Commission Regulation (EC) No 1029/2008 of 20 October 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council to update a reference to certain European standards (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-10-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: European standard, animal nutrition, animal welfare, approval, foodstuff, health control, research body

L 278/6

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

21.10.2008

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1029/2008

of 20 October 2008

amending Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council to update a
reference to certain European standards

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on official
controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance
with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare
rules (1), and in particular Article 64(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 establishes a harmonised
framework of general rules for the organisation of official
controls performed to ensure
verification of
compliance with feed and food law, animal health and
animal welfare rules.

the

According to Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004
the competent authority designates laboratories that may
carry out the analysis of samples taken during official
controls. Those
laboratories must be accredited in
accordance with certain European standards.

The European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) has
developed European standards (EN standards) appropriate
for the purpose of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004, and in
particular for the accreditation of laboratories.

CEN has replaced the European standards EN 45002 on
‘General criteria for assessment of testing laboratories’
and EN 45003 on ‘Calibration and testing laboratory
accreditation system — General
for

requirements

operation and recognition’ by standard EN ISO/IEC
17011 on ‘General
accreditation
bodies accrediting conformity assessment bodies’.
It is
therefore appropriate to update the reference to those
European standards
in Article 12 of Regulation
(EC) No 882/2004.

requirements

for

Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

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

opinion

the

the

of

(5)

(6)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 is amended as
follows:

1. Article 12(2)(b) is replaced by the following text:

‘(b) EN ISO/IEC 17011 on “General

for
accreditation bodies accrediting conformity assessment
bodies”,’

requirements

2. Article 12(2)(c) is deleted.

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, 20 October 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 165, 30.4.2004, p. 1. Corrected by OJ L 191, 28.5.2004, p. 1.