Commission Regulation (EU) 2021/1925 of 5 November 2021 amending certain Annexes to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 as regards the requirements for placing on the market of certain insect products and the adaptation of a containment method (Text with EEA relevance)

• CELEX: Regulation (EU) 2021/1925
• Articles: 4

Article 1

Annexes I, IX, X, XI and XIV to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

Operators approved or registered in a Member State that applies national measures for the processing of frass may continue to apply those national measures for the placing on the market of frass within the concerned Member State until 8 November 2022.

Article 3

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

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

Annexes I, IX, X XI and XIV to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 are amended as follows:

(1)

in Annex I, the following point 61 is added:

‘61.

“ frass ” means a mixture of excrements derived from farmed insects, the feeding substrate, parts of farmed insects, dead eggs and with a content of dead farmed insects of not more than 5 % in volume and not more than 3 % in weight.’;

(2)

in Annex IX, in Chapter V, Section 2 is amended as follows:

(a)

point A.1 is replaced by the following:

‘1.

Member States  ( *1 ) concerned

The process of aerobic maturation and storage of dead-on-farm pigs and certain other porcine material with subsequent incineration or co-incineration may be used in France, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal and the United Kingdom in respect of Northern Ireland.

Following aerobic maturation and storage of material, the competent authority of the Member State concerned must ensure that the materials are collected and disposed of within the territory of that Member State.

( *1 )   In accordance with the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 5(4) of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in conjunction with Annex 2 to that Protocol, for the purposes of this Annex, references to Member States include the United Kingdom in respect of Northern Ireland.’;"

(b)

points B.1 and B.2 are replaced by the following:

‘1.

Member States  ( *2 ) concerned

The process of hydrolysis with subsequent disposal may be used in Ireland, Spain, Latvia, Portugal and the United Kingdom in respect of Northern Ireland.

Following hydrolysis, the authorising competent authority must ensure that the materials are collected and disposed of within the same Member State referred to above.

2.

Starting materials

For this process, only the following materials of porcine, poultry or farmed lagomorph species may be used:

(a)

Category 2 materials referred to in Article 9, points (f)(i), (ii) and (iii), of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009;

(b)

Category 3 materials referred to in Article 10, point (h), of that Regulation.

This method shall only be applied for the disposal of animals of the porcine, poultry or farmed lagomorph species originating in the same holding provided that this holding is not subject to a prohibition due to a suspected or confirmed outbreak of a serious transmissible disease affecting animals of the porcine, poultry or farmed lagomorph species, and animals have not been killed for disease control purposes.

( *2 )   In accordance with the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 5(4) of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in conjunction with Annex 2 to that Protocol, for the purposes of this Annex, references to Member States include the United Kingdom in respect of Northern Ireland.’;"

(3)

in Annex X, in Chapter II, in Section 1.A, in point 2, the following point (iv) is added:

‘(iv)

Silkworm ( Bombyx mori ).’;

(4)

in Annex XI, in Chapter I, Section 2 is amended as follows:

(a)

the title and the introductory paragraph are replaced by the following:

‘

Section 2

Guano from bats, frass, processed manure and derived products from processed manure

The placing on the market of guano from bats, processed manure, and derived products from processed manure shall be subject to the conditions set out in the following points (a) to (e). In addition, in the case of guano from bats the consent of the Member State of destination shall be required as referred to in Article 48(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009:’;

(b)

the following point (f) is added:

‘(f)

The placing on the market of frass shall be subject to the conditions set out in points (a), (b), (d) and (e) of this Section.’;

(5)

in Annex XIV, in Chapter II, in Section 11, Table 3 is replaced by the following:

‘ Table 3

Imports of photogelatine

Third country of origin

Plants of origin

Member State of destination

Border inspection post of first entry into the Union

Approved photographic factories

Japan

Nitta Gelatin Inc., 2-22 Futamata Yao-City, Osaka 581-0024 Japan

Jellie Co. Ltd. 7-1, Wakabayashi 2-Chome, Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai-City; Miyagi, 982 Japan

NIPPI Inc. Gelatine Division 1 Yumizawa-Cho Fujinomiya City Shizuoka 18-0073 Japan

The Netherlands

Rotterdam

FujifilmEurope, Oudenstaart 1, 5047 TK Tilburg, The Netherlands

Nitta Gelatin Inc., 2-22 Futamata Yao-City, Osaka 581-0024 Japan

Czechia

Hamburg

FOMA Bohemia, spol. SRO Jana Krušinky 1604 501 04 Hradec Králové, Czechia

United States

Eastman Gelatine Corporation, 227 Washington Street, Peabody, MA, 01960 USA

Gelita North America, 2445 Port Neal Industrial Road Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, 51054 USA

Czechia

Hamburg

FOMA Bohemia spol. SRO Jana Krušinky 1604 501 04 Hradec Králové, Czechia’

( *1 )   In accordance with the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 5(4) of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in conjunction with Annex 2 to that Protocol, for the purposes of this Annex, references to Member States include the United Kingdom in respect of Northern Ireland.’;

( *2 )   In accordance with the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 5(4) of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in conjunction with Annex 2 to that Protocol, for the purposes of this Annex, references to Member States include the United Kingdom in respect of Northern Ireland.’;”