Commission Regulation (EC) No 2686/98 of 11 December 1998 amending Annexes I and II of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 laying down a Community procedure for the establishment of maximum residue limits of veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1998-12-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal product, food inspection, public health, veterinary drug, veterinary legislation, waste

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EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

12. 12. 98

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2686/98

of 11 December 1998

amending Annexes I and II of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 laying down
a Community procedure for the establishment of maximum residue limits of
veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90
of 26 June 1990 laying down a Community procedure for
the establishment of maximum residue limits of veter-
inary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin (1),
as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No
2560/98 (2) and in particular Articles 6, 7 and 8 thereof,

Whereas, in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 2377/
90, maximum residue limits must be established progres-
sively for all pharmacologically active substances which
are used within the Community in veterinary medicinal
products intended for administration to food-producing
animals;

Whereas maximum residue limits should be established
only after the examination within the Committee for
Veterinary Medicinal Products of all the relevant informa-
tion concerning the safety of residues of the substance
concerned for the consumer of foodstuffs of animal origin
and the impact of residues on the industrial processing of
foodstuffs;

Whereas, in establishing maximum residue limits for res-
idues of veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of
animal origin, it is necessary to specify the animal species
in which residues may be present, the levels which may
be present in each of the relevant meat tissues obtained
from the treated animal (target tissue) and the nature of
the residue which is relevant for the monitoring of res-
idues (marker residue);

Whereas, in the case of veterinary medicinal products
intended for use in laying birds,
lactating animals or
honey bees, maximum residue limits must also be estab-
lished for eggs, milk or honey;

Whereas flumethrin should be inserted into Annex I to
Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90;

Whereas oleyloleate, calcium glucoheptonate, calcium
glucono glucoheptonate, calcium gluconolactate, calcium
glutamate, nickel gluconate, nickel
sodium
hypophosphite, bacitracin, bronopol, cetostearyl alcohol,
sodium
menadione, phytomenadione,
cetostearyl sulphate, wool alcohols, lespedeza capitata,
majoranae herba, medicago sativa extractum, sinapis
nigrae semen and flumethrin should be inserted into
Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90;

2-pyrrolidone,

sulphate,

Whereas a period of 60 days should be allowed before the
entry into force of
this Regulation in order to allow
Member States to make any adjustment which may be
necessary to the authorisations to place the veterinary
medicinal products concerned on the market which have
been granted in accordance with Council Directive 81/
851/EEC (3), as last amended by Directive 93/40/EEC (4)
to take account of the provisions of this Regulation;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Standing
Committee on Veterinary Medicinal Products,

HAS ADOPTED THE FOLLOWING REGULATION:

Article 1

Annexes I and II of Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 are
hereby amended as set out in the Annex hereto.

Whereas, for the control of residues, as provided for in
appropriate Community legislation, maximum residue
limits should usually be established for the target tissues
of liver or kidney; whereas, however, the liver and kidney
are frequently removed from carcasses moving in inter-
national trade, and maximum residue limits should there-
fore also always be established for muscle or fat tissues;

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 60th day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

(1) OJ L 224, 18. 8. 1990, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 320, 28. 11. 1998, p. 28.

(3) OJ L 317, 6. 11. 1981, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 214, 24. 8. 1993, p. 31.

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.

Done at Brussels, 11 December 1998.

For the Commission

Martin BANGEMANN

Member of the Commission

A. Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 2377/90 is amended as follows:

ANNEX

2.

Antiparasitic agents

2.2. Agents acting against ectoparasites

2.2.3. Pyrethroids

Pharmacologically active
substance(s)

Marker residue

Animal species

MRLs

Target tissues

Other provisions

‘Flumethrin

Flumethrin
trans-Z isomers)

(sum of

Bovine

10 lg/kg Muscle
150 lg/kg
20 lg/kg
10 lg/kg Kidney
30 lg/kg Milk'

Fat
Liver

B. Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 2377/90 is amended as follows:

1.

Inorganic chemicals

Pharmacologically active substance(s)

Animal species

Other provisions

‘Calcium glucoheptonate

All food-producing species

Calcium glucono glucoheptonate

All food-producing species

Calcium gluconolactate

Calcium glutamate

Nickel gluconate

Nickel sulphate

Sodium hypophosphite

All food-producing species

All food-producing species

All food-producing species

All food-producing species

All food-producing species'

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Pharmacologically active substance(s)

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Bronopol

Cetostearyl alcohol

Flumethrin

Menadione

Oleyloleate

Phytomenadione

Sodium cetostearyl sulphate

Wool alcohols

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Substances of vegetable origin

All food-producing species

At parenteral doses up to 40 mg/kg bw

Bovine

Salmonidae

All food-producing species

Honey bees

All food-producing species

All food-producing species

All food-producing species

All food-producing species

All food-producing species

For intramammary use in lactating cows only and for all
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For use only on farmed fertilised eggs

For topical use only

For topical use only

For topical use only'

Pharmacologically active substance(s)

Animal species

Other provisions

‘Lespedeza capitata

Majoranae herba

Medicago sativa extractum

Sinapis nigrae semen

All food-producing species

All food-producing species

All food-producing species

All food-producing species'

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