Spain

There is a need to establish legal requirements to promote the quality of saffron and the official control to ensure compliance with such requirements. As a result, the Order of 28 October 1994 approving the Technical Regulations for the control of the production and marketing of vegetable propagating and planting material, other than seed, needs to be amended to include saffron. The text is being updated at the same time. It is vital to regulate the control of the production and marketing of plant material used to propagate saffron, so that it meets the necessary quality and health requirements. To that end, the current Technical Regulations for the control of the production and marketing of vegetable propagating and planting material, other than seed, need to be amended to include this species.

The notified decree seeks to regulate the obligations of wholesale distribution, retailing and online sales of medicinal products not subject to prescription, conditions for veterinary prescriptions and restrictions on the use of antimicrobials, as well as to establish the obligations on the use of medicinal products on livestock farms.

The notified draft Royal Decree: (a) Regulates the storage conditions for, trade (import and export) with third countries in, and distance selling of plant protection products; (b) Creates an electronic register of transactions and operations involving plant protection products; (c) Establishes specific provisions for the implementation in Spain of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017, relating to the performance of official controls on the marketing of plant protection products and the development of the official control programme for the marketing of these products; (d) Establishes the register and requirements for the authorization of bodies that conduct tests involving plant protection products.

Amendment to Order AAA/458/2013 of 11 March 2019, permitting the treatment of used packaging, which is wood packaging that has not been treated or marked in accordance with ISPM No. 15.

The draft royal decree establishes the basis for actions to prevent, control and eradicate infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) in cattle farms in Spain. Under Commission Decision 2004/558/CE of 15 July 2004 implementing Council Directive 64/432/EEC as regards additional guarantees for intra-Community trade in bovine animals, the presence of the disease entails significant trade constraints. Specifically, unless a series of specific sanitary measures is carried out, the marketing of semen, ova and embryos from seropositive herds and the transport of infected live animals are prohibited to countries or zones that have been declared free from IBR or that have an approved control and eradication programme. An increasing number of European countries have control and eradication programmes in place. It is therefore necessary to establish a national framework for the initiation of an IBR prevention, control and eradication programme that offers the necessary guarantees for IBR control efforts to be carried out uniformly in farms throughout Spain.