European Union (Marketing of Fruit Jams, Jellies, Marmalades and Sweetened Chestnut PurÉe) Regulations 2025.

S.I. No. 620/2025 - European Union (Marketing of Fruit Jams, Jellies, Marmalades and Sweetened Chestnut Purée) Regulations 2025 Download PDF Íoslódáil PDF Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in “Iris Oifigiúil” of 26 th December, 2025. I, MARTIN HEYDON, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the European Communities Act 1972 (No. 27 of 1972), for the purpose of giving effect to Council Directive 2001/113/EC of 20 December 2001 , as amended by Council Directive 2004/84/EC of 10 June 2004 , Council Regulation (EC) No 1182/2007 of 26 September 2007 , Regulation (EU) No 1021/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 and Directive (EU) 2024/1438 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 , hereby make the following regulations: 1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Union (Marketing of Fruit Jams, Jellies, Marmalades and Sweetened Chestnut Purée) Regulations 2025. 2. (1) In these Regulations- “authorised officer” means - (a) a person appointed under Regulation 5, (b) an authorised officer within the meaning of the European Union (Food and Feed Hygiene) Regulations 2020 ( S.I. No. 22 of 2020 (c) a person who, immediately before the making of these Regulations was an authorised officer within the meaning of the European Communities (Marketing of Fruit Jams, Jellies, Marmalade and Sweetened Chestnut Purée) Regulations 2003 ( S.I. No. 294 of 2003 (d) an authorised officer within the meaning of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act 1998 (No. 29 of 1998), (e) a member of the Garda Síochána, or (f) an officer of the Revenue Commissioners; “Council Directive” means Council Directive 2001/113/EC of 20 December 2001 as amended by Council Directive 2004/84/EC of 10 June 2004, Council Regulation (EC) No 1182/2007 of 26 September 2007, Regulation (EU) No 1021/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 and Directive (EU) 2024/1438 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024; “Minister” means the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine; “place on the market” includes to advertise, barter, offer or expose for sale by wholesale or retail or have in possession for sale by wholesale or retail and invite to buy; “premises” includes any place, vehicle, ship or other vessel, aircraft, railway wagon or other means of transport or any container used to transport a relevant product; “relevant product” means a product defined in Annex 1 to the Council Directive; “vehicle” means any form of transport conveyance including a trailer. (2) A word or expression which is used in these Regulations and which is also used in the Council Directive has, unless the contrary intention appears, the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in the Council Directive. 3. (1) These Regulations do not apply to a relevant product intended for or used for the manufacture of fine bakery wares, pastries or biscuits. (2) A person may place a relevant product on the market that is labelled before 14 June 2026 and is in accordance with the Regulations revoked by Regulation 16, until the exhaustion of stocks. (3) These Regulations shall be deemed to be food legislation for the purposes of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act 1998 (No. 29 of 1998). Placing on the market 4. (1) A person shall not place on the market, manufacture, process or label a relevant product except in accordance with the Council Directive. (2) A person shall not place on the market a relevant product other than where– (b) these particulars appear in the same visual field as the product name and in clearly visible characters. (3) A person shall not place on the market a relevant product where ingredients other than those listed in Annex II or raw materials which comply with Annex III to the Council Directive are used in its manufacture. (4) Subject to paragraph (5), a person shall not use a sales name specified in Annex 1 to the Council Directive to describe a product except– (a) a fruit jam, jelly or marmalade product which has a soluble dry matter content of 60% or more, (b) a product that fulfils the requirements of the European Union (Nutrition and Health Claims made on Foods) Regulations 2014 ( S.I. No. 11 of 2014 ) as regards reduced sugar and those products in respect of which sugars have been wholly or partially replaced by sweeteners, or (c) in addition to the name and in accordance with practices used to designate other products which cannot be confused with those defined in Annex 1 to the Council Directive. (5) Without prejudice to Regulation 7(1)(a)(i) of the European Union (Provision of Food Information to Consumers) Regulations 2014 ( S.I. No. 556 of 2014 ), the Minister may, by instrument in writing, in order to take account of certain particular cases, authorise the reserved names for products defined in Annex I which have a soluble dry matter content of less than 60%. Appointment of authorised officer 5. (1) The Minister may appoint in writing such persons or classes of persons as he or she considers appropriate to be authorised officers for the exercise of all or any of the functions conferred on an authorised officer under these Regulations, as specified in the appointment. (2) The Chief Executive of the Health Service Executive may appoint in writing such persons or classes of persons as he or she considers appropriate to be authorised officers for the exercise of all or any of the functions conferred on