              |              |              |
|        | extract, not |              |              |              |
|        | containing   |              |              |              |
|        | cocoa or     |              |              |              |
|        | containing   |              |              |              |
|        | less than    |              |              |              |
|        | 40% by       |              |              |              |
|        | weight of    |              |              |              |
|        | coca         |              |              |              |
|        | calculated   |              |              |              |
|        | on a totally |              |              |              |
|        | defatted     |              |              |              |
|        | basis, not   |              |              |              |
|        | elsewhere    |              |              |              |
|        | specified or |              |              |              |
|        | included:    |              |              |              |
+--------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1902\* | Pasta,       | S            | S            | S            |
|        | whether or   |              |              |              |
|        | not cooked   |              |              |              |
|        | or stuffed   |              |              |              |
|        | (with meat   |              |              |              |
|        | or other     |              |              |              |
|        | substances)  |              |              |              |
|        | or otherwise |              |              |              |
|        | prepared,    |              |              |              |
|        | such as      |              |              |              |
|        | spaghetti,   |              |              |              |
|        | macaroni,    |              |              |              |
|        | noodles,     |              |              |              |
|        | lasagne,     |              |              |              |
|        | gnocchi,     |              |              |              |
|        | ravioli,     |              |              |              |
|        | cannelloni;  |              |              |              |
|        | couscous,    |              |              |              |
|        | whether or   |              |              |              |
|        | not          |              |              |              |
|        | prepared:    |              |              |              |
+--------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 19     | Tapioca and  | S            | S            | S            |
| 030000 | substitutes  |              |              |              |
|        | therefor     |              |              |              |
|        | prepared     |              |              |              |
|        | from starch, |              |              |              |
|        | in the form  |              |              |              |
|        | of flakes,   |              |              |              |
|        | grains,      |              |              |              |
|        | pearls,      |              |              |              |
|        | siftings or  |              |              |              |
|        | similar      |              |              |              |
|        | forms:       |              |              |              |
+--------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+

