. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/360 
8 February 2011  
 (11-0648) 
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 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:  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 children's developm ent and health (11 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 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 nature of urgent problems where applicable:  The 
proposed measure concerns eight health claims a pplications that have been assessed by the 
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).  For three applications, appropriate conditions of 
use can not be set in accordance with Article  16(4) of the Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006, and 
therefore they will not be authorised for use on foods.  For five applications the assessments 
are considered to be favourable.  Therefore as three health claims (referred to in five applications) comply with the conditions set out Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 they will be 
authorised for use on foods.   G/TBT/N/EEC/360 
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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-May 2011 
 
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU (about a month after adoption 
approx.).  There is a transition period of 6 months following entry into force of the regulation. 
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 can be downloaded here:   http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2011/tbt/eec/11_0313_00_e.pdf