COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 489/2012
of 8 June 2012
establishing implementing rules for the application of Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the addition of vitamins and minerals and of certain other substances to foods
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on the addition of vitamins and minerals and of certain other substances to foods (1), and in particular Article 16 thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No 1925/2006 establishes that the Commission shall submit, by 1 July 2013, a report to the European Parliament and the Council on the effects of implementing that Regulation. With regard to this, the Member States shall provide the necessary relevant information to the Commission.
(2)
The necessary relevant information to be provided by the Member States should relate to the evolution of the market in foods to which vitamins and minerals have been added, including data demonstrating trends in the market since harmonisation at Union level of the addition of vitamins and minerals to foods.
(3)
Such information should include consumption patterns of foods to which vitamins and minerals have been added and information on intake of vitamins and minerals by the population and by specific population groups if appropriate. This should include information that demonstrates changes in dietary habits since harmonisation of the addition of vitamins and minerals to foods.
(4)
The relevant information to be provided by the Member States should also relate to the addition of substances other than vitamins or minerals to foods, including food supplements, as defined by Directive 2002/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 June 2002 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to food supplements (2). Such information should include information on the consumption of such foods and the amounts of the substances added, and on any national measures whether legislative or not, that have been taken so as to restrict or prohibit the use of certain other substances in foods.
(5)
It is necessary by way of these implementing rules to establish a list of the relevant information that Member States should collect and provide to the Commission, and to set a common format for presenting this information.
(6)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Subject matter
This Regulation establishes implementing rules for the application of Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No 1925/2006 and in particular on the provision of the necessary relevant information by the Member States to the Commission for the purpose of evaluating the effects of implementation of the Regulation (EC) No 1925/2006.
Article 2
Relevant information
1. Member States shall by 1 July 2012 provide to the Commission the necessary relevant information in particular concerning the following:
(a)
evolution of the national market in foods to which vitamins and minerals have been added since the date of application of Regulation (EC) No 1925/2006;
(b)
consumption patterns of foods to which vitamins and minerals have been added;
(c)
intake levels of vitamins and minerals by the population;
(d)
the addition of substances other than vitamins or minerals to foods, including food supplements as defined in point (a) of Article 2 of Directive 2002/46/EC and the information on the consumption patterns of such foods as well as the amounts of these substances added to foods and food supplements.
2. The necessary relevant information to be provided by the Member States to the Commission referred to in paragraph 1 shall include at least the information specified in Annex I to this Regulation.
The necessary relevant information and details thereof shall be submitted to the Commission in the format laid down in Annex II to this Regulation.
3. A Member State shall inform the Commission if any of the information specified in Annex I is not available or cannot for any other reason be provided to the Commission by 1 July 2012.
Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 8 June 2012.