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Official Journal of the European Union
15.10.2013
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 985/2013
of 14 October 2013
amending and correcting Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 of the European Parliament and
of the Council as regards certain flavouring substances
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
evaluation FGE.20rev4 ( 8 ) (substances FL Nos 05.026,
05.028, 05.029 and 09.858), evaluation in
FGE.23rev4 ( 9 ) (substance FL No 13.170), evaluation in
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
FGE.63rev1 ( 10 ) (substances FL Nos 02.252, 07.190 and
Union,
09.936), evaluation FGE.94rev1 ( 11 ) (substance FL No
16.095) and evaluation FGE.304 ( 12 ) (substance FL No
16.123). The EFSA concluded that those flavouring
substances do not give rise to safety concerns at the
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 of the
estimated levels of dietary intakes.
European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December
2008 on flavourings and certain food ingredients with
flavouring properties for use in and on foods and amending
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1601/91, Regulations (EC) No
(4) Therefore,
the
flavouring
substances
assessed
in
those
2232/96 and (EC) No 110/2008 and Directive 2000/13/EC (
flavouring group evaluations should be listed as

1 ),
and in particular Article 11(3) thereof,
evaluated substances by deleting footnote references 1
to 4 in the relevant entries of the Union list.
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1331/2008 of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December
(5) After
publication
of
the
Union
list,
certain
errors
have
2008 establishing a common authorisation procedure for
been identified in that list. Those errors are related to
food additives, food enzymes and food flavourings ( 2 ), and in
names, CAS-numbers, JECFA-numbers or secondary
particular Article 7(5) thereof,
components of the followings substances: FL Nos
02.093, 02.110, 05.085, 08.004, 09.016, 09.131,
09.132, 09.266, 09.578, 09.596, 09.880, 12.075,
12.086, 12.273, 13.028, 13.190, 14.067 and 17.015.
Whereas:
The errors should be corrected.
(1) Annex
I
to
Regulation
(EC)
No
1334/2008
lays
down
a
Union list of flavourings and source materials for use in
(6) Part
A
of
Annex
I
to
Regulation
(EC)
No
1334/2008
food and their conditions of use.
should therefore be amended and corrected accordingly.

(2) Part
A
of
the
Union
list
contains
both
evaluated (7) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
in
flavouring substances, which are assigned no footnotes
accordance with the opinion of the Standing
and flavourings substances under evaluation, which are
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
identified by footnote references 1 to 4 in that list.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
(3) The
European
Food
Safety
Authority
has
completed
the
assessment of 23 substances which are currently listed as
flavouring substances under evaluation. Those flavouring
Article 1
substances were assessed by the EFSA in the following
flavouring group evaluations: evaluation FGE.06rev4 (
Part A of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 is

3 )
(substances FL Nos 02.229, 05.137, 09.562 and
amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
09.854), evaluation FGE.07rev4 ( 4 ) (substances FL Nos
02.145, 02.194, 02.211, 07.198 and 07.204), evaluation
FGE.08rev5 ( 5 ) (substance FL No 15.134), evaluation
Article 2
FGE.09rev4 ( 6 ) (substances FL Nos 07.202 and 07.255),
evaluation FGE.12rev3 (
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day

7 ) (substance FL No 05.182),
following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Union.
( 1 ) OJ L 354, 31.12.2008, p. 34.
( 2 ) OJ L 354, 31.12.2008, p. 1.
( 3 ) EFSA Journal 2013; 11(2):3091.
( 8 ) EFSA Journal 2012; 10(12):2994.
( 4 ) EFSA Journal 2012; 10(10):2899.
( 9 ) EFSA Journal 2013; 11(2):3092.
( 5 ) EFSA Journal 2012; 10(7):2837.
( 10 ) EFSA Journal 2012; 10(10):2900.
( 6 ) EFSA Journal 2012; 10(7):2836.
( 11 ) EFSA Journal 2012; 10(6):2747.
( 7 ) EFSA Journal 2012; 10(12):2993.
( 12 ) EFSA Journal 2012; 10(10):2903.

