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food news legal and regulatory news April 2017 NATIONAL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION ON THE EUROPEAN REGULATION NO 1169/2011 meyerlegal.de food news legal and regulatory news CONTENT NATIONAL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION ON THE EUROPEAN REGULATION NO. 1169/2011 Austria Netherlands Andreas Natterer, Iliyana Sirakova 3 Victor van Ahee, Natasja Brusik 23 Belgium Norway Aude Mahy 6 Marie Vaale-Hallberg 24 Baltic States Portugal Rauno Kinkar, Tadas Vilčinskas, Francesco Montanari 26 Kaspars Linters 8 Poland Croatia Grażyna Osęka, Jowita Prokop 27 Marko Kapetanovic 12 Romania Czech Republic Oana Constantinescu 29 David Štros 14 Slovakia Danmark David Štros 30 Martin Gantzhorn, Gundula Maria Kjær, Lise Slovenia Aagaad 15 Petra Smolnikova 31 France Spain Antoinne de Broses, Adrien Cairllavet 17 Mónica Weimann 32 Germany Sweden Edition Bärbel Hintermeier 20 Magnus Friberg 35 April 2017 Italy UK Editor Cesare Varallo 21 David Hetherington 36 Prof. Dr. Alfred Hagen Meyer Bärbel Hintermeier This issue of our newsletter focuses on The newsletter aims at providing a REGULATION (EU) No 1169/2011 and useful compendium on this topic with the provision of food information to open access. It comprises the collection consumers and the different national articles regarding the legislation within 21 implementing regulations such as member states of Europe. Sophienstrasse 5 regarding: D - 80333 Munich • national regulations on allergens (Art. A big thank you goes to our colleagues Fon +49 (0)89 5506988-0 44 Reg. 1169/2011) from all over Europe for their support with meyer@meyerlegal.de • national regulation regarding non- regard to this comprehensive collection www.meyerlegal.de prepacked food (Art. 44 para. 1 lit. b of articles. Reg. 1169/2011) We hope you enjoy reading. Graphic Design & Layout • national sanction system concerning Reg. 1169/2011 kullmann-design.com • further changes within national law concerning Reg. 1169/2011, f.ex. (national) law on cheese or beer Prof. Dr. Alfred Hagen Meyer Bärbel Hintermeier food news April 2017 meyerlegal.de 2 Austria FIC AND THE AUSTRIAN IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS Authors: Andreas Natterer, Iliyana Sirakova; schoenherr Österreich It has been six years since the Regulation on the provision Article Authorization to: Status: of food information to consumers (EU) No 1169/2011 (“FIC”) entered into force, and only a couple of months since it has Art. 39 Adopt national measures Nothing; no become fully applicable (Art. 55 FIC); it is now time for a status on additional mandatory intention at the check. particulars time to adopt measures for mandatory origin I. OVERVIEW OF THE CHANGES labelling While the FIC officially replaced the Austrian Labelling Art. 40 Adopt national measures No national Regulation (“LMKV” – 1 January 2014 respectively 13 December on milk and milk products measures 2014) and the Austrian Nutrition Labelling Regulation (“NWKV” presented in glass bottles – 13 December 2016) in almost all areas respective of the intended for reuse labelling of foodstuffs, it brought only minor changes to the Art. 41 Maintain national measu- The existing Austrian legislation in place up to that point. res as regards the listing provision Sec.7 Most of the changes derive directly from the FIC provisions of ingredients in the case para. 1 subpara. 4 of alcoholic beverages (1) LMKV was not 1 regarding : containing more than 1,2% maintained • Extended and clarified responsibility of FBO2; alc. Vol. • Scope of application (all foodstuffs); Art. 42 Maintain national measures No national • Mandatory information for prepacked & non-prepacked concerning the expression measures food; of net quantity for specified • Scope of application on all foodstuffs; foods in a different manner • Minimum font size; to that provided for in • Obligatory nutrition labelling; Article 23(1) • Allergen labelling for non-prepacked food; Art. 43 Adopt national measures No national • Indication of the country of origin for fresh, chilled or on the voluntary indication measures frozen meat of swine, sheep, goats and poultry/indication of reference intakes for spe- of the primary ingredient; cific population groups • Date of freezing; Art. 44 Adopt National measures • No national • Increased protection against misleading information/ for non-prepacked food: measures; unfair competition; • Allergen Infor- • Nanomaterials. mation Regula- Although the FIC harmonises European labelling laws to a large tion (Allergenin- extent, it also authorizes Member States to adopt or maintain formationsVO, national measures for certain aspects of labelling (Art 38 FIC): BGBl. II No 2014/175) Article Authorization to: Status: Art. 15 Adopt national provision No explicit national para. 2 on language provision Art. 35 Provide recommendations No national para. 2 to FBO on additional forms recommendation of expression and pre- to FBO sentation of the nutrition 1 See also WKO, Lebensmittelkennzeichnung NEU, 2011. declaration 2 Food business operators. food news April 2017 