Requirements as regards the use of pharmacologically active substances in food-producing animals and residues thereof in products of animal origin and composite products
1. Food-producing animals, products of animal origin and composite products shall only enter the Union from third countries which provide guarantees that the controls on the use of pharmacologically active substances referred to in Annex I to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644 and on the residues thereof are at least equivalent to those required for the multiannual national control plans of Member States referred to in Article 4 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1646.
2. Where a third country authorises the use in food-producing animals of pharmacologically active substances which are not authorised for such animals in the Union, food-producing animals, products of animal origin and composite products shall only enter the Union insofar as that third country provides guarantees that No residues thereof are present in those animals and products. The methods of analysis used to demonstrate the absence of such residues shall comply with the requirements laid down in Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/808 or with requirements equivalent thereto.
Requirements as regards the prohibition of certain substances
1. Food-producing animals, products of animal origin and composite products shall only enter the Union from third countries which provide guarantees of compliance with the prohibition of the use of beta-agonists and any stilbene, thyrostatic, oestrogenic, androgenic and gestagenic substances in farm animals laid down in Directive 96/22/EC, and with the prohibition of the use of the substances listed in Table 2 of the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 37/2010.
2. Food-producing animals, products of animal origin and composite products from third countries that authorise the use of the substances referred to in paragraph 1 in food-producing animals or do not have rules on the use of those substances shall only enter the Union insofar as those third countries provide guarantees that:
(a)
they have set up a segregated production system to ensure that food-producing animals, products of animal origin and composite products intended for entry into the Union are not treated with the substances referred to in paragraph 1; and
(b)
they have set up an appropriate animal identification and traceability system, as well as a system for the control of the distribution of the substances referred to in paragraph 1 and for the record keeping of the administration of veterinary medicinal products.
Requirements as regards residues of pesticides in products of animal origin and composite products
Products of animal origin and composite products shall only enter the Union from third countries which provide guarantees that representative controls on pesticide residues are performed in order to demonstrate that those products comply with the maximum residue levels laid down in Regulation (EC) No 396/2005. Those guarantees shall be at least equivalent to those provided for by the multiannual national control programmes for pesticide residues referred to in Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1355.
Requirements as regards contaminants in products of animal origin and composite products
Products of animal origin and composite products shall only enter the Union from third countries which provide guarantees that those products comply with the maximum tolerances for contaminants established on the basis of Regulation (EEC) No 315/93. Those guarantees shall be at least equivalent to those provided for by the multiannual national control plans established in accordance with Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/931 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/932.
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