Publication of the New Official Controls Regulation
Post: Spanish Agency for Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Nutrition
Date: 07 abril 2017
Section: Agencia española de Consumo, Seguridad alimentaria y Nutrición
On 7 April 2017, 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) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation comes into effect twenty days after its publication in the OJEU.
The publication of this Regulation repeals Regulations (EC) No 882/2004 and (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Directives 89/608/EEC, 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC, 91/ 496/EEC, 96/23/EC, 96/93/EC and 97/78/EC of the Council Decision 92/438/EEC with effect from 14 December 2019.
Regulation (EC) 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council established a single legislative framework for the organisation of official controls. That framework has significantly improved the efficiency of official controls, the enforcement of Union agri-food chain legislation and the level of protection against risks to human, animal and plant health and animal welfare in the Union and the level of protection of the environment from risks that might arise from GMOs and plant protection products. It has also provided a consolidated legal framework to support an integrated approach towards the performance of official controls along the agri-food chain.
This new Regulation should seek to establish a harmonised Union framework for the organisation of official controls, and official activities other than official controls, along the entire agri-food chain, taking into account the rules on official controls laid down in Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 and in relevant sectoral legislation, and the experience gained from the application of those rules.
This Regulation establishes the Commission development of more than 70 delegated and implementing acts in order to guarantee the organisation of the activities established therein.
Link to document:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L:2017:095:TOC