Commission Regulation (EU) No 202/2014 amending Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 on pl

EU Commission issue Regulation (EU) No 202/2014 amending Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 on plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food on 3 March 2014.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

The main revision content is as follows:

1.Two substances have been added to the Union list of authorised substances in Annex I.

a)No 872: 2-phenyl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl) phthalimidine with a specific migration limit (SML) of 0.05mg/kg food. This substance is to be used only as a co-monomer in polycarbonate copolymers.

b)No 988: 1,3-bis(isocyanatomethyl)benzene with its hydrolysis product, 1,3- benzenedimethanamine of a specific migration limit (SML) of 0.05 mg/kg food.

2.FCM substance No 340 (dicyanodiamide) is authorised as an additive in plastics in Table 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 with a specific migration limit (SML) of 60 mg/kg food. Plastic materials and articles which have been lawfully placed on the market before 24 March 2014 and which do not comply with this Regulation may be placed on the market until 24 March 2015.