Commission Regulation (EC) No 1333/2004 of 20 July 2004 concerning the permanent authorisation of certain additive in feedingstuffs(Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2004-07-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal nutrition, food additive, food chemistry, veterinary legislation

21.7.2004

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 247/11

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1333/2004

of 20 July 2004

concerning the permanent authorisation of certain additive in feedingstuffs

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 70/524/EEC of 23
November 1970 concerning additives in feedingstuffs (1), and
in particular Articles 3 and 9d(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Directive 70/524/EEC provides for the authorisation of
additives to be used in the Community. The additives
referred to in Part II of Annex C to that Directive may
be authorised without a time limit subject to certain
conditions being satisfied.

The use of the microorganism preparation of Enterococcus
faecium (NCIMB 11181) was provisionally authorised, for
the first
for calves and piglets by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2690/1999 (2).

time,

New data were submitted in support of the application
for authorisation without a time limit of that microor-
ganism. The assessment shows that the conditions laid
down in Directive 70/524/EEC for such an authorisation
have been satisfied.

(4)

(5)

(6)

Accordingly, the use of that microorganism for calves
should be
and piglets, as
authorised without a time limit.

specified in the Annex,

The assessment of the applications shows that certain
procedures should be required to protect workers from
exposure to the additive set out in the Annex to this
Regulation. Such protection should be assured by the
application of Council Directive 89/391/EEC of 12 June
1989 on the introduction of measures to encourage
improvements in the safety and health of workers at
work (3).

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

opinion

the

the

of

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The preparation of Enterococcus faecium (NCIMB 11181), as set
out in the Annex, is authorised for use without a time limit as
additive in animal nutrition under the conditions laid down in
that Annex.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
the European
that of
Communities.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

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

Done at Brussels, 20 July 2004.

For the Commission

David BYRNE
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 270, 14.12.1970, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1756/2002 (OJ L 265, 3.10.2002, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 326, 18.12.1999, p. 33.

(3) OJ L 183, 29.6.1989, p. 1. Directive as amended by Regulation (EC)
No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L
284, 31.10.2003, p. 1).

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