Requirements for non-alcoholic beverages

Decree of the Minister for Agriculture amending Decree No 36/2014 of the Ministry of Agriculture of 17 December 2014 on the provision of food information

According to the amendment of Act CLV of 1997 on consumer protection (hereinafter: Consumer ProtectionAct), which is made with the aim of protecting children’s health, energy drinks having a composition specified inthe Government’s decree (hereinafter: energy drinks) cannot be sold or supplied to persons under the age ofeighteen years. It is the Government that the Consumer Protection Act authorises to determine, by decree, thecomposition of energy drinks that cannot be sold or supplied to persons under eighteen years of age.

In order to enhance conscious consumer behaviour, it is found appropriate to define the range of productswhich shall use the term ‘energy drink’ in their labelling, and this shall be laid down in legislation, with that theterm ‘energy drink’ should also be indicated in the principal field of vision of the product. Products which aremarketed as energy drinks and do not meet the criteria laid down in the draft may be marketed with thedesignation ‘energy drink’ for 12 months following the amendment of the decree. However, after the entry intoforce of the legislative amendment, they can no longer be sold to minors.