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Ref : EIC 230/2/12

24 January 2013

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 84/2013

European Union (EU)* : Amendments to Regulation on Food Additives

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 1052/2012 dated 12 December 2012, the European Commission (the Commission) has adopted a Regulation to amend Annexes II and III of Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 and the Annex of Commission Regulation (EU) No 231/2012 concerning the food additive potassium diacetate. Details are set out in Commission Regulation (EU) No 25/2013, which can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:013:0001:0005:EN:PDF.

DETAILS

2.Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 provides the establishment of a Union list of food additives approved for use in foods and their condition of use while Regulation (EU) No 231/2012 lays down specifications for food additives listed in Annexes II and III of Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008. According to the transitional provisions of Commission Regulation (EU) No 1129/2011, the list of food additives should apply from 1 June 2013. In order to allow the use of potassium diacetate before that date, Annexes II and III of Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 and Annex of Regulation (EU) No 231/2012 should therefore be amended accordingly, with an earlier date of application specified as 6 February 2013.

ENQUIRIES

3.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5556.

Yours faithfully,

(Miss Anita WONG)
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.