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legal and regulatory news April 2017
NATIONAL IMPLEMENTING
REGULATION ON THE
EUROPEAN REGULATION
NO 1169/2011
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CONTENT
NATIONAL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION ON
THE EUROPEAN REGULATION NO. 1169/2011
Austria Netherlands
Andreas Natterer, Iliyana Sirakova 3 Victor van Ahee, Natasja Brusik 23
Belgium Norway
Aude Mahy 6 Marie Vaale-Hallberg 24
Baltic States Portugal
Rauno Kinkar, Tadas Vilčinskas, Francesco Montanari 26
Kaspars Linters 8 Poland
Croatia Grażyna Osęka, Jowita Prokop 27
Marko Kapetanovic 12 Romania
Czech Republic Oana Constantinescu 29
David Štros 14 Slovakia
Danmark David Štros 30
Martin Gantzhorn, Gundula Maria Kjær, Lise Slovenia
Aagaad 15 Petra Smolnikova 31
France Spain
Antoinne de Broses, Adrien Cairllavet 17 Mónica Weimann 32
Germany Sweden
Edition Bärbel Hintermeier 20 Magnus Friberg 35
April 2017 Italy
UK
Editor Cesare Varallo 21 David Hetherington 36
Prof. Dr. Alfred Hagen Meyer
Bärbel Hintermeier
This issue of our newsletter focuses on The newsletter aims at providing a
REGULATION (EU) No 1169/2011 and useful compendium on this topic with
the provision of food information to open access. It comprises the collection
consumers and the different national articles regarding the legislation within 21
implementing regulations such as member states of Europe.
Sophienstrasse 5 regarding:
D - 80333 Munich • national regulations on allergens (Art. A big thank you goes to our colleagues
Fon +49 (0)89 5506988-0 44 Reg. 1169/2011) from all over Europe for their support with
meyer@meyerlegal.de • national regulation regarding non- regard to this comprehensive collection
www.meyerlegal.de prepacked food (Art. 44 para. 1 lit. b of articles.
Reg. 1169/2011) We hope you enjoy reading.
Graphic Design & Layout • national sanction system concerning
Reg. 1169/2011
kullmann-design.com • further changes within national law
concerning Reg. 1169/2011, f.ex.
(national) law on cheese or beer Prof. Dr. Alfred Hagen Meyer Bärbel Hintermeier
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Austria
FIC AND THE AUSTRIAN IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS
Authors: Andreas Natterer, Iliyana Sirakova; schoenherr Österreich
It has been six years since the Regulation on the provision Article Authorization to: Status:
of food information to consumers (EU) No 1169/2011 (“FIC”)
entered into force, and only a couple of months since it has Art. 39 Adopt national measures Nothing; no
become fully applicable (Art. 55 FIC); it is now time for a status on additional mandatory intention at the
check. particulars time to adopt
measures for
mandatory origin
I. OVERVIEW OF THE CHANGES labelling
While the FIC officially replaced the Austrian Labelling Art. 40 Adopt national measures No national
Regulation (“LMKV” – 1 January 2014 respectively 13 December on milk and milk products measures
2014) and the Austrian Nutrition Labelling Regulation (“NWKV” presented in glass bottles
– 13 December 2016) in almost all areas respective of the intended for reuse
labelling of foodstuffs, it brought only minor changes to the Art. 41 Maintain national measu- The existing
Austrian legislation in place up to that point. res as regards the listing provision Sec.7
Most of the changes derive directly from the FIC provisions of ingredients in the case para. 1 subpara. 4
of alcoholic beverages (1) LMKV was not
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regarding : containing more than 1,2% maintained
• Extended and clarified responsibility of FBO2; alc. Vol.
• Scope of application (all foodstuffs); Art. 42 Maintain national measures No national
• Mandatory information for prepacked & non-prepacked concerning the expression measures
food; of net quantity for specified
• Scope of application on all foodstuffs; foods in a different manner
• Minimum font size; to that provided for in
• Obligatory nutrition labelling; Article 23(1)
• Allergen labelling for non-prepacked food; Art. 43 Adopt national measures No national
• Indication of the country of origin for fresh, chilled or on the voluntary indication measures
frozen meat of swine, sheep, goats and poultry/indication of reference intakes for spe-
of the primary ingredient; cific population groups
• Date of freezing; Art. 44 Adopt National measures • No national
• Increased protection against misleading information/ for non-prepacked food: measures;
unfair competition; • Allergen Infor-
• Nanomaterials. mation Regula-
Although the FIC harmonises European labelling laws to a large tion (Allergenin-
extent, it also authorizes Member States to adopt or maintain formationsVO,
national measures for certain aspects of labelling (Art 38 FIC): BGBl. II No
2014/175)
Article Authorization to: Status:
Art. 15 Adopt national provision No explicit national
para. 2 on language provision
Art. 35 Provide recommendations No national
para. 2 to FBO on additional forms recommendation
of expression and pre- to FBO
sentation of the nutrition 1 See also WKO, Lebensmittelkennzeichnung NEU, 2011.
declaration 2 Food business operators.
