. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EEC/396 
12 August 2011  
 (11-4028) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN UNION  
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 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):  Food. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Regulation on the authorisation and refusal of au thorisation of certain health claims made on 
foods and referring to the reduction of disease risk (6 pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Regulation concerns the authorisation and 
refusal of authorisation of he alth 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 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.  
The proposed measure concerns three health clai ms applications that have been assessed by 
the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) . For one application,  the assessment is 
considered to be favourable and therefore one health claim will be authorised for use on foods. For two health claims, EFSA  concluded that they are not scientifically substantiated. 
Therefore they do not comply with the cond itions set out in Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006, 
and will not be authorised for use on foods.  G/TBT/N/EEC/396 
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  8. Relevant documents:   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. 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2006:404:0009:0025:EN:PDF  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   December 2011 
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 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 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 
E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
and http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2011/tbt/EEC/11_2616_00_e.pdf