Commission Regulation (EC) No 703/2007 of 21 June 2007 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 laying down a Community procedure for the establishment of maximum residue limits of veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin, as regards Dihydrostreptomycin and Streptomycin (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2007-06-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal product, foodstuff, material of animal origin, veterinary drug, veterinary legislation

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22.6.2007

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 703/2007

of 21 June 2007

amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 laying down a Community procedure
for the establishment of maximum residue limits of veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of
animal origin, as regards Dihydrostreptomycin and Streptomycin

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 of 26
June 1990 laying down a Community procedure for the estab-
lishment of maximum residue limits of veterinary medicinal
products in foodstuffs of animal origin (1), and in particular
Article 2 thereof,

Having regard to the opinion of
the European Medicines
Agency formulated by the Committee for Medicinal Products
for Veterinary Use,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

All pharmacologically active substances used in the
Community in veterinary medicinal products intended
should be evaluated in
for
accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90.

food-producing animals

The substance Dihydrostreptomycin is included in Annex
I to Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 for all ruminants for
muscle, fat, liver, kidney and milk as well as for porcine
liver and kidney. Following
for muscle, skin and fat,
examination of an application for
the extension to
rabbits of the existing entry for Dihydrostreptomycin, it
is considered appropriate to modify the entry for Di-
hydrostreptomycin to include rabbits.

that

the application for

the safety evaluation of

liver and kidney. Following
for muscle, skin and fat,
the extension to
examination of
the existing entry for Dihydrostreptomycin
rabbits of
and taking account
the
above referred two substances had been initially carried
out together on the basis of their similarity in chemical
structure and biological activity,
is also considered
appropriate to modify the entry for Streptomycin to
include rabbits for muscle, fat, liver and kidney. It was
equally considered appropriate to modify the current
entry of Streptomycin for bovine and ovine by a new
entry for all ruminants for muscle, fat, liver, kidney and
milk.

it

(4)

Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

(5)

(6)

An adequate period should be allowed before the appli-
cability of this Regulation in order to enable Member
States to make any adjustment which may be necessary
in the light of this Regulation to the authorisations to
place the veterinary medicinal products concerned on the
market which have been granted in accordance with
Directive 2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and
the Council of 6 November 2001 on the
of
Community
to veterinary medicinal
products (2) to take account of the provisions of this
Regulation.

relating

code

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with
Standing
the
the
Committee on Veterinary Medicinal Products,

opinion

of

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(3)

The substance Streptomycin is included in Annex I to
Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 for bovine and ovine for
muscle, fat, liver, kidney and milk as well as for porcine

Article 1

Annex I
accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

to Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 is amended in

(1) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 1. Regulation as

last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 287/2007 (OJ L 78, 17.3.2007,
p. 13).

(2) OJ L 311, 28.11.2001, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Directive

2004/28/EC (OJ L 136, 30.4.2004, p. 58).

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This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Union.

Article 2

It shall apply from 21 August 2007.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 June 2007.

For the Commission

Günter VERHEUGEN
Vice-President

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