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European UnionProposed measure, may since have been adopted

Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding

Official title

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2046 of 10 October 2025 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1486 as regards the terms of the authorisation of canthaxanthin as a feed additive for certain categories of poultry, ornamental fish and ornamental birds (Text with EEA relevance)

The European Union notified this proposed SPS measure to the WTO on 13 November 2025.

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Products

Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding

HS codes
  • 23 · Food industries, residues and wastes thereof; prepared animal fodder
    • 2309 Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding
Notifying member
European Union
Status
Proposed measure, may since have been adoptedNotified as a draft on 13 November 2025. Check WTO ePing or the European Union for its current status.
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/897
Keywords
Animal diseases, Food safety, Animal health, Human health

Key dates

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Comment deadline
Not set in the notification
Proposed adoption
Proposed entry into force
This Regulation entered into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

How to comment

The notification sets no comment deadline. To comment, contact your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/EU/897; it forwards comments to the European Union.

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What the notification says

The additive covered by this Act is currently authorised for a period of 10 years as a feed additive for certain categories of poultry in the additive category ‘sensory additives’ and in the functional group ‘colourants (ii) substances which, when fed to animals, add colours to food of animal origin’ and for ornamental fish and ornamental birds in the additive category ‘sensory additives’ and in the functional group ‘colourants (iii) substances which favourably affect the colour of ornamental fish or birds'. An application was submitted for the modification the authorisation of this additive in accordance with article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003. The modification consists in the addition of a new production route by fermentation with Yarrowia lipolytica CBS 146148. Based on the favourable conclusions of a scientific assessment of the dossier submitted by the applicant, conducted by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the authorisation of this additive is amended under certain conditions detailed in the Annex to the Act.

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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