. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/278 
23 June 2009  
 (09-3070) 
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 on the authorisation and refusal of au thorisation of certain health claims made on 
food and referring to the reduction of disease risk  and to children's development and health  
(11 pages, in English).  
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Regulation concerns the authorisation of 
health claims made on food and referring to the reduction of disease risk and to children's 
development and health in accordance with Article 17(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 
of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 Decembe r 2006 on nutritio n 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 pr oposed measure is a Co mmission Regulation for 
the health claims referr ed to above under point 6 that have  been assessed by the European 
Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to be scientifica lly substantiated, and which comply with the 
conditions set out in Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006.  In addition, the measure includes health 
claims assessed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) not to be scientifically 
substantiated, which therefore do not comply w ith the conditions set out in Regulation (EC) 
No 1924/2006 and which are consequently not authorised for use on foods.  G/TBT/N/EEC/278 
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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:    Mid October 2009 
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU (about a month after adoption 
approx.)  
Health claims as referred to in Article 14(1)(b) 
of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 and listed in Annex II (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.