. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/329 
17 May 2010  
 (10-2738) 
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 UNION
  
If applicable, name of local government 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:  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 applicab le, 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 authorisation of certain health claims made on foods and referring to the reduction of disease risk and to children's development and 
health (7 pages, in English).      
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Regulation concerns the authorisation and 
refusal of authorisation of health claims made on foods and referring to disease risk 
reduction claims and to childre n's development and health in  accordance with Article 17(3) 
of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the Eur opean Parliament and of the Council of 
20 December 2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the natu re of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health and safety.  The proposed measure is a Commission Regulation 
for two health claims referred to above unde r point 6 that have been assessed by the 
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to be scientifically substantiated, and which 
comply with the conditions set out in Regula tion (EC) No 1924/2006 and consequently will 
be authorised for use on foods.  The proposed measure concerns also three health claims 
that have been assessed by  the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) not to be 
scientifically substantiated.  Therefore as th ey do not comply with the conditions set out 
Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 they will not be authorised for use on foods.   G/TBT/N/EEC/329 
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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/LexUriSer v.do?uri=OJ:L:2006:404:0009:0025:EN:PDF  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    Late September 2010 
20 days from publication in the Official 
Journal of the EU (about a month after 
adoption approx.), but a transition period of 6 months is foreseen in Art. 2 of the notified draft. 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification. 
11. Text available from: National enquiry po int [  ], 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:  eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu The text is available on the EU-TBT Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/ 
  
And can also be downloaded here: http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2010/tbt/eec/10_2101_00_e.pdf