+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| **Ta   | **            | **           | **RETAIL**   | **IMPORT**   |
| riff** | DESCRIPTION** | PRODUCTION** |              |              |
|        |               |              |              |              |
| **CN   |               |              |              |              |
| Code** |               |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1904   | Prepared      | S            | S            | S            |
|        | foods         |              |              |              |
|        | obtained by   |              |              |              |
|        | the swelling  |              |              |              |
|        | or roasting   |              |              |              |
|        | of cereals or |              |              |              |
|        | cereal        |              |              |              |
|        | products (for |              |              |              |
|        | example, corn |              |              |              |
|        | flakes);      |              |              |              |
|        | cereals       |              |              |              |
|        | (other than   |              |              |              |
|        | maize) in     |              |              |              |
|        | grain form or |              |              |              |
|        | in the form   |              |              |              |
|        | of flakes or  |              |              |              |
|        | other worked  |              |              |              |
|        | grains        |              |              |              |
|        | (except       |              |              |              |
|        | flour, groats |              |              |              |
|        | and meal),    |              |              |              |
|        | pre-cooked or |              |              |              |
|        | otherwise     |              |              |              |
|        | prepared:     |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1905   | Bread,        | S            | S            | S            |
|        | pastry,       |              |              |              |
|        | cakes,        |              |              |              |
|        | biscuits and  |              |              |              |
|        | other bakers' |              |              |              |
|        | wares,        |              |              |              |
|        | whether or    |              |              |              |
|        | not           |              |              |              |
|        | containing    |              |              |              |
|        | cocoa;        |              |              |              |
|        | communion     |              |              |              |
|        | wafers, empty |              |              |              |
|        | cachets of a  |              |              |              |
|        | kind suitable |              |              |              |
|        | for           |              |              |              |
|        | p             |              |              |              |
|        | harmaceutical |              |              |              |
|        | use, sealing  |              |              |              |
|        | wafers, rice  |              |              |              |
|        | paper and     |              |              |              |
|        | similar       |              |              |              |
|        | products:     |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2001   | Vegetables,   | S            | S            | S            |
|        | fruit, nuts   |              |              |              |
|        | and other     |              |              |              |
|        | edible parts  |              |              |              |
|        | of plants,    |              |              |              |
|        | prepared or   |              |              |              |
|        | preserved by  |              |              |              |
|        | vinegar or    |              |              |              |
|        | acetic acid:  |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2002   | Tomatoes      | S            | S            | S            |
|        | prepared or   |              |              |              |
|        | preserved     |              |              |              |
|        | otherwise     |              |              |              |
|        | than by       |              |              |              |
|        | vinegar or    |              |              |              |
|        | acetic acid:  |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2003   | Mushrooms and | S            | S            | S            |
|        | truffles,     |              |              |              |
|        | prepared or   |              |              |              |
|        | preserved     |              |              |              |
|        | otherwise     |              |              |              |
|        | than by       |              |              |              |
|        | vinegar or    |              |              |              |
|        | acetic acid:  |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2004   | Other         | S            | S            | S            |
|        | vegetables    |              |              |              |
|        | prepared or   |              |              |              |
|        | preserved     |              |              |              |
|        | otherwise     |              |              |              |
|        | than by       |              |              |              |
|        | vinegar or    |              |              |              |
|        | acetic acid,  |              |              |              |
|        | frozen, other |              |              |              |
|        | than products |              |              |              |
|        | of heading    |              |              |              |
|        | 2006:         |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2005   | Other         | S            | S            | S            |
|        | vegetables    |              |              |              |
|        | prepared or   |              |              |              |
|        | preserved     |              |              |              |
|        | otherwise     |              |              |              |
|        | than by       |              |              |              |
|        | vinegar or    |              |              |              |
|        | acetic acid,  |              |              |              |
|        | not frozen,   |              |              |              |
|        | other than    |              |              |              |
|        | products of   |              |              |              |
|        | heading 2006: |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 200600 | Vegetables,   | S            | S            | S            |
|        | fruit, nuts,  |              |              |              |
|        | fruit-peel    |              |              |              |
|        | and other     |              |              |              |
|        | parts of      |              |              |              |
|        | plants,       |              |              |              |
|        | preserved by  |              |              |              |
|        | sugar         |              |              |              |
|        | (drained,     |              |              |              |
|        | glacé or      |              |              |              |
|        | c             |              |              |              |
|        | rystallised): |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2007   | Jams, fruit   | S            | S            | S            |
|        | jellies,      |              |              |              |
|        | marmalades,   |              |              |              |
|        | fruit or nut  |              |              |              |
|        | purée and     |              |              |              |
|        | fruit or nut  |              |              |              |
|        | pastes,       |              |              |              |
|        | obtained by   |              |              |              |
|        | cooking,      |              |              |              |
|        | whether or    |              |              |              |
|        | not           |              |              |              |
|        | containing    |              |              |              |
|        | added sugar   |              |              |              |
|        | or other      |              |              |              |
|        | sweetening    |              |              |              |
|        | matter:       |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| **Ta   | **            | **           | **RETAIL**   | **IMPORT**   |
| riff** | DESCRIPTION** | PRODUCTION** |              |              |
|        |               |              |              |              |
| **CN   |               |              |              |              |
| Code** |               |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2008   | Fruit, nuts   | S            | S            | S            |
|        | and other     |              |              |              |
|        | edible parts  |              |              |              |
|        | of plants,    |              |              |              |
|        | otherwise     |              |              |              |
|        | prepared or   |              |              |              |
|        | preserved,    |              |              |              |
|        | whether or    |              |              |              |
|        | not           |              |              |              |
|        | containing    |              |              |              |
|        | added sugar   |              |              |              |
|        | or other      |              |              |              |
|        | sweetening    |              |              |              |
|        | matter or     |              |              |              |
|        | spirit, not   |              |              |              |
|        | elsewhere     |              |              |              |
|        | specified or  |              |              |              |
|        | included:     |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2009   | Fruit juices  | S            | S            | S            |
|        | (including    |              |              |              |
|        | grape must)   |              |              |              |
|        | and vegetable |              |              |              |
|        | juices,       |              |              |              |
|        | unfermented   |              |              |              |
|        | and not       |              |              |              |
|        | containing    |              |              |              |
|        | added spirit, |              |              |              |
|        | whether or    |              |              |              |
|        | not           |              |              |              |
|        | containing    |              |              |              |
|        | added sugar   |              |              |              |
|        | or other      |              |              |              |
|        | sweetening    |              |              |              |
|        | matter:       |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2101   | Extracts,     | S            | S            | S            |
|        | essences and  |              |              |              |
|        | concentrates, |              |              |              |
|        | of coffee,    |              |              |              |
|        | tea or maté   |              |              |              |
|        | and           |              |              |              |
|        | preparations  |              |              |              |
|        | with a basis  |              |              |              |
|        | of these      |              |              |              |
|        | products or   |              |              |              |
|        | with a basis  |              |              |              |
|        | of coffee,    |              |              |              |
|        | tea or maté;  |              |              |              |
|        | roasted       |              |              |              |
|        | chicory and   |              |              |              |
|        | other roasted |              |              |              |
|        | coffee        |              |              |              |
|        | substitutes,  |              |              |              |
|        | and extracts, |              |              |              |
|        | essences and  |              |              |              |
|        | concentrates  |              |              |              |
|        | thereof:      |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2102   | Yeasts        | S            | S            | S            |
|        | (active of    |              |              |              |
|        | inactive);    |              |              |              |
|        | other         |              |              |              |
|        | single-cell   |              |              |              |
|        | mic           |              |              |              |
|        | ro-organisms, |              |              |              |
|        | dead (but not |              |              |              |
|        | including     |              |              |              |
|        | vaccines of   |              |              |              |
|        | heading       |              |              |              |
|        | 3002);        |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2103   | Sauces and    | S            | S            | S            |
|        | preparations  |              |              |              |
|        | therefor;     |              |              |              |
|        | mixed         |              |              |              |
|        | condiments    |              |              |              |
|        | and mixed     |              |              |              |
|        | seasonings;   |              |              |              |
|        | mustard flour |              |              |              |
|        | and meal and  |              |              |              |
|        | prepared      |              |              |              |
|        | mustard;      |              |              |              |
|        | mayonnaise:   |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2104\* | Soups and     | S            | S            | S            |
|        | broths and    |              |              |              |
|        | preparations  |              |              |              |
|        | therefor;     |              |              |              |
|        | homogenised   |              |              |              |
|        | composite     |              |              |              |
|        | food          |              |              |              |
|        | preparations: |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 21     | Ice cream and | V            | S            | S            |
| 0500\* | other edible  |              |              |              |
|        | ice whether   |              |              |              |
|        | or not        |              |              |              |
|        | containing    |              |              |              |
|        | cocoa:        |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2106\* | Food          | S            | S            | S            |
|        | preparations  |              |              |              |
|        | not elsewhere |              |              |              |
|        | specified or  |              |              |              |
|        | included:     |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2201   | Waters,       | S            | S            | S            |
|        | including     |              |              |              |
|        | natural or    |              |              |              |
|        | artificial    |              |              |              |
|        | mineral       |              |              |              |
|        | waters and    |              |              |              |
|        | aerated       |              |              |              |
|        | waters, not   |              |              |              |
|        | containing    |              |              |              |
