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The European Commission Considers the UK Traffic Light Nutrition- Labelling Scheme as Voluntary Nutritional Information and Not as a ‘Non-Beneficial’ Nutrition Claim

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ignacio Carreño
Ignacio Carreño*
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FratiniVergano, Brussels
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European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , March 2014 , pp. 61 - 64
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References

1 Summary report of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health held in Brussels on 4 October 2013 (Section General Food Law), available on the Internet at: http://ec.europa.eu/food/committees/regulatory/scfcah/general_food/sum_04102013_en.pdf, (last accessed on 13 March 2014).

2 Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 on the provision of food information to consumers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1924/2006 and (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Commission Directive 87/250/EEC, Council Directive 90/496/EEC, Commission Directive 1999/10/EC, Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Directives 2002/67/EC and 2008/5/EC and Commission Regulation (EC) No 608/2004, OJ 2011 L 304/18.

3 Available on the Internet at: http://www.food.gov.uk/scotland/scotnut/signposting/#.UnpYStxwYtQ, (last accessed on 13 March 2014).

4 OJ 1998 L 204/37.

5 OJ 2006 L 404/9.

6 Mike Stones, New food labelling welcomed by manufacturers but not all sign FoodManufacture.co.uk, 19 June 2013, available on the Internet at: http://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Packaging/New-food-labelling-welcomed-by-manufacturers-but-not-all-sign, (last accessed on 13 March 2014).

7 For more details on private standards which may (de facto, if not de jure) give a layer of ‘governmental’ authority to the standards Tim Josling, see Private Standards and Trade, in McMahon, Joseph A. and Desta, Melaku (eds.), Research Handbook on the WTO Agriculture Agreement (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2012), pp. 202 et sqq.Google Scholar; Paolo Vergano and Ignacio Carreño, Private Voluntary Standards within the WTO Multilateral Framework, Legal analysis in the study commissioned by the United Kingdom Department for International Development under the Programme of Advisory and Support Services (WTO document G/SPS/GEN/802 of 9 October 2007); Henson, Spencer, The Role of Public and Private Standards in Regulating International Food Markets, Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development, Volume 4 Issue 1, 2008, p. 63.Google Scholar

8 Alfred Hagen Meyer/Rudolf Streinz, Lebensmittel- und Futtermittelsgesetzbuch, Kommentar, HCVO note 22.

9 Kacey Culliney Cereal giants to ‘review’ UK nutrition labeling scheme, expert says they will never sign, 19 June 2013, Bakery & Snacks.com, available on the Internet at: http://www.bakeryandsnacks.com/Regulation-Safety/Cereal-giants-to-review-UK-nutrition-labeling-scheme-expert-says-they-will-never-sign, (last accessed on 13 March 2014).

10 FSA UK, Guide to creating a front of pack (FoP) nutrition label for pre-packed products sold through retail outlets, p. 14, available on the Internet at: http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/pdf-ni/fop-guidance.pdf, (last accessed on 13 March 2014).

11 Available on the Internet at: http://www.cna.it/content/download/105047/1334253/file/comunicato%20stampa_sistema%20labeluk.docx, (last accessed on 13 March 2014).