Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/513 of 20 March 2025 amending the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2059 as regards the inclusion of certain goods of animal origin in the list of rest-of-the-world commodities
Date: 2025-03-20
Institutions: Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety, European Commission
Subjects: China, Thailand, food inspection, import, market approval, meat product, poultrymeat, retail trade, surveillance concerning imports




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2025/513


21.3.2025







            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/513
of 20 March 2025
         
amending the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2059 as regards the inclusion of certain goods of animal origin in the list of rest-of-the-world commodities
(Text with EEA relevance)


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2023/1231 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2023 on specific rules relating to the entry into Northern Ireland from other parts of the United Kingdom of certain consignments of retail goods, plants for planting, seed potatoes, machinery and certain vehicles operated for agricultural or forestry purposes, as well as non-commercial movements of certain pet animals into Northern Ireland (1), and in particular Article 9(4), point (a), thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Regulation (EU) 2023/1231 lays down specific rules relating to, inter alia, the entry into Northern Ireland from other parts of the United Kingdom of certain consignments of retail goods for placing on the market in Northern Ireland for the final consumer, including specific rules for consignments of rest-of-the-world retail goods.












(2)


More specifically, Article 9(1), point (a), of Regulation (EU) 2023/1231 provides that rest-of-the-world retail goods consisting of commodities of animal or plant origin or composite products subject to the animal health or plant health rules referred to in Article 1(2), points (d), (e) and (g), of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) (‘rest-of-the-world commodities’) may enter into Northern Ireland from other parts of the United Kingdom and be placed on the market in Northern Ireland in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1231 only if the United Kingdom provides written evidence that the import conditions and official controls requirements provided for in Regulations (EC) No 1069/2009 (3), (EU) 2016/429 (4) and (EU) 2016/2031 (5) of the European Parliament and of the Council, in Regulation (EU) 2017/625, and in the Commission acts adopted pursuant to those Regulations apply to those commodities under the national law of the United Kingdom, and those import conditions and official controls requirements are effectively implemented by the United Kingdom.












(3)


Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2059 (6) establishes, in the Annex thereto, the list of rest-of-the-world commodities, which currently lists goods of animal and of non-animal origin.












(4)


By letters dated 11 October 2024 and 5 December 2024, the United Kingdom provided the written evidence that the import conditions and official controls requirements laid down in Regulations (EU) 2016/429 and (EU) 2017/625 and related to poultry meat products from China and Thailand, apply under its national law, and those import conditions and official controls requirements related to these goods of animal origin intended for human consumption are effectively implemented by the United Kingdom. It is therefore appropriate to amend the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2059 to add those goods to the list of rest-of-the-world commodities.












(5)


In accordance with Article 12 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 (7), the animal health/official certificate to be used for the entry into the Union of poultry meat products is to correspond either to the model certificate MPNT set out in Chapter 25 of Annex III to that Regulation or to the model MPST set out in Chapter 26 of Annex III to that Regulation, depending on whether or not the products are required to undergo a specific risk-mitigating treatment. As Thailand is listed in Annex XV, Part 1, Section A, to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404 (8) for poultry meat products intended for human consumption that are not required to undergo a specific risk-mitigating treatment, that category of products from Thailand should be added to the list of rest-of-the-world commodities that are to be accompanied by the MPNT or MPST model certificates. As China is listed in that Annex for poultry meat products that are required to undergo a specific risk-mitigating treatment, that category of products from China should be added to the list of rest-of-the-world commodities for those products that are to be accompanied by the MPST model certificate.












(6)


In the interest of legal certainty and to avoid any unnecessary disruption to trade, this Regulation should enter into force as a matter of urgency.












(7)


As the United Kingdom has provided the written evidence related to the animal health rules referred to in Article 9(1), point (a), of Regulation (EU) 2023/1231 from 3 December 2024 for those rest-of-the-world goods of animal origin, and to avoid any unnecessary disruption to trade, this Regulation should thus apply retroactively from that date.