|        | added sugar   |              |              |              |
|        | or other      |              |              |              |
|        | sweetening    |              |              |              |
|        | matter noro   |              |              |              |
|        | flavoured;    |              |              |              |
|        | ice and snow: |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2202   | Waters,       | S            | S            | S            |
|        | including     |              |              |              |
|        | mineral       |              |              |              |
|        | waters and    |              |              |              |
|        | aerated       |              |              |              |
|        | waters,       |              |              |              |
|        | containing    |              |              |              |
|        | added sugar   |              |              |              |
|        | or other      |              |              |              |
|        | sweetening    |              |              |              |
|        | matter or     |              |              |              |
|        | flavoured,    |              |              |              |
|        | and other     |              |              |              |
|        | non-alcoholic |              |              |              |
|        | beverages,    |              |              |              |
|        | not including |              |              |              |
|        | fruit or      |              |              |              |
|        | vegetable     |              |              |              |
|        | juices of     |              |              |              |
|        | heading 2009: |              |              |              |
|        | i             |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| **Ta   | **            | **           | **RETAIL**   | **IMPORT**   |
| riff** | DESCRIPTION** | PRODUCTION** |              |              |
|        |               |              |              |              |
| **CN   |               |              |              |              |
| Code** |               |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 220300 | Beer made     | S            | S            | S            |
|        | from malt:    |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2204   | Wine of fresh | S            | S            | S            |
|        | grapes,       |              |              |              |
|        | including     |              |              |              |
|        | fortified     |              |              |              |
|        | wines; grape  |              |              |              |
|        | must other    |              |              |              |
|        | than that of  |              |              |              |
|        | heading 2009: |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2205   | Vermouth and  | S            | S            | S            |
|        | other wine of |              |              |              |
|        | fresh grapes  |              |              |              |
|        | flavoured     |              |              |              |
|        | with plants   |              |              |              |
|        | or aromatic   |              |              |              |
|        | substances:   |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 220600 | Other         | S            | S            | S            |
|        | fermented     |              |              |              |
|        | beverages     |              |              |              |
|        | (for example, |              |              |              |
|        | cider, perry, |              |              |              |
|        | mead);        |              |              |              |
|        | mixtures of   |              |              |              |
|        | fermented     |              |              |              |
|        | beverages and |              |              |              |
|        | mixtures of   |              |              |              |
|        | fermented     |              |              |              |
|        | beverages and |              |              |              |
|        | non-alcoholic |              |              |              |
|        | beverages,    |              |              |              |
|        | not elsewhere |              |              |              |
|        | specified or  |              |              |              |
|        | included:     |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2207   | Undenaturated | S            | S            | S            |
|        | ethyl alcohol |              |              |              |
|        | of an         |              |              |              |
|        | alcoholic     |              |              |              |
|        | strength by   |              |              |              |
|        | volume of 80  |              |              |              |
|        | % vol or      |              |              |              |
|        | higher; ethyl |              |              |              |
|        | alcohol and   |              |              |              |
|        | other         |              |              |              |
|        | spirits,      |              |              |              |
|        | denaturated,  |              |              |              |
|        | of any        |              |              |              |
|        | strength:     |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2208   | Undenaturated | S            | S            | S            |
|        | ethyl alcohol |              |              |              |
|        | of an         |              |              |              |
|        | alcoholic     |              |              |              |
|        | strength by   |              |              |              |
|        | volume of     |              |              |              |
|        | less than 80% |              |              |              |
|        | vol; spirits, |              |              |              |
|        | liqueurs and  |              |              |              |
|        | other         |              |              |              |
|        | spirituous    |              |              |              |
|        | beverages:    |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 220900 | Vinegar and   | S            | S            | S            |
|        | substitutes   |              |              |              |
|        | for vinegar   |              |              |              |
|        | obtained from |              |              |              |
|        | acetic acid:  |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2301   | Flours, meals | V            | V            | V            |
|        | and pellets   |              |              |              |
|        | of meat or    |              |              |              |
|        | meat offal,   |              |              |              |
|        | of fish or of |              |              |              |
|        | crustaceans,  |              |              |              |
|        | molluscs or   |              |              |              |
|        | other aquatic |              |              |              |
|        | i             |              |              |              |
|        | nvertebrates, |              |              |              |
|        | unfit for     |              |              |              |
|        | human         |              |              |              |
|        | consumption;  |              |              |              |
|        | greaves:      |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2302   | Bran, sharps  | V            | V            | V            |
|        | and other     |              |              |              |
|        | residues,     |              |              |              |
|        | whether or    |              |              |              |
|        | not in the    |              |              |              |
|        | form of       |              |              |              |
|        | pellets,      |              |              |              |
|        | derived form  |              |              |              |
|        | the sifting,  |              |              |              |
|        | milling or    |              |              |              |
|        | other working |              |              |              |
|        | of cereals or |              |              |              |
|        | of leguminous |              |              |              |
|        | plants:       |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2303   | Residues of   | V            | V            | V            |
|        | starch        |              |              |              |
|        | manufacture   |              |              |              |
|        | and similar   |              |              |              |
|        | residues,     |              |              |              |
|        | beet-pulp,    |              |              |              |
|        | bagasse and   |              |              |              |
|        | other waste   |              |              |              |
|        | of sugar      |              |              |              |
|        | manufacture,  |              |              |              |
|        | brewing or    |              |              |              |
|        | distilling    |              |              |              |
|        | dregs and     |              |              |              |
|        | waste,        |              |              |              |
|        | whether or    |              |              |              |
|        | not in the    |              |              |              |
|        | form of       |              |              |              |
|        | pellets:      |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| **Ta   | **            | **           | **RETAIL**   | **IMPORT**   |
| riff** | DESCRIPTION** | PRODUCTION** |              |              |
|        |               |              |              |              |
| **CN   |               |              |              |              |
| Code** |               |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 23     | Oilcake and   | V            | V            | V            |
| 040000 | other solid   |              |              |              |
|        | residues      |              |              |              |
|        | whether or    |              |              |              |
|        | not ground or |              |              |              |
|        | in the form   |              |              |              |
|        | of pellets,   |              |              |              |
|        | resulting     |              |              |              |
|        | from the      |              |              |              |
|        | extraction of |              |              |              |
|        | soya-bean     |              |              |              |
|        | oil:          |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 23     | Oilcake and   | V            | V            | V            |
| 050000 | other solid   |              |              |              |
|        | residues      |              |              |              |
|        | whether or    |              |              |              |
|        | not ground or |              |              |              |
|        | in the form   |              |              |              |
|        | of pellets,   |              |              |              |
|        | resulting     |              |              |              |
|        | from the      |              |              |              |
|        | extraction of |              |              |              |
|        | groundnut     |              |              |              |
|        | oil:          |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2306   | Oilcake and   | V            | V            | V            |
|        | other solid   |              |              |              |
|        | residues,     |              |              |              |
|        | whether or    |              |              |              |
|        | not ground or |              |              |              |
|        | in the form   |              |              |              |
|        | of pellets,   |              |              |              |
|        | resulting     |              |              |              |
|        | from the      |              |              |              |
|        | extraction of |              |              |              |
|        | vegetable     |              |              |              |
|        | fats or oils, |              |              |              |
|        | other than    |              |              |              |
|        | those of      |              |              |              |
|        | heading 2304  |              |              |              |
|        | or 2305:      |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 230700 | Wine lees;    | V            | V            | V            |
|        | argol:        |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 230800 | Vegetable     | V            | V            | V            |
|        | materials and |              |              |              |
|        | vegetable     |              |              |              |
|        | waste,        |              |              |              |
|        | vegetable     |              |              |              |
|        | residues and  |              |              |              |
|        | by-products,  |              |              |              |
|        | whether or    |              |              |              |
|        | not in the    |              |              |              |
|        | form of       |              |              |              |
|        | pellets, of a |              |              |              |
|        | kind used in  |              |              |              |
|        | animal        |              |              |              |
|        | feeding, not  |              |              |              |
|        | elsewhere     |              |              |              |
|        | specified or  |              |              |              |
|        | included:     |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2309   | Preparations  | V            | V            | V            |
|        | of a kind     |              |              |              |
|        | used in       |              |              |              |
|        | animal        |              |              |              |
|        | feeding:      |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 3501   | Casein,       | V            | S            | V            |
|        | caseinates    |              |              |              |
|        | and other     |              |              |              |
|        | casein        |              |              |              |
|        | derivatives:  |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 3502   | Egg and milk  | S            | S            | V            |
|        | albumins:     |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 3503   | Gelatin       | V            | S            | V            |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 3504   | Peptones and  | V            | S            | V            |
|        | their         |              |              |              |
|        | derivatives:  |              |              |              |
+--------+---------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| **NOTE:**                                                             |
|                                                                       |
| 1.  By the way of derogation from the distribution of the control     |
|     competence of the sanitary and veterinary inspection shown in the |
|     table, in one part of retail the inspectoral control of all food  |
|     in catering facilities, stationary and ambulant food kiosks and   |
|     food surveillance during supplying with prepared food (catering)  |
|     is carried out by the sanitary inspection.                        |
|                                                                       |
| 2.  Pursuant to the Article 19, paragraph 2 of this Act, the Agency   |
|     shall, in cooperation with the Minister of Agriculture and        |
|     Forestry and the Minister of Health, within the tariff CN Codes   |
|     marked by an asterisk (\*), determine the products for which the  |
|     derogations from the inspections shown in the table shall be      |
|     defined.                                                          |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