an authorised officer under these Regulations, as specified in the appointment. (3) The Minister or Chief Executive may terminate the appointment of an authorised officer appointed by him or her, whether or not the appointment was for a fixed period or specified purpose. (4) An appointment as an authorised officer ceases— (a) if it is terminated pursuant to paragraph (3), (b) if it is for a fixed period, on the expiry of that period, (c) if it is for a specified purpose, on the completion of that purpose, or (d) if the person appointed is an officer of the Minister, Health Service Executive or member of a class of person, upon the person ceasing to be such an officer or member. (5) Nothing in paragraph (4) is to be construed so as to prevent the Minister from reappointing as an authorised officer a person to whom that paragraph relates. (6) An authorised officer appointed under this Regulation shall be furnished with a warrant of his or her appointment and, when exercising a power conferred on him or her, the officer, an authorised officer within the meaning of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act 1998 or an authorised officer within the meaning of the European Union (Food and Feed Hygiene) Regulations 2020 shall, if requested by a person affected, produce the warrant or evidence that he or she is such an officer or member to the person. Functions of authorised officer 6. (1) For the purposes of the Council Directive or these Regulations, an authorised officer may— (a) enter and inspect, at all reasonable times, any premises if he or she is carrying out an official control for the purposes of the Council Directive or these Regulations or where he or she has reasonable grounds for believing that— (i) a relevant product or other thing to which the Council Directive or these Regulations relates is, may be or has been present, (ii) a record relating to a relevant product or other thing to which the Council Directive or these Regulations relates is, may be or has been present, (iii) equipment, machinery, a vehicle, a vessel or other thing to which the Council Directive or these Regulations relates is, may be or has been present, (b) examine a relevant product, equipment, machinery or other thing to which the Council Directive or these Regulations relates, (c) require the name and address of the owner, or person in possession or control of a relevant product, equipment, machinery, a document, a vehicle or a vessel used in connection with a relevant product or other thing to which the Council Directive or these Regulations relates, or require details of place of departure, journey or destination, (d) inspect a vehicle, a vessel, an aircraft, a railway wagon, a container, equipment, machinery, a computerised information management system or other thing to which the Council Directive or these Regulations relates and require the person in charge or control of such to refrain from moving it, (e) require the owner, person in possession or control of any premises, equipment, machinery, a computerised information management system, a vehicle, a vessel or other thing to which the Council Directive or these Regulations relates, to produce to the officer such records (and in the case of a record stored in non–legible form, produce to him or her a copy in a legible form) that are in the person’s possession or procurement, or under the person’s control, as the officer may reasonably require, (g) make a record, including by means of writing, sound recording, photograph, video or other means, or (h) take, without making a payment, samples from a relevant product or other thing to which the Council Directive or these Regulations relates, or any article, substance or liquid as he or she may reasonably require and carry out or cause to be carried out on the samples such tests, analyses, examinations or inspections as he or she considers necessary or expedient and mark or otherwise identify it. (2) An authorised officer may require a person to give information regarding the ownership and identity of a relevant product, equipment, machinery, a vehicle, a vessel or other thing to which the Council Directive or these Regulations relates as is in the person’s knowledge or procurement. (3) Where an authorised officer has reasonable grounds for believing that— (a) an offence is being or has been committed under these Regulations, or (b) evidence of an offence to which subparagraph (a) relates may be, is or has been on any land or premises, or in a vehicle, a vessel, an aircraft, a railway wagon, a container, equipment or machinery (including any computerised information management system), the officer may, in addition to the powers exercisable by him or her under paragraph (1): (iii) require a person in charge or control of the vehicle, vessel, aircraft, railway wagon, container, equipment or machinery to— (II) give information regarding its place of departure, journey or destination, and (III) where the equipment or machinery is part of a computerised information management system, provide assistance (including passwords) to enable access to such devices or systems; (iv) seize and detain a relevant product or other thing to which the Council Directive or these Regulations relates and mark or otherwise identify it; (vi) remove any equipment, machinery (including any computerised information management system), books, documents or records and detain them for such reasonable period necessary for the purpose of the officer’s functions under these Regulations; (vii) give such direction to a person who has a