Annexes to COM(2013)576 - Maximum permitted levels of radioactive contamination of food and feed following a nuclear accident or any other case of radiological emergency - Main contents
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MAXIMUM PERMITTED LEVELS OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION OF FOOD
The maximum permitted levels to be applied to food shall be the following:
|| Food (Bq/kg)[24]
Infant food[25] || Dairy produce[26] || Other food except minor food[27] || Liquid food[28]
Isotopes of strontium, notably Sr-90 || 75 || 125 || 750 || 125
Isotopes of iodine, notably I-131 || 150 || 500 || 2 000 || 500
Alpha-emitting isotopes of plutonium and transplutonium elements, notably Pu-239, Am-241 || 1 || 20 || 80 || 20
All other nuclides of half-life greater than 10 days, notably Cs-134, Cs-137[29] || 400 || 1 000 || 1 250 || 1 000
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ANNEX II
MAXIMUM PERMITTED LEVELS OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION OF MINOR FOOD
1. List of minor food
CN code || Description
0703 20 00 || Garlic (fresh or chilled))
0709 59 50 || Truffles (fresh or chilled)
0709 99 40 || Capers (fresh or chilled)
0711 90 70 || Capers (provisionally preserved, but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption)
ex 0712 39 00 || Truffles (dried, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared)
0714 || Manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes and similar roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not sliced or in the form of pellets; sago pith
0814 00 00 || Peel of citrus fruit or melons (including watermelons), fresh, frozen, dried or provisionally preserved in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions
0903 00 00 || Maté
0904 || Pepper of the genus Piper; dried or crushed or ground fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta
0905 00 00 || Vanilla
0906 || Cinnamon and cinnamon-tree flowers
0907 00 00 || Cloves (whole fruit, cloves and stems)
0908 || Nutmeg, mace and cardamons
0909 || Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin or caraway; juniper berries
0910 || Ginger, saffron, turmeric (curcuma), thyme, bay leaves, curry and other spices
1106 20 || Flour, meal and powder of sago or of roots or tubers of heading No 0714
1108 14 00 || Manioc (cassava) starch
1210 || Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin
1211 || Plants and parts of plants (including seeds and fruits), of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered
1301 || Lac; natural gums, resins, gum-resins and oleoresins (for example, balsams)
1302 || Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products
1504 || Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
1604 31 00 || Caviar
1604 32 00 || Caviar substitutes
1801 00 00 || Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted
1802 00 00 || Cocoa shells, husks, skins and other cocoa waste
1803 || Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted
2003 90 10 || Truffles (prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid)
2006 00 || Vegetables, fruit, nuts, fruit-peel and other parts of plants, preserved by sugar (drained, glacé or crystallized)
2102 || Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of heading No 3002); prepared baking powders
2936 || Provitamins and vitamins, natural or reproduced by synthesis (including natural concentrates), derivatives thereof used primarily as vitamins, and intermixtures of the foregoing, whether or not in any solvent
3301 || Essential oils (terpeneless or not), including concretes and absolutes; resinoids; extracted oleoresins; concentrates of essential oils in fats, in fixed oils, in waxes or the like, obtained by enfleurage or maceration; terpenic by-products of the deterpenation of essential oils; aqueous distillates and aqueous solutions of essential oils
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2. The maximum permitted levels to be applied to the minor food as listed in paragraph 1, shall be the following
|| (Bq/kg)
Isotopes of strontium, notably Sr-90 || 7500
Isotopes of iodine, notably I-131 || 20000
Alpha-emitting isotopes of plutonium and transplutonium elements, notably Pu-239, Am-241 || 800
All other nuclides of half-life greater than 10 days, notably Cs-134, Cs-137[30] || 12500
ANNEX III
Maximum permitted levels of radiactive contamination of feed
The maximum permitted levels for caesium‑134 and caesium-137 shall be the following:
Animal || Bq/kg[31], [32]
Pigs || 1 250
Poultry, lambs, calves || 2 500
Other || 5 000
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ANNEX IV
Repealed Regulations
Council Regulation (Euratom) No 3954/87 || (OJ L 371, 30.12.1987, p. 11)
|| Council Regulation (Euratom) No 2218/89 || (OJ L 211, 22.7.1989, p. 1)
|| Commission Regulation (Euratom) No 944/89 || (OJ L 101, 13.4.1989, p. 17)
|| Commission Regulation (Euratom) No 770/90 || (OJ L 83, 30.3.1990, p. 78)
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ANNEX V
Correlation Table
Regulation (Euratom) No 3954/87 || Regulation (Euratom) No 944/89 || Regulation (Euratom) No 770/90 || This Regulation
Article 1(1) || || || Article 1
|| Article 1 || || Article 1
Article 1(2) || || || Article 2
Article 2(1) || || || Article 3(1) and 3(2)
Article 2(2) || || || -
Article 3(1) || || || -
Article 3(2) || || || Article 3(3)
Article 3(3) and (4) || || || -
Article 4 || || || -
Article 5(1) || || || Article 6
Article 5(2) || || || -
Article 6(1) || || || Article 4(1)
Article 6(2) || || || Article 4(2)
|| Article 2 || || Annex II(2)
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Article 7 || || || -
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Article 8 || || || Article 8
Annex || || || Annex I
|| Annex || || Annex II(1)
|| || Annex || Annex III
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[1] COM(87) 868 PV.
