Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

Article 2 U.K. Definitions

1. For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

(a) the definitions of ‘food’, ‘food business operator’, ‘retail’ and ‘placing on the market’ set out respectively in Article 2 and points (3), (7) and (8) of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002;

(b) the definitions of ‘prepacked food’, ‘labelling’ and ‘engineered nanomaterial’ set out respectively in points (e), (j) and (t) of Article 2(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011;

(c) the definitions of ‘nutrition claim’ and ‘health claim’ set out respectively in points (4) and (5) of Article 2(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006.

2. The following definitions shall also apply:

(a) ‘infant’ means a child under the age of 12 months;

(b) ‘young child’ means a child aged between one and three years;

(c) ‘infant formula’ means food intended for use by infants during the first months of life and satisfying by itself the nutritional requirements of such infants until the introduction of appropriate complementary feeding;

(d) ‘follow-on formula’ means food intended for use by infants when appropriate complementary feeding is introduced and which constitutes the principal liquid element in a progressively diversified diet of such infants;

(e) ‘processed cereal-based food’ means food:

(i)

intended to fulfil the particular requirements of infants in good health while they are being weaned, and of young children in good health as a supplement to their diet and/or for their progressive adaptation, to ordinary food; and

(ii)

pertaining to one of the following categories:

• simple cereals which are or have to be reconstituted with milk or other appropriate nutritious liquids,

• cereals with an added high protein food which are or have to be reconstituted with water or other protein-free liquid,

• pastas which are to be used after cooking in boiling water or other appropriate liquids,

• rusks and biscuits which are to be used either directly or, after pulverisation, with the addition of water, milk or other suitable liquids;

(f) ‘baby food’ means food intended to fulfil the particular requirements of infants in good health while they are being weaned, and of young children in good health as a supplement to their diet and/or for their progressive adaptation to ordinary food, excluding:

(i)

processed cereal-based food; and

(ii)

milk-based drinks and similar products intended for young children;

(g) ‘food for special medical purposes’ means food specially processed or formulated and intended for the dietary management of patients, including infants, to be used under medical supervision; it is intended for the exclusive or partial feeding of patients with a limited, impaired or disturbed capacity to take, digest, absorb, metabolise or excrete ordinary food or certain nutrients contained therein, or metabolites, or with other medically-determined nutrient requirements, whose dietary management cannot be achieved by modification of the normal diet alone;

(h) ‘total diet replacement for weight control’ means food specially formulated for use in energy restricted diets for weight reduction which, when used as instructed by the food business operator, replaces the whole daily diet;

[F1 (i) ‘Great Britain list’ means the list set out in the Annex.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Art. 2(2)(i) inserted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Nutrition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/651), regs. 1(1), 19(3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1476, regs. 1(2), 5(4)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)