E X P L A N A T I O N S

# EXPLAINING CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE FOOD ACT

## *I. GENERAL PROVISIONS*

[With Article 1]{.underline}

The provisions of the Article 1 of the Food Act provide the basis for
ensuring the high level of human health and consumer interest protection
in relation to food. It establishes the common principles and efficient
organizational solutions by shall mean of foundation of Croatian Food
Agency. It establishes the procedures by shall mean of which it supports
making decisions about the sanitary safety of food and feed.

For this reason, the present Act lays down:

-   general principles and requirements concerning the hygiene and
    sanitary safety of food and feed,

-   the obligations of the food business and feed business operators
    concerning the hygiene and sanitary safety of food and feed,

-   general requirements relating to food quality,

-   general requirements for acquiring the registration of the
    geographical indication and designations of origin and traditional
    reputation of the food,

-   general requirements relating to the declaration or labelling of
    food and feed,

-   general requirements for the marketing of food and feed,

-   general provisions for the placing on the market of novel foods,

-   general provisions for the placing on the market of food and feed
    which contains genetically modified organisms or consists of them,

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-   the system of official food and feed control,

-   the system of authorized testing and reference laboratories,

-   crisis and emergency management,

-   the founding of the Croatian Food Agency.

-   Authority and responsibilities of competent authorities relating to
    food and feed produced in the Republic of Croatia, and those
    imported and placed on the market in the Republic of Croatia.

[With Article 2.]{.underline}

This Article lays down the scope of validity of this Act. This Act is
valid for all phases of production, processing and distribution of food
and feed. The provisions of this Act are not valid for the primary
production, processing and storage of food on family agricultural farms
intended for independent farming.

[With Article 3.]{.underline}

Article 3 lays down the definition of the term foodstuff and all which
is understood by it, as well as what is not included in this term.
Foodstuff is, therefore, every stuff, ingredient, raw material or
additive which is taken through the gastrointestinal tract, including
chewing gum, beverages and all water intended for human consumption or
integrated in it during its production. The animals which produce food
or which are used for the production of food are considered foodstuffs,
but not live animals. Besides live animals, the term foodstuff does not
include animal feed, plants before harvesting or picking, medicines and
medicinal products, cosmetics, tobacco and tobacco products, narcotics
and psychotrope stuffs, residues and contaminants.

The definition includes every stuff which is intended to, or which can
be expected to be consumed by humans. This reference to «can be
expected» is given because of those stuffs which can be used not only in
food industry, but also in other industries, since such stuffs are
treated with equal care as foodstuffs until it becomes clear that it is
not to become foodstuff (e.g. palm oil).

[With Article 4.]{.underline}

The provisions of Article 4 lay down and define the terms which are used
in this Act and establish their meaning.

### II GENERAL PRINCIPLES 

[With Articles 5 -- 7]{.underline}

The provisions of Articles 5 -- 7 regulate the principles of the hazard
analysis and lay down the foundations for the structure and mechanism
relating to scientific and technical risk assessment. The hazard
analysis is a process which consists of three interconnected components
-- risk assessment, risk management and risk notification. Risk analysis
is conducted with the objective of achieving a high level of human
health and life protection.

The term risk assesment includes all activities (scientific and
technical) relating to the identification and characterisation of the
risk and the assessment and characterisation of harmfulness and risk for
human health.

This Act requires the scientific risk assessment to be conducted in an
independent, objective and transparent way.

The risk management is a process by which different possibilities of
acting of competent authorities concerning risk are compared, in light
of the risk assessment findings, and, if necessary, the taking of
preventive and control measures required for diminishing, removing and
avoiding the human health risk. The measures taken must be effective,
impartial and adequate.

The risk notification is the third component of the risk analysis
process, in which all the phases are included. The Croatian Food Agency
(hereinafter: the Agency) notifies the Ministry of Agriculture and
Forestry and the Ministry of Healthy, state authorities which
participate in risk management, food business operators and feed
business operators, consumers and other competent institutions and
concerned parties about the hazards or risks relating to food or animal
feed respectively, as well as about the decisions made during risk
management and the reasons underlying those decisions.

[With Article 8.]{.underline}

This Article defines the principle of precaution (carefulness) as a
shall mean necessary for the competent authorities that manage risks
when they must take decisions for the protection of people\'s health,
and when there are scientific doubts after the conducted risk
assessment. The principle of precaution is relevant in those special
circumstances in which there are justified reasons for being concerned
that there is a risk for human health, but the underlying information
and data may not be sufficiently complete to enable the decision of the
overall risk assessment. When they face such special circumstances, the
competent authorities that manage risks may take temporary measures
mandatory for people\'s health protection, based on the principle of
precaution until they look for the clarification of scientific doubts.
Such measures must be adequate and may not restrict trade more than it
is necessary in order to achieve high level of human health protection.
During the implementation of such measures, the care should be taken
about their technical and economic feasibility.

[With Article 9]{.underline}

The provisions of this Article constitute the framework for greater
involvement of all concerned parties and the establishment of the
mechanism for increasing consumer trust. The consumer trust and the
increasing of the public acceptance of the level of the health
protection is achieved by the active involvement of the consumer in the
process of preparation, assessment and revision of the measures for risk
management and by the transparency of the legislative. Therefore, the
Agency conducts open and transparent public consultations with the
objective of informing the publice, directly or by shall mean of other
concerned groups, unless the urgency of the matter renders it
impossible. The principle of transparency represents the foundation for
the inclusion of the public concerning the seriousness and extent of the
risk, as well as for notifying the public about the measures taken so
far or the measures to be taken for the prevention, reduction or removal
of that risk.

[With Article 10]{.underline}

In this Act, the consumer, besides the right to sanitary safe food, has
the right to the protection of other interests. In this Article, the
other rights and interests of the consumer relating to the prevention of
frauds in food business, including food forgery and the right of the
consumer not to be mislead by specifying erroneous information on the
declaration and the right to acces correct information which shall
enable them to choose food, are established.

