Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1540 of 22 October 2020 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793 as regards sesamum seeds originating in India (Text with EEA relevance)

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1540
• Articles: 4

Article 1 Amendment of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793

Annex II to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2 Transitional measures

Regulation (EU) 2019/1793 shall continue to apply as it stood before being amended by this Regulation to consignments of sesamum seeds from India having left the country of origin, or the country of dispatch if that country is different from the country of origin, before the date of entry into force of this Regulation.

Article 3

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

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

In Annex II, in point 1, the entry for sesamum seeds originating from India is replaced by the following entry:

Food and feed (intended use)

CN code (1)

TARIC sub-division

Country of origin

Hazard

Frequency of identity and physical checks (%)

‘ Sesamum seeds

(Food)

1207 40 90

India (IN)

Salmonella  ( *1 )

20

Pesticides residues  ( *2 )

( *3 )

50

( *1 )   The sampling and the analyses shall be performed in accordance with the sampling procedures and the analytical reference methods set out in point 1(a) of Annex III to this Regulation.

( *2 )   Residues of at least those pesticides listed in the control programme adopted in accordance with Article 29(2) of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 February 2005 on maximum residue levels of pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin and amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC ( OJ L 70, 16.3.2005, p. 1 .) that can be analysed with multi-residue methods based on GC-MS and LC-MS (pesticides to be monitored in/on products of plant origin only).

( *3 )   Residues of ethylene oxide (sum of ethylene oxide and 2-chloro-ethanol, expressed as ethylene oxide).’