SCHEDULE 1Amendments to the domestic list of food additives approved for use in foods in Annex 2 to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008

Provision concerning a new authorised use, and amendment to an existing authorised use, for E 476 (polyglycerol polyricinoleate)

Miscellaneous amendments

6.

In Part E (authorised food additives and conditions of use in food categories), in the table—

(a)

at the end of category 05.1 (cocoa and chocolate products), in the appropriate place, insert the following footnote—

“(1): The additives may be added individually or in combination”;

(b)

in category 05.2 (other confectionery including breath freshening microsweets)—

(i)

in the third entry for “Group IV” (polyols), for “only cocoa or dried fruit-based, milk or fat-based sandwich spreads,” substitute “sandwich spreads made with a base of cocoa, milk, dried fruit or fat;”;

(ii)

in the first entry for “E 960a – E 960c” (steviol glycosides) as amended by paragraph 4 of this Schedule, for “only cocoa or dried-fruit-based,” substitute “only cocoa or dried fruit based;”;

(iii)

in the second entry for “E 960a – E 960c” (steviol glycosides) as amended by paragraph 4 of this Schedule, for “only cocoa, milk, dried-fruit-based or fat-based sandwich spreads,” substitute “sandwich spreads made with a base of cocoa, milk, dried fruit or fat;”;

(c)

in category 05.4 (decorations, coatings and fillings, except fruit-based fillings covered by category 4.2.4), in the second entry for “E 960a – E 960c” (steviol glycosides) as amended by paragraph 4 of this Schedule, for “only cocoa or dried-fruit-based,” substitute “only cocoa or dried fruit based;”.