***III. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO THE SANITARY SAFETY OF THE
FOOD***

[With Articles 11 and 12]{.underline}

The provisions of these Articles define the requirements relating to
food safety, and all that must be taken into consideration when deciding
whether a foodstuff is unsafe.

The defined requirements relating to food safety consist of two
elements: foodstuff must not be harmful for human health or unfit for
consumption. In order for a foodstuff to be unsafe, only one of those
elements is needed.

When considering whether a foodstuff is unsafe, the conditions in every
phase of production, processing and distribution, as well as the use of
the foodstuff by the consumer, and the information given to the consumer
on the declaration, were taken into consideration. Moreover, the direct
or indirect, short-term or long-term effects of that foodstuff on human
health were also taken into consideration, as well as the effects upon
future generations. Relative to the term harmfulness for human health,
cumulative effects were also taken into consideration. Certain foodstuff
is placed on the market for specific categories of consumers, so the
concept of harmfulness for the health of thoes consumers is taken into
consideration when making decisions whether such foodstuff is harmful
for their health.

In all provisions, the foodstuff which is unfit for human consumption is
defined. Such foodstuff is, for example: putrefied foodstuff, polluted
by insect parts or some other exterior agent, whether or not it is
harmful for human health, but nonetheless unacceptable for human
consumption. It may be almost impossible to prove the harm for human
health concerning such foodstuffs.

[With Article 13]{.underline}

In this Article, all that is understood as foodstuff that is harmful for
human health and what is meant by the foodstuff being unfit for human
consumption.

[With Article 14]{.underline}

In the Article 14, the competence and measures that may be taken by a
competent authority if there are reasons for suspecting that the food is
unsafe. The measures that a competent authority may tak are the
restriction of placing such food on the market or its withdrawal from
the market if other shall mean of consumer protection are not
sufficient.

[With Article 15]{.underline}

This Article lays down the exact way of treating the food whose validity
date has expired, and was established not to be unsafe by laboratory
testing. Also, the competence for the issuing of permits for further
treatment of such food is established. Such food may be reused in
production, sold or given away for charity. If such food is marketed,
the outlet must have the note informing that it is the food whose
validity date has expired and, but which is still safe. The reason for
the aforementioned note is the informing of the consumer.

The provisions of this Article establish the competence for the adoption
of the list concerning such food and the shall mean of submitting a
request.

[Uz članak 16.]{.underline}

The provisions of Article 16 give the authority to the competent
minister for the adoption of the implementing regulations relating to
food safety. If the implementing regulations are adopted by the Minister
of Agriculture and Forestry, the approval of the Minister of Health is
mandatory and vice versa. Besides that, during the adoption of the
implementing regulations, it is always mandatory to acquire the approval
of the Agency.

***IV. IMPORTING AND EXPORTING OF FOOD***

[Uz članke 17. -- 18.]{.underline}

The provisions of Articles 17 and 18 regulate general issues concerning
the importing and exporting of food.

[With Articles 19 -- 21]{.underline}

The provisions of these Articles establish the competences of the safety
control inspections as well as their authorizations and the procedure
while importing food in the Republic of Croatia.

The competence is established in the Annex 1, and it gives the
auuthority to the Food Agency to determine, jointly with the Minister of
Agriculture and Forestry, the products from the marked tariff CN Code
from the aforementioned Annex, and to determine the competences of the
inspections which are different from those specified in the Annex 1.

***V. REGISTER BOOK AND THE APPROVAL OF THE FACILITIES***

[With Article 22]{.underline}

The provisions of this Article establish the obligation of the entering
in the Register book (registration) of the facilities which are in food
business and the competences concerning the registration of the
facilities. Each facility is issued a decision and assigned a
registration number with the purpose of registration. Food business
operators, except for those in retail trade, must ensure in an adequate
way that the food they produce, process or distribute be identified by
their register number. For the operators on the retail level, the
obligation of keeping the records of facilities approved by the decision
of the competent offices for economy in districts is established.
Moreover, the competence regarding the contents, shape and keeping the
register book of the registered facilities is also established.

The objective of the provisions of this Article is to enable the
improvement of traceability of the foodstuffs, and to enable the
competent inspection the tracing the foodstuffs for which it is
established that they do not meet the requirement of the regulations
about food.

Prior to the commencement of their business activities, the food
business facilities dealing with the food of animal origin are subject
to approval by the competent inspection pursuant to the veterinary
regulations.

[With Articles 23 -- 24]{.underline}

The competent authorities are given the option of provisional
prohibition of running the business when they deterimine that the
facility was used contrary to the provisions of food regulations, or
when it is considered to be of paramount concern for the reason of
protecting the food safety.

Furthermore, the authorization is given to the competent Ministers to
determine the amount and the shall mean of payment of the fee for
covering the costs of work of the expert commission that they may found
with the objective of approving the facilities.

***VI. THE OBLIGATIONS OF FOOD BUSINESS OPERATORS***

> [With Articles 25. --28.]{.underline}
>
> In these Articles, the obligations of food business operators are
> established. The primary responsibility for the food hygiene and
> safety is contingent upon food business operators in all the stages
> from production, sale and distribution, including primary prduction up
> to and including the supply of foodstuffs to the final consumer. If
> the food which is placed on the market does not meet the requirements
> established by the food regulations, and if it causes harm to human
> health, the concerned food business operator is held responsible for
> all the material and immaterial damage done.
>
> Furthermore, by the provisions of these Articles, the competence for
> adopting the implementing regulations is defined:

-   about the general and specific requirements of food hygiene on all
    levels of production, processing, storage and distribution,

-   about the specific hygienic requirements in retail trade,

-   about the specific hygienic requirements in catering facilities.

> The responsibility for meeting the specified requirements is
> contingent upon the food business operator.
>
> Moreover, the responsibilites of the food business operators relative
> to the food that does not meet the provisions of this Act are also
> defined. The general obligation of food business operators is to
> ensure within its operating area that the food that is placed on the
> market be compliant with the safety principles. Furthermore, the
> general requirements of the food business operators to inform the
> competent authorities in order to achieve a high level of human health
> protection are also laid down. Besides that, food business operators
> are required to provide assistance and must not prevent other persons
> to cooperate with the competent authorities in order to achieve a high
> level of human health protection. When a sufficient risk for human
> health of some foodstuff is identified, food business operators are
> required to withdraw that foodstuff from the market and to inform the
> final consumer about the reasons for the withdrawal.
>
> Food business operators are required to develop a database which shall
> enable them to identify the producers of a foodstuff or food producing
> animal or which is used for food production, and to whom they have
> delivered their products.Such a system must enable them to identify
> the food origin, including every stuff that is intended for
> integration or may be expected to be integrated into foodstuffs. The
> said informations should be provided to the competent authorities, if
> they should require them.

