Annexes to COM(2023)235 - Overall operation of official controls carried out in EU countries (2021) on food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products

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dossier COM(2023)235 - Overall operation of official controls carried out in EU countries (2021) on food and feed law, rules on animal health and ...
document COM(2023)235
date May  5, 2023
Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 5(4) of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in conjunction with Annex 2 to that Protocol.

3() Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017 on official control 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.

4() Article 116 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

5() Article 113(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

6() Article 114 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

7() Commission staff working document (SWD(2023) 131 final) accompanying the report from the Commission on the overall operation of official controls carried out in EU countries (2021) to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products.

8() See Eurostat – key figures of the European food chain – 2021 for a selection of data for the EU’s agriculture and fisheries sectors, and for the wider farm to fork chain.

9() This figure does not include controls related to plant health (i.e. issuing plant passports and applying the ISPM15 mark to wood packaging to show that it has been treated to prevent the spread of insects, seeds and fungi), the marketing of plant protection products and the sustainable use of pesticides outside agriculture.

10() National authorities do not have to report the number of entities active in animal transport. The data requested for official controls and non-compliance issues for slaughterhouses and game-handling establishments can be given as the number of carcasses or the weight, therefore a total cannot be used.

11()Commission Notice on a guidance document on how to fill in the standard model form

12() Articles 151, 152, 154, 156, 157 and 158 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

13() Article 138 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

14() Article 12(2) and (3) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

15() Articles 137, 138 and 139 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

16() Articles 6 and 12 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

17() The work programmes are published on the Commission website.

18() The European Citizens' Initiative is a unique way to help shape the EU. Once an initiative has reached 1 million signatures, the Commission will decide on what action to take. More information on the and the cage age citizens’ initiative.

19() Harmonised risk indicators are used to estimate trends in risks related to pesticide use.

20() A letter of formal notice was sent in January 2019 and a reasoned opinion in July 2019. Given that Regulation (EU) 2017/625 repealed and replaced the previously applicable legislation on official controls and in order to ensure legal certainty regarding the provisions that the Commission considered Czechia to have infringed, an additional letter of formal notice was sent in July 2020 and an additional reasoned opinion in September 2021.

21()Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

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