relevant product or other thing to which the Council Directive or these Regulations relates, or who has equipment, machinery, vehicle or vessel or other thing to which the Council Directive or these Regulations relates in his or her possession or under his or her control or who has information relating to such, as the authorised officer may reasonably consider necessary for the purposes of these Regulations. (5) An authorised officer, when exercising a function under this Regulation, may be accompanied by other persons and may take with him or her, or those persons may take with them, any equipment or materials to assist the officer in the exercise of the function. (6) An authorised officer may use reasonable force, if necessary, to exercise his or her functions under these Regulations. (7) Where, in the course of exercising a function under these Regulations, an authorised officer finds or comes into possession of anything that the officer has reasonable grounds for believing to be evidence of an offence or suspected offence under these Regulations, the officer may seize and retain it for use in evidence in proceedings for an offence under these Regulations. (8) An authorised officer is not liable in any proceedings for anything done in the purported exercise of his or her powers under these Regulations if the court is satisfied that the act was done in good faith and that there were reasonable grounds for doing it. (9) A member of the Garda Síochána may stop a vehicle or vessel, for the purposes of these Regulations and may require it to be moved for inspection to such place as he or she directs. (10) A person who has— (a) a relevant product or other thing to which the Council Directive or these Regulations relates, or (b) equipment, machinery, a vehicle, a vessel or other thing to which the Council Directive or these Regulations relates in his or her possession or under his or her control, or information or a record relating to any of them, shall give such— (i) assistance to an authorised officer, or person who accompanies the officer, and (ii) information to an authorised officer on request being made, in that behalf by the officer, as the officer may reasonably require for the exercise of his or her functions under these Regulations. (11) The owner or person in charge of any premises used in connection with a relevant product or other thing to which the Council Directive or these Regulations relates shall, if required by an authorised officer, where it is practicable and possible, provide suitable equipment or facilities or a suitable part of the plant or establishment for the officer to carry out his or her functions under these Regulations. (12) An authorised officer may require a person to give to the officer such information as is in the person’s power or procurement as regards any premises specified by the officer including— (a) whether or not the premises is used, either partly or wholly, for or in connection with a relevant product or other thing to which the Council Directive or these Regulations relates, (b) the name of the owner, occupier or person who is in charge of the premises, and (c) whether or not the premises is let and, if let, the name and address of the person to whom, and the period of time for which, it is let. (13) Nothing in section 17 of the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1893 prevents an authorised officer from exercising a function conferred on him or her by these Regulations. 7. (1) If a judge of the District Court is satisfied by information on oath of an authorised officer that there are reasonable grounds for believing– (a) evidence of or relating to the commission or intended commission of an offence under these Regulations is to be found on a premises, (b) there is or was a relevant product, equipment or other thing made, used or adapted for use (including manufacture and transport) in connection with a relevant product or other thing to which the Council Directive or these Regulations relates, or (c) a document or other record related to a thing to which subparagraph (a) or (b) refers is or may be on the premises, (3) If a premises is entered under a warrant issued under this Regulation, an authorised officer so entering may exercise all or any of the powers conferred on an authorised officer under these Regulations. Compliance notice 8. (1) Where an authorised officer is of the opinion that— (a) the Council Directive or these Regulations are not being or have not been complied with, or there are reasons to believe that the Council Directive or these Regulations will not be complied with, (b) it is necessary for the protection of human health, or (c) it is necessary, ancillary or supplementary for the Council Directive to have full effect, the officer may serve a notice (“compliance notice”) stating that opinion to the person— (i) who appears to be the owner, occupier, or person in charge of the premises, or (ii) who appears to be in possession or control of a relevant product or other thing to which the notice relates. (2) A compliance notice shall— (a) require the person to whom it is served to take such action as specified in the notice, (b) inform the person to whom it is served that he or she may appeal the notice in the District Court under Regulation 8, and (c) state that if the person to whom it is served fails to comply with the notice, he or she commits an offence and is liable to a penalty set out in Regulation 12(2). (3) A compliance notice may — (a) require that a relevant product or other thing to which these Regulations