Food supplements

 

National legislation

Regulation of the requirements for inclusion in the monitoring programme and implementation of the monitoring programme for the food supplements, food with added vitamins, minerals and other substances and food with nutritional and health claims

Official Gazette, No. 83/2013 and 59/2018

 

EU legislation

Directive 2002/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 June 2002 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to food supplements

 

Competent authority

 

Scope of application

Placing food supplements on the market

 

Main requirements that the business user needs to know about

Prior to placing of the market, the products must be reported to the Ministry of Health and entered in the Register of Food Supplements.

Depending on the composition and target group for the products, a notification must be delivered or an application must be submitted for issuance of a decision.

 

Market Surveillance Authority

State Inspectorate

pisarnica.dirh@dirh.hr

 

Link to the TRIS database

In the TRIS database you can look up the notification of the technical rule