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Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their…

Official title

Draft Commission Regulation (EU) amending Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 as regards requirements for the import of used cooking oil (Text with EEA relevance)

The European Union issued an addendum on 5 November 2025 to the earlier SPS notification G/SPS/N/EU/781. Addenda often report that a measure was adopted, changed, postponed or withdrawn. The measure was first notified on 8 July 2024. The comment period closed on 6 September 2024.

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At a glance

Products

Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading 15.16; inedible mixtures or preparations of animal, vegetable or microbial fa

HS codes
  • 15 · Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
    • 1518 Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert…
  • 38 · Chemical products n.e.c.
    • 382510 Municipal waste
Notifying member
European Union
Status
Updated: check whether it is now adopted or in force
Objectives
  • Animal health
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/EU/781Latest notice: G/SPS/N/EU/781/Add.1
Keywords
Animal health, Animal diseases, Adoption/publication/entry into force of reg.

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Closed on 6 September 2024
Proposed adoption
Second quarter 2025
Proposed entry into force
24 months from date of publication.

How to comment

The comment period closed on 6 September 2024. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/EU/781/Add.1; it can take them up with the European Union.

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What the notification says

Latest notice (⁨G/SPS/N/EU/781/Add.1⁩, 5 November 2025)

Requirements for the import of used cooking oil

The proposal notified in G/SPS/N/EU/781 (8 July 2024) is now adopted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2025/2181 of 29 October 2025 amending Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 as regards requirements for the import of used cooking oil (Text with EEA relevance). This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 19 November 2027.

The draft on animal health requirements for imports of used cooking oil intended for technical uses (production of renewable fuels and oleochemical products) introduces harmonized EU requirements and replaces current national rules of 27 EU member States. The main objective of the draft is prevention of entry of used cooking oil into feed for farmed animals within the European Union and thereby to mitigate potential biological hazards in feed. The draft introduced the following requirements: A consignment of used cooking oil must come from a registered storage or collection plant listed in the EU TRACES system [A consignment must be presented at an EU veterinary border control post and be monitored in the European Union until reaches its place of destination after import; A consignment of used cooking oil must be accompanied by a commercial declaration signed by the importers stated that used cooking oil is not intended for feeding farmed animals and that water and solid particles of more than 6 mm, to reach a combined amount of moisture and solid particles of not more than 10% w/w* at the time of dispatch.

Notices on this measure

Every notice about this measure published here, newest first. Each one is the notifying member's own text.

  1. AddendumG/SPS/N/EU/781/Add.1

    Requirements for the import of used cooking oil

    The proposal notified in G/SPS/N/EU/781 (8 July 2024) is now adopted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2025/2181 of 29 October 2025 amending Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 as regards requirements for the import of used cooking oil (Text with EEA relevance). This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 19 November 2027.

    Open on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)Official WTO document (opens in a new tab)Notified document (English) (opens in a new tab)Notified document (French) (opens in a new tab)Notified document (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)

  2. Regular notificationG/SPS/N/EU/781

    Comment deadline: Closed on 6 September 2024

    Draft Commission Regulation (EU) amending Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 as regards requirements for the import of used cooking oil (Text with EEA relevance)

    The draft on animal health requirements for imports of used cooking oil intended for technical uses (production of renewable fuels and oleochemical products) introduces harmonized EU requirements and replaces current national rules of 27 EU member States. The main objective of the draft is prevention of entry of used cooking oil into feed for farmed animals within the European Union and thereby to mitigate potential biological hazards in feed. The draft introduced the following requirements: A consignment of used cooking oil must come from a registered storage or collection plant listed in the EU TRACES system [A consignment must be presented at an EU veterinary border control post and be monitored in the European Union until reaches its place of destination after import; A consignment of used cooking oil must be accompanied by a commercial declaration signed by the importers stated that used cooking oil is not intended for feeding farmed animals and that water and solid particles of more than 6 mm, to reach a combined amount of moisture and solid particles of not more than 10% w/w* at the time of dispatch.

    Open on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)Official WTO document (opens in a new tab)Notified document (English) (opens in a new tab)Notified document (English) (opens in a new tab)

Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

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