. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/310 
29 January 2010  
 (10-0450) 
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:  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 refusing to authorise certain health  claims made on foods, other than those 
referring to the reduction of disease risk and to children's development and health (5 pages, in 
English).      
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Regulation concerns the refusal of 
authorisation of four health cl aims made on foods, other than those referring to the reduction 
of disease risk and to children's development and health in accordance with Article 18(5) of 
Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European  Parliament and of the Council of 
20 December 2006 on nutrition and he alth claims made on foods.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human he alth and safety.   
The proposed measure is a Commission Regulation fo r four health claims as referred to above 
under point 6 that has been assessed by the Eu ropean Food Safety Authority (EFSA). For the 
health claims referred to in the Commission Regulation, EFSA concluded that they were not 
scientifically substantiated. Therefore they do not comply with the conditions set out in 
Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006, and will not  be authorised for use on foods.  G/TBT/N/EEC/310 
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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 April 2010 
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU (about a month after adoption 
approx.)  
Health claims listed in the Annex (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:  60 days from date of notification. 
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [  ], or addre ss, 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:  ec-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/crnatt achments/2010/tbt/eec/10_0345_00_e.pdf