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15.10.2013 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
273/19
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 14 October 2013.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO

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L 273/20
ANNEX
Part A of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 is amended as follows:
(1) the entry concerning FL No 02.093 is replaced by the following:
EN
‘02.093 (Z)-Non-6-en-1-ol 35854-86-5 324 10294
JECFA’

(2) the entry concerning FL No 02.110 is replaced by the following:
‘02.110 2,6-Dimethylhept-6-en-1-ol 36806-46-9 348 At
least
90
%;
secondary
component
JECFA’
5-10 % 2,6-dimethyl-5-hepten-1-ol
(3) the entry concerning FL No 02.145 is replaced by the following:
Off
icial
‘02.145 2,6-Dimethylocta-1,5,7-trien-3-ol 29414-56-0
EFSA’
Jour
(4) the entry concerning FL No 02.194 is replaced by the following:
nal
of
‘02.194 Octa-1,5-dien-3-ol 83861-74-9
EFSA’
the
European
(5) the entry concerning FL No 02.211 is replaced by the following:
‘02.211 Undeca-1,5-dien-3-ol 56722-23-7
EFSA’
Union
(6) the entry concerning FL No 02.229 is replaced by the following:
‘02.229 (-)-3,7-Dimethyl-6-octen-1-ol 7540-51-4 At
least
90
%
cis-isomer;
secondary
EFSA’
components 2-6 % di-unsaturated
and saturated C10 alcohols, 2-4 %
citronellyl acetate and 2-3 % citro
nellal
(7) the entry concerning FL No 02.252 is replaced by the following:
‘02.252 4,8-Dimethyl-3,7-nonadien-2-ol 67845-50-5 1841
EFSA’
15.10.2013
(8) the entry concerning FL No 05.026 is replaced by the following:
‘05.026 o-Tolualdehyde 529-20-4
EFSA’

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15.10.2013 Off
(9) the entry concerning FL No 05.028 is replaced by the following:
‘05.028 m-Tolualdehyde 620-23-5
EFSA’
(10) the entry concerning FL No 05.029 is replaced by the following:
EN
‘05.029 p-Tolualdehyde 104-87-0
EFSA’

(11) the entry concerning FL No 05.085 is replaced by the following:
‘05.085 (Z)-Hept-4-enal 6728-31-0 320 2124
At least 93 % of Z-form of hept-4-
JECFA’
enal; secondary component 2-5 % of
E-form of hept-4-enal.
(12) the entry concerning FL No 05.137 is replaced by the following:
icial
‘05.137 Dec-4(cis)-enal 21662-09-9 At
least
90
%;
secondary
component
EFSA’
at least 5 % trans-isomer
Jour
nal
(13) the entry concerning FL No 05.182 is replaced by the following:
of
the
‘05.182 2,6,6-Trimethylcyclohex-2-ene-1-
432-24-6
EFSA’
European
carboxaldehyde
(14) the entry concerning FL No 07.190 is replaced by the following:
Union
‘07.190 Octa-1,5-dien-3-one 65213-86-7 1848 Mixture
of
stereoisomers:
60-90
%
EFSA’
E-form and 10-40 % Z-form
(15) the entry concerning FL No 07.198 is replaced by the following:
‘07.198 Pseudo-ionone 141-10-6 11191
EFSA’
(16) the entry concerning FL No 07.202 is replaced by the following:
‘07.202 2,6,6-Trimethylcyclohex-2-en-1-
20013-73-4
EFSA’
one
(17) the entry concerning FL No 07.204 is replaced by the following:
L
273/21
‘07.204 3,3,6-Trimethylhepta-1,5-dien-4-
546-49-6
EFSA’
one

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L 273/22
(18) the entry concerning FL No 07.255 is replaced by the following:
‘07.255 l-Piperitone 4573-50-6 1856
EFSA’
(19) the entry concerning FL No 08.004 is replaced by the following:
EN
‘08.004 Lactic
acid 50-21-5 930
4
EFSA’

