National legislation

The present Decision lays down the reference points for action for residues of substances for which minimum required performance limits (MRPLs) have been established in accordance with Decision 2002/657/EC when analytical tests carried out pursuant to Directive 97/78/EC on imported consignments of products of animal origin...

Article 2 of Decision 2001/881/EC, concerning the checks to be carried out by experts of the Commission on animals and animal products from third countries, is entirely replaced by the text laid down in article 1 of the present Decision. Such inspections shall be carried out...

The present Decision lays down certain amendments to articles 2(2), 4, 5(2), 6, 7 and 8 to Decision 2003/858/EC laying down the animal health conditions and certification requirements for imports of live fish, their eggs and gametes intended for farming, and live fish of aquaculture origin...

The present Regulation sets out the standards to be applied at all stages of marketing of peaches and nectarines, under the conditions laid down in Regulation (EC) No. 2200/96. The marketing standards are fully described in the Annex attached, which gives the definition of produce and...

This Regulation aims at securing a high level of protection of human health by establishing rules applicable to materials and articles which, in their finished state: (a) are intended to be brought into contact with food; (b) are already in contact with food and were intended...

The present Regulation establishes the standards to be applied at all stages of marketing of watermelons. The standards, which are described with detail in the Annex attached, concern quality, sizing, tolerances, presentation, packaging and marking. ...

The present Regulation lays down the marketing standards to be applied to cultivated mushrooms, under the conditions laid down in Regulation (EC) No. 2200/96. The standards concern particularly, quality, sizing, presentation, packaging and marking. ...

The European Commission hereby recommends to Member States the performance, from the year 2004 onwards until 31 December 2006, the monitoring of the background presence of dioxins, furans and dioxin-like PCBs in foodstuffs using the recommended minimum frequency of samples to be analysed yearly, as foreseen...

The present Recommendation lays down technical guidance with a view to facilitating a coordinated approach for the inspections, and particularly sample checks, to be carried out pursuant to Regulation (EC) No. 1830/2003, which sets out the framework for the traceability of products consisting of or containing...

The vaccination programme against avian influenza submitted by Italy to the European Commission is hereby approved and shall be implemented in the vaccination area described in Annex I. Intensive monitoring and surveillance shall be carried out in the same area as well as in the bordering...

The Annex attached to the present Regulation establishes the marketing standards to be applied to kiwifruit, under the conditions laid down in Regulation (EC) No. 2200/96. ...

Since the Commission has not received, through the rapid alert system, any further notification of nitrofurans and their metabolites in poultrymeat from Brazil, the present Decision repeals Decision 2002/794/EC establishing protective measures with regard to poultrymeat, poultrymeat products and poultrymeat preparations intended for human consumption and...

Hereinafter, Member States may authorize the importation of products of animal origin coming from China, as long as they meet the animal and public health conditions prescribed. The Annex to Decision 2002/994/EC is replaced by the Annex attached to the present Decision. ...

The text in Annex I to Decision 2003/804/EC is replaced by the Annex attached to the present Decision. The Annex specifies the territories from which importation of certain species of live molluscs, their eggs and gametes intended for further growth, fattening, relaying in European Community waters,...

Annex XI to Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001 is supplemented as specified in the Annex attached to this Regulation. In particular, when farmed game meat, meat preparations and meat products derived from farmed or wild cervid animals are imported into the European Community from Canada or the...

Particular amendments are hereby laid down to Decision 2003/804/EC as regards the conditions related to the importation of live molluscs intended for human consumption and control procedures. Moreover, Annex II containing the model health certificate to be followed is replaced by the Annex attached to the...

Annex I to Directive 2001/113/EC in the German language version shall be replaced by the Annex to this Directive ...

The Commission hereby authorizes the placing on the Community market as a novel food or a novel food ingredient of sweet maize obtained from maize line Bt11, as designated and specified in the Annex attached. The product shall be labelled as “genetically modified sweet maize”. ...

The present Regulation lays down particular amendments to the Annexes of the Regulations listed out in Annexes I and II to this Regulation, so as to include new marketing standards applicable to fresh fruit and vegetables, with particular regard to labelling and presentation. ...

This Regulation lays down general rules for food business operators on the hygiene of foodstuffs. It shall apply to all stages of production, processing and distribution of food and to exports, and without any prejudice to more specific requirements relating to food hygiene. The following principles...