Council Directive of 25 July 1983 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to certain lactoproteins (caseins and caseinates) intended for human consumption (83/417/EEC) (repealed)

Article 4 U.K.

1. Without prejudice to Directive 79/112/EEC and without prejudice to the provisions to be adopted by the Community concerning the labelling of foodstuffs not intended for the ultimate consumer, the only mandatory particulars to be marked on the packages, containers or labels of the products defined in the Annexes, particulars which must be clearly visible, easily legible and in indelible characters, shall be as follows:

(a) the name reserved for these products in accordance with Article 3 with, in the case of caseinates, an indication of the cation or cations;

(b) in the case of products marketed as mixtures,

• (b) the words ‘mixture of …’ followed by the names of the different products which make up the mixture, in decreasing order of weight,

• an indication of the cation or cations in the case of caseinate or caseinates,

• the protein content in the case of mixtures containing caseinates;

(c) the net quantity expressed in the following units of mass: kilograms or grams. Until the end of the transitional period during which use of the imperial units of measurement contained in Chapter D of the Annex to Council Directive 71/354/EEC of 18 October 1971 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to units of measurement(1) , as last amended by Directive 76/770/EEC(2) , is authorized in the Community, Ireland and the United Kingdom may permit the quantity to be expressed only in imperial units of measurement calculated on the basis of the following conversion rates:

— 1 ml	= 0,0352 fluid ounces,
— 1 l	= 1,760 pints 0,220 gallons,
— 1 g	= 0,0353 ounces (avoirdupois),
— 1 kg	= 2,205 pounds;

(d) the name or business name and the address of the manufacturer or packager or of a seller established within the Community;

however, in the case of their national production, Member States may maintain in force national provisions requiring details of the manufacturing or packaging establishment to be mentioned;

(e) in the case of products imported from third countries, the name of the country of origin;

(f) the date of manufacture or some marking by which the batch can be identified.

2. Member States shall prohibit the marketing of edible caseins and caseinates in their territory if the particulars referred to in paragraphs 1 (a), (b), (e) and (f) do not appear in a language easily understood by the purchaser, unless the latter is given such information by other means; this provision shall not preclude the appearance of the said particulars in several languages.

The particulars specified in paragraph 1 (b), third indent, (c), (d) and (e), need appear only in an accompanying document. For transport in bulk, this derogation may be extended to (b), second indent, and (f).

(1)

OJ No L 243, 29.10.1971, p. 29.

(2)

OJ No L 262, 27.9.1976, p. 204.