(8)


The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
The Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2059 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.


Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 3 December 2024.




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 20 March 2025.


For the Commission


The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 165, 29.6.2023, p. 103, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1231/oj.

(2)  Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017 on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products, amending Regulations (EC) No 999/2001, (EC) No 396/2005, (EC) No 1069/2009, (EC) No 1107/2009, (EU) No 1151/2012, (EU) No 652/2014, (EU) 2016/429 and (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Regulations (EC) No 1/2005 and (EC) No 1099/2009 and Council Directives 98/58/EC, 1999/74/EC, 2007/43/EC, 2008/119/EC and 2008/120/EC, and repealing Regulations (EC) No 854/2004 and (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 89/608/EEC, 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC, 91/496/EEC, 96/23/EC, 96/93/EC and 97/78/EC and Council Decision 92/438/EEC (Official Controls Regulation) (OJ L 95, 7.4.2017, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2017/625/oj).

(3)  Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 laying down health rules as regards animal by-products and derived products not intended for human consumption and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 (Animal by-products Regulation) (OJ L 300, 14.11.2009, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2009/1069/oj).

(4)  Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on transmissible animal diseases and amending and repealing certain acts in the area of animal health (‘Animal Health Law’) (OJ L 84, 31.3.2016, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/429/oj).

(5)  Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2016 on protective measures against pests of plants, amending Regulations (EU) No 228/2013, (EU) No 652/2014 and (EU) No 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directives 69/464/EEC, 74/647/EEC, 93/85/EEC, 98/57/EC, 2000/29/EC, 2006/91/EC and 2007/33/EC (OJ L 317, 23.11.2016, p. 4, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/2031/oj).

(6)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2059 of 26 September 2023 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) 2023/1231 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the listing of certain rest-of-the-world commodities that may enter into Northern Ireland as retail goods from other parts of the United Kingdom and be placed on the market in Northern Ireland (OJ L 238, 27.9.2023, p. 103, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/2059/oj).

(7)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 of 16 December 2020 laying down rules for the application of Regulations (EU) 2016/429 and (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards model animal health certificates, model official certificates and model animal health/official certificates, for the entry into the Union and movements within the Union of consignments of certain categories of animals and goods, official certification regarding such certificates and repealing Regulation (EC) No 599/2004, Implementing Regulations (EU) No 636/2014 and (EU) 2019/628, Directive 98/68/EC and Decisions 2000/572/EC, 2003/779/EC and 2007/240/EC (OJ L 442, 30.12.2020, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2020/2235/oj).

(8)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404 of 24 March 2021 laying down the lists of third countries, territories or zones thereof from which the entry into the Union of animals, germinal products and products of animal origin is permitted in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and the Council (OJ L 114, 31.3.2021, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2021/404/oj).




ANNEX
In the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2059, the following commodities are added to the category of commodities ‘Goods of animal origin’:










‘3


Poultry meat products (As defined in point 7.1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (*1))


ex 0210 99 39 
ex 0210 99 71 
ex 0210 99 79 
ex 1601 00 
ex 1602 31 
ex 1602 32 
ex 1602 39 
ex 0504 


Animal health/official certificate set out in Chapter 25 of Annex III to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 (*2) (MPNT)


Thailand




Animal health/official certificate set out in Chapter 26 of Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 (MPST)


China
Thailand







(*1)  Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin (OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 55, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2004/853/oj).

(*2)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 of 16 December 2020 laying down rules for the application of Regulations (EU) 2016/429 and (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards model animal health certificates, model official certificates and model animal health/official certificates, for the entry into the Union and movements within the Union of consignments of certain categories of animals and goods, official certification regarding such certificates and repealing Regulation (EC) No 599/2004, Implementing Regulations (EU) No 636/2014 and (EU) 2019/628, Directive 98/68/EC and Decisions 2000/572/EC, 2003/779/EC and 2007/240/EC (OJ L 442, 30.12.2020, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2020/2235/oj).’
         



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