or the Council Directive relate be detained, disposed of or destroyed in a manner and at a place (if any) specified in the notice, (b) prohibit or regulate any activity specified in the notice, including prohibiting or restricting entry onto the premises specified in the notice, (c) require that the owner, or person in charge of any premises dispose of a relevant product or other thing to which these Regulations or the Council Directive relates in a manner specified in the notice, (d) prohibit the transport or further transport of a relevant product or other thing to which these Regulations or the Council Directive relates, either absolutely or unless such conditions as may be specified in the notice are complied with, (e) require a person to return a relevant product or other thing to which these Regulations or the Council Directive relate, to the place of departure (whether within the State or otherwise) by a route which in the opinion of the authorised officer is the most direct or prudent, (f) require that such alterations or additions be made to any relevant product, premises, vehicle, vessel, machinery or equipment as may be specified in the notice, (g) require a person to undertake a specified type or level of sampling and analysis for a specified period, (h) require a person to make such changes to a label, packaging or marketing material including re-labelling of a relevant product or other thing as may be specified in the notice, or (i) require that a specified operation or activity may only be carried out under and in accordance with such terms and conditions as are specified in the notice. (4) A person to whom a compliance notice is served shall comply with the compliance notice until the notice expires, is withdrawn under paragraph (6) or is annulled under Regulation 9, and not cause or permit another person to contravene the terms of the notice. (5) A compliance notice may specify a time limit within which it is to be complied with. (6) A compliance notice may be modified or withdrawn in a further notice and the earlier notice has effect subject to the modification or withdrawal. (7) A compliance notice may require the owner, occupier, operator or person in charge of any premises, a relevant product, vehicle, vessel, aircraft, machinery (including any computerised information management system), equipment or other thing to which the Council Directive relates to choose between two or more of the requirements specified in the notice. (8) A compliance notice shall include an address for service of an appeal under Regulation 9. Appeal against compliance notice 9. (1) A person to whom a compliance notice is served may, within 7 days from the date of service of the notice, appeal the notice to the Judge of the District Court having jurisdiction in the District Court district— (a) where a relevant product, premises, vehicle, machinery (including any computerised information management system), equipment, vessel or other thing to which the Council Directive relates which is the subject of the notice, is situated, or (b) where the person bringing the appeal ordinarily resides or carries on business, on the grounds that the notice is unreasonable having regard to the Council Directive or these Regulations. (2) Notice of an appeal shall contain a statement of the grounds upon which it is alleged that the notice or any of the terms of the notice are unreasonable and shall be served on the authorised officer who served the compliance notice at the address included on the notice in accordance with Regulation 7 not later than 48 hours prior to the hearing of the appeal. (3) A person bringing an appeal shall lodge a copy of the notice or appeal with the District Court Clerk concerned not later than 48 hours prior to the hearing of the appeal. (4) On the hearing of an appeal a Judge of the District Court may confirm, modify or annul a notice. (5) A person, including a person on whom a compliance notice has been served, who — (a) pending the determination of an appeal, shall not deal with a relevant product, premises, vehicle, vessel, machinery (including any computerised information management system), equipment or other thing to which the notice relates, other than in accordance with the terms of the compliance notice, or (b) if the notice is confirmed or modified on appeal, deal with a relevant product, any premises, vehicle, vessel, equipment, machinery (including any computerised information management system) or other thing to which the notice relates other than in accordance with the terms of the compliance notice as confirmed or modified. (6) In this Regulation “appeal” means an appeal under paragraph (1). Seizure and detention for non-compliance with a compliance notice 10. (1) Without prejudice to an appeal under Regulation 9, if— (a) a person in control of a relevant product or other thing to which a compliance notice relates, or in control of a premises, vessel, vehicle, aircraft, equipment, machinery (including any computerised information management system) or other thing used in connection with a relevant product to which a compliance notice relates fails to comply with the terms of a compliance notice within the time specified, (b) an authorised officer has reasonable grounds for believing that the terms of a compliance notice, whether or not modified under Regulation 9(4), will not be complied with, or (c) a compliance notice has been confirmed with or without modification under Regulation 9(4) and the notice has not been complied with, an authorised officer may at any time seize the