National legislation

This Decree This Decree regulates certain aspects of the manufacture of and trade in coffee and chicory extracts (as defines in article 2). It implements Council Directive 1999/4. It prohibits the manufacture of and trade in coffee- and chicory extracts that do not meet the requirements...

This Decree prescribes rules relative to use of spice and spicy plant preparations in food intended for human consumption. These kinds of preparations are increasingly placed on the market outside the pharmacy circuit as food supplements. An application to use such preparations shall be made in...

The Civil Code is amended in Book 6 so as to implement Council Directive 1999/34/EC to amend Council Directive 85/374/EEC on the approximation of the laws, regulations, and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning liability for defective products. This Act defines "product" as a movable...

This amendment concerns the labeling of food in relation with indications of the use of genetic engineering in the production of such food. It is prohibited to act in contravention of aricles 2 and 4 of the Commission Regulation 50/2000 on the labelling of foodstuffs and...

The principal Decrees are amended so as to implement provisions of Council Directive 1999/41/EC amending Council Directive 89/398/EC in relation with inspection and other matters relative to food used for special purposes. Also consideration is given to the future possibility of separate regulation of food for...

This Decree implements EC legislation and reorganizes in the Netherlands rules relative to the importation of products of animal origin intended for human consumption. The Minister may prohibit importation or transit of products for purposes of protection of public health (art. 3). Article 4 concerns the...

This Directive of the Fish Product Board prescribed health requirements for fish processing centres. The Directive applies only to centres that process fish for human consumption and does not apply to retail trade (art. 2). It shall be prohibited to process, handle, prepare, store or pack...

This Directive of the Fish Product Board is made to implement Council Directive 91/492. The Directive prescribes rules relative to handling, processing and packing and placing on the market of bivalve molluscs defined in article 1. Live bivalve molluscs may only placed on the market if...

This Decree makes provision for the renewal of registration, the cancellation of registration, analysis and approval of animal drugs, implementing Council Regulation 2377 of 1990 relative to the establishment of maximum values of residues in products of animal origin. This Decree revokes and replaces a Decree...

This amendment concerns the labeling of food in relation with indications of the use of genetic engineering in the production of such food. Basically this Decree specifies conditions for providing food with a label indicating that no genetic engineering technology has been used in its production....

This Decree implements Directive 1999/3/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 February 1999 on the establishment of a Community list of foods and food ingredients treated with ionising radiation and Directive 1999/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22...

This Decree amends the principal Decree of 1998 to implement provisions of Council Directive 98/83/EC on the quality of water intended for human consumption, excluding natural mineral waters, water used for medicinal purposes and source waters, insofar as not implemented by other legislation, notably the Water...

This Decree intends to implement Council Regulation (EC) No 2991/94 of 5 December 1994 laying down standards for spreadable fats. It is prohibited to act against articles 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8 of the regulation and certain standards for ingredients are given. Trade in fat...

Since the Council Directive 92/118/EG laying down animal health and public health requirements governing trade in and imports into the Community of products not subject to the said requirements laid down in specific community rule referred to in Annex A (I) to Directive 89/662/EC and, as...

This Decree amends the principal Decree so as to implement in its final form Council Directive 94/65/EC laying down the requirements for the production and placing on the market of minced meat and meat products. Article 2, here renewed, prohibits the preparation of or placing on...

This Decree amends the principal Decree so as to include also in its application sphere Council Regulation (EC) No 1139/98 of 26 May 1998 concerning the compulsory indication of the labelling of certain foodstuffs produced from genetically modified organisms of particulars other than those provided for...

This Decree contains rules regarding bottled water destined for human consumption as defined in article 1. Article 2 prohibits: placing on the market of waters, to which this Decree applies, that do not fulfil requirements or meet standards as regards the composition as laid down by...

Article 2 prohibits the preparation of or placing on the market of specified meat and meat products that do not comply with requirements regarding their composition laid down by the present Decree. No other products may be offered for sale with the labeling indications reserved for...

This Decree specifies quality standards for egg-white products made of grain, soya or the hyphea of mould. It is forbidden to trade or place on the market products that do not meet the standards specified. Standards concern the Protein Efficiency Ratio and values of lysino-alanine. Since...

This Decree concerns a re-arrangement of food rules including a simplification of food denomination and labelling rules, etc. ...