Fruit jams, jellies, jams, marmalades and sweetened chestnut puree

 

National legislation

Ordinance on fruit jams, jellies, jams, marmalades and sweetened chestnut puree

Official Gazette, No. 84/2019

 

EU legislation

Directive (EU) 2024/1438 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 amending Council Directives 2001/110/EC relating to honey, 2001/112/EC relating to fruit juices and certain similar products intended for human consumption, 2001/113/EC relating to fruit jams, jellies and marmalades and sweetened chestnut purée intended for human consumption, and 2001/114/EC relating to certain partly or wholly dehydrated preserved milk for human consumption

Council Directive 2001/113/EC of 20 December 2001 relating to fruit jams, jellies and marmalades and sweetened chestnut purée intended for human consumption

 

Competent authority

 

Scope of national rule

Quality requirements that must be met by jam, extra jam, jelly, extra jelly, jam, jelly-jam, jam and sweetened chestnut puree in production and placing on the market

 

Main requirements that the business user needs to know about

Article 4. - 15. Quality requirements

Additional product category not covered by Council Directive 2001/113/EC - "jam"

"Jam" means a product of suitably thickened consistency produced by cooking fruit pulp and / or fruit purée of one or more kinds of fruit, with or without added sugar. The amount of sugar that is allowed to be added to the jam is up to 25% of the total amount of fruit.

National measure - Art. 5. products referred to in Article 1 (1) of this Ordinance which have a reduced sugar content may be placed on the market under the names set out in Annex I to this Ordinance, provided that they contain at least 55% soluble dry matter.

 

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