BAKGRUNN (fra kommisjonsforordningen)

(1) Annex II to Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/16443 sets out criteria for the selection of specific combinations of substance groups and commodity groups for the national risk-based control plans for production in the Member States. Based on practical experience with the application of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644, there are no relevant substances from substance group A(3), point (b) for raw bovine, ovine and caprine milk and for honey in the national risk-based control plans for production in the Member States to be checked. Furthermore, after the entry into force of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644, the content of the subgroups of prohibited or unauthorised pharmacologically active substances in food-producing animals (‘Group A substances’) referred to in Annex I to that Delegated Regulation has evolved. As a consequence, there are no relevant substances from substance group A(3), point (f) for certain commodities to be checked. Therefore, the mandatory requirement of sampling should be removed from the table in point A.1 of Annex II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644 for the combinations of substance groups and commodity groups concerned.

(2) Annex IV to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644 contains a provision on Group A substances that specifies the criteria for the selection of specific combinations of substance groups and commodity groups for the national randomised surveillance plans for production in the Member States. To improve the clarity of that provision, it should be rephrased. 

(3) Based on practical experience with the application of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644, there are no relevant substances from substance group B(1), point (e) for all commodity groups and no relevant substances from substance group B(2) for raw bovine, ovine and caprine milk in the national randomised surveillance plans for production in the Member States to be checked. Therefore, the mandatory requirement of sampling should be removed from the table in Annex IV to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644 for the combinations of substance groups and commodity groups concerned. 

(4) Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644 should therefore be amended accordingly. 

(5) As the rules laid down in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644 are to be included in the national risk-based control plans and the national randomised surveillance plans that are to be submitted to the Commission for evaluation annually in accordance with Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/16464 , this Regulation should apply for the first time to the plans for the year 2025. This Regulation should therefore apply from 1 January 2025,