. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EU/1 
2 November 2011  
 (11-5556) 
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 
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 amending Regulation (EC)  n° 1924/2006 with regard to the list of nutrition claims 
(6 pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Regulation re lates to modifications of the 
conditions of use of nutrition claims already permitted by Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of 
the European Parliament and of the Counc il of 20 December 2006 on nutrition and health 
claims made on food and to two additio nal nutrition claims: "WITH NO ADDED 
SODIUM/SALT" and "NOW CONTAINS X % LESS [ENERGY, SODIUM/SALT, FAT, SATURATED FAT OR SUGARS]", with X>15%.  G/TBT/N/EU/1 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health and safety.  
The proposed measure is a Commission Regu lation allowing the use of two new nutrition 
claims "WITH NO ADDED SODIUM/SALT" and "NOW CONTAINS X % LESS OF [ENERGY, FAT, SATURATED FAT SODIUM/SALT AND/OR SUGARS]" for reformulated products where the reduction in cont ent is at least 15% for energy, fat, saturated 
fat, salt/sodium and/or sugars. The claim would only be valid for a period of one year and is 
aimed at facilitating the mark eting of reformulated products  and their acceptance by 
consumers. The proposed measures  also concerns technical modi fications of the condition of 
use of nutrition claims already permitted by Regulation (E C) No 1924/2006 of the European 
Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on nutrition and health claims made on 
foods. 
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:    End of February 2012 
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU (about a month after adoption approx.) Products placed on the market prior the first day of the month 18 months after the entry into force of this Regulation may be marketed 
until the stocks are exhausted. 
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/2011/tbt/EEC/11_3586_00_e.pdf