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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/405 of 24 March 2021 laying down the lists of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of certain animals and goods intended for human consumption in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)Text with EEA relevance

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/405 of 24 March 2021 laying down the lists of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of certain animals and goods intended for human consumption in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)Text with EEA relevance

Article 1 Subject matter and scope

This Regulation lays down the lists of third countries or regions thereof from which the entry into the Union of consignments of certain animals and goods intended for human consumption is permitted in accordance with Article 126(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

Article 2 Definitions

For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

  1. ‘fresh meat’ means fresh meat as defined in point 1.10 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  2. ‘meat preparations’ means meat preparations as defined in point 1.15 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  3. ‘domestic solipeds’ means animals of the species Equus caballus, Equus asinus and their cross-breeds;

  4. ‘wild solipeds’ means animals of the subgenus Hippotigris;

  5. ‘offal’ means offal as defined in point 1.11 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  6. ‘meat’ means meat as defined in point 1.1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  7. ‘minced meat’ means minced meat as defined in point 1.13 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  8. ‘poultry’ means poultry as defined in point 1.3 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  9. ‘wild leporidae’ means rabbits and hares that are not kept by humans;

  10. ‘wild game’ means wild game as defined in point 1.5 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  11. ‘farmed game’ means farmed game as defined in point 1.6. of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  12. ‘eggs’ means eggs as defined in point 5.1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  13. ‘egg products’ means egg products as defined in point 7.3 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  14. ‘meat products’ means meat products as defined in point 7.1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  15. ‘treated stomachs, bladders and intestines’ means treated stomachs, bladders and intestines as defined in point 7.9 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  16. ‘casings’ means casings as defined in point (45) of the second paragraph of Article 2 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/692;

  17. ‘rendered animal fat’ means rendered animal fat as defined in point 7.5 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  18. ‘greaves’ means greaves as defined in point 7.6 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  19. ‘bivalve molluscs’ means bivalve molluscs as defined in point 2.1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  20. ‘fishery products’ means fishery products as defined in point 3.1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  21. ‘raw milk’ means raw milk as defined in point 4.1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  22. ‘dairy products’ means dairy products as defined in point 7.2. of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  23. ‘colostrum’ means colostrum as defined in point 1 of Section IX of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  24. ‘colostrum-based products’ means colostrum-based products as defined in point 2 of Section IX of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  25. ‘frogs’ legs’ means frogs’ legs as defined in point 6.1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 and any other frogs’ legs of the genera Pelophylax from the family of Ranidae, and of the genera Limnonectes, Fejervarya and Hoplobatrachus from the family of Dicroglossidae;

  26. ‘snails’ means snails as defined in point 6.2 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 and any other snails of the family of Helicidae, Hygromiidae or Sphincterochilidae;

  27. ‘gelatine’ means gelatine as defined in point 7.7 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  28. ‘collagen’ means collagen as defined in point 7.8 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

  29. ‘honey’ means honey as defined in point 1 of Part IX of Annex II of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council(1);

  30. ‘apiculture products’ means apiculture products as defined in point 2 of Part IX of Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013;

  31. ‘reptile meat’ means reptile meat as defined in point (16) of Article 2 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/625;

  32. ‘insects’ means insects as defined in point (17) of Article 2 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/625;

  33. ‘day-old chicks’ means day-old chicks as defined in point (19) of Article 2 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/692;

  34. ‘hatching eggs’ means hatching eggs as defined in point (44) of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2016/429;

  35. ‘breeding poultry’ means breeding poultry as defined in point (17) of Article 2 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/692;

  36. ‘productive poultry’ means productive poultry as defined in point (18) of Article 2 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/692;

  37. ‘animals intended for slaughter’ means animals intended for slaughter as defined in point (13) of Article 2 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/692.

Article 2a List of third countries with approved control plans for pharmacologically active substances, pesticides and contaminants in certain food-producing animals and products of animal origin intended for human consumption

1.

The control plans for pharmacologically active substances, pesticides and contaminants, referred to in Article 6(1) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2292(2), submitted to the Commission by the third countries or regions thereof listed in the table set out in Annex -I to this Regulation, are approved for the food-producing animals and the products of animal origin intended for human consumption marked with an ‘X’ in that table.

2.

The third countries or regions thereof, which made a request to be included in the list referred to in Article 6(2) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2292 but did not submit control plans for pharmacologically active substances, pesticides and contaminants and which, according to that request, intend to use for the production of products intended for export to the Union only raw material either from Member States or from other third countries approved for imports of such raw material into the Union in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article, are marked with a ‘Δ’, for the relevant species or commodity, in the table in Annex -I to this Regulation.

3.

The third countries or regions thereof, which made a request to be included in the list referred to in Article 6(2) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2292 but did not submit control plans for pharmacologically active substances, pesticides and contaminants for bovine, ovine/caprine, porcine, equine animals, rabbit or poultry and which, according to that request, intend to export composite products to the Union by using processed animal products from those species obtained from a Member State or from a third country or region thereof that has in place control plans for pharmacologically active substances, pesticides and contaminants, are marked with an ‘O’, for the species covered by the request, in the table in Annex -I to this Regulation.

4.

The third countries or regions thereof, which made a request to be included in the list referred to in Article 6(2) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2292, which are marked with an ‘X’ in the table in Annex -I to this Regulation for the categories ‘aquaculture’, ‘milk’ or ‘eggs’ and which, according to that request, intend to produce composite products, are additionally marked with an ‘O’, for the remaining of these categories not marked with an ‘X’, in the table in Annex -I to this Regulation.

5.

