| "Category number | Food Category |
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| 0. | All categories of foods |
| 01. | Dairy products and analogues |
| 01.1 | Unflavoured pasteurised and sterilised (including UHT) milk |
| 01.2 | Unflavoured fermented milk products, including natural unflavoured buttermilk (excluding sterilised buttermilk) non-heat-treated after fermentation |
| 01.3 | Unflavoured fermented milk products, heat-treated after fermentation |
| 01.4 | Flavoured fermented milk products including heat-treated products |
| 01.5 | Dehydrated milk as defined by Directive 2001/114/EC |
| 01.6 | Cream and cream powder |
| 01.6.1 | Unflavoured pasteurised cream (excluding reduced fat creams) |
| 01.6.2 | Unflavoured live fermented cream products and substitute products with a fat content of less than 20 % |
| 01.6.3 | Other creams |
| 01.7 | Cheese and cheese products |
| 01.7.1 | Unripened cheese excluding products falling in category 16 |
| 01.7.2 | Ripened cheese |
| 01.7.3 | Edible cheese rind |
| 01.7.4 | Whey cheese |
| 01.7.5 | Processed cheese |
| 01.7.6 | Cheese products (excluding products falling in category 16) |
| 01.8 | Dairy analogues, including beverage whiteners |
| 01.9 | Edible caseinates |
| 02. | Fats and oils and fat and oil emulsions |
| 02.1 | Fats and oils essentially free from water (excluding anhydrous milkfat) |
| 02.2 | Fat and oil emulsions mainly of type water-in-oil |
| 02.2.1 | Butter and concentrated butter and butter oil and anhydrous milkfat |
| 02.2.2 | Other fat and oil emulsions including spreads as defined by Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 and liquid emulsions |
| 02.3 | Vegetable oil pan spray |
| 03. | Edible ices |
| 04. | Fruit and vegetables |
| 04.1 | Unprocessed fruit and vegetables |
| 04.1.1 | Entire fresh fruit and vegetables |
| 04.1.2 | Peeled, cut and shredded fruit and vegetables |
| 04.1.3 | Frozen fruit and vegetables |
| 04.2 | Processed fruit and vegetables |
| 04.2.1 | Dried fruit and vegetables |
| 04.2.2 | Fruit and vegetables in vinegar, oil, or brine |
| 04.2.3 | Canned or bottled fruit and vegetables |
| 04.2.4 | Fruit and vegetable preparations, excluding products covered by 5.4 |
| 04.2.4.1 | Fruit and vegetable preparations excluding compote |
| 04.2.4.2 | Compote, excluding products covered by category 16 |
| 04.2.5 | Jam, jellies and marmalades and similar products |
| 04.2.5.1 | Extra jam and extra jelly as defined by Directive 2001/113/EC |
| 04.2.5.2 | Jam, jellies and marmalades and sweetened chestnut puree as defined by Directive 2001/113/EC |
| 04.2.5.3 | Other similar fruit or vegetable spreads |
| 04.2.5.4 | Nut butters and nut spreads |
| 04.2.6 | Processed potato products |
| 05. | Confectionery |
| 05.1 | Cocoa and chocolate products as covered by Directive 2000/36/EC |
| 05.2 | Other confectionery including breath refreshening microsweets |
| 05.3 | Chewing gum |
| 05.4 | Decorations, coatings and fillings, except fruit based fillings covered by category 4.2.4 |
| 06. | Cereals and cereal products |
| 06.1 | Whole, broken, or flaked grain |
| 06.2 | Flours and other milled products and starches |
| 06.2.1 | Flours |
| 06.2.2 | Starches |
| 06.3 | Breakfast cereals |
| 06.4 | Pasta |
| 06.4.1 | Fresh pasta |
| 06.4.2 | Dry pasta |
| 06.4.3 | Fresh pre-cooked pasta |
| 06.4.4 | Potato gnocchi |
| 06.4.5 | Fillings of stuffed pasta (ravioli and similar) |
| 06.5 | Noodles |
| 06.6 | Batters |
| 06.7 | Pre-cooked or processed cereals |
| 07. | Bakery wares |
| 07.1 | Bread and rolls |
| 07.1.1 | Bread prepared solely with the following ingredients: wheat flour, water, yeast or leaven, salt |
| 07.1.2 | Pain courant français; Friss búzakenyér, fehér és félbarna kenyerek |
| 07.2 | Fine bakery wares |
| 08. | Meat |
| 08.1 | Fresh meat, excluding meat preparations as defined by Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 |
| 08.2 | Meat preparations as defined by Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 |
| 08.3 | Meat products |
| 08.3.1 | Non-heat-treated meat products |
| 08.3.2 | Heat-treated meat products |
| 08.3.3 | Casings and coatings and decorations for meat |
| 08.3.4 | Traditional and traditionally cured meat products with specific provisions concerning nitrites and nitrates |
| 08.3.4.1 | Traditional immersion cured products (Meat products cured by immersion in a curing solution containing nitrites and/or nitrates, salt and other components) |
| 08.3.4.2 | Traditional dry cured products. (Dry curing process involves dry application of curing mixture containing nitrites and/or nitrates, salt and other components to the surface of the meat followed by a period of stabilisation/maturation) |