[With Article 29.]{.underline}

The provisions of this article define the requirements in the system of
self-control, where the exemption for primary production was made. A
food business operator is obliged to establish a system of self-control
in the objects for food production, compliant with the principles of
hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) These principles lay
down a certain number of logical steps which should be followed, and the
result of correct acting and implementing of these principles shall be a
hygienic and safe food.

With the objective of better understanding and easier implementation of
the self-control system, the development of the guide to good production
practices and the guide to the application of the HACCP system for food
business operators is to be provided for by the Food Agency.

Furthermore, in this Article the authority and competence in adopting
the implementing regulations about the requirements for implementing the
self-control system measures is defined, as well as the competence for
the verification of the compatibility of HACCP plans.

***VII. NOVEL FOODS***

[With Articles 30 -34]{.underline}

The provisions of these Articles define what is understood under the
term novel food and what it must not be. The authority of the competent
bodies has been laid down, with respect to:

-   conditions and process of placing novel foods on the market,

-   conditions and procedures of placing foodstuffs and foodstuff
    ingredients, whether or not they contain GMO, on the market, as well
    as foodstuffs and foodstuff ingredients which have been made of GMO,
    but do not contain them; uvjeta i postupka izdavanja dopuštenja za
    stavljanje takve hrane na tržište,

-   keeping the Register Book concerning issued permits

-   contents, form and the way of keeping the Register Book,

-   taking measures if the harmfulness of such foodstuffs to human
    health is established, or if there are scientific doubts concerning
    its harmful effect.

In the provisions of these Articles, the way of treating souch
foodstuffs if it is established that it does not meet the requirements
for sanitary safety is laid down.

***VIII. FOOD QUALITY***

> [With Article 35.]{.underline}
>
> In this Article, a possibility is given to the responsible food
> business operators to produce, apart from the foodstuffs for which the
> quality requirements are laid down, such foodstuffs for which the
> quality requirements are not specifie; the only condition is the
> sanitary safety of that food, and that it corresponds to the
> information given on the declaration. Furthermore, the authority is
> given to the Minister of Agriculuture and Forestry to adopt
> implementing regulations about the quality of foodstuffs when it is
> indispensable in order to:

-   protect the interests of the consumer,

-   enable the consumers to choose the food they consume,

-   make order on the food market.

Furthermore, the provisions of this Article lay down the obligation of
posessing the specification for the categories of foodstuffs or specific
products for which the quality requirements are not specified, do give
the authority to the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry to lay down
the contents of the specification in greater detail.

> ***IX. THE INDICATION OF THE TRADITIONAL REPUTATION OF THE FOOD***
>
> [With Articles 36. -- 38.]{.underline}

The provisions of these Articles define what is meant by the food with
traditional reputation and what food can bear this indication. Such food
has special characteristics which set it apart from similar products,
and therefore this Act provides the possibilityof evaluating domestic
traditional products and the ways of their production. The authority is
given to the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry to lay down by
implementiong regulations the categories and types of food products for
which it is possible to obtain the indication of traditional reputation.
The right to submitting the request and acquiring the indication are
granted to the associations of producers or processors that produce or
process the same food product. The advertising of those products can
cotribute considerably to the rural economy, particularly in distant
regions. In order to protect the consumer and achieve fair competition,
the competent body (Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry) keeps the
Register Book of all agrifood products which bear the indication of
traditional reputation. Moreover, the other athorities of the competent
body, with respect to the requirements and proceedings of the acceptance
of special characteristics of the food and the authority wiht respect to
the contents, form and the way of keeping the Register Book, have been
laid down.

> ***X. DESIGNATIONS OF ORIGIN AND GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATION***

[With Articles 39. -- 40.]{.underline}

The provisions of these Articles, encourage the production of foodstuffs
with recognizable geographical and authentic origin, in order to achieve
better offer on the market. Moreover, such an approach will enable the
producers of such foodstuffs to make greater profit in exchange for the
honest efforts made to improve the quality, and the final consumer will
be able to buy high quality products with the guarantee concerning their
way of production and origin. The aim of these provisions is to protect
all food that by its characteristics, way or conditions of production or
processing differs from similar foodstuffs. Therefore, the provisions of
these Articles define what is meant by the foodstuff that bears the
geographical indication and designation of origin and what food may
receive such indications. Furthermore, the authority of the competent
body (Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry) with respect to such
foodstuffs is also defined.

[With Articles 41. -- 46.]{.underline}

The procedure for the registration of the designation of origin and
geographical indication is described in the provisions of these
Articles, and the regulations for the registration of traditional names,
whether geographical or not, are laid down, and the and the names which
may not be registered as the designation of origion and geographical
indication are also established. It is furthermore laid down that the
application for registration may be submitted only by a group of
producers or processors of a specific foodstuff, and the derogations
from this provision. The contents of the application for registration
and the authority of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry to
establish more closely by shall mean of implementing regulations the
information that must be contained in the application for registration
and the contents of the specification of a foodstuff. The Registar of
geographical indication and designation of origin is kept by the
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.

[With Articles 47. -- 51.]{.underline}

The provisions of these Articles define the right to use the registered
geographical indications and designations of origin and the entering of
authorised users in the Register books kept by the Ministry of
Agricutlure and Forestry. Furthermore, with the objective of customer
protection, it is forbidden to specify any information in relation to
geographical indication and designation of origin which could be
misleading. Therefore, these provisions define what is meant by the
information that could mislead the final consumer. The relation of the
registered geographical indications or designations of origin to the
marks is defined, as well as the international registration of
indications. It is, furthermore, laid down that the provisions of the
regulation about the geographical indication of products and services
are applicable to the protection of the registered geographical
indications and designations of origin under civil law.

***XI. DECLARING OR LABELLING OF FOOD***

> [With Articles 52 -- 55]{.underline}

In this part of the Act, it is defined what is meant by a declaration,
what it must be like and what the obligatory information that it must
contain is. These provisions are laid down with the objective of
protecting the final consumer. The information that are provided to them
may not be fraudulent of misleading.

Furthermore, the authority of the competent authorities for the adoption
of the implementing regulations about the declaring and labelling of
foodstuffs are laid down.

[With Article 56]{.underline}

The provisions of this Article concern the prohibition of advertising
alcoholic beverages, except for beer, wines and fruit wines, advertising
of which is regulated by special regulations. The authority is given to
the Minister of Health to adopt an implementing regulation which
regulats the requirements and the way of informing the consumer about
the characteristics of alcoholic beverages which are not considered
advertising

[With Article 57]{.underline}

Article 57 establishes the requirements for declaring novel foodstuffs,
foodstuffs and foodstuff ingredients which contain GMO and foodstuffs
and foodstuff ingredients derived from GMO, but which do not contain
them. The aforementioned foodstuffs, besides general requirements for
declaring and labelling, must contain other specific information, so
that the consumers may be completely informed. Moreover, the provisions
of these Articles require obligatory marking of such foodstuffs, and in
that way provide an additional protection to consumers, giving them the
possibility of choosing their food.