relevant product or other thing to which a compliance notice relates, or seize the vessel, vehicle, equipment, machinery (including any computerised information management system) or other thing used in connection with the relevant product to which a compliance notice relates. (2) If the relevant product or other thing to which a compliance notice relates, a vessel, vehicle, equipment, machinery (including any computerised information management system) or other thing used in connection with the relevant product to which a compliance notice relates is seized in accordance with paragraph (1), an authorised officer may— (a) sell, destroy or dispose of the relevant product or other thing to which a compliance notice relates or cause it to be sold, destroyed or be disposed of, or (b) take such other measures in relation to the relevant product or other thing to which a compliance notice relates, or in relation to the vessel, vehicle, equipment, machinery (including any computerised information management system) or other thing used in connection with the relevant product to which a compliance notice relates as the authorised officer considers appropriate in the circumstances. (3) Any profits arising out of the sale, destruction or disposal of a relevant product, or other thing to which a compliance notice relates in accordance with paragraph (2) shall be paid to the owner of the relevant product, or other thing to which a compliance notice relates less any expenses incurred in connection with the seizure, sale, destruction or disposal. (4) The costs (including ancillary costs) of a measure taken under this Regulation are recoverable by the Minister— (a) as a simple contract debt in a court of competent jurisdiction from the person who was the owner of the relevant product or other thing to which the Council Directive or these Regulations relates or from the person who was the owner of the means of transport at the time the measure was carried out, or (b) by deducting the costs from any sum payable from the Minister to a person on whom a notice has been served. (5) The costs of any action required by a compliance notice shall be borne by the owner of a premises, a relevant product or other thing to which the notice relates. Obstruction and false statements 11. (1) A person shall not— (a) obstruct, interfere with or impede an authorised officer, or any person who accompanies an authorised officer, in the course of exercising a function conferred on the officer under these Regulations, (b) fail or refuse, without reasonable cause, to comply with a requirement of an authorised officer under Regulation 6, (c) fail, without reasonable cause, to give assistance or requested information to an authorised officer in accordance with Regulation 6, (d) in purporting to give information to an authorised officer for the exercise of the officer’s functions under these Regulations— (i) make a statement that he or she knows to be false or misleading in a material particular or recklessly make a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular, or (ii) intentionally fail to disclose a material particular, (e) tamper or otherwise interfere with a sample taken under Regulation 6, or (f) aid or abet a contravention of the Council Directive or these Regulations. (2) A statement or admission made by a person pursuant to a requirement under Regulation 6(10)(ii) is not admissible in evidence in proceedings brought against the person for an offence (other than an offence under this Regulation for failing to give information or giving false information) under these Regulations. Penalties and prosecutions 12. (1) A person who contravenes Regulations 4(1) (2) (3) or (4), 8(4), 9(5), 11(1) or 14(3) commits an offence. (2) A person who commits an offence under these Regulations is liable– (a) on summary conviction, to a class A fine, or (b) on conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding €500,000, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years, or to both. (3) An offence under these Regulations may be prosecuted summarily by the Minister, the Health Service Executive or the Food Safety Authority of Ireland. (4) If an offence under these Regulations is committed by a body corporate and is proven to have been so committed with the consent, connivance or approval of or to have been attributable to the wilful neglect on the part of any person, being a director, manager, secretary or other officer of the body corporate or a person who was purported to act in any such capacity, that person, as well as the body corporate, commits an offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished as if he or she was guilty of the offence. (6) In proceedings alleging a contravention of these Regulations, it is a defence for the defendant to show he or she acted in accordance with a lawful derogation or transitional measure laid down by an act of an institution of the European Union relevant to the subject of the offence it is alleged that he or she committed. 13. Where a person is convicted of an offence under these Regulations, the court shall, unless it is satisfied that there are special and substantial reasons for not so doing, order the person to pay to the prosecutor the costs and expenses, measured by the court, incurred by the prosecutor or other person in relation to the investigation, detection and prosecution of the offence, including costs and expenses incurred in the taking of samples and the carrying out of tests, examinations and analyses. 