2023/0014/S
EC/EFTA
SE Suède
  • C00A - AGRICULTURE, PECHE ET DENREES ALIMENTAIRES
2023-04-17
2023-01-23

Materials that can come into contact with food

The Swedish National Food Agency’s regulations on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food

The National Food Agency proposes that manufacturers, processors and importers of materials and articles intended to come into contact with food shall notify their operation to the control authority for registration. The provisions are necessary for the control authorities to be able to plan and carry out official controls of these operations. However, operations carried out by food business operators and by the Swedish Armed Forces, the Swedish Fortifications Agency, the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration or the Swedish Defence Radio Establishment – or on behalf of one of these authorities – are proposed to be exempt from the registration requirement. Also proposed to be exempt are operations that, during a financial year, have an estimated

turnover of less than SEK 80,000 and also produce, process or import fewer than 1,000 units of materials and articles intended to come into contact with food.
‘Importer’ means an operator bringing materials and articles intended to come into contact with food into Sweden from a country outside the European Union. Therefore, anyone bringing materials and articles intended to come into contact with food into Sweden from a country within the EU is not considered to have imported the material or article.
To make it easier for businesses and control authorities, the National Food Agency also proposes that provisions relating to materials and articles intended to come into contact with food are to be brought together into the same regulations. The currently proposed regulations will therefore include the current provisions of the National Food Agency’s regulations (LIVSFS 2011:7) on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food and the National Food Agency’s regulations (LIVSFS 2011:10) on the import of materials and articles intended to come into contact with food. Combining the regulations does not entail any substantive changes, but some linguistic and editorial adjustments have been made.
See also Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food and repealing Directives 80/590/EEC and 89/109/EEC.