Commission Regulation (EC) No 1380/2007 of 26 November 2007 concerning the authorisation of endo-1,4-beta-xylanase (Natugrain Wheat TS) as a feed additive (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2007-11-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal health, animal nutrition, food additive, market approval, poultry, zootechnics

27.11.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 309/21

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1380/2007

of 26 November 2007

concerning the authorisation of endo-1,4-beta-xylanase (Natugrain Wheat TS) as a feed additive

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(5)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

the
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 of
the Council of 22 September
European Parliament and of
2003 on additives for use in animal nutrition (1), and in
particular Article 9(2) thereof,

Whereas:

New data were submitted in support of the application
for authorisation for turkeys for fattening. The European
Food Safety Authority (the Authority) concluded in its
opinion of 18 April 2007 that
the preparation of
endo-1,4-beta-xylanase (Natugrain Wheat TS) produced
by Aspergillus niger
(CBS 109.713) does not have an
adverse effect on animal health, human health or the
environment (3). It further concluded that the preparation
does not present any other
in
accordance with Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No
1831/2003, exclude authorisation. According to that
opinion, the use of that preparation does not have an
adverse effect on these additional animal categories. It
does not consider
there is a need for specific
requirements of post-market monitoring. This opinion
also verifies the report on the method of analysis of
the Community
feed
the
Reference
set up by Regulation (EC)
No 1831/2003.

additive
Laboratory

risk which would,

submitted

that

by

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

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

(6)

(7)

that preparation shows

The assessment of
the
conditions for authorisation, provided for in Article 5
of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003,
satisfied.
Accordingly,
that preparation should be
the use of
authorised, as specified in the Annex to this Regulation.

that

are

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

opinion

the

the

of

The application concerns the authorisation of a new use
of the preparation of endo-1,4-beta-xylanase (Natugrain
Wheat TS) produced by Aspergillus niger (CBS 109.713),
as a feed additive for turkeys for fattening to be classified
in the additive category ‘zootechnical additives’.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

The use of
the preparation of endo-1,4-beta-xylanase
produced by Aspergillus niger (CBS 109.713) was pro-
fattening by
visionally authorised for
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1458/2005 of 8
September 2005 concerning the permanent and pro-
visional authorisations of certain additives in feedingstuffs
and the provisional authorisation of new uses of certain
additives already authorised in feedingstuffs (2).

chickens

for

(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 233, 9.9.2005, p. 3.

Article 1

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

(3) Opinion of

the Scientific Panel on Additives and Products or
Substances used in Animal Feed on the safety and efficacy of the
enzymatic preparation of Natugrain Wheat TS (endo-1,4-beta-
xylanase), as a feed additive for turkeys for fattening, in accordance
with Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003. Adopted on 18 October 2007.
The EFSA Journal (2007) 474, 1-11.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

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This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal
of the European Union.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 26 November 2007.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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