(1)

Regulation (EU) 2017/625 lays down rules for official controls and other control activities performed by the competent authorities of the Member States in order to verify compliance with Union legislation in the area of, among others, food safety at any stage of production, processing and distribution. In particular, it provides that only consignments of certain animals and goods from a third country or region thereof which appears on a list drawn up by the Commission for that purpose are to enter the Union.

(2)

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2292 (3) supplements Regulation (EU) 2017/625 as regards the conditions for the entry into the Union of consignments of food-producing animals and certain goods intended for human consumption from third countries or regions thereof, in order to ensure that they comply with the relevant requirements established in the rules on food safety referred to in Article 1(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 or with requirements recognised to be at least equivalent thereto. In particular, Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2292 identifies the animals and goods intended for human consumption that are subject to the requirement to come from a third country or region thereof which appears on the list referred to in Article 126(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

(3)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/405 (4) 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.

(4)

Regulation (EU) 2017/625 repealed Directive 96/23/EC, but provides that Article 29(1) and (2) of that Directive are to continue to apply until 14 December 2022.

(5)

Commission Decision 2011/163/EU (5) lists the third countries for which control plans on the use of pharmacologically active substances, maximum residue limits of pharmacologically active substances, maximum residue levels of pesticides and maximum levels of contaminants, which are referred to in Article 29(1) of Directive 96/23/EC in conjunction with Annex I to that Directive, have been approved.

(6)

Article 7 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2292 provides that, in addition to the conditions laid down in Regulation (EU) 2017/625, consignments of food-producing animals, products of animal origin and composite products are to enter the Union only from a third country included in the list of third countries approved for the entry into the Union of the concerned food-producing animals or products of animal origin for human consumption.

(7)

In the interest of ensuring transparency and consistency as well as of facilitating the entry of consignments of certain animals and goods intended for human consumption into the Union, all lists of third countries required to ensure that goods and animals exported to the Union comply with the relevant requirements referred to in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 upon entry into the Union, should be laid down in one single implementing act. Therefore, Decision 2011/163/EU should be repealed and the list set out in the Annex to that Decision should be inserted in Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/405.

(8)

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/405 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(9)

As Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2292 applies from 15 December 2022, this Regulation should apply from that date as well.

(10)

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 following Article 2a is inserted after Article 2:

(*1)  Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2292 of 6 September 2022 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to requirements for the entry into the Union of consignments of food-producing animals and certain goods intended for human consumption (OL L 304, 24.11.2022, p. 1).’;"

(2)

in Article 3, the words ‘and listed in Decision 2011/163/EU’ are replaced by the words ‘and listed in Annex -I to this Regulation’;

(3)

in Article 6, first paragraph, the words ‘and listed in Decision 2011/163/EU’ are replaced by the words ‘and listed in Annex -I to this Regulation’;

(4)

in Article 7, first paragraph, the words ‘and listed in Decision 2011/163/EU for “eggs”’ are replaced by the words ‘and listed in Annex -I to this Regulation for “eggs”’;

(5)

in Article 10, second paragraph, the words ‘and listed in Decision 2011/163/EU’ are replaced by the words ‘and listed in Annex -I to this Regulation’;

(6)

in Article 11, the words ‘and listed in Decision 2011/163/EU for “casings”’ are replaced by the words ‘and listed in Annex -I to this Regulation for “casings”’;

(7)

in Article 15, the words ‘and listed in Decision 2011/163/EU for “milk”’ are replaced by the words ‘and listed in Annex -I to this Regulation for “milk”’;

(8)

in Article 16, the words ‘and listed in Decision 2011/163/EU for “milk”’ are replaced by the words ‘and listed in Annex -I to this Regulation for “milk”’;

(9)

in Article 21, the words ‘listed in Decision 2011/163/EU for “honey”’ are replaced by the words ‘listed in Annex -I for “honey”’;

(10)

in Article 25, point (a), the words ‘and listed in Decision 2011/163/EU when applicable’ are replaced by the words ‘and listed in Annex -I to this Regulation, where applicable’;

(11)

in Article 25, point (c), the words ‘and listed in Decision 2011/163/EU when applicable’ are replaced by the words ‘and listed in Annex -I to this Regulation, where applicable’;

(12)

the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation is inserted as Annex -I before Annex I.