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Ref : EIC 230/4

12 November 2008

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 556/2008

European Union (EU)* : Amendments to the Directive on Nutrition Labelling for Foodstuffs

Further to our Commercial Information Circular No. 39/2007 of 15 January 2007, the European Commission (the Commission) has recently adopted a Directive to amend the Council Directive 90/496/EEC concerning the nutrition labelling on foodstuffs. Details are set out in the Commission Directive 2008/100/EC (the Directive), which can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:285:0009:0012:EN:PDF

DETAILS

  1.  
  2. The Regulation (EC) No. 1924/2006 sets out conditions for the use of nutrition claims "source of fibre" and "high fibre" in its Annex, with reference to the definition of fibre in the Council Directive 90/496/EEC. Recent scientific evidence shows that the definition of the material constituting fibre requires to be updated. For details please refer to Annex II of the Directive.
     
  3. Separately, the Directive also updated the energy conversion factors for fibre and erythritol, and the list of vitamins and minerals with their recommended daily allowances. 

ENQUIRIES

  1. For enquiries concerning the contents of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5684.

Yours faithfully,




(Chandler CHAN)

for Director-General of Trade and Industry

* The EU includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.



Note ：

  • (1) While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the above information, the Department cannot guarantee this to be so and will not be held liable for any reliance placed on the same.
  • (2) The biweekly newsletter "Business Alert - EU" of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council provides up-to-date information on the latest developments in EU trade policy and trade regulations. The newsletter is available for free e-subscription and can be accessed through
    http://www.tdctrade.com/alert/eualert.htm.