Commission Regulation (EC) No 1447/2006 of 29 September 2006 concerning the authorisation of a new use of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Biosaf SC 47) as a feed additive   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-09-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal nutrition, fattening, food additive, market approval, sheep, zootechnics

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Official Journal of the European Union

30.9.2006

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1447/2006

of 29 September 2006
concerning the authorisation of a new use of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Biosaf SC 47) as a feed
additive

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April
2004 on official controls performed to ensure the veri-
fication of compliance with feed and food law, animal
health and animal welfare rules (2).

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 Article 9(2) thereof,

(5)

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 provides for the autho-
risation of additives for use in animal nutrition and for
the grounds and procedures for granting such authori-
sation.

In accordance with Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No
1831/2003, an application was submitted for the autho-
risation of the preparation set out in the Annex. That
application was accompanied by the particulars and
documents required under Article 7(3) of that Regulation.

The application concerns authorisation of a new use of
cerevisiae (NCYC Sc 47)
the preparation Saccharomyces
for
(Biosaf SC 47) as a feed additive
fattening,
category
‘zootechnical additives’.

to be classified in the additive

lambs

for

The method of analysis included in the application for
authorisation in accordance with Article 7(3)(c) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1831/2003 concerns the determination of
the active substance of the feed additive in feed. The
method of analysis referred to in the Annex to this
Regulation is
to be understood as a
Community method of analysis within the meaning of
the
Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of

therefore not

(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).

already

and provisional

authorisation of

authorised in feedingstuffs (4),

the preparation of Saccharomyces

cerevisiae
The use of
(NCYC Sc 47) was authorised for dairy cows by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1811/2005 of 4
November 2005 (3)
concerning the provisional and
permanent authorisation of certain additives in feeding-
stuffs and the provisional authorisation of a new use of
an additive already authorised in feedingstuffs, for cattle
fattening by Commission Regulation (EC) No
for
316/2003 of 19 February 2003 concerning
the
permanent authorisation of an additive in feedingstuffs
and the provisional authorisation of a new use of an
for
additive
piglets (weaned) by Commission Regulation (EC) No
2148/2004 of 16 December 2004 concerning the
permanent
certain
additives in feedingstuffs and the authorisation of a
new use of an additive already authorised in feeding-
stuffs (5), for sows by Commission Regulation (EC) No
1288/2004 of 14 July 2004 concerning the permanent
authorisation of certain additives and the provisional
authorisation of a new use of an additive already
authorised in feedingstuffs (6)
for
fattening by Commission Regulation (EC) No 600/2005
of 18 April 2005 concerning a new authorisation for 10
years of a coccidiostat as an additive in feedingstuffs, the
and the
provisional
permanent authorisation of certain additives in feeding-
stuffs (7). New data were submitted in support of an
application for authorisation for lambs for fattening. In
its assessment, the European Food Safety Authority (the
this organism
Authority) concludes that
(and its growth medium)
the user
and the environment have already been established and
will not be changed by the proposed new use. It further
concludes that
the preparation does not
present a risk for this additional animal category and
that the use of that preparation can improve average
daily weight gain in lambs for fattening. The Authority
does not consider
there is a need for specific
requirements of post-market monitoring. This opinion

the safety of
for the consumer,

authorisation of

an additive

the use of

and for

rabbits

that

(2) OJ L 165, 30.4.2004, as corrected by OJ L 191, 28.5.2004, p. 1.
amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No

Regulation as
776/2006 (OJ L 136, 24.5.2006, p. 3).

(3) OJ L 291, 5.11.2005, p. 12.
(4) OJ L 46, 20.2.2003, p. 15.
(5) OJ L 370, 17.12.2004, p. 24. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1980/2005 (OJ L 318, 6.12.2005, p. 3).

(6) OJ L 243, 15.7.2004, p. 10. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1812/2005 (OJ L 291, 5.11.2005, p. 18).

(7) OJ L 99, 19.4.2005, p. 5.

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also verifies the report on the method of analysis of the
feed additive in feed submitted by the Community
Reference Laboratory set up by Regulation (EC) No
1831/2003. The assessment of that preparation shows
the conditions for authorisation, provided for in
that
Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003,
are
satisfied. Accordingly,
that preparation
should be authorised, as specified in the Annex to this
Regulation.

the use of

(6)

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 specified in the Annex, belonging to the
additive category ‘zootechnical additives’ and to the functional
group ‘gut
is authorised as an additive in
animal nutrition subject to the conditions laid down in that
Annex.

flora stabilisers’,

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following
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, 29 September 2006.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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