G/TBT/N/EU/111  
 
10 June 2013  
(13-2978)  Page: 1/2  
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION 
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN UNION  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  European Commission 
Name and address (including telephon e and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above :   
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax:  +(32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided  in addition, where applicable):  Minerals. 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:  Draft 
Commission Regulation amending Directive 2002/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the 
Council as regards chromium enriched yeast used for the manufacture of food 
supplements and chromium (III) lactate tri-hydrate added to foods (4 pages, in English).    
 
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Regulation concerns the inclusion of 
certain substances in the positive lists of Directive 2002/46/EC and Regulation (EC) 1925/2006.  
The purpose of this draft Regulation is to amend the positive lists of the above-
mentioned legislation by adding new minera l substances that may be used for the 
manufacture of food supplements and fortified foods and for which the European Food Safety Authority has given a favourable opinion. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health and safety . 
8. Relevant documents:    
Directive 2002/46/EC of the European Parlia ment and of the Council of 10 June 2002 on 
the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to food supplements 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2002:183:SOM:EN:HTML  
Regulation (EC) 1925/2006 of the European Pa rliament and of the Council of 20 December 
2006 on the addition of vitami ns and minerals and of certain other substances to foods. 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2006:404:SOM:EN:HTML  G/TBT/N/EU/111 
 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
 
Proposed date of entry into force:    Expected date of adoption is mid/end 
January 2014 
20 days from publicat ion in the Official 
Journal of the EU. (The provisions shall apply 
about a month after adoption).  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification  
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [  ], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresse s, if available of the other body:    
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 
E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@e c.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2013/tbt/EEC/13_2165_00_e.pdf