2021/0851/PL
EC/EFTA
PL Poland
  • C00A - AGRICULTURE, FISHING AND FOODSTUFFS
2022-03-11
2021-12-17

marketable quality of foodstuffs

Draft Regulation of the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development amending the Regulation laying down detailed requirements for the marketable quality of jams, preserves, jellies, marmalades, plum jams and sweetened chestnut purée

The Draft Regulation of the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, amending the Regulation laying down detailed requirements for the marketable quality of jams, preserves, jellies, marmalades, plum jams and sweetened chestnut purée, proposes to amend the definition of the national product called ‘plum jam’ [powidła śliwkowe] so that it also allows production of plum jams from plum fruit only (without the addition of sugars).
According to the current definition, the addition of sugars and the minimum level of total extract determined by refractometry of not less than 57% are always required. In view of the plum varieties currently used, it is possible to produce safe and good-quality products using plum jam technology from plum fruit alone without adding sugars. Such jam shall therefore also have a lower level of total extract, so the Draft provides that the requirement of the minimum level of total extract determined by refractometry of not less than 57% shall not apply to plum jam whose name is accompanied by the nutrition claim "no added sugars" or another nutrition claim of equivalent meaning for the consumer, within the meaning of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the

European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods. At the same time, for plum jam – which has been lawfully manufactured or marketed in another Member State of the European Union or lawfully manufactured in a Member State of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) which is a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area pursuant to Article 6 of the Regulation in force – the requirements laid down in the national regulation concerning the quality of ‘plum jam’ shall not apply.