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Commission Directive 2002/72/EC of 6 August 2002 relating to plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs (Text with EEA relevance) (repealed)
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1. This Directive is a specific Directive within the meaning of Article 3 of Directive 89/109/EEC.
[F1 [X22. This Directive shall apply to the following materials and articles which, in the finished product state, are intended to come into contact or are brought into contact with foodstuffs and are intended for that purpose (hereafter referred to as ‘ plastic materials and articles ’ ):
(a) materials and articles and parts thereof consisting exclusively of plastics;
(b) plastic multi-layer materials and articles;
(c) plastic layers or plastic coatings, forming gaskets in lids that together are composed of two or more layers of different types of materials.] ]
3. For the purposes of this Directive, ‘ plastics ’ shall mean the organic macromolecular compounds obtained by polymerisation, polycondensation, polyaddition or any other similar process from molecules with a lower molecular weight or by chemical alteration of natural macromolecules. Other substances or matter may be added to such macromolecular compounds.
However, the following shall not be regarded as ‘ plastics ’ :
(a) varnished or unvarnished regenerated cellulose film, covered by Commission Directive 93/10/EEC (1) ;
(b) elastomers and natural and synthetic rubber;
(c) paper and paperboard, whether modified or not by the addition of plastics;
(d) surface coatings obtained from:
(d) paraffin waxes, including synthetic paraffin waxes, and/or micro-crystalline waxes,
mixtures of the waxes listed in the first indent with each other and/or with plastics,
(e) ion-exchange resins;
(f) silicones.
[F1 [X24. Without prejudice to paragraph 2(c), this Directive shall not apply to materials and articles composed of two or more layers, one or more of which does not consist exclusively of plastics, even if the one intended to come into direct contact with foodstuffs does consist exclusively of plastics.] ] ]
Editorial Information
X1 Substituted by Corrigendum to Commission Directive 2002/72/EC of 6 August 2002 relating to plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs (Official Journal of the European Communities L 220 of 15 August 2002).
X2 Substituted by Corrigendum to Commission Directive 2007/19/EC of 30 March 2007 amending Directive 2002/72/EC relating to plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food and Council Directive 85/572/EEC laying down the list of simulants to be used for testing migration of constituents of plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs (Official Journal of the European Union L 91 of 31 March 2007).
Textual Amendments
F1 Substituted by Commission Directive 2007/19/EC of 30 March 2007 amending Directive 2002/72/EC relating to plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food and Council Directive 85/572/EEC laying down the list of simulants to be used for testing migration of constituents of plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs (Text with EEA relevance).
[X1 OJ L 93, 17.4.1993, p. 27 . Directive amended by Directive 93/111/EC ( OJ L 310, 14.12.1993, p. 41 ).]
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