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

• Published date: 31 March 2021
• Date of Signature: 24 March 2021
• Subject Matter: Consumer protection,Foodstuffs,Veterinary legislation
• Official Gazette Publication: Official Journal of the European Union, L 114, 31 March 2021

02021R0405 — EN — 15.12.2022 — 007.001

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►B 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) (OJ L 114 31.3.2021, p. 118)

Amended by:

		Official Journal
		No	page	date
►M1	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/606 of 14 April 2021	L 129	65	15.4.2021
►M2	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/1327 of 10 August 2021	L 288	28	11.8.2021
►M3	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/1469 of 10 September 2021	L 321	21	13.9.2021
►M4	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/34 of 22 December 2021	L 8	1	13.1.2022
►M5	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/363 of 2 March 2022	L 69	40	4.3.2022
►M6	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/1389 of 2 August 2022	L 210	1	11.8.2022
►M7	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/2293 of 18 November 2022	L 304	31	24.11.2022

Corrected by:

C1 Corrigendum, OJ L 072, 7.3.2022, p. 8 (2022/363)

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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)

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.

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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...