Commission Regulation (EU) No 10/2011Dangos y teitl llawn

Article 3 U.K. Definitions

For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

(1)

‘plastic materials and articles’ means:

(a)

materials and articles referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of Article 2(1); and

(b)

plastic layers referred to in Article 2(1)(d) and (e);

(2)

‘plastic’ means polymer to which additives or other substances may have been added, which is capable of functioning as a main structural component of final materials and articles;

(3)

‘polymer’ means any macromolecular substance obtained by:

(a)

a polymerisation process such as polyaddition or polycondensation, or by any other similar process of monomers and other starting substances; or

(b)

chemical modification of natural or synthetic macromolecules; or

(c)

microbial fermentation;

(4)

‘plastic multi-layer’ means a material or article composed of two or more layers of plastic;

(5)

‘multi-material multi-layer’ means a material or article composed of two or more layers of different types of materials, at least one of them a plastic layer;

(6)

‘monomer or other starting substance’ means:

(a)

a substance undergoing any type of polymerisation process to manufacture polymers; or

(b)

a natural or synthetic macromolecular substance used in the manufacture of modified macromolecules; or

(c)

a substance used to modify existing natural or synthetic macromolecules;

(7)

‘additive’ means a substance which is intentionally added to plastics to achieve a physical or chemical effect during processing of the plastic or in the final material or article; it is intended to be present in the final material or article;

(8)

‘polymer production aid’ means any substance used to provide a suitable medium for polymer or plastic manufacturing; it may be present but is neither intended to be present in the final materials or articles nor has a physical or chemical effect in the final material or article;

(9)

‘non-intentionally added substance’ means an impurity in the substances used or a reaction intermediate formed during the production process or a decomposition or reaction product;

(10)

‘aid to polymerisation’ means a substance which initiates polymerisation and/or controls the formation of the macromolecular structure;

(11)

‘overall migration limit’ (OML) means the maximum permitted amount of non-volatile substances released from a material or article into food simulants;

(12)

‘food simulant’ means a test medium imitating food; in its behaviour the food simulant mimics migration from food contact materials;

(13)

‘specific migration limit’ (SML) means the maximum permitted amount of a given substance released from a material or article into food or food simulants;

(14)

‘total specific migration limit’ (SML(T)) means the maximum permitted sum of particular substances released in food or food simulants expressed as total of moiety of the substances indicated;

(15)

‘functional barrier’ means a barrier consisting of one or more layers of any type of material which ensures that the final material or article complies with Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004 and with the provisions of this Regulation;

(16)

[F1 ‘non-fatty food’ means a food for which in migration testing only food simulants other than food simulants D1 or D2 are laid down in Table 2 of Annex III to this Regulation;]

(17)

‘restriction’ means limitation of use of a substance or migration limit or limit of content of the substance in the material or article;

(18)

[F1 ‘specification’ means composition of a substance, purity criteria for a substance, physico-chemical characteristics of a substance, details concerning the manufacturing process of a substance or further information concerning the expression of migration limits;]

(19)

[F2 ‘hot-fill’ means the filling of any article with a food with a temperature not exceeding 100 °C at the moment of filling, after which the food cools down to 50 °C or below within 60 minutes, or to 30 °C or below within 150 minutes;]

(20)

[F3 ‘appropriate authority’ and ‘Food Safety Authority’ have the meanings given in Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1416 of 24 August 2016 amending and correcting Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 on plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food (Text with EEA relevance).

F2 Inserted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1416 of 24 August 2016 amending and correcting Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 on plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food (Text with EEA relevance).

F3 Art. 3(20) inserted (1.4.2025) by The Food and Feed (Regulated Products) (Amendment, Revocation, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/361), regs. 1(2), 13(2) (with reg. 23)