(20) the entry concerning FL No 09.016 is replaced by the following:
‘09.016 Menthyl
acetate 16409-45-3 431 206
JECFA’
(21) the entry concerning FL No 09.131 is replaced by the following:
Off
‘09.131 DL-Isobornyl
propionate 2756-56-1 1391 412
EFSA’
icial
(22) the entry concerning FL No 09.132 is replaced by the following:
Jour
nal
‘09.132 Benzyl
propionate 122-63-4 842 413
EFSA’
of
the
(23) the entry concerning FL No 09.266 is replaced by the following:
European
‘09.266 Hexyl
2-butenoate 19089-92-0 1807 10688
EFSA’
Union
(24) the entry concerning FL No 09.562 is replaced by the following:
‘09.562 trans-3-Hexenyl
formate 56922-80-6
EFSA’
(25) the entry concerning FL No 09.578 is replaced by the following:
‘09.578 Hexyl
(E)-but-2-enoate 1617-25-0 10688
EFSA’
(26) the entry concerning FL No 09.596 is replaced by the following:
‘09.596 Isopentyl-(Z)-but-2-enoate 10482-55-0
EFSA’
15.10.2013
(27) the entry concerning FL No 09.854 is replaced by the following:
‘09.854 cis-3-Hexenyl
2-methylbutanoate 53398-85-9
EFSA’

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15.10.2013 Off
(28) the entry concerning FL No 09.858 is replaced by the following:
‘09.858 Phenylmethyl
2-methyl-2- 67674-41-3 Mixture
of
stereoisomers:
60-90
% EFSA’
butenoate
E-form and 10-40 % Z-form
(29) the entry concerning FL No 09.880 is replaced by the following:
EN
‘09.880 (Z)-Hept-4-en-2-yl
butanoate 94088-12-7
EFSA’

(30) the entry concerning FL No 09.936 is replaced by the following:
‘09.936 4,8-Dimethyl-3,7-nonadien-2-yl
91418-25-6 1847
EFSA’
acetate
(31) the entry concerning FL No 12.075 is replaced by the following:
‘12.075 Methyl
prop-1-enyl
disulfide 5905-47-5 569 11712 At
least
90
%;
secondary
JECFA’
icial
components 3-4 % dimethyl
Jour
disulfide and 3-4 % di-1-propenyl
disulfide
nal
of
(32) the entry concerning FL No 12.086 is replaced by the following:
the
European
‘12.086 S-Methyl
2-methylbutanethioate 42075-45-6 486
JECFA’
(33) the entry concerning FL No 12.273 is replaced by the following:
Union
‘12.273 3-(Methylthio)heptanal 51755-70-5 1692 At
least
92
%;
secondary
component
EFSA’
5-7 % (E)-hept-2-enal
(34) the entry concerning FL No 13.028 is replaced by the following:
‘13.028 2-Butyl-5
or
6-keto-1,4-dioxane 65504-95-2 1484 2206
EFSA’
(35) the entry concerning FL No 13.170 is replaced by the following:
‘13.170 2S-cis-Tetrahydro-4-methyl-2-(2-
3033-23-6
EFSA’
methyl-1-propenyl)-2H-pyran
(36) the entry concerning FL No 13.190 is replaced by the following:
L
273/23
‘13.190 3-((2-methyl-3-furyl)thio)-2- 61295-44-1 1525
EFSA’
butanone

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L 273/24
(37) the entry concerning FL No 14.067 is replaced by the following:
‘14.067 2-Ethoxy-3-methylpyrazine 32737-14-7 793 11921 At
least
82
%
2-ethoxy-3-methyl
EFSA’
pyrazine. Secondary components
15 % 2–ethoxy-5-methylpyrazine
(CAS no 67845-34-5) or 2-ethoxy-
6-methylpyrazine (CAS no
53163-97-6)
EN

(38) the entry concerning FL No 15.134 is replaced by the following:
‘15.134 2,5-Dihydroxy-1,4-dithiane 40018-26-6 550 Mixture
of
diastereoisomers:
EFSA’
25-30 % of (2S,5S and 2R,5R) and
70-75 % (2S,5R and 2R,5S)
(39) the entry concerning FL No 16.095 is replaced by the following:
Off
‘16.095 Cyclopropanecarboxamide, 744251-93-2 1779
EFSA’
N-[(2E)-3,7-dimethyl-2,6-octadien-
icial
1-yl]-
Jour
(40) the entry concerning FL No 16.123 is replaced by the following:
nal
of
‘16.123 (1R,2S,5R)-N-(4-Methoxyphenyl)-5-
68489-09-8
EFSA’
the
methyl-2-(1-methylethyl)
European
cyclohexanecarboxamide
(41) the entry concerning FL No 17.015 is replaced by the following:
Union
‘17.015 DL-Methylmethioninesulphonium
3493-12-7 1427 761
EFSA’
chloride
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