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Food Law News - EU - 2016

Council Minutes, 29 November 2016

HYGIENE – Council discussions: Hygiene of foodstuffs and official controls on products of animal origin

The following is an extract from the minutes of the Competitiveness (Internal Market, Industry, Research and Space) Council meeting on the 28 and 29 November 2016:

The Council decided not to oppose the adoption of a Commission regulation designating the EU reference laboratory for diseases caused by capripox viruses (lumpy skin disease and sheep and goat pox).

The regulation also lays down additional responsibilities and tasks for this laboratory and amends Annex VII to regulation 882/2004. The latter lays down the rules that competent authorities of member states must adopt for official controls performed to ensure that businesses comply with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules.

The Council also decided not to oppose the adoption of a Commission regulation laying down transitional measures for the application of certain provisions of regulations 853/2004 and 854/2004 (See 13167/16).

Regulation 853/2004 lays down specific hygiene rules for the hygiene of foodstuffs, while regulation 854/2004 relates to official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption.

The transitional measures mentioned above concern, in particular, the direct supply of small quantities of meat from poultry and lagomorphs, imports of products of animal origin and food containing both products of plant origin and processed products of animal origin, and public health procedures concerning imports of products of animal origin.


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