Commission Directive 2006/34/EC of  21 March 2006  amending the Annex to Directive 2001/15/EC as regards the inclusion of certain substances   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-03-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: food additive, food supplement, foodstuff, foodstuffs legislation, human nutrition

L 83/14

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Official Journal of the European Union

22.3.2006

COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2006/34/EC

of 21 March 2006

amending the Annex to Directive 2001/15/EC as regards the inclusion of certain substances

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Article 1

Having regard to Council Directive 89/398/EEC of 3 May 1989
on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating
to foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses (1), and in
particular Article 4(2) thereof,

After consulting the European Food Safety Authority,

Whereas:

in foods

Commission Directive 2001/15/EC of 15 February 2001
on substances that may be added for specific nutritional
for particular nutritional uses (2)
purposes
specifies certain categories of substances and mentions
for each of them the chemical substances that may be
used in the manufacture of foodstuffs for particular nutri-
tional uses.

Those chemical substances that have been evaluated by
‘the
the European Food Safety Authority (hereafter
Authority’) and have received a favourable scientific
evaluation should be
to
Directive 2001/15/EC.

included in the Annex

Favourable scientific evaluation for some vitamins and
mineral substances has been recently given and made
public by the Authority.

It is appropriate to replace the category heading ‘folic
acid’ in order to take account of the inclusion of other
forms of folate in the Annex to Directive 2001/15/EC.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

The Annex to Directive 2001/15/EC is amended as set out in
the Annex to this Directive.

Article 2

1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations
and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this
Directive by 31 December 2006 at
the latest. They shall
forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those
provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and
this Directive.

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain
a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a
reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member
States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the
text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in
the field covered by this Directive.

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Directive 2001/15/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

Done at Brussels, 21 March 2006.

The measures provided for
accordance with
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

in this Directive are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 186, 30.6.1989, p. 27. Directive as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 52, 22.2.2001, p. 19. Directive as amended by Directive

2004/5/EC (OJ L 14, 21.1.2004, p. 19).

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Official Journal of the European Union

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ANNEX

The Annex to Directive 2001/15/EC is amended as follows:

1. In the section concerning Category 1. Vitamins:

(a) The heading ‘FOLIC ACID’ is replaced by ‘FOLATE’.

(b) The following line is added under the heading ‘FOLATE’:

Substance

‘— calcium-L-methylfolate

All FPNU

x’

Conditions of use

FSMP

2. In the section concerning Category 2. Minerals, the following line is added under the heading ‘MAGNESIUM’:

Substance

‘— magnesium L-aspartate

Conditions of use

All FPNU

FSMP

x’

3. In the section concerning Category 2. Minerals, the following line is added under the heading ‘IRON’:

Substance

‘— ferrous bisglycinate

Conditions of use

FSMP

All FPNU

x’