Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea del 11/2/2025 - Sección Legislación
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Source: Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea - Sección Legislación
Official Journal of the European Union
EN
L series
2025/259
11.2.2025
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION EU 2025/259
of 10 February 2025
amending Annex XIII to Implementing Regulation EU 2021/404 as regards the entry for Japan in the lists of third countries or territories or zones thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of fresh meat of ungulates Text with EEA relevance
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to 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 1, and in particular Articles 2301 and 2321 thereof.
Whereas:
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Regulation EU 2016/429 provides that consignments of animals, germinal products and products of animal origin must come from a third country or territory, or zone or compartment thereof, listed in accordance with Article 2301 of that Regulation in order to enter the Union.
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Commission Delegated Regulation EU 2020/692 2 lays down the animal health requirements that consignments of certain species and categories of animals, germinal products and products of animal origin, from third countries or territories, or zones thereof, or compartments thereof in the case of aquaculture animals, must comply with in order to enter the Union.
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Commission Implementing Regulation EU 2021/404 3 lays down the lists of third countries, or territories, or zones thereof, from which the entry into the Union of the species and categories of animals, germinal products and products of animal origin falling within the scope of Delegated Regulation EU 2020/692 is permitted. Those lists and certain general rules concerning those lists are set out in Annexes II to XXII, and Annex I, to that Implementing Regulation, respectively.
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Annex XIII to Implementing Regulation EU 2021/404 sets out the list of third countries, territories or zones thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of fresh meat of ungulates, including bovine animals. In accordance with Article 2, point 43, of Delegated Regulation EU 2020/692, offal is included in the definition of fresh meat. International standards, such as the Terrestrial Animal Health Code 4 of the World Organisation for Animal Health does not consider offal as a safe commodity in case of an infection with lumpy skin disease virus LSD. Moreover, Annex VII to Commission Delegated Regulation EU 2020/687 5 provides riskmitigating treatments for products of animal origin from the restricted zone and as regards meat, in case of an outbreak of LSD, for the removal of offal.
1 OJ L 84, 31.3.2016, p. 1, ELI: http data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/429/oj.
2 Commission Delegated Regulation EU 2020/692 of 30 January 2020 supplementing Regulation EU 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards rules for entry into the Union, and the movement and handling after entry of consignments of certain animals, germinal products and products of animal origin OJ L 174, 3.6.2020, p. 379, ELI: http data.europa.eu/eli/
reg_del/2020/692/oj.
3 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 of the Council OJ L 114, 31.3.2021, p. 1, ELI: http data.europa.eu/
eli/reg_impl/2021/404/oj.
4 WOAH terrestrial code 31st Edition, 2023. Volumes I and II ISBN 978-92-95121-74-4 https www.woah.org/en/what-we-do/
standards/codes-and-manuals/terrestrial-code-online-access/.
5 Commission Delegated Regulation EU 2020/687 of 17 December 2019 supplementing Regulation EU 2016/429 of the European Parliament and the Council, as regards rules for the prevention and control of certain listed diseases OJ L 174, 3.6.2020, p. 64, ELI:
http data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2020/687/oj.
ELI: http data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/259/oj
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