Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/782 of 23 April 2025 amending Regulation (EC) No 152/2009 as regards the determination of carbonates in feed

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to 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, amending Regulations (EC) No 999/2001, (EC) No 396/2005, (EC) No 1069/2009, (EC) No 1107/2009, (EU) No 1151/2012, (EU) No 652/2014, (EU) 2016/429 and (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Regulations (EC) No 1/2005 and (EC) No 1099/2009 and Council Directives 98/58/EC, 1999/74/EC, 2007/43/EC, 2008/119/EC and 2008/120/EC, and repealing Regulations (EC) No 854/2004 and (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 89/608/EEC, 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC, 91/496/EEC, 96/23/EC, 96/93/EC and 97/78/EC and Council Decision 92/438/EEC (Official Controls Regulation) (1), and in particular Article 34(6) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 152/2009 (2) lays down methods of sampling and analysis for the official control of feed.

(2) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/771 (3) deleted the method of analysis for the determination of carbonates in feed. However, the quantification of carbonates in the authorised feed additive lanthanum carbonate octahydrate requires the use of the deleted method of analysis.

(3) Furthermore, Commission Regulation (EU) No 68/2013 (4) provides for the compulsory declaration of calcium carbonate for certain feed materials. It is necessary to use the deleted method of analysis to determine the quantity of calcium carbonate in those feed materials.

(4) It is therefore appropriate to reintroduce the method of analysis for the determination of carbonates in feed.

(5) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 152/2009 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 23 April 2025.

For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN

(1) OJ L 95, 7.4.2017, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2017/625/oj.

(2) Commission Regulation (EC) No 152/2009 of 27 January 2009 laying down methods of sampling and analysis for the official control of feed (OJ L 54, 26.2.2009, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2009/152/oj).

(3) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/771 of 29 February 2024 amending Regulation (EC) No 152/2009 laying down the methods of sampling and analysis for the official control of feed (OJ L, 2024/771, 15.3.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/771/oj).

(4) Commission Regulation (EU) No 68/2013 of 16 January 2013 on the Catalogue of feed materials (OJ L 29, 30.1.2013, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2013/68/oj).