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Document 02020R1641-20220227

Consolidated text: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1641 of 5 November 2020 regarding imports of live, chilled, frozen or processed bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods for human consumption from the United States of America (Text with EEA relevance)Text with EEA relevance

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02020R1641 — EN — 27.02.2022 — 001.001

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COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2020/1641

of 5 November 2020

regarding imports of live, chilled, frozen or processed bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods for human consumption from the United States of America

(Text with EEA relevance)

(OJ L 370 6.11.2020, p. 4)

Amended by:

 

 

Official Journal

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page

date

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COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/158 of 4 February 2022

  L 26

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7.2.2022



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COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2020/1641

of 5 November 2020

regarding imports of live, chilled, frozen or processed bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods for human consumption from the United States of America

(Text with EEA relevance)



Article 1

Subject matter and scope

This Regulation lays down rules concerning the entry into the Union of consignments of live, chilled, frozen or processed bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods intended for human consumption from the States of Massachusetts and Washington of the United States.

Article 2

Definition

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

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

Article 3

Equivalence

The measures applied in the States of Massachusetts and Washington of the United States for the protection of public health in relation to the production and placing on the market of live, chilled, frozen or processed bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods for human consumption for which the Combined Nomenclature codes have been laid down in Part Two of Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 are equivalent to the requirements laid down in the rules referred to in Article 1(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

Article 4

Official certificate

Each consignment of live, chilled, frozen or processed bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods intended for human consumption, as referred to Article 1, shall enter the Union only if they are accompanied by an official certificate duly completed in accordance with the model set out in the Annex.

Article 5

Entry into force

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

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ANNEX

MODEL OFFICIAL CERTIFICATE FOR THE ENTRY INTO THE UNION OF LIVE, CHILLED, FROZEN OR PROCESSED BIVALVE MOLLUSCS, ECHINODERMS, TUNICATES AND MARINE GASTROPODS INTENDED FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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