Commission Directive 2005/6/EC of 26 January 2005 amending Directive 71/250/EEC as regards reporting and interpretation of analytical results required under Directive 2002/32/ECText with EEA relevance
Date: 2005-01-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal feedingstuffs, food inspection, research method, research results, toxic substance

27.1.2005

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2005/6/EC

of 26 January 2005

amending Directive 71/250/EEC as regards reporting and interpretation of analytical results
required under Directive 2002/32/EC

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to the Council Directive 70/373/EEC of 20 July
1970 on the introduction of Community methods of sampling
and analysis for the official control of feeding-stuffs (1), and in
particular Article 2 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Commission Directive 71/250/EEC of 15 June 1971
establishing Community methods of analysis for
the
feeding-stuffs (2)
official control of
includes provisions
concerning the expression of results.

To ensure a harmonised implementation approach to
Directive 2002/32/EC of the European Parliament and
of the Council of 7 May 2002 on undesirable substances
in animal feed (3) in all Member States,
it is of major
importance that analytical results are reported and inter-
preted in a uniform way.

Directive 71/250/EEC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

The measures provided for
accordance with
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

in this Directive are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

the Council (*) including dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs, point
C(3) of Part 1 of the Annex to this Directive shall apply.
___________
(*) OJ L 140, 30.5.2002, p. 10.’

2. The Annex is amended in accordance with the Annex to this

Directive.

Article 2

1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations
and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this
Directive twelve months after the entry into force. They shall
forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those
provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and
this Directive.

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain
a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a
reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member
States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the
texts of the provisions of national law which they adopt in the
field covered by this Directive.

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day
following that of its publication in the Official
Journal of the
European Union.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 4

Article 1

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Directive 71/250/EEC is amended as follows:

1. In Article 1 the following paragraph is added after the

second paragraph:

‘As regards undesirable substances within the meaning of
Directive 2002/32/EC of the European Parliament and of

Done at Brussels, 26 January 2005.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 170, 3.8.1970, p. 2. Directive as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 807/2003 (OJ L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 36).

(2) OJ L 155, 12.7.1971, p. 13. Directive as

last amended by

Commission Directive 1999/27/EC (OJ L 118, 6.5.1999, p. 36).

(3) OJ L 140, 30.5.2002, p. 10. Directive as

last amended by
Commission Directive 2003/100/EC (OJ L 285, 1.11.2003, p. 33).

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ANNEX

In point C, application of methods of analysis and expression of results, of Part 1, general provisions on methods of
analysis for feedingstuffs, of the Annex to Directive 71/250/EEC the following point 3 is added:

‘3. As regards undesirable substances within the meaning of Directive 2002/32/EC, including dioxins and dioxin-like
PCBs, a product intended for animal feed shall be considered as non compliant with the established maximum
content, if the analytical result is deemed to exceed the maximum content taking into account expanded measurement
uncertainty and correction for recovery. The analysed concentration corrected for recovery and the expanded
measurement uncertainty subtracted from the analytical result is used to assess compliance. This procedure is only
applicable in cases where the method of analysis enables the estimation of measurement uncertainty and correction for
recovery (eg. Not possible in case of microscopic analysis)

The analytical result shall be reported as follows (in so far the used method of analysis enables to estimate the
measurement uncertainty and recovery rate):

(a) corrected or uncorrected for recovery, the manner of reporting and the level of recovery being indicated;
(b) as “x +/- U”, whereby x is the analytical result and U is the expanded measurement uncertainty, using a coverage

factor of 2 which gives a level of confidence of approximately 95 %.’