
Article 1 
The generic descriptors listed in the Annex to this Regulation are exempted from the application of Article 1(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 under the conditions laid down in that Annex.
Article 2 
For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions for sugars intended for human consumption laid down in point A of the Annex to Council Directive 2001/111/EC shall apply.
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.
...Done at Brussels, 28 February 2019.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER
ANNEX

Class of food Generic descriptor
Hard and soft sweets based on sugars as well as sugar-free and calorie-reduced variants based on sweeteners (polyols and/or intense sweeteners) containing extracts of herbs, fruit or other plant substances, honey or malt Cough drops
Non-alcoholic carbonated beverage containing the bittering agent quinine in the form of the flavourings FL 14.011, FL 14.152 or FL 14.155 as referred to in the domestic list of flavourings as laid down in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 Tonic