Commission Regulation (EC) No 1980/2005 of  5 December 2005  amending the conditions for authorisation of a feed additive belonging to the group of trace elements and of a feed additive belonging to the group of binders and anti-caking agents   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2005-12-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal nutrition, food additive, foodstuffs legislation, lead, toxic substance

6.12.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 318/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1980/2005

of 5 December 2005

amending the conditions for authorisation of a feed additive belonging to the group of trace
elements and of a feed additive belonging to the group of binders and anti-caking agents

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

the
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 of
European Parliament and of
the Council of 22 September
2003 on additives for use in animal nutrition (1), and in
particular the third sentence of Article 13(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(3)

the
of volcanic origin by Directive 2002/32/EC of
the Council of 7 May
European Parliament and of
feed (4), as
2002 on undesirable substances in animal
amended by Commission Directive 2005/87/EC (5).
Since the rules governing undesirable substances should
is
be collected in a single text
appropriate to remove the corresponding references
from Regulations
(EC)
No 2148/2004.

(EC) No 1334/2003 and

for greater clarity,

it

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

opinion

the

the

of

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1334/2003 of 25 July
2003 amending the conditions for authorisation of a
number of additives in feedingstuffs belonging to the
group of trace elements (2) establishes a maximum level
for lead in zinc oxide and Commission Regulation (EC)
No 2148/2004 of 16 December 2004 concerning the
permanent and provisional authorisations of certain
additives and the authorisation of new uses of an
additive already authorised in feedingstuffs (3) establishes
a maximum level for lead in clinoptilolite of volcanic
origin.

for
belonging

lead have been established for
Maximum levels
additives
of
to
the
compounds of trace elements, including zinc oxide, and
for additives belonging to the functional groups of
including clinoptilolite
binders and anti-caking agents,

functional

group

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In Regulation (EC) No 1334/2003, the words ‘maximum
1.
content of lead: 600 mg/kg’ are deleted from the entry in the
Annex concerning zinc.

In Regulation (EC) No 2148/2004, the words ‘maximum
2.
lead content: 80 mg/kg’ are deleted from the entry in the Annex
concerning clinoptilolite of volcanic origin.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force 12 months after the entry
into force of Commission Directive 2005/87/EC.

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

Done at Brussels, 5 December 2005.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 268, 18.10.2003, p. 29. Regulation as

amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 378/2005 (OJ L 59, 5.3.2005,
p. 8).

(2) OJ L 187, 26.7.2003, p. 11. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 2112/2003 (OJ L 317, 2.12.2003, p. 22).

(3) OJ L 370, 17.12.2004, p. 24.

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

last amended by

Commission Directive 2005/8/EC (OJ L 27, 29.1.2005, p. 44).

(5) See page 19 of this Official Journal.