The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022

Amendment of Commission Regulation (EC) No 378/2005 on detailed rules for the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 as regards the duties and tasks of the Community Reference Laboratory concerning applications for authorisations of feed additives

10.—(1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 378/2005 on detailed rules for the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the duties and tasks of the Community Reference Laboratory concerning applications for authorisations of feed additives(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In Article 3—

(a) in paragraph 1—

(i) in the first subparagraph, after “reference samples” insert “to the reference laboratory, upon request,”;

(ii) in the second subparagraph—

(aa) in the words before point (a), after “In addition,” insert “and upon request,”;

(bb) in point (a), in the final indent, omit “in Annex I or III of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90”;

(b) in paragraph 3, in the second sentence of the second subparagraph—

(i) for “national reference laboratories of the consortium” substitute “scientific experts or official laboratories working on behalf of the reference laboratory”;

(ii) for “of Articles 11, 32 and 33 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004” substitute “to Regulation (EU) 2017/625”.

(3) In Article 6—

(a) in paragraph 1, for “a consortium of national” substitute “scientific experts or official”;

(b) for paragraph 2 substitute—

“2.   For the purposes of paragraph 1, scientific experts or official laboratories must comply with the requirements set out in Annex I.”;

(c) in paragraph 3—

(i) for “members of the consortium”, in the first place it appears, substitute “scientific experts or official laboratories”;

(ii) for “other members of the consortium” substitute “scientific experts or official laboratories”;

(iii) in the final sentence, omit “to the members of the consortium”.

(4) In Article 9—

(a) in the heading, for “the laboratories participating in the consortium” substitute “scientific experts or official laboratories assisting the reference laboratory”;

(b) in paragraph 1, for “The laboratories participating in the consortium” substitute “Scientific experts or official laboratories, who are assisting the reference laboratory,”;

(c) in paragraph 2—

(i) for “Each laboratory” substitute “A scientific expert or official laboratory, who, or which, is assisting the reference laboratory,”;

(ii) before “laboratory considers” insert “scientific expert or official”;

(iii) in the final sentence, before “laboratories” insert “scientific experts or official”.

(5) In Article 10(1), in the second subparagraph, for “the consortium” substitute “scientific experts or official laboratories”.

(6) In Article 11, in both places, for “consortium” substitute “scientific experts or official laboratories”.

(7) In Article 12(2), for “laboratories, including criteria for appointing rapporteur laboratories” substitute “scientific experts or official laboratories, including criteria for appointing scientific experts or official laboratories”.

(8) Omit Article 13.

(9) In Annex 1—

(a) for the heading substitute “Requirements for participating scientific experts and official laboratories, as referred to in Article 6”;

(b) in the words before point (b), for “Laboratories participating in the consortium” substitute “Scientific experts or official laboratories assisting the reference laboratory”;

(c) in point (e), omit “with the other laboratories participating in the consortium”.

(10) Omit Annex 3.

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EUR 2005/378, amended by S.I. 2019/654.