meyerlegal.de 3 II. THE AUSTRIAN REGULATION ON ALLERGEN In accordance with the text of the Allergen Information INFORMATION FOR NON-PREPACKED FOOD Regulation, the FBO might provide the information in both a written and/or oral manner. The Regulation The Written Form Article 44 para. 2(a) FIC provides that where foods are offered for sale to the final consumer or to mass caterers without Allergen information may be displayed on a sign on or in the prepackaging, or where foods are packed on the sales premises vicinity of the related food, on a notice board/posting, the at the consumer’s request or prepacked for direct sale (e.g. menu, the pricelist or in electronic form. If the name of the restaurants, supermarkets, bakeries, etc.) information must be food or its presentation clearly indicate the presence of an provided for any ingredient or processing aid listed in Annex allergenic ingredient, it is not necessary to provide separate II FIC or derived from a substance or product listed in Annex information for this product. However, FBOs would be well- II causing allergies or intolerances used in the manufacture or advised to restrain themselves from applying this exception preparation of a food and still present in the finished product, too liberally as to avoid misleading or even false information. even if in an altered form. Abbreviations, symbols and letter codes may be used. The Thus, establishments such as restaurants, bakeries but also meaning of such must be explained nearby. The abbreviations supermarkets that offer non-prepacked food have to provide or symbols for an allergen must be stated only once per information about allergens contained in the food they offer product, even if the product contains multiple ingredients to consumers. from the same allergen-group. According to Article 44 para. 2, Member States may adopt If an FBO chooses to use abbreviations or alphabetic characters national measures concerning the means by which the in reference to the 14 allergens, it may use the list prepared by particulars or elements of those particulars specified in the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (WKO) and published by paragraph 1 are to be made available and, where appropriate, the Aus-trian Ministry of Health (which can be found in the their form of expression and presentation. Recommendation for written information – see list below) and visibly clarify that it has done so using the phrase “Allergen Subsequently, Austria adopted the Allergen Information information according to Codex Recommendation”): 3 Regulation , which entered into force and became applicable on 13 December 2014. This implementing regulation is complemented by two Abbreviation Letter code guidelines and one recommendations of the Code Commission Gluten-containing grains A 4 published by the Austrian Ministry for Health and Women : Crustaceans B 5 1. Personnel Training Guideline for allergen information (on Egg C the competence of persons authorised to communicate Fish D information on allergens verbally); 6 Peanut E 2. Allergen Information Guideline for non-prepacked food (“bulk products”) (general information on internal Soy F company measures); Milk or lactose G 7 3. Recommendation for written information for non- Edible nuts H prepacked food (“bulk products”) (on abbreviations and Celery L letter codes). The Main Provisions The provisions of the Austrian Allergen Information Regulation 3 Verordnung des Bundesministers für Gesundheit über die Weitergabe von stipulate that the FBO have to ensure that the information Informationen über unverpackte Lebensmittel, die Stoffe oder Erzeugnisse relating allergens as listed in Annex II of FIC in non-prepacked enthalten, die Allergien oder Unverträglichkeiten auslösen können und über weitere allgemeine Kennzeichnungsbestimmungen für Lebensmittel– Aller- foods are communicated to the final consumer (Sec. 2) and are geninformationsVO, BGBl. II Nr. 175/2014) based on written documentation (Sec 4). The information has 4 At date of publishing, still called the Federal Ministry of Health. to be available and easily accessible, and it must be provided to the consumer without an explicit request (Sec. 3, para. 1). It 5 Leitlinie für die Personalschulung über die Allergeninformation im Sinne der is, however, sufficient to indicate in a prominent place and in AllergeninformationsVO, BMG-75210/0017-IIB/13/2014 vom 24.07.2014. a clearly visible and legible way that the information can be 6 Leitlinie zur Allergeninformation bei nicht vorverpackten Lebensmitteln obtained orally on request (Sec 3, para. 2). The oral information ("offene Ware") im Sinne der AllergeninformationsVO, BMG-752101/0017- on allergens must be communicated by a person trained for IIB/13/2014 vom 24.07.2014. this; the training is to be repeated at least every three years 7 Empfehlung zur schriftlichen Allergeninformation bei nicht vorverpackten whereby the proof of the training must be documented (Sec. Lebensmittel ("offene Ware"), BMG-75210/0029-II/B/13/2014 vom 07.10.2014. 3, para. 3). food news April 2017 meyerlegal.de 4
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