
Article 1 
The substance beer is approved as a basic substance as laid down in Annex I.
Article 2 
Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 14 November 2017.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER
ANNEX I

Common Name, Identification Numbers IUPAC Name Purity Date of approval Specific provisions
BeerCAS No 8029-31-0 Not applicable Food grade 5 December 2017 Beer shall be used in accordance with the specific conditions included in the conclusions of the review report on beer (SANTE/11038/2017) and in particular Appendices I and II thereto.

ANNEX II

In Part C of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011, the following entry is added:

Number Common Name, Identification Numbers IUPAC Name Purity Date of approval Specific provisions
‘17 BeerCAS No 8029-31-0 Not applicable Food grade 5 December 2017 Beer shall be used in accordance with the specific conditions included in the conclusions of the review report on beer (SANTE/11038/2017) and in particular Appendices I and II thereto.’

