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Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding

Official title

Draft Commission Implementing Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 429/2008 as regards the application form for authorisations of feed additives and the designation of target animal species and categories (Text with EEA relevance)

The European Union issued an addendum on 3 June 2026 to the earlier SPS notification G/SPS/N/EU/898. Addenda often report that a measure was adopted, changed, postponed or withdrawn. The measure was first notified on 25 November 2025. The comment period closed on 24 January 2026.

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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
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/898Latest notice: G/SPS/N/EU/898/Add.1
Keywords
Human health, Animal health, Food safety, Animal diseases, Adoption/publication/entry into force of reg.

Key dates

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Comment deadline
Closed on 24 January 2026
Proposed adoption
March 2026
Proposed entry into force
This Regulation will enter into force on the twentieth day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union, and will become applicable six months later.

How to comment

The comment period closed on 24 January 2026. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/EU/898/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/898/Add.1⁩, 3 June 2026)

Application form for authorisations of feed additives and the designation of target animal species and categories

The proposal notified in G/SPS/N/EU/898 (25 November 2025) is now adopted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1115 of 26 May 2026 amending Regulation (EC) No 429/2008 as regards the application form for authorisations of feed additives and the designation of target animal species and categories (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 16 December 2026.

Regulation (EC) No 429/2008 provides for the detailed rules for the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 as regards the preparation and the presentation of applications, the assessment and the authorisation of feed additives. It lays down in Article 2(1) that an application shall be submitted using the form set out in Annex I. This Annex I is currently unnecessarily detailed. In addition, it duplicates information that applicants are required to provide anyway in the electronic submission system provided by the Commission (E-SUBMISSION Food Chain platform). This initiative therefore proposes to simplify and shorten Annex I, and to allow for the system to have an automatically generated application form by extracting the necessary information from the electronic submission, thus reducing administrative burden. Experience shows that there is a real need to propose a comprehensive list of target animal species and categories that can be used consistently by applicants and EFSA throughout the application and assessment process, in order to avoid uncertainties or misunderstandings which complexify and sometimes even delay the outcome of the authorisation process. This comprehensive list of animal species with appropriate definitions to ensure common understanding is to be laid down in a new Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 429/2008, while Annex IV thereto is expanded to provide a comprehensive list of animal categories. Additional adjustments are proposed in other parts…

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/898/Add.1

    Application form for authorisations of feed additives and the designation of target animal species and categories

    The proposal notified in G/SPS/N/EU/898 (25 November 2025) is now adopted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1115 of 26 May 2026 amending Regulation (EC) No 429/2008 as regards the application form for authorisations of feed additives and the designation of target animal species and categories (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 16 December 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/898

    Comment deadline: Closed on 24 January 2026

    Draft Commission Implementing Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 429/2008 as regards the application form for authorisations of feed additives and the designation of target animal species and categories (Text with EEA relevance)

    Regulation (EC) No 429/2008 provides for the detailed rules for the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 as regards the preparation and the presentation of applications, the assessment and the authorisation of feed additives. It lays down in Article 2(1) that an application shall be submitted using the form set out in Annex I. This Annex I is currently unnecessarily detailed. In addition, it duplicates information that applicants are required to provide anyway in the electronic submission system provided by the Commission (E-SUBMISSION Food Chain platform). This initiative therefore proposes to simplify and shorten Annex I, and to allow for the system to have an automatically generated application form by extracting the necessary information from the electronic submission, thus reducing administrative burden. Experience shows that there is a real need to propose a comprehensive list of target animal species and categories that can be used consistently by applicants and EFSA throughout the application and assessment process, in order to avoid uncertainties or misunderstandings which complexify and sometimes even delay the outcome of the authorisation process. This comprehensive list of animal species with appropriate definitions to ensure common understanding is to be laid down in a new Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 429/2008, while Annex IV thereto is expanded to provide a comprehensive list of animal categories. Additional adjustments are proposed in other parts…

    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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