The authority of the Minister of Health to lay down further requirements
for declaring and marking of such foodstuffs is also established.

> ***XII. OFFICIAL CONTROL OF FOOD SAFETY AND FOOD HYGIENE***

[With Articles 58 -- 62]{.underline}

The official control is an integral part of the system of food safety
and its regular implementation will contribute to the prevention of the
violation of the provisions of this Act and other food regulations.
Therefore, in this part of the Food Act, the activities and the
authority of the competent bodies and inspections (sanitary and
veterinary inspector, border sanitary and veterinary inspector and other
state officials authorised by the competent Minister), which are
implemented which the objective of official control of the food safety
and food hygiene.

Furthermore, these provisions lay down the principles and the contents
of the inspectoral control which is carried out with the objective of
official control of food safety and food hygiene, and the authority of
the authorised inspectors to take samples for laboratory analysis within
the scope of inspectoral control.

> ***XIII. OFFICIAL CONTROL OF FOOD QUALITY***
>
> [Uz članke 63. -- 67.]{.underline}

The official quality control is conducted in order to verify whether the
requirements of the provisions of this Act are met, since this Act
contains the provisions concerning food quality whose objective is the
protection of consumers\' interests. Therefore, the provisions ov these
Articles define the activities that are conducted with the objective of
the official food quality control. Furthermore, the authority for the
competence for carrying out the official control of food quality, as
well as where it is carried out, is laid down.

In order to avoud double sampling by competent inspections (sanitary
inspections, veterinary inspections when competent for retail trade in
order to test the safety and economic inspectors of the State
inspectorate in order to test the quality), which represents the costs
to the food business operators, the competence of the sanitary and
veterinary inspections has been laid down for the quality control in
retail trade as well. Namely, by taking samples for determining the
sanitary safety and by laboratory testing for the same purpose, the
composition, value of the stuff and its quantity in a foodstuff are
determined simultaneously, which shall mean that the quality of the
foodstuff is determined and the specifications on the declaration
verified. The competence of economic inpectors of the State Inspectorate
for the official control of production and retailing of foodstuffs with
the registered designation of origin and geographical indication, and
the traditional reputation of food is laid down, and , exceptionally,
for the official control of the quality of food in retail trade for
which it is suspected that it does not meet the laid down quality
requirements.

Furthermore, general principles and contents of the inspectoral control
conducted with the objective of official food quality control are also
laid down.

> ***XIV. GENERAL PROVISIONS WHICH REGULATE THE OFFICIAL CONTROL OF
> FOOD***
>
> [With Articles 68 -- 72]{.underline}

The protection of consumers\' health and interests being the chief
priority in this Food Act, it is necessary to increase the efficiency of
the official control of foodstuffs. In order to achieve a more efficient
official control, these provisions lay down the measures, authority and
obligations of competent authorities in official control. In order to
achieve an unobstructed official control, these provisions defin the
obligations of the food business operators with respect to official
control. The provisions define the obligation of the competent
authorities to communicate the annual programmes of inspections and the
reports about the conducted inspections to the Food Agency which
approves them and notifies the Government of the Republic of Croatia.

> ***XV. AUTHORISED TESTING LABORATORIES AND REFERENCE LABORATORIES***
>
> [With Articles 73 - 75]{.underline}

Since taking and analysis of samples is done in order to conduct
official control, it is necessary to ensure the quality of the testing
results. Therefore, it is necessary to set up such a system of quality
standards for laboratories in which official control is conducted. In
all provisions, the requirements which must be met by testing
laboratories and reference laboratories are laid down. Furthermore, in
these provisions, the way of funding the costs of analysis is defined.

In addition to this, the provisions of these Articles give the authority
to the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry and the Minister of Health,
depending on their respective

-   authorise and evaluate testing laboratories,

-   determine the reference laboratory for every analysis which is
    conducted with the reason of official control.

> These provisions also establish the tasks of reference laboratories
> and the way of funding thereof.
>
> ***XVI. CRISIS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT***
>
> [With Articles 76 -- 77]{.underline}

For the domesctic or imported foodstuffs that present a serious or
immediate risk for human health, it is of paramount concern to act
quickly and effectively in order to eliminate the said risk. Therefore,
the provisions of these Articles lay down the measures, commensurate to
the severity fo the hazard, which may be taken in order to prevent or
eliminate the risk for human health. The provisions of these Articles
define the competence for the drawing up of a general plan which is
drawn up for the purpose of crisis management on the area of sanitary
safetyof the food. The general plan lays down the types of the
situations which present a risk for human health and establish the
operative procedures to enable the efficient crisis management.

> ***XVII. ANIMAL FEED***

[With Articles 78 -90]{.underline}

The provisions of this Article define the requirements with respect to
animal feed safety, intended for feeding food producing animals or
animals that serve for food production. It is necessary to define the
said requirements, due to the fact that the animal feed that serves for
feeding food producing animals or that are used for food production may
indirectly affect the sanitary safety of the food, intended for human
consumption. The animal feed, therefore, must be sanitary safe and must
not have harmful effects on animal health and in that way make the food
produced from those animals unfit for human consumption.

The provisions lay down the competences and measures that can be taken
by the competent authority if there are reasons for suspecting that the
animal feed is unsafe.

The competent authority may take the measures of restricting of placing
such animal feed on the marketz or its withdrawal from the market. The
provisions of the Article 79 give the authority to the Minister of
Agriculture and Forestry to lay down special requirements concerning
safety of animal feed.

A special procedure during importing, registration and approval of
facilities for production and storing of animal feed and the obligations
and necessary agreements of feed business operators.

