(1)

The use of acetic acid, sodium diacetate and calcium acetate as feed additives was authorised for a 10-year period by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/415 (2) for poultry, pigs and pets with a maximum content of 2 500 mg/kg of complete feedingstuff with a moisture content of 12 %, and for all other animal species other than fish with no maximum content. However, according to the opinions adopted by the European Food Safety Authority on 1 February 2012 (3) and 6 May 2021 (4), only for ruminants the safety of use of the three additives concerned was demonstrated without a need to establish a maximum content.

(2)

In the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/415 regarding the additives sodium diacetate (identified as ‘1a262’) and calcium acetate (identified as ‘1a263’) an entry related to non-volatile matter was wrongly added in the column ‘Composition, chemical formula, description, analytical method’ under the heading ‘Characterisation of the active substance’.

(3)

In the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/415 regarding the additive sodium diacetate (identified as ‘1a262’) the additive composition and the characterisation of the active substance were erroneously indicated.

(4)

In the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/415 regarding the additive lactic acid (identified as ‘1a270’), the column ‘Maximum content’ should refer to the level of active substance, not of the additive.

(5)

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/415 should therefore be corrected accordingly.

(6)

Since safety reasons do not require the immediate application of the corrections to the terms of the authorisation of the additives acetic acid, sodium diacetate and calcium acetate, it is appropriate to provide for a transitional period for interested parties to prepare themselves to meet the requirements resulting from those corrections.

(7)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,

(1)

the third column ‘Composition, chemical formula, description, analytical method’ is corrected as follows:

(2)

in the fourth column ‘Species or category of animal’, in the entries 1a260 on acetic acid, 1a262 on sodium diacetate and 1a263 on calcium acetate, the category of animals ‘Poultry, pigs, pets’ is replaced by ‘All animal species other than fish and ruminants’ and the category of animals ‘All other animals species other than fish’ by ‘Ruminants’;

(3)

in the sixth column ‘Minimum content/Maximum content’, in the entry 1a270 on lactic acid, the title ‘mg/kg of complete feedingstuff with a moisture content of 12 %’ is replaced by ‘mg active substance/kg of complete feedingstuff with a moisture content of 12 %’.