The competent authorities must be notified when these products are first put on sale, as long as they do not come under a specific rule, or it is required by their own regulations.

At present, the following categories of products must be notified:

• Food intended for special medical use (article 5 Royal Decree 1091/2000).
• preparations for newborns (article 13 Royal Decree 867/2008)
• food for premature babies
• dietetic food intended for gluten intolerant persons (NB: regulated by Regulation 41/2009 on the composition and labelling of products suitable for persons with an intolerance to gluten, but not included in the annex to Directive 2009/39/EC).
• Food intended for high muscle depletion, especially sportspersons.
• very low-calorie diets (VLCD)
• Food low in salt and hyposodic salts
• food for persons with disorders of the glucoside metabolism (diabetics)
• other products for special nutritional use, considered as dietetics, in accordance with legislation by another member state of the EU

Procedure