Textual Amendments
For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply:
All fruits. For the purposes of this Directive, tomatoes are also considered as fruit.
The fruit shall be sound, appropriately mature, and fresh or preserved by physical means or by treatment(s), including post-harvest treatments applied in accordance with Union law.
The fermentable but unfermented product obtained by suitable physical processes such as sieving, grinding, milling the edible part of whole or peeled fruit without removing the juice.
The product obtained from fruit purée by the physical removal of a specific proportion of its water content.
Concentrated fruit purée may have restored flavour which shall be obtained by suitable physical means, as defined in point 3 of Part II of Annex I and all of which must be recovered from the same species of fruit.
Without prejudice to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on flavourings and certain food ingredients with flavouring properties for use in and on foods (1) , flavours for restoration are obtained during the processing of the fruit by applying suitable physical processes. Those physical processes may be applied to retain, preserve or stabilise the flavour quality and include in particular squeezing, extraction, distillation, filtration, adsorption, evaporation, fractionation and concentration.
Flavour is obtained from the edible parts of the fruit; however it could also be cold pressed oil from citrus peel and compounds from the stones.
sugars as defined by Council Directive 2001/111/EC of 20 December 2001 relating to certain sugars intended for human consumption (2) ,
fructose syrup,
sugars derived from fruits.
The product defined by Council Directive 2001/110/EC of 20 December 2001 relating to honey (3) .
The products obtained from the edible parts of fruit of the same species without removing the juice. Furthermore, for citrus fruit, pulp or cells are the juice sacs obtained from the endocarp.]