Notifications for European Union (1104 notifications)

The proposed draft Regulation concerns the review of existing maximum residue levels (MRLs) for 1,4-dimethylnaphthalene, chlormequat, metribuzin, metribuzin-desamino-diketo (metribuzin-DADK), terbuthylazine and triclopyr in certain food commodities following the monitoring data collected for 1,4-dimethylnaphthalene as requested by Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/1346 and for chlormequat as requested by Regulation (EU) 2022/1290 and Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/693; the non-availability of confirmatory data of terbuthylazine and triclopyr required by Commission Regulation (EU) 2021/1795 and by Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/686, respectively; and the non-approval of metribuzin in the European Union. MRLs for these substances in certain commodities are lowered or raised. Lower MRLs are set after deleting old uses which are not authorized any more in the European Union. The draft Regulation also proposes some product-specific limit of quantification (LOQ) adaptions in line with technical progress.

Regulation (EC) No 429/2008 provides for the detailed rules for the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 as regards the preparation and the presentation of applications, the assessment and the authorisation of feed additives.It lays down in Article 2(1) that an application shall be submitted using the form set out in Annex I. This Annex I is currently unnecessarily detailed. In addition, it duplicates information that applicants are required to provide anyway in the electronic submission system provided by the Commission (E-SUBMISSION Food Chain platform). This initiative therefore proposes to simplify and shorten Annex I, and to allow for the system to have an automatically generated application form by extracting the necessary information from the electronic submission, thus reducing administrative burden.Experience shows that there is a real need to propose a comprehensive list of target animal species and categories that can be used consistently by applicants and EFSA throughout the application and assessment process, in order to avoid uncertainties or misunderstandings which complexify and sometimes even delay the outcome of the authorisation process. This comprehensive list of animal species with appropriate definitions to ensure common understanding is to be laid down in a new Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 429/2008, while Annex IV thereto is expanded to provide a comprehensive list of animal categories.Additional adjustments are proposed in other parts of Regulation (EC) No 429/2008, such as the addition of a new definition of major species, or to ensure wording consistency.Furthermore, a concordance table is provided, in Annex III to this draft Implementing Regulation, offering a correspondence between the terms commonly used for the designation of animal species and categories in the current authorisations of feed additives and the new terminology, with a view to help applicants prepare applications for the renewal of existing authorisations.Finally, in order to enable business operators to adapt to the new requirements set by this draft Implementing Regulation, it is proposed that it starts applying six months after its date of entry into force.

Further to the notification G/SPS/N/EU/851/Add.1 by which the European Union (EU) notified to its trading partners the published Commission Implementing Regulation 2025/2249, the European Union would like to inform trading partners of the document “Minimum wording of the additional declaration for Annex V of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072”. This document aims at clarifying the minimum wording that should be included in the Additional Declaration of the phytosanitary certificate in relation to RNQPs, to be acceptable by EU member States. The document is the result of the agreement reached among EU member States at the meeting of the Standing Committee of Plants, Animals Food and Feed – section Plant Health, on 17-18 November 2025. The document will also be available as an attachment to the minutes of that Committee meeting (https://food.ec.europa.eu/horizontal-topics/committees/paff-committees/plant-health_en

The proposal notified in G/SPS/N/EU/875 (6 August 2025) is now adopted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2025/2240 of 5 November 2025 amending Regulation (EU) 2023/1442 as regards the transitional measures for plastic materials and articles manufactured with salicylic acid or untreated wood flour or fibres (Text with EEA relevance).This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.It shall apply from 1 February 2025.

The substances covered by the Act were authorised for a period of 10 years as feed additives for all terrestrial animal species in the additive category ‘technological additives’ and in the functional group ‘silage additives’. Applications were submitted for the renewal of the authorisation of these substances in accordance with article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003. Based on the favourable conclusions of scientific assessments of the dossiers submitted by the applicants, conducted by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the authorisation of these substances as feed additives for all terrestrial animal species is renewed under certain conditions detailed in the Annex to the Act. A transitional period is included for the interested parties to meet the new authorisation’s requirements.

The preparations covered by the Act were authorised for a period of 10 years as feed additives for all animal species in the additive category ‘technological additives’ and in the functional group ‘silage additives’. Applications were submitted for the renewal of the authorisation of these preparations in accordance with article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003. Based on the favourable conclusions of a scientific assessment of the dossiers submitted by the applicant, conducted by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the authorisation of these preparations as feed additives for all animal species is renewed under certain conditions detailed in the Annex to the Act. A transitional period is included for the interested parties to meet the new authorisation’s requirements.

The preparation covered by the Act was authorised for a period of 10 years as a feed additive for all animal species in the additive category ‘technological additives’ and in the functional group ‘silage additives’. An application was submitted for the renewal of the authorisation of this preparation in accordance with article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003. Based on the favourable conclusions of a scientific assessment of the dossier submitted by the applicant, conducted by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the authorisation of this preparation as a feed additivs for all animal species is renewed under certain conditions detailed in the Annex to the Act. A transitional period is included for the interested parties to meet the new authorisation’s requirements.

