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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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