Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/1466 of 5 September 2022 amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the removal of certain flavouring substances from the Union list (Text with EEA relevance)

Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008

Article 1

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

Transitional measures

Article 2

1.   Foods to which any of the flavouring substances listed in the Annex to this Regulation has been added and which were lawfully placed on the market before the 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 any of the flavouring substances listed in the Annex to this Regulation has been added may be marketed until their date of minimum durability or use-by date, if the importer of such food can demonstrate that they were dispatched from the third country concerned and were in transit to the Union before the entry into force of this Regulation. 3.   The transitional measures provided for in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to preparations, not intended to be consumed as such, to which any of the flavouring substances listed in the Annex to this Regulation has 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.

Entry into force

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 .

ANNEXSupplementary provisions

ANNEX In Part A of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008, the following entries are deleted: ‘07.030 1-(4-Methoxyphenyl)pent-1-en-3-one 104-27-8 826 164     2 EFSA 07.046 Vanillylidene acetone 1080-12-2 732 691     2 EFSA 07.049 1-(4-Methoxyphenyl)-4-methylpent-1-en-3-one 103-13-9 829 719     2 EFSA 07.206 4-(2,3,6-Trimethylphenyl)but-3-en-2-one 56681-06-2         2 EFSA 07.258 6-Methyl-3-hepten-2-one 2009-74-7         1 EFSA 10.034 5,6-Dihydro-3,6-dimethyl-benzofuran-2(4H)-one 80417-97-6 1163       2 EFSA 10.036 5,6,7,7a-Tetrahydro-3,6-dimethylbenzofuran-2(4H)-one 13341-72-5 1162       2 EFSA 10.042 3,4-Dimethyl-5-pentylidene-furan-2(5H)-one 774-64-1   11873 At least 93 %; secondary component 1-2 % 3,4-dimethyl 5-ketobutanoic acid gamma-lactone   2 EFSA 10.043 2,7-Dimethylocta-5(trans),7-dieno-1,4-lactone 78548-56-8         2 EFSA 10.046 Hex-2-eno-1,4-lactone 2407-43-4         2 EFSA 10.054 Non-2-eno-1,4-lactone 21963-26-8         2 EFSA 10.060 2-Decen-1,4-lactone 2518-53-8         2 EFSA 10.170 5-Pentyl-3H-furan-2-one 51352-68-2 1989   Mixture of 3H- and 5H-isomers (2:1)   2 EFSA 13.004 Allyl 2-furoate 4208-49-5 21 360     2 EFSA 13.034 3-(2-furyl)acrylaldehyde 623-30-3 1497       1 EFSA 13.043 Furfurylidene-2-butanal 770-27-4 1501 11885     1 EFSA 13.044 4-(2-Furyl)but-3-en-2-one 623-15-4 1511 11838     1 EFSA 13.046 3-(2-Furyl)-2-methylprop-2- enal 874-66-8 1498 11878     1 EFSA 13.066 3-Acetyl-2,5-dimethylfuran 10599-70-9 1506 10921     4 EFSA 13.103 2-Butylfuran 4466-24-4 1490 10927     3 EFSA 13.137 3-(2-F uryl)-2-phenylprop-2- enal 65545-81-5 1502 11928     1 EFSA 13.150 3-(5-Methyl-2-furyl)prop-2-enal 5555-90-8 1499       1 EFSA’