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Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/1681 of 12 November 2020 amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards removal from the Union list of certain flavouring substances (Text with EEA relevance)

Regulation (EU) 2020/1681 · Regulation · 4 articles

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Article 1

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Part A of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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1. Foods to which any of the flavouring substances listed in the Annex to this Regulation have been added and which were lawfully placed on the market prior to the date of entry into force of this Regulation may continue to be marketed until their date of minimum durability or ‘use by’ date. 2. Foods imported into the Union, to which one of the flavouring substances listed in the Annex to this Regulation have been added may be marketed until their date of minimum durability or ‘use by’ date where the importer of such food can demonstrate that they were dispatched from the third country concerned and were en route to the Union before the date of entry into force of this Regulation. 3. The transitional periods provided in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to preparations not intended to be consumed as such to which any of these five flavouring substances have been added. 4. For the purposes of this Regulation, preparations shall be understood as mixtures of one or more flavourings to which other food ingredients such as food additives, enzymes or carriers may be also incorporated to facilitate their storage, sale, standardisation, dilution or dissolution.

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

Supplementary provisions

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ANNEX In Section 2 of Part A of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008, the following entries are deleted: ‘07.130 delta-Damascone 57378-68-4 386 2 JECFA/EFSA 07.134 alpha-Damascone 43052-87-5 385 11053 2 JECFA/EFSA 07.225 cis-1-(2,6,6-Trimethyl-2-cyclohexen-1-yl)but-2-en-1-one 23726-94-5 At least 92 %; secondary component 4 % trans-isomer 2 EFSA 07.226 trans-1-(2,6,6-Trimethyl-2-cyclohexen-1-yl)but-2-en-1-one 24720-09-0 2 EFSA 07.231 alpha-Damascenone 35044-63-4 2 EFSA’

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