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Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title
Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2003 on additives for use in animal nutrition (Text with EEA relevance)
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1.The purpose of this Regulation is to establish a F1... procedure for authorising the placing on the market and use of feed additives and to lay down rules for the supervision and labelling of feed additives and premixtures in order to provide the basis for the assurance of a high level of protection of human health, animal health and welfare, environment and users' and consumers' interests in relation to feed additives, whilst ensuring the effective functioning of the F2... market.
2.This Regulation shall not apply to:
(a)processing aids;
(b)veterinary medicinal products F3..., with the exception of coccidiostats and histomonostats used as feed additives.
[F43.In this Article ‘veterinary medicinal product’ means:
(a)any substance or combination of substances presented as having properties for treating or preventing disease in animals; or
(b)any substance or combination of substances which may be used in, or administered to, animals with a view either to restoring, correcting or modifying physiological functions by exerting a pharmacological, immunological or metabolic action, or to making a medical diagnosis.
For the purposes of the definition of ‘veterinary medicinal product’, ‘substance’ means any matter, irrespective of origin, which may be:
(a)human, including human blood and human blood products;
(b)animal, including micro-organisms, whole animals, parts of organs, animal secretions, toxins, extracts and blood products;
(c)vegetable, including micro-organisms, plants, parts of plants, vegetable secretions and extracts; or
(d)chemical, including elements, naturally occurring chemical materials and chemical products obtained by chemical change or synthesis.]
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F1Word in Art. 1 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animal Feed (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/654), regs. 1, 9(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2Word in Art. 1 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animal Feed (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/654), regs. 1, 9(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3Words in Art. 1(2)(b) omitted (31.12.2022) by virtue of The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 8(2)(a)
F4Art. 1(3) inserted (31.12.2022) by The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 8(2)(b)
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