. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EU/18 
16 February 2012  
 (12-0904) 
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 
EC-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 establishing a list of permitted health claims made on foods, other than those 
referring to the reduction of disease risk and to  children's development and health (5 pages, 
plus 111 pages for the annex, in English).       
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Regulation co ncerns the list of permitted 
health claims made on foods, other than those re ferring to the reduction of disease risk and to 
children's development and health in accordan ce with Article 13(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.  Th e proposed measure is a Commission Regulation 
for the permitted use of 222 hea lth claims on food as referred to  above under point 6 that have 
been assessed by the European Food Safety Aut hority (EFSA). For the he alth claims referred 
to in the Commission Regulation, EFSA conclude d that they are scien tifically substantiated 
and the Commission, in agreement with Member States, consider that they comply with all 
the other relevant principles and conditi ons set out in Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006. 
Therefore they will be authorised for use on foods.  G/TBT/N/EU/18 
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  8. Relevant documents:   Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of th e 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 - May 2012 
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU (about a month after adoption approx.). This Regulation should apply six months after the date of its entry into force 
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/    
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2012/tbt/EEC/12_0626_00_e.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2012/tbt/EEC/12_0626_01_e.pdf