The subtances covered by the Act were authorised for a period of 10 years as feed additives for all animal species in the additive category ‘nutritional additives’ and in the functional group ‘vitamins, pro-vitamins and chemically well-defined substances having similar effect’. Applications were submitted for the renewal of the authorisation of these substances in accordance with article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003. Based on the favourable conclusions of scientific assessments of the dossiers submitted by the applicant, conducted by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the authorisation of these substances as feed additives for all animal species is renewed under certain conditions detailed in the Annex to the Act. A transitional period is included for the interested parties to meet the new authorisation’s requirements.

The additive covered by this Act is currently authorised for a period of 10 years as a feed additive for certain categories of poultry in the additive category ‘sensory additives’ and in the functional group ‘colourants (ii) substances which, when fed to animals, add colours to food of animal origin’ and for ornamental fish and ornamental birds in the additive category ‘sensory additives’ and in the functional group ‘colourants (iii) substances which favourably affect the colour of ornamental fish or birds”. An application was submitted for the modification the authorisation of this additive in accordance with article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003. The modification consists in the addition of a new production route by fermentation with Yarrowia lipolytica CBS 146148. Based on the favourable conclusions of a scientific assessment of the dossier submitted by the applicant, conducted by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the authorisation of this additive is amended under certain conditions detailed in the Annex to the Act.

The proposal notified in G/SPS/N/EU/851 (19 May 2025) is now adopted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2249 of 10 November 2025 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 as regards the listing and the measures for regulated non-quarantine pests.This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.It shall apply from 6 July 2026.

The substance covered by the Act was authorized for a period of 10 years as a feed additive for all animal species in the additive category “nutritional additives” and in the functional group “amino acids, their salts and analogues”. An application was submitted for the renewal of the authorization of this substance in accordance with Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No. 1831/2003. Based on the favourable conclusions of a scientific assessment of the dossier submitted by the applicant, conducted by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the authorization of this substance as a feed additive for all animal species is renewed under certain conditions detailed in the Annex to the Act. A transitional period is included for the interested parties to meet the new authorization’s requirements.

The proposal notified in G/SPS/N/EU/781 (8 July 2024) is now adopted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2025/2181 of 29 October 2025 amending Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 as regards requirements for the import of used cooking oil (Text with EEA relevance).This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.It shall apply from 19 November 2027.

The proposal notified in G/SPS/N/EU/844 (25 March 2025) is now adopted by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/1449 of 18 July 2025 amending Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning specific hygiene rules for emergency slaughter of domestic ungulates, for tuna frozen in brine and for highly refined products (Text with EEA relevance).This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. However, point (2) of the Annex to this Regulation shall apply from 27 January 2026.

The draft Implementing Regulation amends model official certificates and model animal health/official certificates for the entry into the Union of consignments of certain products of domestic solipeds origin intended for human consumption and certain categories of equine animals to reflect Article 3, point (a), and Article 11 of Council Directive 96/22 prohibiting respectively the administration of the substances listed in Annex II to that Directive to equine animals intended for human consumption and the import to the Union from third countries of such animals which have been administered those substances.

This Regulation authorises for the first time in the European Union and for a period of ten years lutein-rich extract of Tagetes erecta L. as a feed additive belonging to the additive category ‘sensory additives’ and in the functional group ‘colourants (ii), substances which, when fed to animals, add colours to food of animal origin’. This authorisation is based on the favourable conclusions of a scientific assessment of the dossier submitted by the applicant, conducted by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). The terms of the authorisation are detailed in the Annex to the Act.

This Regulation authorises for the first time in the European Union and for a period of ten years L-tryptophan produced with Corynebacterium glutamicum KCCM 80346 as a feed additive belonging to the additive category ‘nutritional additives’ and in the functional group ‘amino acids, their salts and analogues’. This authorisation is based on the favourable conclusions of a scientific assessment of the dossier submitted by the applicant, conducted by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). The terms of the authorisation are detailed in the Annex to the Act.

The proposal notified in G/SPS/N/EU/847 (29 April 2025) is now adopted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1908 of 24 September 2025 amending Regulation (EU) No 37/2010 as regards the classification of the substance fluralaner with respect to its maximum residue limit in foodstuffs of animal origin (Text with EEA relevance).This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

In accordance with Regulation (EU) 2017/625 on official controls on the agri-food chain, the Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, establish lists of animals, products of animal origin, germinal products, animal by-products and derived products, composite products, hay and straw that are subject to official controls at the border control posts. The lists have been established by way of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/632. It is necessary to update the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/632 to include certain products of animal origin, animal by-products, and composite products, which are currently missing from the list of products subject to official controls at border control posts. It is therefore appropriate to add the headings and CN codes 1301, 2008 19, 2106 90 55, 2933, 3002 13, 3002 14, 3002 15, 3105 90, 3821, 3823 and 3824 in the list set out in the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/632 in order to avoid any ambiguity as regards which consignments of goods are subject to official controls at border control posts.

The proposal notified in G/SPS/N/EU/825 (7 March 2025) is now adopted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2025/1891 of 17 September 2025 amending Regulation (EU) 2023/915 as regards maximum levels of inorganic arsenic in fish and other seafood (Text with EEA relevance).This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This corrigendum corrects an error in box 11 of notification G/SPS/N/EU/886 where the “Trade facilitating” box was selected by mistake.