Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 702/2013Show full title

Article 1

This Regulation lays down transitional measures for the application of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 for a transitional period from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2016.

Article 2

By way of derogation from Article 12(2) of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004, the competent authority may designate a laboratory carrying out official testing for Trichinella and located in a slaughterhouse or a game handling establishment provided that, although not accredited in accordance with the European standards referred to in point (a) of that paragraph, the laboratory:

(a)

demonstrates that it has initiated and is pursuing the necessary accreditation procedures in accordance with Article 12(2)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004;

(b)

provides the competent authority with satisfactory guarantees that quality control schemes for the analyses of samples it conducts for the purpose of official controls are in place.

Member States applying this transitional measure shall report to the Commission on the progress in accrediting any such designated laboratories by the 31 December each year.

Article 3

Chapter IV of Regulation (EC) No 1162/2009 is deleted.

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2016.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 22 July 2013.

For the Commission

The President

José Manuel Barroso