> The chapter lays down the authority of the competent authority with
> respect to conditions and procedure of placing on the market of feed
> that contains genetically modified organisms or which consists of
> them. The competent authority keeps a Record book about the issued
> permits and lays down the contents, form and way of keeping the Record
> book. The declaring and marking of feed which contains GMO or which
> consists of GMO is laid down.
>
> The competences with respect to official control of animal feed are
> laid down, and the general principles of inspectoral control and the
> contents of the inspectoral control are established pursuant to the
> principles and contents which relate to the official control of the
> food. Furthermore, the provisions lay down the system and requirements
> which must be met by the authorised testing laboratories and reference
> laboratories.
>
> ***XVIII. CROATIAN FOOD AGENCY***
>
> [With Articles 91 -- 95]{.underline}
>
> The provisions of these articles regulate the establishment, activity
> and role of the Croatian Food Agency (the Agency). By the
> establishment of the Agency, the realisation of the basic provisions
> of this Act will be accomplished, which will contribute to the
> realisation of the high level of consumer health protection and the
> increase of consumers\' trust. The competence thereof extends to all
> issues that indirectly or directly affect the safety and the health of
> the consumer, and are contingent upon the consumption of food.
> Therefore, it covers all stages from the primary food and feed
> production when the feed is related to the safety of the food intended
> for human consumption, processing and up to the distribution to the
> final consumer. It will secure indepedent scientific and technical
> advice which is of paramount necessity for politics and legislative in
> the area of food and feed safety.
>
> Besides its central role in risk assessment, risk notification and
> risk management, the Agency maintains some other additional activities
> related to risk analysis. One of these activities is the interactve
> exchange of information and opinions about risk between the risk
> assessor (Agency) and the competent authorities which , together with
> the Agency, manage risks, in order to establish a unified risk
> assessment. The Agency is given the authority to coordinate the
> activities conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, as
> well as the Ministry of Health, particularly the activities related to
> the inspectoral control of food and feed safety. Furthermore, it is
> put in charge of drawing up scientific studies, which are of paramount
> necessity for the upgrading of risk assessment and taking the
> necessary steps for the identification and characterisation of new
> risks. Moreover, its task is to establish the network system of all
> institutions that are involved in the jobs connected to food and feed
> safety, in order to conduct risk analysis more efficiently. Therefore,
> the provisions of these Articles provide for the possibility of
> including the existing expert knowledge and resources like the
> laboratories of the Croatian Institute of Public Health and Croatian
> Veterinary Institute, and other authorised laboratories. The Agency is
> given the competence for the system of quick alerting, relative to
> monitoring the food hazards. The Agency receives all the information
> forwarded through this system and analyses them, and, if necessary,
> provides this information to the competent authorities in the Republic
> of Croatia and the relevant institutions in other countries. This
> system will enable the competent authorities which are involved in
> risk management to manage crisis situations. The Agency establishes
> databases within its scope which act on the area of food and feed
> information retrieval and can delegate specific tasks to those
> authorities and institutions concerning the preparation of scientific
> opinions, scientific and technical aid, information retrieval and
> identification of the possibility of risk emergence.

[With Article 96]{.underline}

Article 96 defines the bodies of the Agency.

[With Articles 97 -- 99]{.underline}

The provisions of these Articles lay down the system and the term of the
Management Board and its obligations. The Management Board is a managent
body that will make decisions and that willl be appointed by the
Government. Bearing in mind that when the management personnel and the
members of the Management Board are being selected, it is necessary to
ensure that all institutions and groups involved in food and feed safety
are included in an equal proportion, these provisions lay down the
criteria which must be taken into account during the selection of those
members.

[With Article 100]{.underline}

The Director is the legal representative of the Agency and the
provisions of this Article define the responsibility and obligations
thereof. The selection of the Director and the Deputy Director is made
by the Management Board.

Their term is also laid down by the provisions of this Article.

[With Article 101]{.underline}

This Article lays down the way of selecting and the composition of the
Advisory Committee and its role. The Advisory Council is an advisory
body, composed of the representatives of the organisations and groups
that have an interest on the area of food and feed safety. The Advisory
Council is presided by the Director of the Agency. The function of the
Advisory Council is, besides its advisory role, is to establish
interactive communication and and exchange of knowledge and opinions
concerning risks between the Agency and all organisations or groups that
have an interest on the area of food and feed safety, respectively.
Furthermore, the task of the Advisory Council is to inform about any
risks.

[With Article 102]{.underline}

The provisions of this Article define the way and requirements of the
establishment of the Scientific Council and scientific committees adn to
lay down their respective authorities and responsibilities in adopting
and proposing scientific opinions of the Agency. Moreover, in this
Article, the authority of the Scientific council in adopting its proper
regulations concerning the procedure for the preparation of scientific
opinions for the area of food and feed safety, respectively.

Furthermore, the establishment of scientific committees is planned, in
order to secure greater scientific coherence in related areas, as, for
example, GM foodstuffs, additives, biological hazards, etc. However,
when it is necessary to give an opinion about an area which is not
within the competence of any scientific committee, the Scientific
Council has the authority to appoint an ad hoc working group.

[With Article 103]{.underline}

This Article lays down the obligations of the Scientific Council in the
procedure of giving scientific opinions. Moreover, this Article lays
down the conditions under which the Scientific Council may refuse the
request for giving an opinion.

[With Article 104]{.underline}

The provisions of this Article stipulate the obligations of the
Scientific Council in case of disagreements between the scientific
opinion of the Scientific Council and scientific opinions given by other
bodies working on similar tasks in the Republic of Croatia or in another
country. The Scientific Council is required to identify the differences
in their respective opinions and reach an agreement.

[With Article 105]{.underline}

This Article defines the remunerations and costs of the Management
Board, Advisory Council, Scientific Council and scientific committees.

> ***XIX. PENAL PROVISIONS***

[With Articles 106 -- 109]{.underline}

> The provisions of these articles lay down the fines for the violation
> of the provisions of this Act.

***XX. TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS***

[With Articles 110 -- 113]{.underline}

The provisions of those articles establish the competences and terms for
the adoption of implementing regulations on the basis of this Act and
the obligation that the regulations concerning food safety and food
hygiene be adopted following the approval of the Food Agency.

[With Article 114]{.underline}

The provision of the Article establishes the term in which the
government of the Republic of Croatia is to appoint the members of the
Management Board and the provisional Director of the Agency, as well as
the terms in which the the Management Board shall adopt the Statute and
other general acts of the Agency. It also establishes the term in which
the provisional Director shall make the preparations for the
commencement of the work and submit the request for the entering of the
Agency into the court registrar.

[With Article 115]{.underline}

This Article establishes the term in which the food business and feed
business operators are obliged to establish the self-control systems
with the objective of ensuring health and food safety.

[With Article 116]{.underline}

This Article establishes the term from which the requirements
established by this Act shall become applicable, and which must be met
by testing and reference laboratories in relation to the internationally
accepted norms.

[With Article 117.]{.underline}

This Article establishes that the permits for placing on the market of
novel foods and fodder, whether it contains or consists of GMO, shall
not be issued until the adoption of implementing regulations pursuant to
this Act.

[With Article 118]{.underline}

This Article establishes the term until which the implementing
regulations adopted pursuant to other Acts, relating to the contents of
the provisions of this Act, shall remain valid.

[With Article 119]{.underline}

This Article establishes the rules and provisions which are repealed in
relation to food and feed with the entering in force of this Act.

[With Article 120]{.underline}

This Article establishes the term of entering in force of this Act.

**[With Annex 1]{.underline}**

Annex 1 lays down the competences of the inspections conducting safety
control in production, retail and import of food and feed.