Survey on the Implementation of the CAC General Standard for the Use of Dairy Terms (GSUDT- Survey)

摘要

This Bulletin focuses on the national implementation of the Protection of Dairy Terms. It is connected to the IDF Bulletin 507/2020 which deals with the content and interpretation of the General Standard of the Use of Dairy Terms (GSUDT). The GSUDT, as an international commitment in the framework of the Codex Alimentarius Commission of the FAO/ WHO (CAC), has established a worldwide standard for the Protection of Dairy Terms. It facilitates international trade in dairy products and helps to prevent consumers being misled. Codex CAC members who decide to adopt the GSUDT, need to implement the standard within their national legal order. Therefore, they follow different approaches, depending inter alia on their legal traditions and political decisions.Until now, no indepth survey on the state of play of the implementation of the GSUDT has been conducted. The International Dairy Federation (IDF), with its long-standing expertise in questions of composition, labelling and trade in dairy products and its widespread membership appears to be the appropriate forum to undertake such a task. Based on a description of the legal background of the Protection of Dairy Terms and a Questionnaire, it conducted a survey within its membership. This Bulletin presentsthe results of the survey and also includes the description of the legal background and the Questionnaire. In addition, it contains the GSUDT and contact points country-by-country to facilitate gaining more information on the situation in any given country.