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COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/...  
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amending Annex VI to Commission Regulation (EC) No 152/2009 as regards the method 
of analysis for the detection of terrestrial invertebrate constituents for the official 
control of feed  
(Text with EEA relevance)   EN 1  EN COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/...  
of XXX  
amending Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 152/2009 as regards the method s of analysis 
for the detection of constituents of terrestrial invertebrate s for the official control of feed  
(Text with EEA relevance)  
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,  
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union , 
Having regard to Regulatio n (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 
15 March 2017 on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the 
application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant 
protectio n products, amending Regulations (EC) No 999/2001, (EC) No 396/2005, (EC) No 
1069/2009, (EC) No 1107/2009, (EU) No 1151/2012, (EU) No 652/2014, (EU) 2016/429 and 
(EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Regulations (EC) No 
1/2005 and (EC) No 1099/2009 and Council Directives 98/58/EC, 1999/74/EC, 2007/43/EC, 
2008/119/EC and 2008/120/EC, and repealing Regulations (EC) No 854/2004 and (EC) No 
882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 89/608/EEC, 
89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC, 91/496/EEC, 96/23/EC, 96/93/EC and 97/78/EC and Council 
Decision 92/438/EEC  (Official Controls Regulation)1, and in particular Article 34(6)  (a) 
thereof , 
Whereas:  
(1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 152/20092 establishes testing methods used  to 
support official controls to enforce the ban on the use of processed animal protein in 
feed for food producing animals. This includes methods of analysis for the 
determination of constituents of animal origin for the official control of feed, which 
are described in Annex VI to that Regulation and performed by light microscopy or 
polymerase chain reaction (PCR) . 
(2) The use of processed animal protein derived from farmed insects has been authorised 
in the feed of aquaculture animals by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/8933, and in 
the feed of porcine animals and p oultry by Commission Regulation (EU) 2021/13724, 
                                                 
1 OJ L 95, 7 .4.2017 , p. 1.  
2 Commission Regulation (EC) No 152/2009 of 27 January 2009 laying down the methods of sampling 
and analysis for the official control of feed (OJ L 54, 26.2.2009, p. 1).   
3 Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/893 of 24 May 2017 amending Annexes I and IV to Regulation 
(EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Annexes X, XIV and XV to 
Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 as regards the provisions on proc essed animal protein  (OJ L 
138, 25.5.2017, p. 92).  
4 Commission Regulation (EU) 2021/1372 of 17 August 2021 amending Annex IV to Regulation (EC) 
No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the prohibition to feed non -
ruminant farme d animals, other than fur animals, with protein derived from animals (OJ L 295, 
18.8.2021, p. 1 ). EN 2  EN but is still prohibited under Regulation (EC) N) 999/20015 in certain feed, notably in 
the feed of ruminants.  
(3) The European Union reference laboratory for animal proteins in feedingstuffs has 
developed and va lidated a special light microscopy protocol, including a double 
sedimentation step, which ensures the detection of particles from terrestrial 
invertebrates, including insect s, if present , in premixtures, feed materials or compound 
feed submitted to laborat ory testing.  With this additional step, the protocol can be used 
in the framework of official controls to verify the correct enforcement of the ban on 
the use of processed animal protein of insects in certain feed for food producing 
animals.  
(4) The description of the light microscopy method set out  in Annex VI to Regulation 
(EC) No 152/2009 should therefore be adjusted in order to include a double 
sedimentation step in the protocol for the preparation of samples to be tested  for 
detecting constit uents of terrestrial invertebrates . 
(5) In addition, Annex VI should be corrected in order to replace the occurrences of 
“premixes” by “premixtures” , which is defined in Article 2(2)(e) of 
Regulation  (EC)  1831/2003, and to include “premixtures”  as potential matrix for the 
methods described in this Annex, next to feed materials and compound feed.  
(6) Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 152/2009 should therefore be amended accordingly.  
(7) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the  opinion of the 
Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed , 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:  
Article 1  
Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 152/2009 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this 
Regulation.  
Article  2 
This Regulation shall enter into forc e on the twentieth  day following that of its publication in 
the Official Journal of the European Union . 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.  
Done at Brussels,  
 For the Commission  
 The President  
 Ursula VON DER LEYEN  
                                                 
5 Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying 
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