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Nutrition, Novel Foods, Food Contact Materials, Quick Frozen Foods and Mineral Waters

Nutrition, Novel Foods, Food Contact Materials, Quick Frozen Foods and Mineral Waters 30 March 2011. Overview. In the list of Union legislation published before 1st January 2011 the relevant acquis is listed in Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 13 of Title 4 – Food Safety Rules.

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Nutrition, Novel Foods, Food Contact Materials, Quick Frozen Foods and Mineral Waters

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  1. Nutrition, Novel Foods, Food Contact Materials, Quick Frozen Foods and Mineral Waters 30 March 2011

  2. Overview • In the list of Union legislation published before 1st January 2011 the relevant acquis is listed in Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 13 of Title 4 – Food Safety Rules. • The acquis is listed as Basic Text(s) and Application Text(s) • This presentation will start with the legal framework in Iceland and secondly focus on the implementation of the relevant EU legislation

  3. Legal framework • The legislation is EEA relevant • Most of the legislation has been implemented in Iceland • The legislation is implemented according to the provisions of the Icelandic Food Act No 93/1995 • There is some backlog of EU legislation relevant to the EEA Agreement waiting to be incorporated into the Agreement or waiting to be implemented in Iceland

  4. Basic texts – Regulations (IS) No 398/2008 and 568/2008 • Legislation on food contact materials – Chapter 6 • The first Regulation implements Regulation 1935/2004/EC on materials and articles in contact with food • The second act implements Regulation (EC) No 2023/2006 on GMP for materials and articles • This covers the Basic texts

  5. Application texts – Regulation (IS) No 111/203 • Implements Directives on plastic materials • Directive 82/711/EEC on migration testing • Directive 85/572/EEC on simulants • Directive 2002/72/EC relating to plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs

  6. Application texts – Regulations (IS) No 439/2006 and No 34/2009 • The first implements Directive 84/500/EEC on ceramic articles • The second implements Directive 2007/42/EC on regenerated cellulose films

  7. Application texts – Regulation (IS) No 538/1993 • Implements Directives on individual substances – vinyl chloride • Directive 78/142/EEC on vinyl chloride monomer in materials and articles • Directive 80/766/EEC on analysis of vinyl chloride monomer in materials and articles • Directive 81/432/EEC on analysis of vinyl chloride monomer released by M&A

  8. Application texts – Regulations (IS) No 389/1996, 698/2008 and 838/2010 • The first act implements Directive 93/11/EEC on nitrosamines etc. • The second act implements Regulation No (EC) 1895/2005 on epoxy derivatives • The last implements Regulation (EC) No 450/2009 on active and intelligent M&A

  9. Materials and articles • The implementation is complete • One new act, Decision 2010/169/EU, Union list of additives, not yet implemented and no such obligation Next item: Chapter 7, Food supplements

  10. Food Supplements – Regulations (IS) No 624/2004 and No 327/2007 • The first act implements Directive 2002/46/EC on food supplements, as amended by Directive 2006/37/EC • The second act implements Directive 1925/2006 on vitamins and minerals • The implementation is complete Next item: Chapter 8, Food for particular nutritional uses (FPNU)

  11. FPNU – Basic text Regulation (IS) No 865/2010 • Implements Directive 2009/39/EC, FPNU • Other acts on FPNU are application texts and have been implemented, except for one Regulation which is being translated (Regulation (EC) No 41/2009 on gluten, composition and labelling) Next item: Chapter 9, Quick frozen foods

  12. Quick frozen foodstuffs • The Basic text is Directive 89/108/EEC which is implemented by Regulation (IS) No 557/1993 • The application texts are Directive 92/2/EEC on sampling and analysis and Regulation (EC) No 37/2005 on the monitoring of temperatures, which have been implemented by Regulations (IS) No 557/1993 and 1183/2007. Impl. is compl.

  13. Novel foods – Chapter 11 • Draft Joint Committee Decision (JCD) for incorporation of the legislation into the EEA Agreement has been discussed for several years • No result and consequently no implementation of the relevant legislation in Iceland Next item: Chapter 13, Mineral waters

  14. Mineral waters – Chapter 13 • Previous EC legislation is still in force • New EC legislation partly implemented • Basic text, Directive 2009/54/EC in translation at final stage • Application texts, Directive 2003/40/EC implemented by Regulations (IS) 405/2002 and 1079/2004, while Regulation (EU) No 115/2010 has not been incorporated into the EEA Agreement

  15. Conclusions • Legislation in Title 4, Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 13 has been implemented, with minor excemptions • Legislation on Novel Foods is the only Chapter where no acts have been incorporated into the EEA Agreement and consequently not implemented in Iceland

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