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Council Directive 2001/111/EC of 20 December 2001 relating to certain sugars intended for human consumption
Consolidated text: Council Directive 2001/111/EC of 20 December 2001 relating to certain sugars intended for human consumption
Council Directive 2001/111/EC of 20 December 2001 relating to certain sugars intended for human consumption
02001L0111 — EN — 18.11.2013 — 001.001
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COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 2001/111/EC of 20 December 2001 relating to certain sugars intended for human consumption (OJ L 010 12.1.2002, p. 53) |
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REGULATION (EU) No 1021/2013 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 9 October 2013 |
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COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 2001/111/EC
of 20 December 2001
relating to certain sugars intended for human consumption
Article 1
This Directive shall apply to the products defined in Part A of the Annex.
However, this Directive shall not apply to the products defined in Part A of the Annex when they take the following forms: icing sugars, candy sugars, sugars in loaf form.
Article 2
Directive 2000/13/EC shall apply to the products defined in Part A of the Annex hereto subject to the following conditions and derogations:
Without prejudice to point 5 below, the product names listed in Part A of the Annex shall apply only to the products referred to therein and shall be used in trade to designate them.
The product name referred to in point 2 of Part A of the Annex may also be used to designate the product referred to in point 3 thereof.
However,
provided that such names are not liable to mislead the consumer.
For pre-packaged products weighing less than 20 g, the net weight need not be indicated on the labelling.
The labelling shall indicate the dry matter and invert sugar content of sugar solution, invert sugar solution and invert sugar syrup.
The labelling shall include the qualifying term ‘crystallised’ for invert sugar syrup incorporating crystals in the solution.
Where the products referred to in points 7 and 8 of Part A of the Annex contain fructose in proportions greater than 5 % on a dry matter basis, they shall, in respect of their product name and as ingredients, be labelled as ‘glucose-fructose syrup’ or ‘fructose-glucose syrup’ and ‘dried glucose-fructose syrup’ or ‘dried fructose-glucose syrup’, respectively, to reflect whether the glucose component or the fructose component is in greater proportion.
Article 3
For the products defined in the Annex, Member States shall not adopt national provisions not provided for by this Directive.
Article 4
For the purposes of taking into account technical progress and developments in relevant international standards, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 5 to amend Part B of the Annex.
Article 5
Article 6
Directive 73/437/EEC is hereby repealed with effect from 12 July 2003.
References to the repealed Directive shall be construed as references to this Directive.
Article 7
Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive before 12 July 2003. They shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.
The measures shall be applied so as to:
However, the marketing of products which fail to conform to this Directive but which were labelled before 12 July 2004 in accordance with Directive 73/437/EEC shall be permitted until stocks run out.
When Member States adopt these measures, these shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such reference at the time of their official publication. The methods of making such reference shall be adopted by Member States.
Article 8
This Directive shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
Article 9
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
ANNEX
A. PRODUCT NAMES AND DEFINITIONS
1. Semi-white sugar
Purified and crystallised sucrose of sound and fair marketable quality with the following characteristics:
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(a) polarisation |
nt less than 99,5 °Z |
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(b) invert sugar content |
not more than 0,1 % by weight |
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(c) loss on drying |
not more than 0,1 % by weight. |
2. Sugar or white sugar
Purified and crystallised sucrose of sound and fair marketable quality with the following characteristics:
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(a) polarisation |
not less than 99,7 °Z |
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(b) invert sugar content |
not more than 0,04 % by weight |
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(c) loss on drying |
not more than 0,06 % by weight |
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(d) type of colour |
not more than nine points determined in accordance with point (a) of Part B. |
3. Extra-white sugar
The product having the characteristics referred to in point 2(a), (b) and (c) and in respect of which the total number of points determined according to the provisions of Part B does not exceed eight, and not more than:
4. Sugar solution ( 8 )
The aqueous solution of sucrose with the following characteristics:
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(a) dry matter |
not less than 62 % by weight |
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(b) invert sugar content (ratio of fructose to dextrose: 1,0 ± 0,2) |
not more than 3 % by weight of dry matter |
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(c) conductivity ash |
not more than 0,1 % by weight of dry matter, determined in accordance with point (b) of Part B |
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(d) colour in solution |
not more than 45 ICUMSA units. |
5. Invert sugar solution ( 9 )
The aqueous solution of sucrose partially inverted by hydrolysis, in which the proportion of invert sugar does not predominate, with the following characteristics:
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(a) dry matter |
not less than 62 % by weight |
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(b) invert sugar content ratio of fructose to dextrose (1,0 ± 0,1) |
more than 3 % but not more than 50 % by weight of dry matter |
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(c) conductivity ash |
not more than 0,4 % by weight of dry matter, determined in accordance with point (b) of Part B. |
6. Invert sugar syrup ( 10 )
The aqueous solution, which has possibly been crystallised, of sucrose that has been partly inverted via hydrolysis, in which the invert sugar content (fructose/dextrose quotient 1,0 ± 0,1), must exceed 50 % by weight of dry matter, but which must otherwise meet the requirements laid down in point 5(a) and (c).
