The European Parliament and Council Directive 2000/36/EC is an

EU Directive A directive is a legal act of the European Union that requires Member state of the European Union, member states to achieve particular goals without dictating how the member states achieve those goals. A directive's goals have to be made the go ...

relating to cocoa and chocolate products. Most notably, this directive allows chocolate to contain up to 5% non-cocoa vegetable fats. The Belgian Ministry of Economic Affairs has attempted to resist the effects of this directive by introducing the

AMBAO AMBAO is a certification mark for chocolate Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa beans that can be a liquid, solid, or paste, either by itself or to flavoring, flavor other foods. Cocoa beans are the processed seeds of the ...

certification scheme, which certified that chocolate carrying the AMBAO mark was produced without vegetable fat substitution.

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* Chocolate European Union directives European Union food law {{food-stub