The third countries or regions thereof, which made a request to be included in the list referred to in Article 6(2) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2292, which are marked with an ‘X’ in the table in Annex -I to this Regulation for the categories ‘bovine’, ‘ovine/caprine’, ‘porcine’, ‘equine’, ‘poultry’, ‘aquaculture’, ‘milk’, ‘eggs’, ‘rabbit’, ‘wild game’ or ‘farmed game’ and which produce composite products with processed products derived from bivalve molluscs originating either in Member States or in third countries or regions thereof listed in Annex VIII to this Regulation, are additionally marked with a ‘P’ in the table in Annex -I to this Regulation.

Article 3 List of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of fresh meat and meat preparations of ungulates other than solipeds

Consignments of fresh meat and meat preparations of ungulates other than solipeds, intended for human consumption, shall only be authorised for the entry into the Union if they come from the third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union in accordance with Annex XIII to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404 and listed in Annex -I to this Regulation.

Article 4 List of third countries authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of fresh meat, excluding minced meat, and of meat preparations of domestic solipeds

Consignments of fresh meat, excluding minced meat, and of meat preparations of domestic solipeds, intended for human consumption, shall only be authorised for the entry into the Union if they come from the third countries that are listed in Annex I.

Article 5 List of third countries authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of fresh meat, excluding offal and minced meat, and of meat preparations of wild solipeds

Article 6 List of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of fresh meat of poultry, ratites and wild game birds, and meat preparations of poultry

Article 7 List of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of eggs and egg products

Article 8 List of third countries authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of fresh meat of farmed rabbit, and of fresh meat of wild leporidae not containing offal except for unskinned and uneviscerated wild leporidae

Article 9 List of third countries authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of fresh meat of wild land mammals other than ungulates and leporidae, not containing offal

Article 10 List of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of meat products, including rendered animals fats, greaves, meat extracts and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines, and excluding casings

Article 11 List of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of casings

Article 12 List of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of live, chilled, frozen or processed bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods

Article 13 List of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of certain fishery products

Article 14 List of third countries authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of raw milk, colostrum, colostrum-based products and dairy products of solipeds

Article 15 List of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of raw milk, colostrum, colostrum-based products and dairy products, not required to undergo a specific risk-mitigating treatment against foot-and-mouth disease

Article 16 List of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of dairy products required to undergo a specific risk-mitigating treatment against foot-and-mouth disease

Article 17 List of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of frogs’ legs and of snails

Article 18 List of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of gelatine and collagen

Article 19 List of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of raw materials for the production of gelatine and collagen

Article 20 List of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of treated raw materials for the production of gelatine and collagen

Article 21 List of third countries authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of honey and other apiculture products

Article 22 List of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of certain highly refined products

Article 23 List of third countries authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of reptile meat

Article 24 List of third countries authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of insects

Article 25 List of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of other products of animal origin

Article 26 List of third countries authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of live poultry and of hatching eggs of the species Gallus gallus, of live turkeys and of hatching eggs of turkeys

Article 26a List of third counties authorised for the entry into the Union of products of animal origin and certain goods that originated from the Union, are moved to a third country or region thereof and moved back to the Union after unloading, storage and reloading in that third country or region thereof

Article 27 Repeal

Article 28 Entry into force and application

ANNEX -I

ANNEX IList of third countries authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of fresh meat, excluding minced meat, and of meat preparations of domestic solipeds, as referred to in Article 4, Article 19(2) and Article 25(b)

ANNEX IIList of third countries authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of fresh meat, excluding offal and minced meat, and of meat preparations of wild solipeds, as referred to in Article 5 and Article 19(2)

ANNEX IIIList of third countries from which unplucked and uneviscerated wild game birds intended for human consumption shall only be authorised for entry into the Union if they are transported by aeroplane, as referred to in Article 6

ANNEX IV

ANNEX VList of third countries authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of fresh meat of farmed rabbit, and of fresh meat of wild leporidae not containing offal except for unskinned and uneviscerated wild leporidae, as referred to in Article 8, Articles 18(4), 19(5) and 20(4), and Article 25(e)

ANNEX VIList of third countries authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of fresh meat of wild land mammals other than ungulates and leporidae, not containing offal, as referred to in Article 9, Articles 18(5), 19(6) and 20(5), and Article 25(f)

ANNEX VIIList of third countries authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of meat products, including rendered animals fats, greaves, meat extracts and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines, and excluding casings, of leporidae, of solipeds, and of wild land mammals other than ungulates and leporidae, as referred to in the first paragraph of Article 10

ANNEX VIIIList of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of live, chilled, frozen or processed bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods, as referred to in Article 12

ANNEX IXList of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of certain fishery products, as referred to in Article 13, Articles 18(3), 19(4), and 20(3), and Articles 22(b) and 25(d)

ANNEX XList of third countries authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of raw milk, colostrum, colostrum-based products and dairy products of solipeds, as referred to in Article 14

ANNEX XIList of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of frogs’ legs and of snails, as referred to in Article 17

ANNEX XIIList of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of gelatine and collagen, derived from bovine, ovine, caprine, porcine and soliped animals, as referred to in Articles 18(1) and 20(1), and Article 22(a)

ANNEX XIIIList of third countries authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of gelatine and collagen derived from poultry, as referred to in Articles 18(2) and 20(2), and Article 22(c)

ANNEX XIVList of third countries authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of reptile meat as referred to in Article 23

ANNEX XVList of third countries authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of insects as referred to in Article 24

ANNEX XVIList of third countries authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of live poultry and of hatching eggs of the species Gallus gallus, of live turkeys and of hatching eggs of turkeys, as referred to in the first paragraph of Article 26

ANNEX XVIICorrelation table referred to in the second paragraph of Article 27