Choose the experimental features you want to try

This document is an excerpt from the EUR-Lex website

Document 32014R0246

    Commission Regulation (EU) No 246/2014 of 13 March 2014 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

    OJ L 74, 14.3.2014, p. 58–60 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

    Legal status of the document In force

    ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2014/246/oj

    14.3.2014   

    EN

    Official Journal of the European Union

    L 74/58


    COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 246/2014

    of 13 March 2014

    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)

    THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

    Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

    Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on flavourings and certain food ingredients with flavouring properties for use in and on foods and amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 1601/91, Regulations (EC) No 2232/96 and (EC) No 110/2008 and Directive 2000/13/EC (1), and in particular Article 11(3) thereof,

    Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1331/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 establishing a common authorisation procedure for food additives, food enzymes and food flavourings (2), and in particular Article 7(4) thereof,

    Whereas:

    (1)

    Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 lays down a Union list of flavourings and source materials for use in food and their conditions of use.

    (2)

    Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 872/2012 (3) has adopted the list of flavouring substances and has introduced that list in Part A of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008.

    (3)

    That list may be updated in accordance with the common procedure referred to in Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1331/2008, either on the initiative of the Commission or following an application submitted by a Member State or by an interested party.

    (4)

    Part A of the Union list contains a number of substances for which the European Food Safety Authority has not completed the evaluation or it has requested additional scientific data to be provided for completion of the evaluation. For 19 of those substances, the persons responsible for placing the flavouring substances on the market have now withdrawn their applications. Therefore, those flavouring substances should be removed from the Union list.

    (5)

    Part A of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 should therefore be amended accordingly.

    (6)

    Pursuant to Article 30 of Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 flavouring substances not included in the Union list may be placed on the market as such and used in or on food until 22 October 2014. Since flavouring substances are already on the market in the Member States and in order to ensure smooth transition to a Union authorisation procedure, transitional measures have been laid down for food containing those substances in Commission Regulation (EU) No 873/2012 (4).

    (7)

    The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Food Chain and Animal Health,

    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

    Article 1

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

    Article 2

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

    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

    Done at Brussels, 13 March 2014.

    For the Commission

    The President

    José Manuel BARROSO


    (1)   OJ L 354, 31.12.2008, p. 34.

    (2)   OJ L 354, 31.12.2008, p. 1.

    (3)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 872/2012 of 1 October 2012 adopting the list of flavouring substances provided for by Regulation (EC) No 2232/96 of the European Parliament and of the Council, introducing it in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 1565/2000 and Commission Decision 1999/217/EC (OJ L 267, 2.10.2012, p. 1).

    (4)  Commission Regulation (EU) No 873/2012 of 1 October 2012 on transitional measures concerning the Union list of flavourings and source materials set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 267, 2.10.2012, p. 162).


    ANNEX

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

    ‘01.015

    Vinylbenzene

    100-42-5

     

    11022

     

     

    1

    EFSA

    02.122

    p-Mentha-1,8(10)-dien-9-ol

    3269-90-7

     

     

     

     

    2

    EFSA

    09.809

    p-Mentha-1,8(10)-dien-9-yl acetate

    15111-97-4

     

    10743

     

     

    2

    EFSA

    12.114

    Diethyl trisulfide

    3600-24-6

    1701

    11451

     

     

    4

    EFSA

    12.120

    2,8-Epithio-p-menthane

    68398-18-5

    1685

     

     

     

    4

    EFSA

    12.159

    Methyl methanethiosulfonate

    2949-92-0

     

    11520

     

     

    3

    EFSA

    12.256

    Ethyl propyl trisulfide

    31499-70-4

    1695

     

     

     

    4

    EFSA

    12.272

    Propyl propanethiosulfonate

    1113-13-9

    1702

     

     

     

    3

    EFSA

    13.029

    2,5-Dimethylfuran

    625-86-5

    1488

    2208

     

     

    3

    EFSA

    13.030

    2-Methylfuran

    534-22-5

    1487

    2209

     

     

    3

    EFSA

    13.092

    2-Ethylfuran

    3208-16-0

    1489

    11706

     

     

    3

    EFSA

    14.145

    Pyrrole-2-carbaldehyde

    1003-29-8

     

    11393

     

     

    4

    EFSA

    14.163

    1-Methylpyrrole-2-carboxaldehyde

    1192-58-1

     

     

     

     

    4

    EFSA

    14.169

    1-Ethyl-2-pyrrolecarboxaldehyde

    2167-14-8

     

     

     

     

    4

    EFSA

    15.064

    2,5-Dimethylthiophene

    638-02-8

     

     

     

     

    4

    EFSA

    15.072

    2-Ethylthiophene

    872-55-9

     

    11614

     

     

    4

    EFSA

    15.091

    2-Methylthiophene

    554-14-3

     

    11631

     

     

    4

    EFSA

    15.092

    3-Methylthiophene

    616-44-4

     

    11632

     

     

    4

    EFSA

    16.124

    (1R,2S,5R)-N-cyclopropyl-5-methyl-2-isopropyl cyclohexanecarboxamide

    73435-61-7

     

     

     

     

    1

    EFSA’


    Top