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1.The sales description of natural mineral waters shall be ‘natural mineral water’ or, in the case of an effervescent natural mineral water as defined in Annex I, Section III, as appropriate, ‘naturally carbonated natural mineral water’, ‘natural mineral water fortified with gas from the spring’ or ‘carbonated natural mineral water’.
The sales description of natural mineral waters which have undergone any of the treatments referred to in point (d) of the first subparagraph of Article 4(1) shall have added to it, as appropriate, the indication ‘fully de-carbonated’ or ‘partially de-carbonated’.
2.Labels on natural mineral waters shall also give the following mandatory information:
(a)a statement of the analytical composition, giving its characteristic constituents;
(b)the place where the spring is exploited and the name of the spring;
(c)information on any treatments referred to in points (b) and (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 4(1).
3.In the absence of Community provisions on information on any treatments referred to in paragraph 2(c), Member States may maintain their national provisions.