(1)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 (5) lays down rules regarding animal health certificates provided for in Regulation (EU) 2016/429, official certificates provided for in Regulation (EU) 2017/625, and animal health/official certificates based on those Regulations, which are required for the entry into the Union of certain consignments of animals and goods. In particular, Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 lays down, among others, model animal health/official certificates for the entry into the Union of consignments of certain categories of animals and certain products of animal origin intended for human consumption.

(2)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/399 (6) amended the public health attestations of certain model certificates set out in Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 to reflect the provisions laid down in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/905, and in particular Article 6 thereof.

(3)

Regular scrutiny of the legal framework concerning certification has revealed a deficiency in the model certificates set out in Chapter 29 (model ‘EU-FISH’), Chapter 30 (model ‘FISH/MOL-CAP’) and Chapter 31 (model ‘MOL-HC’) of Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235. In the interest of the effectiveness of the certification process, the public health attestation of those model certificates should be amended to reflect the provisions laid down in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/905 as regards the application of the prohibition of use of certain antimicrobial medicinal products in animals or products of animal origin exported from third countries to the Union.

(4)

Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(5)

Chapter 12 (model ‘NZ-TRANSIT-SG’) of Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 sets out the model certificate for the entry into the Union of fresh meat intended for human consumption originating from New Zealand transiting through Singapore with unloading, possible storage and reloading before entry into the Union. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/399 erroneously added an attestation as regards Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/905 to that model certificate. That model certificate should be limited to the attestation that transit rules have been respected and should be corrected accordingly. As a consequence of that correction, the autonomous transitional provision in Article 3(1) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/399 should also be corrected.

(6)

In order to avoid any disruption in trade as regards the entry into the Union of consignments concerned by the amendments made by this Regulation, the use of certificates issued in accordance with Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 as applicable prior to the amendments made by this Regulation, should continue to be authorised during a transitional period, subject to certain conditions.

(7)

In the interest of legal certainty and to facilitate trade, this Regulation should enter into force as a matter of urgency.

(8)

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

1.

in Chapter 12 (model ‘NZ-TRANSIT-SG’), Part II.3 is deleted;

2.

in Chapter 12 (model ‘NZ-TRANSIT-SG’), in the notes to Part II, notes (5) and (6) are deleted.

‘1.

For a transitional period until 3 December 2024, as regards consignments of certain products of animal origin intended for human consumption, the use of certificates issued in accordance with the models set out in Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 13, 15, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 45 and 49 of Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235, as applicable before the amendments made to that Implementing Regulation by this Regulation, shall continue to be authorised for the entry into the Union provided that those certificates were issued no later than 3 September 2024.’.