2006/252/EC: Commission Decision of  27 March 2006  amending Decision 1999/217/EC as regards the register of flavouring substances used in or on foodstuffs  (notified under document number C(2006) 899)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-03-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: carcinogenic substance, directory, flavouring, foodstuff, foodstuffs legislation

L 91/48

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

29.3.2006

COMMISSION DECISION

of 27 March 2006

amending Decision 1999/217/EC as regards the register of

flavouring substances used in or

on foodstuffs

(notified under document number C(2006) 899)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/252/EC)

unknown,
the possibility of a genotoxic mechanism
can not be discounted. The JECFA considered it inap-
such a compound to be used as a
propriate for
flavouring
acetamide does not
comply with the general criteria set out in the Annex
to Regulation (EC) No 2232/96 and should be deleted
from the register.

agent. Accordingly

Decision 1999/217/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

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

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

In Part A of the Annex to Decision 1999/217/EC, the row set
out in the table for the substance attributed with FL-number
16.047 (acetamide) is deleted.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 27 March 2006.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(4)

(5)

(1)

(2)

(3)

Regulation (EC) No 2232/96 lays down the procedure
for the establishment of rules in respect of flavouring
substances used or intended to be used in foodstuffs.
That Regulation provides for the adoption of a register
of flavouring substances (the register) following notifi-
cation by the Member States of a list of the flavouring
substances which may be used in or on foodstuffs
marketed in their territory and on the basis of scrutiny
by the Commission of that notification. That register was
adopted by Commission Decision 1999/217/EC (2).

In addition, Regulation (EC) No 2232/96 provides for a
programme for the evaluation of flavouring substances in
order to check whether they comply with the general
criteria for the use of flavouring substances set out in
the Annex to that Regulation.

Joint

The
FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food
Additives (JECFA) concluded during its 65th meeting of
7 to 16 June 2005 that the acetamide (FL 16.047) is
clearly
and
carcinogenic
formation is
although the mechanism of

in both mice

and rats,

tumour

(1) OJ L 299, 23.11.1996, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1882/2003 (OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 84, 27.3.1999, p. 1. Decision as last amended by Decision

2005/389/EC (OJ L 128, 21.5.2005, p. 73).