. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/279 
23 June 2009  
 (09-3071) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  European Commission 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or auth ority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above :   
European Commission 
EC-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  +(32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  ec-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 language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Regulation refusing to authorise certain health claims made on food, other than those referring 
to the reduction of disease risk and to children's development and health (5 pages, in English).   
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Regulation concerns the authorisation of 
health claims made on food other than those re ferring to the reduction of disease risk and to 
children's development and health in accordance  with Article 18(5) of Regulation (EC) No 
1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on nutrition 
and health claims made on foods.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health and safety.  Th e proposed measure is a Commission Regulation 
for health claims as re ferred to above under point 6 that have been assessed by the European 
Food Safety Authority (EFSA). For the hea lth claims referred to in the Commission 
Regulation, EFSA concluded that they were not scientifically substantia ted. Therefore they do 
not comply with the conditions set out in Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006, and will not be 
authorised for use on foods. 
8. Relevant documents:   Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the 
Council of 20 December 2006 on nutriti on and health claims made on foods
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2006:404:0009:0025:EN:PDF  G/TBT/N/EEC/279 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    Mid October 2009 
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU (about a month after adoption approx.)  
Health claims listed in the Annex (rejected 
health claims) may continue to be used for six 
months after the entry into force of this draft Regulation.  
10. Final date for comments:  90 days from date of notification. 
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [  ], or address, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:    
European Commission 
EC-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 
E-mail:  ec-tbt@ec.europa.eu The text is available on the EC-TBT Website :  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/ 
  
And can also be downloaded here.