[2] Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council – Codification of the Acquis Communautaire, COM(2001) 645 final.
[3] COM(2007) 302 final.
[4] See Annex IV to this proposal.
[5] OJ C 102, 4.4.1996, p. 2.
[6] "Should it prove necessary during the legislative process to go beyond straightforward codification and make substantive changes, it will be the Commission's responsibility to submit any proposal(s), where appropriate".
[7] "The European Parliament, the Council and the Commission note that if it should appear necessary to go beyond straightforward codification and make substantive changes, the Commission will be able to choose, case by case, whether to recast its proposal or whether to submit a separate proposal for amendment, leaving its codification proposal on the table, and then, once the substantive change has been adopted, incorporate it into the proposal for codification".
[8] COM(2010) 184 final.
[9] OJ C 77, 28.3.2002, p. 1.
[10] OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p.1.
[11] http://ec.europa.eu/energy/nuclear/radiation_protection/article_31_en.htm
[12] OJ C..p..
[13] OJ C , , p. .
[14] OJ C , , p. .
[15] OJ L 159, 29.6.1996, p. 1.
[16] Council Regulations (EEC) No 1707/86 (OJ L 146, 31.5.1986, p. 88), (EEC) No 3020/86 (OJ L 280, 1.10.1986, p. 79), (EEC) No 624/87 (OJ L 58, 28.2.1987, p. 101) and (EEC) No 3955/87 (OJ L 371, 30.12.1987, p. 14).
[17] OJ L 371, 30.12.1987, p. 11.
[18] OJ L 371, 30.12.1987, p. 76.
[19] OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13.
[20] OJ L 311, 28.11.2001, p. 67.
[21] OJ L 342, 22.12.2009, p. 59.
[22] OJ L 194, 18.7.2001, p. 26.
[23] OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1.
[24] The level applicable to concentrated or dried products is calculated on the basis of the reconstituted product as ready for consumption. Member States may make recommendations concerning the diluting conditions in order to ensure that the maximum permitted levels laid down in this Regulation are observed.
[25] Infant food is defined as those foodstuffs intended for the feeding of infants during the first twelve months of life, which meet, in themselves, the nutritional requirements of this category of person and are put up for retail sale in packages which are clearly identified and labelled under one of the following names: “infant formula”, “follow-on formula” “infant milk” and “follow-on milk”, in accordance with articles 11 and 12 of Commission Directive 2006/141/EC.
[26] Dairy produce is defined as those products falling within the following CN codes including, where appropriate, any adjustments which might be made to them later: 0401, 0402 (except 0402 29 11).
[27] Minor food and the corresponding levels to be applied to them are set out in Annex II.
[28] Liquid food as defined in the heading 2009 and in chapter 22 of the combined nomenclature. Values are calculated taking into account consumption of tap-water and the same values should be applied to drinking water supplies.
[29] Carbon 14, tritium and potassium 40 are not included in this group.
[30] Carbon 14, tritium and potassium 40 are not included in this group.
[31] These levels are intended to contribute to the observance of the maximum permitted levels for food; they do not alone guarantee such observance in all circumstances and do not lessen the requirement for monitoring contamination levels in animal products destined for human consumption.
[32] These levels apply to feed as ready for consumption.