Foodlaw-Reading
Dr David Jukes, The University of Reading, UK
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Commission consultation, 6 July 2022
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Commission Draft Regulation: Commission Delegated Regulation supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to requirements for the entry into the Union of consignments of food-producing animals and certain goods intended for human consumption A copy of the draft is available on this site (click on image). In addition, a separate pdf document provides the draft Annex - see: Commission Delegated Regulation supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 Draft Annex. |
The consultation is available on the Commission website - see: Food safety – checks on imports of animals/animal products into the EU. The consultation is open until 3 August 2022.
The following is the intial section of the Explanatory Memorandum which is provided with the draft:
1. CONTEXT OF THE DELEGATED ACT
Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council lays down rules for the performance of official controls and other control activities by the competent authorities of the Member States, in particular to ensure that consignments of animals and goods from third countries comply with the requirements for entry into the European Union.
Article 126(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 empowers the Commission to lay down the conditions that animals and goods entering the Union from third countries are to respect, to ensure that they comply with the relevant requirements established by the Union legislation or with requirements recognised to be equivalent thereto.
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/625 supplements the requirements for entry into the EU in accordance with Article 126(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 as regards the identification of food-producing animals and certain goods subject to the inclusion of the country or region thereof or the establishment in a list and to the issuance of official certificates or presentation of a private attestation, and the specific conditions for entry in the Union for those animals and those goods.
It is necessary to further supplement Regulation (EU) 2017/625 by establishing additional conditions for the entry into the Union of animals and goods, to ensure that, upon the controls of food-producing animals and animal products from third countries intended for the entry into the Union, those food-producing animals and those animal products comply with restriction and requirements at least equivalent to, respectively, the restrictions on the use of veterinary medicinal products (‘VMP’) laid down in Union legislation and to the requirements on contaminants and residues of VMP and pesticides in food-producing animals and goodslaid down in Union legislation by means of risk-based control plans.
The purpose of this Delegated Regulation is to lay down all supplementary requirements for the entry into the Union of animals and goods from third countries, in accordance with Article 126(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625, in a single Delegated Regulation, thus merging the restrictions on the use of VMP and the requirements on contaminants and residues of VMP and pesticides with the requirements provided for in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/625, which is to be repealed.
