Commission Regulation (EC) No 676/2003 of 14 April 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 1334/2001 concerning the provisional authorisation of a new additive in feedingstuffs (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-04-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal nutrition, food additive, foodstuffs legislation, swine

15.4.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 97/29

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 676/2003

of 14 April 2003

amending Regulation (EC) No 1334/2001 concerning the provisional authorisation of a new addi-
tive in feedingstuffs

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 70/524/EEC of 23
November 1970 concerning additives in feedingstuffs (1), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1756/2002 (2), and in parti-
cular Articles 3 and 9r thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1334/2001 of 2 July
2001 concerning the provisional authorisation of a new
additive in feedingstuffs (3), provisionally authorised the
use of the additive potassium diformate for use as an
additive in animal nutrition subject to the conditions set
out in that Regulation.

Directive 70/524/EEC requires authorisations for growth
promoters to be linked to the person responsible for
putting them into circulation.

The Commission has been notified that
the person
responsible for putting the additive potassium diformate
into circulation has changed, and is now BASF Aktienge-
sellschaft.

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

The person responsible for putting that additive into
circulation has submitted new data in order to obtain
approval
the
additive in feed.

for higher maximum concentrations of

The Scientific Committee for Animal Nutrition has deliv-
ered a favourable opinion with regard to the safety of
the additive, under new conditions of use.

Regulation (EC) No 1334/2001 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Directive are in accor-
dance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on
the Food Chain and Animal Health,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2001 is replaced by
the text in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 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, 14 April 2003.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 270, 14.12.1970, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 265, 3.10.2002, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 180, 3.7.2001, p. 18.

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Registration
Number of
Additive

Name and registration number
of person responsible for
putting additive into
circulation

Growth promoters

Additive
(trade name)

Composition, Chemical formula,
description

Species or
category of
animal

Maximum age

Minimum
content

Maximum
content

(mg of active ingredient/kg of
complete feedingstuff)

Other provision

End of period
of authorisation

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N

1

BASF Aktiengesellschaft
α DE RP 1 31401

Potassium diformate
(FormiTM LHS)

2 months

6 000

18 000

30.6.2005

—

6 000

12 000

30.6.2005’

Piglets
(weaned)

Pigs for
fattening

solid

Additive composition
Potassium diformate,
min. 98 %,
Silicate max. 1,5 %,
Water max. 0,5 %
Active substance:
Potassium diformate, solid
KH(COOH)2 CAS No 20642-
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