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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 669/2014 of 18 June 2014 concerning the authorisation of calcium D-pantothenate            and D-panthenol as feed additives for all animal species (Text with EEA relevance)         

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# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 669/2014                     

# of 18 June 2014

# concerning the authorisation of calcium D-pantothenate and D-panthenol as feed additives for all animal species

# (Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2003 on additives                           for use in animal nutrition(1), and in particular Article 9(2) thereof,                        

Whereas:

(1)Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 provides for the authorisation of additives for use in animal nutrition and for the grounds and                              procedures for granting such authorisation. Article 10 of that Regulation provides for the re-evaluation of additives authorised                              pursuant to Council Directive 70/524/EEC(2).

(2)Calcium D-pantothenate and D-panthenol were authorised without a time limit in accordance with Directive 70/524/EEC as feed                              additives for use on all animal species as part of the group ‘Vitamins, pro-vitamins and chemically well-defined substances                              having similar effect’. Those feed additives were subsequently entered in the Community Register of feed additives as existing                              products, in accordance with Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003.

(3)In accordance with Article 10(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 in conjunction with Article 7 thereof, two applications were                              submitted for the re-evaluation of calcium D-pantothenate and D-panthenol as feed additives for all animal species and, in                              accordance with Article 7 of that Regulation, for a change in the terms of the authorisation as regards their use via drinking                              water. The applicants requested those additives to be classified in the additive category ‘nutritional additives’. Those applications                              were accompanied by the particulars and documents required under Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003.

(4)The European Food Safety Authority (‘the Authority’) concluded in its opinions of 11 October 2011(3) that, under the proposed conditions of use in feed, calcium D-pantothenate and D-panthenol do not have an adverse effect                              on animal health, human health or the environment. The Authority also concluded that calcium D-pantothenate and D-panthenol                              are regarded as effective sources of pantothenic acid and that no safety concerns would arise for users provided that appropriate                              protective measures are taken. The Authority does not consider that there is a need for specific requirements of post-market                              monitoring. It also verified the report on the method of analysis of the feed additives in feed submitted by the Reference                              Laboratory set up by Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003.

(5)The assessment of calcium D-pantothenate and D-panthenol shows that the conditions for authorisation, as provided for in Article                              5 of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003, are satisfied. Accordingly, the use of these substances should be authorised as specified                              in the Annex to this Regulation.

(6)Since safety reasons do not require the immediate application of the modifications to the conditions of authorisation, it                              is appropriate to allow a transitional period for the disposal of existing stocks of the additives, pre-mixtures and compound                              feed containing them, as authorised by Directive 70/524/EEC.

(7)The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain                              and Animal Health,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

# Article 1U.K.

The substances specified in the Annex, belonging to the additive category ‘nutritional additives’ and to the functional group                     ‘vitamins, pro-vitamins and chemically well-defined substances having similar effect’, are authorised as additives in animal                     nutrition subject to the conditions laid down in that Annex.                  

# Article 2U.K.

The substances specified in the Annex and feed containing those substances, which are produced and labelled before 9 January                     2015 in accordance with the rules applicable before 9 July 2014 may continue to be placed on the market and used until the                     existing stocks are exhausted.                  

# Article 3U.K.

This Regulation shall enter into force 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, 18 June 2014.

*For the Commission*                            

*The President*                            

José Manuel Barroso                            

## ANNEXU.K.

1

OJ L 268, 18.10.2003, p. 29.                           

2

OJ L 270, 14.12.1970, p. 1.                           

3

*EFSA Journal* 2011; 9(11):2409 and *EFSA Journal* 2011; 9(11):2410.