G/SPS/N/EU/755  
24 April 2024  
(24-3353) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN UNION  
If applicable, name of local government involved:   
2. Agency responsible:  European Commission, Health and Food Safety Directorate -General  
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, 
where applicable):  Preparation of a kind used in animal nutrition (HS code: 2309)  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable : 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:   
5. Title of the notified document:  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1070 
of 12 April 2024 concerning the renewal of the authorisation of a preparatio n of 
25-hydroxycholecalciferol produced by Saccharomyces cerevisiae  CBS 146008 for chickens 
for fattening, turkeys for fattening, other poultry and pigs and the authorisation of that 
preparation for ruminants and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 887 /2009 . 
Language(s):  English, French and Spanish . Number of pages:  6 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/SPS/EEC/24_02763_00_e.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/SPS/EEC/24_02763_00_f.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/SPS/EEC/24_02763_00_s.pdf  
6. Description of content:  The preparation specified in this Act was initially authorized for a 
period of ten  years as a feed additive for chickens for fattening, turkeys for fattening, 
other poultry and pigs in the category 'nutritional additives' and in the functional group 
'vitamins, pro -vitamins and chemically well -defined substances having similar effect'. 
An application was submitted for the renewal of this authorization and another one for the 
authorization of a new use of that preparation for ruminants. Further to the favourable 
assessment by the European Food Safety Authority, the authorization of these 
preparations is renewed, subject to certain conditions.  
7. Objective and rationale: [X]  food safety, [X]  animal health, [  ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [  ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.   
8. Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:  
[X] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text) : Code of practice on Good Animal Feeding 
CAC/RCP  54-2004 
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g.  Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number) :  
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g.  ISPM number) :  G/SPS/N/EU/755  
 
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  [ ] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international st andard?  
[X] Yes   [  ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:   
9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:    
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : 12 April 2024 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : 15 April 2024  
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [  ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) : This Regulation will enter into force on the twentieth day following its 
publication in the Offi cial Journal of the European Union.  
[X] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments: [  ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [X]  National Notification 
Authority, [X]  National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if 
available) of other body:   
European Commission  
DG Health and Food Safety, Unit A4 -Multilateral International Relations  
Rue Froissart 101  
B-1049 Brussels  
Tel: +(32 2) 29 54263  
E-mail: sps@ec.europa.eu  
13. Text(s) available from: [X]  National Notification Authority, [X]  National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:   
European Commission  
DG Health and Food Safety, Unit A4 -Multilateral International Relations  
Rue Froissart 101  
B-1049 Brussels  
Tel: +(32 2) 29 54263  
E-mail: sps@ec.europa.eu