13.1.2022
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
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Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/2315 approved the residue monitoring plans for aquaculture products of Belize, Brunei, Cuba, Guatemala, Mozambique, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Tanzania and Venezuela with respect to the subcategory ‘crustaceans’.
It is therefore appropriate to amend Annex IX to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/405 in order to reflect that approval.
Those third countries have been informed accordingly.
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Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/2315 approved the residue monitoring plan for aquaculture products of Iran with respect to the subcategories ‘products of finfish (caviar)’ and ‘crustaceans’.
Since Iran has now provided sufficient evidence and guarantees that it fulfils the requirements of Union legislation for the entry into the Union of consignments of products of finfish (caviar) and crustaceans from aquaculture, it is appropriate to amend its entry in the list of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of certain fishery products, set out in Annex IX to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/405.
Iran has been informed accordingly.
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Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/2315 withdrew the approval of the residue monitoring plan of Oman for finfish.
Oman should therefore be removed from the list of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of certain fishery products, set out in Annex IX to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/405.
Oman has been informed accordingly.
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Annex XI to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/405 establishes the list of third countries or regions thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of frogs’ legs and of snails.
Georgia and Russia should be added to that list for snails since they provided appropriate evidence and guarantees that they fulfil the requirements of Union legislation for the entry into the Union of consignments of those goods.
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Commission Decision 2007/82/EC (7) requires Member States to prohibit the import from Guinea of all fishery products intended for human consumption.
The Commission carried out an audit in Guinea in 2019, in order to evaluate the control systems in place governing fishery products intended for human consumption and export to the Union.
On 7 May 2021, the Commission informed Guinea that the information provided was satisfactory and that the 2019 audit had been closed successfully.
Decision 2007/82/EC should therefore be repealed.
In the light of the outcome of the audit, it is appropriate to continue listing Guinea in Annex IX to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/405 as a third country authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of wild caught fish that has not undergone any preparation or processing operation other than heading, gutting, chilling or freezing.
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Annexes III, VIII, IX and XI to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/405 should therefore be amended accordingly.
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For reasons of consistency with Decision 2011/163/EU and in the interest of legal certainty, this Regulation should enter into force as a matter of urgency.
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The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1 Annexes III, VIII, IX, and XI to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/405 are replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2 Decision 2007/82/EC is repealed.
(7) Commission Decision 2007/82/EC of 2 February 2007 on emergency measures suspending imports from the Republic of Guinea of fishery products intended for human consumption (OJ L 28, 3.2.2007, p. 25).
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