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Decree amending Decree No 76-692 of 13 July 1976 on cocoa and chocolate products intended for human consumption

Notification Number:

2023/0599/FR (France)

Date received:

20/10/2023

End of Standstill:

23/01/2024 (23/04/2024) (withdrawn)

Issue of comments by:

Italy

Belgium

Issue of detailed opinion by:

European Commission

Spain

Draft Text:

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

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Communication from the Commission - TRIS/(2023) 2959

Directive (EU) 2015/1535

Notification: 2023/0599/FR

Notification of a draft text from a Member State

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Does not open the delays - N'ouvre pas de délai - Kein Fristbeginn - Не се предвижда период на прекъсване - Nezahajuje prodlení - Fristerne indledes ikke - Καμμία έναρξη προθεσμίας - No abre el plazo - Viivituste perioodi ei avata - Määräaika ei ala tästä - Ne otvara razdoblje kašnjenja - Nem nyitja meg a késéseket - Non fa decorrere la mora - Atidėjimai nepradedami - Atlikšanas laikposms nesākas - Ma jiftaħx il-perijodi ta’ dewmien - Geen termijnbegin - Nie otwiera opóźnień - Não inicia o prazo - Nu deschide perioadele de stagnare - Nezačína oneskorenia - Ne uvaja zamud - Inleder ingen frist - Ní osclaíonn sé na moilleanna

MSG: 20232959.EN

1. MSG 001 IND 2023 0599 FR EN 20-10-2023 FR NOTIF

2. France

3A. Ministères économiques et financiers
Direction générale des entreprises
SQUALPI
Bât. Sieyès -Teledoc 143
61, Bd Vincent Auriol
75703 PARIS Cedex 13
d9834.france@finances.gouv.fr

3B. Ministère de l’économie, des finances et de la relance.
DGCCRF 59 Boulevard Vincent Auriol 75 703 paris cedex 13 ,
Tel : 01 44 97 31 52 , Fax : 01 44 97 05 27, bureau-4C@dgccrf.finances.gouv.fr

4. 2023/0599/FR - C50A - Foodstuffs

5. Decree amending Decree No 76-692 of 13 July 1976 on cocoa and chocolate products intended for human consumption

6. Cocoa and chocolate intended for human consumption

7.
Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers: Articles 40, 43, 44 and 45
See attached draft

8. Article 13 of the Act on protecting farmers’ incomes and the draft decree for its implementation are intended to strengthen consumer information on the origin of unprocessed or processed cocoa for certain cocoa products. To this end, the draft decree provides for an obligation to indicate the name of the country of origin of the cocoa for the following products, when packaged in France: cocoa powder, fat-reduced cocoa powder, chocolate powder and sweetened chocolate powder and equivalent names, chocolate, milk chocolate, sweetened milk chocolate, filled chocolate and chocolate candy.

9. There is a proven link between certain properties of chocolate and its origin. The natural and wild cocoa tree grows in Africa and South America. Nowadays, it is cultivated on all continents. Cocoa beans are the seeds of cocoa trees that make chocolate. The quality of the cocoa bean depends on the conditions of its cultivation: the soil where it is grown and the climate. Chocolate will not have the same taste, depending on the origin of cocoa trees, its pods and therefore its beans.

A recent study carried out by the Bureau for Societal Analysis for Citizen Information (BASIC) on behalf of the European Commission, the European Cocoa Association (ECA) and the FAO analysed the impact of the decision applied by the Ivory Coast and Ghana to increase the selling price of a tonne of cocoa, which had been frozen for several years. These price movements are known to French consumers who are very attentive to a fair remuneration of producers and consequently to the origin of the foodstuffs and in particular chocolates which are placed on the market.

10. References to reference texts: There are no reference texts

11. No

12.

13. No

14. No

15. No

16.
TBT aspects: No

SPS aspects: No

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European Commission
Contact point Directive (EU) 2015/1535
email: grow-dir2015-1535-central@ec.europa.eu

Disclosed messages

message-id	Year	Number	Country	Type	Title	Date received	Is answer to
105747	2023	2960	COMEuropean Commission	003	Receipt of the draft text	20-10-2023
105748	2023	2961	COMEuropean Commission	037	Competitiveness analysis	20-10-2023
106698	2024	0088	COMEuropean Commission	315	Classical Detailed Opinion	12-01-2024
106757	2024	0128	ESSpain	115	Classical Detailed Opinion	16-01-2024
106830	2024	0185	ITItaly	103	Comments	22-01-2024
106855	2024	0209	BEBelgium	103	Comments	23-01-2024
111498	2025	0982	FRFrance	201	Answer of the notifying Member State	03-04-2025	2024-88
111499	2025	0983	FRFrance	007	Communication: General Information from the Commission or Member States	03-04-2025
111511	2025	0995	COMEuropean Commission	009	Closure of Information procedure	03-04-2025

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