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dossier COM(2024)388 - .
document COM(2024)388
date September  4, 2024
Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 5(4) of the Windsor Framework (see Joint Declaration No 1/2023 of the Union and the United Kingdom in the Joint Committee established by the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community of 24 March 2023, OJ L 102, 17.4.2023, p.87) in conjunction with Annex 2 to that Framework.

3()Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017 on official control 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.

4()Article 116 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

5()Article 113(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

6()Article 114 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

7()Commission staff working document (SWD(2024) 208 final) accompanying the report from the Commission on the overall operation of official controls carried out in EU countries (2022) to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products.

8()See Eurostat – key figures of the European food chain – 2022 for a selection of data for the EU’s agriculture and fisheries sectors, and for the wider farm to fork chain.

9()This figure does not include controls related to plant health (i.e. issuing plant passports and applying the ISPM15 mark to wood packaging to show that it has been treated to prevent the spread of insects, seeds and fungi), the marketing of plant protection products and the sustainable use of pesticides outside agriculture.

10()National authorities do not have to report the number of entities active in animal transport. The data requested for official controls and non-compliance issues for slaughterhouses and game-handling establishments can be given as the number of carcasses or the weight, therefore a total cannot be used.

11()Commission Notice on a guidance document on how to fill in the standard model form

12()Articles 151, 152, 154, 156, 157 and 158 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

13()Article 138 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

14()Article 12(2) and (3) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

15()Articles 137, 138 and 139 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

16()Articles 6 and 12 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

17()The work programmes are published on the Commission website

18()EU legislation on GMOs was adopted in 2001 and 2003. New genomic techniques are techniques that have emerged or have been developed since 2001.

19()Press release 15 June 2022

20()Regulation (EU) 2017/625

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