Nutrition and health claims made on foods

The Commission welcomes the common position adopted unanimously by the Council, as it maintains the general principles of the proposal of the Commission, especially regarding the requirement that foods meet a certain nutrient profile in order to make claims, and the requirement for certain health claim to go through an authorisation procedure. Numerous amendments proposed by the European Parliament are introduced by the Council in the final text that can be fully supported by the Commission.

Following the invitation of the Council the Commission agrees, in the context of amendments to the Annex, to examine possible clarifications of the claim "source of [name of vitamin/s] and or [name of mineral/s].