Federal Law of 27 October 2008 № 178- FL “Technical Regulation on Fruit and Vegetable Juice Products” was adopted in Ru

1. Federal Law of 27 October 2008 № 178-FL “Technical Regulation on Fruit and Vegetable Juice Products” was adopted in RussiaCame into force on 29 April 2009

2. Objects of the Technical Regulation Finished commodity: 1) Juice: -Direct Juice -Freshly Squeezed Juice -Reconstituted Juice -Concentrated Juice -Water Extracted Juice 2) Fruit and/or Vegetable Nectar 3) Fruit and/or Vegetable Juice Drink 4) Mors 5) Concentrated Mors

3. Objects of the Technical Regulation Terms for Raw Materials used in the manufacture of Juice Products 6) Fruit and/or Vegetable Puree 7)Concentrated Fruit and/or Vegetable Puree 8) Natural Aroma-forming Substances 9) Concentrated Natural Aroma-forming Substances 10) Cells of Citrus Fruit 11) Fruit and/or Vegetable Pulp

4. Objects of the Technical Regulation 12) Fruit and/or Vegetable Juice Products for Baby Food 13) Fortified Fruit and/or Vegetable Juice Products

5. Groups of Requirements 1) Juice Products Safety Requirements 2) Ingredients and Food Additives Requirements 3) Labelling Requirements 4) Production Process, Storage and Selling Requirements 5) Order of Conformance Evaluation Procedure

6. Juice Products Safety Requirements Annex 1 Juice Products Safety Requirements Annex 2 List of Fruits and Vegetables Annex 3 List of Food Additives and Processing Aids

7. Labelling of Juice Products - Juice Products in consumer package should comply with the requirements established in Article 10 of the Federal Law of Russian Federation of 7 February 1992 №2300-1 “On protection of consumers” and Article 11 of the Federal Law of 27 October 2009 №178-FL which determines special claims for consumer package labelling - Labelling of additional information about the product – certain indications of juice products for children or fortified products, etc.

8. Ways of Conformance Evaluation Procedure of Juice Products 1) Confirmation of Products’ compliance to the requirements established by the given Technical Regulation; 2) State Registration of individual kinds of juice products; 3) State Control (Supervision) over maintenance of requirements for juice products established by the Technical Regulation and connected with them processes of production, storage, transportation and selling.

9. Recommendations on forming of information for consumers about fruit and/or vegetable juice products Were worked out by Russian Union of Juice Producers together with Federal Service on Supervision in the Sphere of Consumers Rights Defense and Human Well-Being

10. In pursuance of the Federal Law of 27 October 2009 №178-FLwere adopted following Regulations of Government of Russian Federation: • №369 of 29/04/2009 “On approval of the list of juice products to be a subject to compulsory compliance confirmation being placed to customs” - №370 of 29/04/2009 “ On amendments into Governmental Regulation № 1013 of 13.08.1997”

11. Regulations of Government of Russian Federation : • № 420 of 18/05/2009 “On approval of the list of rules and methods of research” • №620-R of 19/05/2009 “On approval of the list of national standards containing rules and methods of research”