7. Glucose syrup
The purified and concentrated aqueous solution of nutritive saccharides obtained from starch and/or inulin, with the following characteristics:
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(a) dry matter |
not less than 70 % by weight |
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(b) dextrose equivalent |
not less than 20 % by weight of dry matter and expressed as D-glucose |
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(c) sulphated ash |
not more than 1 % by weight of dry matter. |
8. Dried glucose syrup
Partially dried glucose syrup with at least 93 % by weight of dry matter, but which must otherwise meet the requirements laid down in point 7(b) and (c).
9. Dextrose or dextrose monohydrate
Purified and crystallised D-glucose containing one molecule of water of crystallisation, with the following characteristics:
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(a) dextrose (D-glucose) |
not less than 99,5 % by weight of dry matter |
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(b) dry matter |
not less than 90 % by weight |
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(c) sulphated ash |
not more than 0,25 % by weight of dry matter. |
10. Dextrose or dextrose anhydrous
Purified and crystallised D-glucose not containing water of crystallisation, with at least 98 % by weight of dry matter, but which must otherwise meet the requirements laid down in point 9(a) and (c).
11. Fructose
Purified crystallised D-fructose with the following characteristics:
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fructose content |
98 % minimum |
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glucose content |
0,5 % maximum |
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loss on drying |
not more than 0,5 % by weight |
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conductivity ash |
not more than 0,1 % by weight determined in accordance with point (b) of Part B. |
B. METHOD OF DETERMINING THE COLOUR TYPE, CONDUCTIVITY ASH CONTENT AND THE COLOUR IN SOLUTION OF SUGAR (WHITE) AND OF EXTRA-WHITE SUGAR DEFINED IN POINTS 2 AND 3 OF PART A
‘Point’ corresponds:
in the case of the colour type, to 0,5 units, calculated by the method of the Brunswick Institute for Agricultural and Sugar Industry Technology, as set out in Chapter A, paragraph 2, of the Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1265/69 of 1 July 1969 establishing methods for determining the quality of sugar bought in by intervention agencies ( 11 );
in the case of ash content, to 0,0018 % calculated by the method of the International Commission for Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis (ICUMSA) as set out in Chapter A, paragraph 1, of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1265/69;
in the case of the colour in solution, to 7,5 units calculated by the ICUMSA method as set out in Chapter A, paragraph 3, of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1265/69.
( 1 ) OJ C 231, 9.8.1996, p. 6.
( 2 ) OJ C 279, 1.10.1999, p. 90.
( 3 ) OJ C 56, 24.2.1997, p. 20.
( 4 ) OJ L 356, 27.12.1973, p. 71. Directive as amended by the 1985 Act of Accession.
( 5 ) OJ L 51, 25.2.1980, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Directive 87/356/EEC (OJ L 192, 11.7.1987, p. 48).
( 6 ) OJ L 109, 6.5.2000, p. 29.
( 7 ) OJ L 184, 7.7.1999, p. 23.
( 8 ) The description ‘white’ is reserved for:
( 9 ) The description ‘white’ is reserved for:
( 10 ) The description ‘white’ is reserved for:
( 11 ) OJ L 163, 1.7.1969, p. 1.