Commission Regulation (EU) 2025/147 of 29 January 2025 amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the removal of the flavouring substance 4-Methyl-2-phenylpent-2-enal (FL No 05.100) from the Union list

• CELEX: Regulation (EU) 2025/147
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Article 1 Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008

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

Article 2 Transitional measures

1.   Foods to which 4-Methyl-2-phenylpent-2-enal (FL No 05.100) 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 4-Methyl-2-phenylpent-2-enal (FL No 05.100) 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.   Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to 4-Methyl-2-phenylpent-2-enal (FL No 05.100) and to preparations containing this substance not intended to be consumed as such.

For the purposes of this paragraph, ‘preparations’ means mixtures of flavourings or mixtures of one or more flavourings with other food ingredients, such as food additives, enzymes or carriers, to facilitate their storage, sale, standardisation, dilution or dissolution.

Article 3 Entry into force

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

In Part A of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008, the following entry is deleted:

‘05.100

4-Methyl-2-phenylpent-2- enal

26643-91-4

1473

10366

In category 1.4 – not more than 0,60 mg/kg

In category 1.7 – not more than 5,00 mg/kg

In category 1.8 – not more than 0,50 mg/kg

In category 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 – not more than 5,00 mg/kg

In category 3.0 – not more than 0,60 mg/kg

In category 4.2 – not more than 0,09 mg/kg

In category 4.2.2 – not more than 1,50 mg/kg

In category 4.2.5 – not more than 0,20 mg/kg

In category 5.1 – not more than 2,00 mg/kg

In category 5.2 – not more than 5,00 mg/kg

In category 5.3 – not more than 5,00 mg/kg

In category 5.4 – not more than 5,00 mg/kg

In category 6.3 – not more than 5,00 mg/kg

In category 6.4 – not more than 1,50 mg/kg

In category 6.6 – not more than 3,00 mg/kg

In category 6.7 – not more than 0,20 mg/kg

In category 7.1 – not more than 5,00 mg/kg

In category 7.2 – not more than 5,00 mg/Kg

In category 8.2, 8.3 – not more than 1,50 mg/kg

In category 9.2, 9.3 – not more than 1,50 mg/kg

In category 10.2 – not more than 1,50 mg/kg

In category 11.2 – not more than 0,10 mg/kg

In category 12.2 – not more than 0,90 mg/kg

In category 12.3 – not more than 1,50 mg/kg

In category 12.4 – not more than 1,50 mg/kg

In category 12.5 – not more than 0,80 mg/kg

In category 12.6 – not more than 1,50 mg/kg

In category 12.7 – not more than 1,50 mg/kg

In category 12.9 – not more than 5,00 mg/kg

In category 13.2, 13.3, 13.4 – not more than 5,00 mg/kg

In category 14.2.1 – not more than 0,08 mg/kg

In category 14.2.2 – not more than 0,08 mg/kg

In category 14.2.5 – not more than 0,08 mg/kg

In category 14.2.6 – not more than 0,08 mg/kg

In category 15.0 – not more than 1,8 mg/kg

In category 16 – not more than 4,00 mg/kg

In category 17 – not more than 0,60 mg/kg

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