G/TBT/N/EU/208  
 
31 March 2014  
(14-1977)  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:  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):  Food 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:  Draft 
Commission Regulation authorising and refusing to authorise certain health claims made on foods and referring to the reduction of disease risk (7 pages + Annexes 4 pages, in 
English). 
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Regulation concerns the authorisation 
of three health claims and the rejection of fi ve health claims made on foods and referring 
to the reduction of disease risk in accordance with Article 17(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Parliament an d of the Council of 20 December 2006 on 
nutrition and health claims made on foods.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  The proposed measure concerns eight health claim applications that have 
been assessed by the European Food Safety  Authority (EFSA).  For three applications, 
the assessment is considered to be favourable and therefore, as these health claims comply with the conditions set out in Regu lation (EC) No 1924/2006, they will be 
authorised for use on foods. For five health claims, the assessment is considered to be 
unfavourable and therefore the health claims do not comply with the conditions set out in Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 and consequent ly they will not be authorised for use 
on foods. Protection of Human health or Safety 
8. Relevant documents:   Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and 
of the Council of 20 December 2006 on nutri tion and health claims made on foods. 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CONSLEG:2006R1924:20121129:EN:PDF    G/TBT/N/EU/208 
 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    October 2014 20 days from publication in the Official Journal of the EU (about a month after 
adoption approx.) 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from 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:  eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/     
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2014/TBT/EEC/14_1601_00_e.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2014/tbt/EEC/14_1601_01_e.pdf