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II. THE AUSTRIAN REGULATION ON ALLERGEN In accordance with the text of the Allergen Information
INFORMATION FOR NON-PREPACKED FOOD Regulation, the FBO might provide the information in both a
written and/or oral manner.
The Regulation The Written Form
Article 44 para. 2(a) FIC provides that where foods are offered
for sale to the final consumer or to mass caterers without Allergen information may be displayed on a sign on or in the
prepackaging, or where foods are packed on the sales premises vicinity of the related food, on a notice board/posting, the
at the consumer’s request or prepacked for direct sale (e.g. menu, the pricelist or in electronic form. If the name of the
restaurants, supermarkets, bakeries, etc.) information must be food or its presentation clearly indicate the presence of an
provided for any ingredient or processing aid listed in Annex allergenic ingredient, it is not necessary to provide separate
II FIC or derived from a substance or product listed in Annex information for this product. However, FBOs would be well-
II causing allergies or intolerances used in the manufacture or advised to restrain themselves from applying this exception
preparation of a food and still present in the finished product, too liberally as to avoid misleading or even false information.
even if in an altered form. Abbreviations, symbols and letter codes may be used. The
Thus, establishments such as restaurants, bakeries but also meaning of such must be explained nearby. The abbreviations
supermarkets that offer non-prepacked food have to provide or symbols for an allergen must be stated only once per
information about allergens contained in the food they offer product, even if the product contains multiple ingredients
to consumers. from the same allergen-group.
According to Article 44 para. 2, Member States may adopt If an FBO chooses to use abbreviations or alphabetic characters
national measures concerning the means by which the in reference to the 14 allergens, it may use the list prepared by
particulars or elements of those particulars specified in the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (WKO) and published by
paragraph 1 are to be made available and, where appropriate, the Aus-trian Ministry of Health (which can be found in the
their form of expression and presentation. Recommendation for written information – see list below) and
visibly clarify that it has done so using the phrase “Allergen
Subsequently, Austria adopted the Allergen Information information according to Codex Recommendation”):
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Regulation , which entered into force and became applicable
on 13 December 2014.
This implementing regulation is complemented by two Abbreviation Letter code
guidelines and one recommendations of the Code Commission Gluten-containing grains A
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published by the Austrian Ministry for Health and Women : Crustaceans B
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1. Personnel Training Guideline for allergen information (on Egg C
the competence of persons authorised to communicate Fish D
information on allergens verbally);
6 Peanut E
2. Allergen Information Guideline for non-prepacked
food (“bulk products”) (general information on internal Soy F
company measures); Milk or lactose G
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3. Recommendation for written information for non- Edible nuts H
prepacked food (“bulk products”) (on abbreviations and Celery L
letter codes).
The Main Provisions
The provisions of the Austrian Allergen Information Regulation 3 Verordnung des Bundesministers für Gesundheit über die Weitergabe von
stipulate that the FBO have to ensure that the information Informationen über unverpackte Lebensmittel, die Stoffe oder Erzeugnisse
relating allergens as listed in Annex II of FIC in non-prepacked enthalten, die Allergien oder Unverträglichkeiten auslösen können und über
weitere allgemeine Kennzeichnungsbestimmungen für Lebensmittel– Aller-
foods are communicated to the final consumer (Sec. 2) and are geninformationsVO, BGBl. II Nr. 175/2014)
based on written documentation (Sec 4). The information has 4 At date of publishing, still called the Federal Ministry of Health.
to be available and easily accessible, and it must be provided
to the consumer without an explicit request (Sec. 3, para. 1). It 5 Leitlinie für die Personalschulung über die Allergeninformation im Sinne der
is, however, sufficient to indicate in a prominent place and in AllergeninformationsVO, BMG-75210/0017-IIB/13/2014 vom 24.07.2014.
a clearly visible and legible way that the information can be 6 Leitlinie zur Allergeninformation bei nicht vorverpackten Lebensmitteln
obtained orally on request (Sec 3, para. 2). The oral information ("offene Ware") im Sinne der AllergeninformationsVO, BMG-752101/0017-
on allergens must be communicated by a person trained for IIB/13/2014 vom 24.07.2014.
this; the training is to be repeated at least every three years 7 Empfehlung zur schriftlichen Allergeninformation bei nicht vorverpackten
whereby the proof of the training must be documented (Sec. Lebensmittel ("offene Ware"), BMG-75210/0029-II/B/13/2014 vom 07.10.2014.
3, para. 3).
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