(fra kommisjonsforordningen)

(1) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1641 establishes rules and a model certificate for imports into the Union of live, chilled, frozen or processed bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods intended for human consumption from the United States. 

(2) Article 118(1) read in combination with Article 107(2) of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishes that operators in third countries are not to use antimicrobial medicinal products in animals to promote growth or increase yield. From Article 118(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 it follows that also medicinal products containing antimicrobials that are included in the list of antimicrobials reserved for the treatment of certain infections in humans laid down in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/12555 are not to be used in respect of animals or products of animal origin , exported from third countries or to the Union. 

(3) Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/905 supplements Regulation (EU) 2019/6 by establishing conditions for the entry into the Union of consignments of live foodproducing animals and products of animal origin intended for human consumption that are exported from third countries to the Union. 

(4) Article 4 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/905 requires among others that consignments of live food-producing animals and products of animal origin intended for human consumption are to only enter the Union where they are accompanied by an official certificate attesting compliance with the Union rules on the use of antimicrobial medicinal products laid down in Article 3 of the same delegated Regulation. 

(5) An attestation concerning compliance with these Union rules should therefore be inserted in the model certificate set out in the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1641. 

(6) In the interests of clarity and consistency of Union rules, the model certificate set out in the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1641 should be updated, including updating references, notes and structural elements, and be replaced by the model certificate set out in the Annex to this Regulation. 

(7) Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1641 should therefore be amended accordingly. 

(8) In order to avoid any disruption to trade as regards the entry into the Union of consignments of live, chilled, frozen or processed bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods intended for human consumption from the United States due to the amendments made to the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1641 by this Regulation, the use of official certificates issued in accordance with Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1641 as applicable prior to the amendments made by this Regulation, should continue to be authorised during a transitional period, subject to certain conditions. 

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