Commission Regulation (EU) No 851/2013 of 3 September 2013 authorising certain health claims made on foods, other than those referring to the reduction of disease risk and to children’s development and health and amending Regulation (EU) No 432/2012 Text with EEA relevance

1 The health claims set out in the Annex to this Regulation shall be included in the Union list of permitted claims as provided for in Article 13(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006.

2 The use of health claims referred to in paragraph 1 shall be restricted to the applicants for a period of five years after the entry into force of this Regulation. After the expiry of that period, those health claims may be used, in conformity with the conditions applying to them, by any food business operator.

The scientific data and other information included in the applications, which are claimed by the applicants as proprietary and without the submission of which the health claims could not have been authorised, are restricted for use for the benefit of the applicants for a period of five years from the date of entry into force of this Regulation under the conditions laid down in Article 21(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006.

The Annex to Regulation (EU) No 432/2012 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.