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15.11.2011 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
296/29
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1161/2011
of 14 November 2011
amending Directive 2002/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Regulation (EC) No
1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Regulation (EC) No
953/2009 as regards the lists of mineral substances that can be added to foods
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
(3) The
Annex
to
Commission
Regulation
(EC)
No
953/2009 ( 5 ) establishes the list of substances that may
be added for specific nutritional purposes in foods for
particular nutritional uses.
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Union,
(4) New
mineral
substances
have
been
evaluated
by
the
EFSA
for use in food. The substances for which the EFSA
Having regard to Directive 2002/46/EC of the European
expressed a favourable opinion should be added to the
Parliament and of the Council of 10 June 2002 on the approxi
lists in those acts.
mation of the laws of the Member States relating to food
supplements ( 1 ), and in particular Article 4(5) thereof,
(5) Interested
parties
were
consulted
through
the
Advisory
Group on the Food Chain and Animal and Plant Health
and the provided comments were taken into
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1925/2006 of the
consideration.
European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December
2006 on the addition of vitamins and minerals and of certain
other substances to foods (
(6) Directive
2002/46/EC,
Regulation
(EC)
No
1925/2006

2 ), and in particular Article 3(3)
thereof,
and Regulation (EC) No 953/2009 should therefore be
amended accordingly.
Having regard to Directive 2009/39/EC of the European
(7) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
in
Parliament and the Council of 6 May 2009 on foodstuffs
accordance with the opinion of the Standing
intended for particular nutritional uses ( 3 ), and in particular
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health, and
Article 4(3) thereof,
neither the European Parliament nor the Council has
opposed them,
After consulting the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA),
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Whereas:
Point B of Annex II to Directive 2002/46/EC is amended as
follows:
(1) Annex
II
to
Directive
2002/46/EC
establishes
the
list
of
vitamin and mineral substances which may be used for
(a) the following entries are inserted after the entry ‘ferrous
the manufacture of food supplements. Commission
phosphate’:
Regulation (EC) No 1170/2009
( 4 ) has replaced
Annexes I and II to Directive 2002/46/EC. Modifications
to the list provided under Annex II to Directive
‘ferrous ammonium phosphate
2002/46/EC as modified by that Regulation are to be
adopted in compliance with the requirements laid
down in Article 4 of that Directive and in accordance
ferric sodium EDTA’;
with the procedure referred to in its Article 13(3).
(b) the following entries are inserted after the entry ‘sodium
salts of orthophosphoric acid’:
(2) Annex
II
to
Regulation
(EC)
No
1925/2006
establishes
the list of vitamin and mineral substances which may be
added to food.
‘sodium sulphate
( 1 ) OJ L 183, 12.7.2002, p. 51.
potassium sulphate’.
( 2 ) OJ L 404, 30.12.2006, p. 26.
( 3 ) OJ L 124, 20.5.2009, p. 21.
( 4 ) OJ L 314, 1.12.2009, p. 36.
( 5 ) OJ L 269, 14.10.2009, p. 9.

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Article 2
(a) the following entries are inserted after the entry ‘ferrous
sulphate’:
Point 2 of Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1925/2006 is
amended as follows:
‘ferrous ammonium x
(a) the following entries are inserted after the entry ‘ferrous
phosphate
sulphate’:
ferric sodium EDTA x’
‘ferrous ammonium phosphate
ferric sodium EDTA’;
(b) the following entry is inserted after the entry ‘chromium (III)
sulphate and its hexahydrate’:
(b) the following entry is inserted after the entry ‘chromium (III)
sulphate and its hexahydrate’:
‘chromium picolinate x’
‘chromium picolinate’.
Article 3
Article 4
Category 2 (Minerals) of the Annex to Regulation (EC) No
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following
953/2009 is amended as follows:
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, 14 November 2011.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO

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