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The Swedish National Food Agency’s regulations on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food

Notification Number:

2023/0014/S (Sweden)

Date received:

16/01/2023

End of Standstill:

17/04/2023 (closed)

Issue of comments by:

European Commission

Draft Text:

SV ET DE IT MT FR CS HR FI HU NL DA ES GA SK PT SL EL LT PL RO BG LV EN

Impact assessment:

SV DE FR EN

Final Text:

SV ET DE IT MT FR CS HR FI HU NL DA ES GA SK PT SL EL LT PL RO BG LV EN

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Message 002

Communication from the Commission - TRIS/(2023) 00109
Directive (EU) 2015/1535
Translation of the message 001
Notification: 2023/0014/S

No abre el plazo - Nezahajuje odklady - Fristerne indledes ikke - Kein Fristbeginn - Viivituste perioodi ei avata - Καμμία έναρξη προθεσμίας - Does not open the delays - N'ouvre pas de délais - Non fa decorrere la mora - Neietekmē atlikšanu - Atidėjimai nepradedami - Nem nyitja meg a késéseket - Ma’ jiftaħx il-perijodi ta’ dawmien - Geen termijnbegin - Nie otwiera opóźnień - Não inicia o prazo - Neotvorí oneskorenia - Ne uvaja zamud - Määräaika ei ala tästä - Inleder ingen frist - Не се предвижда период на прекъсване - Nu deschide perioadele de stagnare - Nu deschide perioadele de stagnare.

(MSG: 202300109.EN)
1. MSG 002 IND 2023 0014 S EN 16-01-2023 S NOTIF

2. S

3A. Kommerskollegium
Box 6803, 113 86 Stockholm
Sverige
Tel: 08-690 48 00
epost: 1535@kommerskollegium.se

3B. Livsmedelsverket
Box 622
751 26 Uppsala
Sverige

4. 2023/0014/S - C00A

5. The Swedish National Food Agency’s regulations on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food

6. Materials that can come into contact with food

7. -

8. The National Food Agency proposes that manufacturers, processors and importers of materials and articles intended to come into contact with food shall notify their operation to the control authority for registration. The provisions are necessary for the control authorities to be able to plan and carry out official controls of these operations. However, operations carried out by food business operators and by the Swedish Armed Forces, the Swedish Fortifications Agency, the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration or the Swedish Defence Radio Establishment – or on behalf of one of these authorities – are proposed to be exempt from the registration requirement. Also proposed to be exempt are operations that, during a financial year, have an estimated turnover of less than SEK 80,000 and also produce, process or import fewer than 1,000 units of materials and articles intended to come into contact with food.

‘Importer’ means an operator bringing materials and articles intended to come into contact with food into Sweden from a country outside the European Union. Therefore, anyone bringing materials and articles intended to come into contact with food into Sweden from a country within the EU is not considered to have imported the material or article.

To make it easier for businesses and control authorities, the National Food Agency also proposes that provisions relating to materials and articles intended to come into contact with food are to be brought together into the same regulations. The currently proposed regulations will therefore include the current provisions of the National Food Agency’s regulations (LIVSFS 2011:7) on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food and the National Food Agency’s regulations (LIVSFS 2011:10) on the import of materials and articles intended to come into contact with food. Combining the regulations does not entail any substantive changes, but some linguistic and editorial adjustments have been made.

See also Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food and repealing Directives 80/590/EEC and 89/109/EEC.

9. For the control authorities to be able to effectively carry out risk-based official controls of contact material operations, operators need to be known to the control authorities. It is difficult for the control authorities to identify and collect data on these operations on their own, and to regularly review whether new operations have launched. Such would also be very resource-intensive. The National Food Agency therefore considers there to be a need for a regulation ensuring that operators make themselves known to the control authority and provide it with basic information on their operations.

What is new in the proposed regulations is that some operators are to be obligated to notify their operations for registration. The National Food Agency’s assessment is that the proposed registration rules will not create any obstacles to trade in goods between Member States. If, however, the proposed provisions are deemed to create obstacles to trade in goods between Member States, the National Food Agency reply is that the Agency considers the proposed provisions – in the interest of protecting human life and health – to be permissible restrictions on the free movement of goods.

10. No basic texts available

11. No

12. -

13. No

14. No

15. Yes

16. TBT aspect

NO - The project has no significant impact on international trade.

SPS aspect

NO - The project has no significant impact on international trade.

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European Commission

Contact point Directive (EU) 2015/1535
Fax: +32 229 98043
email: grow-dir2015-1535-central@ec.europa.eu

Disclosed messages

message-id	Year	Number	Country	Type	Title	Date received	Is answer to
26748	2023	0866	COMEuropean Commission	303	Comments	29-03-2023
106136	2023	3310	COMEuropean Commission	049	Acknowledgement of receipt of the adopted text	27-11-2023

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