14. (1) A compliance notice shall, subject to paragraph (2), be addressed to the person concerned by name and may be served on or given to the person— (a) by giving it to the person, his or her employee, servant or agent, (b) by leaving it at the address at which the person ordinarily resides, normally carries out business, or, if an address for service has been furnished, at that address, (c) by sending it by post in a prepaid registered letter to the address at which the person ordinarily resides or, if an address for service has been furnished, at that address, (d) if the address at which the person ordinarily resides cannot be ascertained by reasonable enquiry and the compliance notice relates to a premises, by delivering it to the premises or by affixing it in a conspicuous position on or near the premises, (e) by sending it by means of electronic mail to a device or facility for the reception of electronic mail where such an electronic mail address has been furnished by the person, but only if the sender’s facility for the reception of electronic mail generates a message confirming a receipt of the electronic mail confirming successful transmission of the notification, notice or document. (2) If a compliance notice is to be served on or given to a person who is the owner or occupier of a premises and the name of the person cannot be ascertained by reasonable enquiry, it may be addressed to the person by using the words “the owner” or “the occupier”. (3) A person shall not, at any time within 6 months after a compliance notice is affixed under paragraph (1)(d), remove, damage or deface the compliance notice without lawful authority. (4) For the purposes of this Regulation, a company within the meaning of the Companies Act 2014 is considered to be ordinarily resident at its registered office and every other body corporate or unincorporated body is considered to be ordinarily resident at its principal office or place of business. Fixed Payment Notice 15. (1) If an officer of the Minister, authorised by the Minister in that behalf, or an officer of the Health Service Executive, authorised by the Chief Executive in that behalf, has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person is committing or has committed an offence under these Regulations, he or she may serve a notice in writing (“fixed payment notice”) on that person stating that— (a) the person is alleged to have committed the offence, (b) the person may during the period of 28 days beginning on the date of the notice make to the Minister, at the address specified in the notice, a payment of €250 accompanied by the notice, (c) the person is not obliged to make the payment, and (d) a prosecution in respect of the alleged offence will not be instituted during the period specified in the notice and, if the payment specified in the notice is made during that period, no prosecution in respect of the alleged offence will be instituted. (2) Where a fixed payment notice is served under paragraph (1)— (a) the person to whom the notice applies may, during the period specified in the notice, make to the Minister, at the address specified in the notice, the payment specified in the notice accompanied by the notice, (b) the Minister may receive the payment, issue a receipt for it and retain the money so paid, and any payment so received shall not be recoverable in any circumstances by the person who made it, and (c) a prosecution in respect of the alleged offence shall not be instituted in the period specified in the notice, and if the payment so specified is made during that period, no prosecution in respect of the alleged offence shall be instituted. (3) In proceedings for an offence under these Regulations, the onus of proving that a payment pursuant to a notice under this Regulation has been made lies on the person on whom the fixed payment notice was served. (4) In proceedings for an offence referred to in paragraph (1) it is a defence for the accused to show that he or she has made a payment in accordance with this Regulation pursuant to a fixed payment notice issued in respect of that offence. Revocations, savers etc 16. (1) The European Communities (Marketing of Fruit Jams, Jellies and Marmalades and Sweetened Chestnut Purée) Regulations 2003 ( S.I. No. 294 of 2003 ) are revoked. (2) A reference made to a provision of Regulations revoked by paragraph (1) shall be construed as a reference to the applicable provision of these Regulations. (3) An authorised officer appointed under the Regulations revoked by paragraph (1) and holding office immediately before the commencement of these Regulations continues in office after such commencement as if appointed under these Regulations. GIVEN under my Official Seal, 12 December, 2025. MARTIN HEYDON, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. EXPLANATORY NOTE This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation. The purpose of these Regulations is to give legal effect to Directive 2011/113/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, as amended by Directive (EU) 2024/1438 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 which establishes quality factors and aligns standards for the composition and labelling of fruit jams, jellies and marmalades and sweetened chestnut purée within the European Union, taking into account developments in relevant international standards. These Regulations should be read in conjunction with Directive 2001/113/EC and amending Directive (EU) 2024/1438. 1 O.J. No. L 10, 12.1.2002, p. 67 2 O.J. L 219, 19.6.2004, p. 8 3 O.J. L 273, 17.10.2007, p. 1 4 O.J. No. L. 287, 29.10.2013, p. 1