Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/343 of 28 February 2019 providing derogations from Article 1(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on nutrition and health claims made on food for the use of certain generic descriptors (Text with EEA relevance.)

• CELEX: Regulation (EU) 2019/343
• Articles: 4

Article 1

The generic descriptors listed in the Annex to this Regulation are exempted from the application of Article 1(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 under the conditions laid down in that Annex.

Article 2

For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions for sugars intended for human consumption laid down in point A of the Annex to Council Directive 2001/111/EC shall apply.

Article 3

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

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

Class of food

Generic descriptor

Member States where the exemption is valid

Hard and soft sweets based on sugars as well as sugar-free and calorie-reduced variants based on sweeteners (polyols and/or intense sweeteners) containing extracts of herbs, fruit or other plant substances, honey or malt

Brust-Caramellen Hustenbonbon

Germany, Austria

Halsbonbon,

Hustenmischung,

Hustenperle

Germany

Hustenstopper,

Hustenzuckerl

Austria

Cough drops

United Kingdom

Hoestbonbon,

Keelpastille

Netherlands

Rebuçados para a tosse

Portugal

Hard sweets based on sugars as well as sugar-free and calorie-reduced variants based on sweeteners (polyols and/or intense sweeteners)

Kurkkupastilli/ Halspastill

Finland

Confectionery products made of solutions of sugar, starch syrup, inverted sugar and/or honey with the addition of herbal ingredients in the form of a syrup

Hustensirup

Austria

Non-alcoholic carbonated beverage containing the bittering agent quinine in the form of the flavourings FL 14.011, FL 14.152 or FL 14.155 as referred to in the Union list of flavourings as laid down in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008

The following terms, used as part of the descriptive name of the beverage:

‘tonic’ (in English), substituted by ‘ Tоник ’ (in Bulgarian),

‘tonik’ (in Czech and in Slovak),

‘tónica’ (in Spanish and in Portuguese),

‘tonica’ (in Italian),

‘tonică’ (in Romanian)

All Member States

Rusk-type bakery products

Biscotto salute

Italy