Foodlaw-Reading
Dr David Jukes, The University of Reading, UK
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Commission Consultation, 19 March 2021
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Commission consultation: COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the cases and conditions under which competent authorities may designate official laboratories which do not fulfil the conditions in relation to all the methods they use for official controls or other official activities A copy of this document is available on this site. A further document contains a draft Annex to the Regulation. |
The consultation can be found on the Commission website. See: Animal & plant health / safe food & feedstuffs – designation of official laboratories. The consultation closes on the 16 April 2021. The following is the opening section of the consultation document:
Context of the Delegated Act
Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishes rules on the performance of official controls by the competent authorities of the Member States. It provides that laboratory analyses, tests and diagnoses on samples taken during official controls and other official activities are to be performed by official laboratories, which have been designated as such by the competent authority of the Member State.
These official laboratories need to comply with certain accreditation criteria based on international standards. In addition, all methods used by those laboratories in the context of official controls and other official activities have to fall within the scope of the accreditation.
Based on Article 41 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625, this draft Delegated Regulation specifies cases where and conditions under which competent authorities may designate as official laboratories, laboratories which do not fulfil the conditions of that Regulation in relation to all the methods they use for official controls and other official activities.
