Reform history

COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2020/687

of 17 December 2019

supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and the Council, as regards rules for the prevention and control of certain listed diseases

(Text with EEA relevance)

(10) ‘casings’ means the bladders and intestines that after cleaning have been processed by tissue scraping, defatting and washing and have been dried after salting;

(f) any other location which is not an establishment.

(a) in the establishment of destination there is no other kept animal of listed species;

The competent authority may lift the measures provided for in Section 1 and 2 of this Chapter only if the minimum period set out in Annex X has elapsed and the following conditions are fulfilled:

(a) the preliminary cleaning and disinfection and, where relevant, control of insects and rodents, has been performed in accordance with Article 15 in the affected establishment; and

(b) in all establishments keeping animals of listed species in the protection zone, animals of listed species have undergone, with favourable results, clinical and when necessary laboratory examinations in accordance with Article 26.

(a) to establishments in the same Member State where they were hatched from eggs originating from establishments within the surveillance zone, if:

(ii) if moved outside the restricted zone, the animals remain in the establishments of destination for at least 21 days;

(a) in the establishment of destination there is no other kept animal of listed species;

(c) are intended for use within the surveillance zone;

The competent authority may lift the disease control measures applied in the surveillance zone pursuant to Sections 1 and 3 of this Chapter only if the period set out in Annex XI has elapsed and the following conditions are fulfilled:

(a) the requirements provided for in Article 39 have been met in the protection zone; and

(b) a representative number of establishments keeping animals of listed species have undergone, with favourable results, visits carried out by official veterinarians, in accordance with Article 41.

(a) not originate from an establishment subject to the restrictions provided for in Chapter III; and

‘*Animal pathological material; perishable; fragile; do not open outside the laboratory of destination.*’

| Movements of hatching eggs from establishments in the restricted zone | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | X | X | |

| Movements of feed material of plant origin and straw obtained in the protection zone | X | X | NP | NP | NP | NP | NP | NP | NP | NP | NP | NA | NP | NP | |

| Treatment | FMD (⁸) | RP | RVFV | LSD | CBPP | SPGP | PPR | CCPP | CSF | ASF | AHS | HPAI | NCD |

| Heat treatment in an hermetically sealed container, to achieve a minimum F0 (⁷) value of 3 | x | | | | | | X | | X | X | | X | X |

| Heat treatment (to meat previously de-boned and defatted) to achieve a core temperature of 70 °C for a minimum of 30 minutes | X | | | | | | X | | X | | | | |

| Core temperature of 73,9  °C for a minimum of 0,51 seconds (⁶) | X | | | | | | | | | | | X | X |

| Core temperature of 70,0  °C for a minimum of 3,5 seconds (⁶) | | | | | | | | | | | | X | X |

| Core temperature of 65,0  °C for a minimum of 42 seconds (⁶) | | | | | | | | | | | | X | X |

| Core temperature of 60 °C for a minimum of 507 seconds (⁶) | | | | | | | | | | | | X | X |

| Natural fermentation for loins: minimum 140 days to achieve maximum values of Aw of 0,93 and pH of 6 (⁵) | | | | | | | | | X | X | | | |

| Natural fermentation for hams: minimum 190 days to achieve maximum values of Aw of 0,93 and pH of 6 (⁵) | | | | | | | | | X | X | | | |

| Drying after salting Italian style bone-in hams: minimum 313 days (⁵) | | | | | | | | | X | | | | |

| Drying after salting Spanish style bone-in hams and loins (⁵): — Iberian hams: minimum 252 days — Iberian shoulders: minimum 140 days — Iberian loins: minimum 126 days — Serrano hams: minimum 140 days | X | | | | | | | | X | X | | | |

| Removal of offal | | | | X | X | | | X | | | | | |

| Salting with sodium chloride (NaCl) either dry or as saturated brine (Aw < 0,80 ), for a continuous period of 30 days or longer at an ambient temperature of 20 °C or above | X | | | SC (⁴) | | | X | | X | X | | | |

| Salting with phosphate supplemented salt 86,5 % NaCl, 10,7 % Na2HPO4 and 2,8 % Na3PO4 either dry or as saturated brine (Aw < 0,80 ) for a continuous period of 30 days or longer at an ambient temperature of 20 °C or above | X | | | | | X | | X | X | | | | |

| Salting with sodium chloride (NaCl) minimum 30 days (³) | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

| Bleaching (²) | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

| Drying (²) | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

| Heat treatment (sterilization process) to achieve a minimum F0 value of 3 | X | | | | SC (¹) | | | SC (¹) | | | | | |

| Pasteurisation consisting in a single heat treatment with an effect at least equivalent to that achieved by applying 72 °C for 15 seconds | X | | X | X | | | | | | | | | |

| (¹) Safe commodity. (²) Not for bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine casings. (³) Not for bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine casings. (⁴) Safe commodity. (⁵) Only for porcine animals. (⁶) Only for poultry meat. (⁷) F0 is the calculated killing effect on bacterial spores. An F0 value of 3 means that the coldest point in the product has been heated sufficiently to achieve the same killing effect as 121 °C (250 °F) in three minutes with instantaneous heating and chilling. (⁸) Disease abbreviations in accordance with Annex II. | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

### **RISK-MITIGATING TREATMENTS FOR PRODUCTS NOT OF ANIMAL ORIGIN FROM THE PROTECTION ZONE**

(¹) Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin (OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 55).

(²) Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of 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 (OJ L 95, 7.4.2017, p. 1).

(³) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2035 of 28 June 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards rules for establishments keeping terrestrial animals and hatcheries, and the traceability of certain kept terrestrial animals and hatching eggs (OJ L 314, 5.12.2019, p. 115).

(⁴) Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs (OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 1).

(⁵) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/688 of 17 December 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards animal health requirements for movements within the Union of terrestrial animals and hatching eggs (see page 140 of this Official Journal).