{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-2065/annex-I/division-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-2065/annex-I/division-2.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2003/2065",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 2065/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 November 2003 on smoke flavourings used or intended for use in or on foods",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-2065",
  "path": "annex/I/division/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The smoke is condensed. Water and/or, without prejudice to other assimilated law, solvents may be added to achieve phase separation. Physical processes may be used for isolation, fractionation and/or purification to obtain the following phases:\n(a)a water-based\n‘primary smoke condensate’\nmainly containing carboxylic acids, carbonylic and phenolic compounds, having a maximum content of:\nbenzo[a]pyrene\n10 μg/kg\nbenz[a]anthracene\n20 μg/kg\n(b)a water-insoluble high-density tar phase which during the phase separation will precipitate, and which cannot be used as such for the production of smoke flavourings but only after appropriate physical processing to obtain fractions from this water-insoluble tar phase which are low in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, already defined as\n‘primary tar fractions’\n, having a maximum content of:\nbenzo[a]pyrene\n10 μg/kg\nbenz[a]anthracene\n20 μg/kg\n(c)a ‘water-insoluble oily phase’.\nIf no phase separation has occurred during or after the condensation, the smoke condensate obtained must be regarded as a water-insoluble high-density tar phase, and must be processed by appropriate physical processing to obtain primary tar fractions which stay within the specified limits.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex 1 para. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Food Additives, Flavourings, Enzymes and Extraction Solvents (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/860), regs. 1, 32; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Annex 1 para. 2 substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 11 para. 7(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2003/2065/annex/I/division/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:55:50.297153+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."
}