Commission Regulation (EC) No 622/2002 of 11 April 2002 establishing deadlines for the submission of information for the evaluation of chemically defined flavouring substances used in or on foodstuffs (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2002-04-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: chemical product, disclosure of information, flavouring, food inspection, foodstuff, market approval

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 622/2002

of 11 April 2002

establishing deadlines for the submission of information for the evaluation of chemically defined
flavouring substances used in or on foodstuffs

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 2232/96 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 28 October 1996 laying
down a Community procedure for flavouring substances used
or intended for use in or on foodstuffs (1), and in particular
Article 4(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

The aim of Regulation (EC) No 2232/96 is the establish-
ment of a list of flavouring substances the use of which
is authorised to the exclusion of all others. That list is to
be established following the evaluation of
flavouring
substances used in or on foodstuffs.

In application of that Regulation, a register of flavouring
substances used in or on foodstuffs was adopted by
Commission Decision 1999/217/EC (2), as last amended
by Decision 2002/113/EC (3).

information required for

The
evaluation of
substances on the register was specified in Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1565/2000 (4)
laying down the
chemically defined
for
evaluation programme
flavouring substances listed in Decision 1999/217/EC.

the

the

Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1565/2000 outlines the
information that has to be provided by the person
responsible for placing the respective substance on the
market in order to carry out the evaluation programme.
If the information for a particular substance does not
become available within one year of adoption of that
Regulation, the Commission should be informed when it
would be possible to submit the information.

(5) Within the first year of the evaluation programme, the
persons responsible for placing on the market
the
substances contained in the register, via the European
Flavour and Fragrance Association, have submitted data
for part of
the substances listed in Decision 1999/
217/EC and informed the Commission of the dates on
which data for
the remaining substances could be
submitted.

(6)

(7)

In order to allow the smooth running of the evaluation
process, the Commission is now in a position to estab-
lish deadlines for the submission of the information
referred to in Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1565/
2000.

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

The deadlines for the submission of

1.
information on
flavouring substances as required under Article 3(3) of Regula-
tion (EC) No 1565/2000 are set out in the Annex.

Following a reasoned request from the person responsible
2.
for placing such substances on the market, the Commission
may extend the deadline. The request must be lodged before
the expiry of the deadline.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day
following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 11 April 2002.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 299, 23.11.1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 84, 27.3.1999, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 49, 20.2.2002, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 180, 19.7.2000, p. 8.

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ANNEX

Flavouring substances

Deadline for submission of the information referred to in
Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1565/2000

Substances identified for priority evaluation (marked by
number 3 in the column ‘Comments’ of the Annex to
Decision 1999/217/EC)

31 December 2002

Substances belonging to groups 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 20 of
Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1565/2000

31 December 2002

Substances belonging to groups 6, 7, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23,
24, 25, 29 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1565/2000

Substances belonging to groups 3, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18,
19, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 of Annex I to Regula-
tion (EC) No 1565/2000

31 August 2003

30 June 2004