{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2000-36/annex-I/division-A/division-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2000-36/annex-I/division-A/division-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2000/36",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2000/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 June 2000 relating to cocoa and chocolate products intended for human consumption",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2000-36",
  "path": "annex/I/division/A/division/3",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Chocolate",
  "text": "(a) designates the product obtained from cocoa products and sugars which, subject to (b), contains not less than 35 % total dry cocoa solids, including not less than 18 % cocoa butter and not less than 14 % of dry non-fat cocoa solids;\n(b) however, where this name is supplemented by the words:\n‘vermicelli’ or ‘flakes’: the product presented in the form of granules or flakes must contain not less than 32 % total dry cocoa solids, including not less than 12 % cocoa butter and not less than 14 % of dry non-fat cocoa solids;\n‘couverture’: the product must contain not less than 35 % total dry cocoa solids, including not less than 31 % cocoa butter and not less than 2,5 % of dry non-fat cocoa solids;\n‘Gianduja’ (or one of the derivatives of the word ‘gianduja’) nut chocolate: the product must be obtained firstly from chocolate having a minimum total dry cocoa solids content of 32 % including a minimum dry non-fat cocoa solids content of 8 %, and secondly from finely ground hazelnuts in such quantities that 100 g of the product contain not less than 20 g and not more than 40 g of hazelnuts. The following may be added:\n(a) milk and/or dry milk solids obtained by evaporation, in such proportion that the finished product does not contain more than 5 % dry milk solids;\n(b) almonds, hazelnuts and other nut varieties, either whole or broken, in such quantities that, together with the ground hazelnuts, they do not exceed 60 % of the total weight of the product.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2000/36/annex/I/division/A/division/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:02.460488+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}