| 08.3.4.3 | Other traditional and traditionally cured products (including immersion and dry cured processes used in combination or where nitrite and/or nitrate is included in a compound product or where the curing solution is injected into the product prior to cooking) |
| 09. | Fish and fisheries products |
| 09.1 | Unprocessed fish and fisheries products |
| 09.1.1 | Unprocessed fish |
| 09.1.2 | Unprocessed molluscs and crustaceans |
| 09.2 | Processed fish and fishery products including mollusks and crustaceans |
| 09.3 | Fish roe |
| 10. | Eggs and egg products |
| 10.1 | Unprocessed eggs |
| 10.2 | Processed eggs and egg products |
| 11. | Sugars, syrups, honey and table-top sweeteners |
| 11.1 | Sugars and syrups as defined by Directive 2001/111/EC |
| 11.2 | Other sugars and syrups |
| 11.3 | Honey as defined in Directive 2001/110/EC |
| 11.4 | Table-top sweeteners |
| 11.4.1 | Table-top sweeteners in liquid form |
| 11.4.2 | Table-top sweeteners in powder form |
| 11.4.3 | Table-top sweeteners in tablets |
| 12. | Salts, spices, soups, sauces, salads and protein products |
| 12.1 | Salt and salt substitutes |
| 12.1.1 | Salt |
| 12.1.2 | Salt substitutes |
| 12.2 | Herbs, spices, seasonings |
| 12.2.1 | Herbs and spices |
| 12.2.2 | Seasonings and condiments |
| 12.3 | Vinegars and diluted acetic acid (diluted with water to 4–30 % by volume) |
| 12.4 | Mustard |
| 12.5 | Soups and broths |
| 12.6 | Sauces |
| 12.7 | Salads and savoury based sandwich spreads |
| 12.8 | Yeast and yeast products |
| 12.9 | Protein products, excluding products covered in category 1.8 |
| 13. | Foods intended for particular nutritional uses as defined by Directive 2009/39/EC |
| 13.1 | Foods for infants and young children |
| 13.1.1 | Infant formulae as defined by Commission Directive 2006/141/EC |
| 13.1.2 | Follow-on formulae as defined by Directive 2006/141/EC |
| 13.1.3 | Processed cereal-based foods and baby foods for infants and young children as defined by Commission Directive 2006/125/EC |
| 13.1.4 | Other foods for young children |
| 13.1.5 | Dietary foods for infants and young children for special medical purposes as defined by Commission Directive 1999/21/EC and special formulae for infants |
| 13.1.5.1 | Dietary foods for infants for special medical purposes and special formulae for infants |
| 13.1.5.2 | Dietary foods for babies and young children for special medical purposes as defined in Directive 1999/21/EC |
| 13.2 | Dietary foods for special medical purposes defined in Directive 1999/21/EC (excluding products from food category 13.1.5) |
| 13.3 | Dietary foods for weight control diets intended to replace total daily food intake or an individual meal (the whole or part of the total daily diet) |
| 13.4 | Foods suitable for people intolerant to gluten as defined by Commission Regulation (EC) No 41/2009 |
| 14. | Beverages |
| 14.1 | Non-alcoholic beverages |
| 14.1.1 | Water, including natural mineral water as defined in Directive 2009/54/EC and spring water and all other bottled or packed waters |
| 14.1.2 | Fruit juices as defined by Directive 2001/112/EC and vegetable juices |
| 14.1.3 | Fruit nectars as defined by Directive 2001/112/EC and vegetable nectars and similar products |
| 14.1.4 | Flavoured drinks |
| 14.1.5 | Coffee, tea, herbal and fruit infusions, chicory; tea, herbal and fruit infusions and chicory extracts; tea, plant, fruit and cereal preparations for infusions, as well as mixes and instant mixes of these products |
| 14.1.5.1 | Coffee, coffee extracts |
| 14.1.5.2 | Other |
| 14.2 | Alcoholic beverages, including alcohol-free and low-alcohol counterparts |
| 14.2.1 | Beer and malt beverages |
| 14.2.2 | Wine and other products defined in Part II of Annex VII to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 |
| 14.2.3 | Cider and perry |
| 14.2.4 | Fruit wine and made wine |
| 14.2.5 | Mead |
| 14.2.6 | Spirit drinks as defined in Regulation (EU) 2019/787 |
| 14.2.7 | Aromatised wine products as defined by Regulation (EU) No 251/2014 |
| 14.2.7.1 | Aromatised wines |
| 14.2.7.2 | Aromatised wine-based drinks |
| 14.2.7.3 | Aromatised wine-product cocktails |
| 14.2.8 | Other alcoholic beverages including mixtures of alcoholic beverages with non-alcoholic beverages and other alcoholic beverages based on distilled alcohol with alcoholic strength by volume less than 15 % |
| 15. | Ready-to-eat savouries and snacks |
| 15.1 | Potato-, cereal-, flour- or starch-based snacks |
| 15.2 | Processed nuts |
| 16. | Desserts excluding products covered in categories 1, 3 and 4 |
| 17. | Food supplements as defined in Directive 2002/46/EC |
| 17.1 | Food supplements supplied in a solid form, excluding food supplements for infants and young children |
| 17.2 | Food supplements supplied in a liquid form, excluding food supplements for infants and young children |
| 18. | Processed foods not covered by categories 1 to 17, excluding foods for infants and young children |