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Questions and Answers about the New Official Controls Regulation

 

Post: Spanish Agency for Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Nutrition

Date: 21 abril 2017

Section: Seguridad alimentaria

Following the publication on 7 April 2017 in the Official Journal of the European Union, of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND 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 (Official Controls Regulation), the European Commission has prepared a document containing questions and answers about the new Official Controls Regulation. Although the document has no formal legal status, it lists the principal modifications implied by this new Regulation in a simple format.

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