(fra kommisjonsforordningen)

(1) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 (4) lays down rules regarding animal health certificates provided for in Regulation (EU) 2016/429, official certificates provided for in Regulation (EU) 2017/625, and animal health/official certificates based on those Regulations, required for the entry into the Union of certain consignments of animals and goods.

(2) Chapters 4 (model ‘EQU’), 24 (model ‘MP-PREP’), 25 (model ‘MPNT’) and 26 (model ‘MPST’) of Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 set out model animal health/official certificates and model official certificates for the entry into the Union of consignments of certain products of domestic solipeds origin intended for human consumption. Council Directive 96/22/EC (5) prohibits the administration of the substances listed in Annex II to that Directive to equine animals intended for human consumption (Article 3, point (a)) and the import to the Union from third countries of such animals which have been administered those substances (Article 11). Point II.1.7 of the public health attestation in model EQU and point II.1.11 of the public health attestation in models MP-PREP, MPNT and MPST should be amended to reflect those prohibitions.

(3) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/403 (6) establishes, amongst others, model certificates in the form of animal health certificates or animal health/official certificates and model declarations for the entry into the Union of consignments of certain categories of terrestrial animals and germinal products thereof.

(4) Article 15 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/403 provides that the animal health certificates and animal health/official certificates and declarations accompanying those certificates to be used for the entry into the Union of certain categories of equine animals are to correspond to one of the models set out in Annex II thereto, and referred to in that Article, depending on the movements concerned.

(5) Chapters 13 and 14 of that Annex set out, respectively, the model animal health/official certificates and model declarations for the entry into the Union of equine animals not intended for slaughter (model ‘EQUI-X’) and intended for slaughter (model ‘EQUI-Y’). Point II.6 of the public health attestation in those models should be amended to reflect the prohibitions laid down in Article 3, point (a), and Article 11 of Directive 96/22/EC.

(6) Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 and Annex II to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/403 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(7) In order to avoid any disruption to trade as regards the entry into the Union of consignments of certain products of domestic solipeds origin intended for human consumption and certain categories of equine animals due to the amendments made to Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 and Annex II to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/403 by this Regulation, the use of certificates or declarations issued in accordance with Implementing Regulations (EU) 2020/2235 and (EU) 2021/403, as applicable prior to the amendments made by this Regulation, should continue to be authorised during a transitional period subject to certain conditions.

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