Commission Directive 2005/8/EC of 27 January 2005 amending Annex I to Directive 2002/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on undesirable substances in animal feedText with EEA relevance

• CELEX: Directive 2005/8/EC
• Articles: 5

Article 1

Annex I to Directive 2002/32/EC is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Directive.

Article 2

1.   Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive twelve months after the entry into force at the latest. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and this Directive.

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

2.   Member States shall communicate to the Commission the texts of the provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

Article 3

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

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

Annex I to Directive 2002/32/EC is amended as follows:

1.

In column 2 of row 2, Lead, the following footnote is inserted after the word green fodder:

‘( * )

green fodder includes products intended for animal feed such as hay, silage, fresh grass, etc …’.

2.

Row 3, Fluorine, is amended as follows:

(a)

Footnotes ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) are deleted

(b)

The words ‘Mineral mixtures for cattle, sheep and goats — 2 000 ( 1 )’ and ‘Other complementary feedingstuffs — 125 ( 2 )’ are replaced by the words ‘Complementary feedingstuffs containing ≤ 4 % phosphorus — 500’ and ‘Complementary feedingstuffs containing > 4 % phosphorus — 125 per 1 % phosphorus’.

3.

Row 4, Mercury, is replaced by the following:

Undesirable substances

Products intended for animal feed

Maximum content in mg/kg (ppm) relative to a feedingstuff with a moisture content of 12 %

(1)

(2)

(3)

‘4.

Mercury

Feed materials with the exception of:

0,1

—

feedingstuffs produced by the processing of fish or other marine animals

0,5

—

calcium carbonate

0,3

Complete feedingstuffs with the exception of:

0,1

—

complete feedingstuffs for dogs and cats

0,4

Complementary feedingstuffs except

—

complementary feedingstuffs for dogs and cats

0,2 ’