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Draft Commission Implementing Regulation amending

Official title

Draft Commission Implementing Regulation amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/632 as regards the lists of products of animal origin, animal by-products and composite products subject to official controls at border control posts

The European Union issued an addendum on 17 March 2026 to the earlier SPS notification G/SPS/N/EU/888. Addenda often report that a measure was adopted, changed, postponed or withdrawn. The measure was first notified on 29 September 2025. The comment period closed on 28 November 2025.

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At a glance

Products

Products of animal origin, animal by-products and composite products

HS codes
  • 13 · Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts
    • 1301 Lac; natural gums, resins, gum-resins, balsams and other natural oleoresins
  • 20 · Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants
    • 200819 Nuts and other seeds, incl. mixtures, prepared or preserved (excl. prepared or preserved with vinegar, preserved with sugar but not laid in syrup, jams, fruit…
  • 21 · Miscellaneous edible preparations
    • 210690 Food preparations, n.e.s.
  • 30 · Pharmaceutical products
    • 300213 Immunological products, unmixed, not put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale (excl. diagnostic reagents)
    • 300214 Immunological products, mixed, not put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale (excl. diagnostic reagents)
    • 300215 Immunological products, put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale (excl. diagnostic reagents)
  • 31 · Fertilizers
    • 310590 Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing the two fertilising elements nitrogen and potassium or one principal fertilising substance only, incl. mixtures of…
All 10 codes
  • 38 · Chemical products n.e.c.
    • 3821 Prepared culture media for the development or maintenance of micro-organisms (including viruses and the like) or of plant, human or animal cells.
    • 3823 Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols
    • 3824 Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; chemical products and preparations for the chemical or allied industries, incl. mixtures of natural products…
Notifying member
European Union
Status
Updated: check whether it is now adopted or in force
Objectives
  • Food safety
  • Animal health
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/EU/888Latest notice: G/SPS/N/EU/888/Add.1
Keywords
Animal diseases, Food safety, Animal health, Human health, Adoption/publication/entry into force of reg.

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Closed on 28 November 2025
Proposed adoption
January 2026
Proposed entry into force
The twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

How to comment

The comment period closed on 28 November 2025. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/EU/888/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/888/Add.1⁩, 17 March 2026)

Lists of products of animal origin, animal by-products and composite products subject to official controls at border control posts

The proposal notified in G/SPS/N/EU/888 (29 September 2025) is now adopted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/551 of 13 March 2026 amending the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/632 as regards the lists of products of animal origin, animal by-products and composite products subject to official controls at border control posts (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 1 October 2026.

In accordance with Regulation (EU) 2017/625 on official controls on the agri-food chain, the Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, establish lists of animals, products of animal origin, germinal products, animal by-products and derived products, composite products, hay and straw that are subject to official controls at the border control posts. The lists have been established by way of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/632. It is necessary to update the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/632 to include certain products of animal origin, animal by-products, and composite products, which are currently missing from the list of products subject to official controls at border control posts. It is therefore appropriate to add the headings and CN codes 1301, 2008 19, 2106 90 55, 2933, 3002 13, 3002 14, 3002 15, 3105 90, 3821, 3823 and 3824 in the list set out in the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/632 in order to avoid any ambiguity as regards which consignments of goods are subject to official controls at border control posts.

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/888/Add.1

    Lists of products of animal origin, animal by-products and composite products subject to official controls at border control posts

    The proposal notified in G/SPS/N/EU/888 (29 September 2025) is now adopted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/551 of 13 March 2026 amending the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/632 as regards the lists of products of animal origin, animal by-products and composite products subject to official controls at border control posts (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 1 October 2026.

    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/888

    Comment deadline: Closed on 28 November 2025

    Draft Commission Implementing Regulation amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/632 as regards the lists of products of animal origin, animal by-products and composite products subject to official controls at border control posts

    In accordance with Regulation (EU) 2017/625 on official controls on the agri-food chain, the Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, establish lists of animals, products of animal origin, germinal products, animal by-products and derived products, composite products, hay and straw that are subject to official controls at the border control posts. The lists have been established by way of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/632. It is necessary to update the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/632 to include certain products of animal origin, animal by-products, and composite products, which are currently missing from the list of products subject to official controls at border control posts. It is therefore appropriate to add the headings and CN codes 1301, 2008 19, 2106 90 55, 2933, 3002 13, 3002 14, 3002 15, 3105 90, 3821, 3823 and 3824 in the list set out in the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/632 in order to avoid any ambiguity as regards which consignments of goods are subject to official controls at border control posts.

    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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