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Official Journal EN
of the European Union L series
2024/2562 27.9.2024
COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2024/2562
of 3 June 2024
amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644 as regards certain criteria for the selection of
samples
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017on official
controls 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, amending Regulations (EC) No 999/2001, (EC) No 396/2005, (EC)
No 1069/2009, (EC) No 1107/2009, (EU) No 1151/2012, (EU) No 652/2014, (EU) 2016/429 and (EU) 2016/2031 of the
European Parliament and of the Council, Council Regulations (EC) No 1/2005 and (EC) No 1099/2009 and Council
Directives 98/58/EC, 1999/74/EC, 2007/43/EC, 2008/119/EC and 2008/120/EC, and repealing Regulations (EC)
No 854/2004 and (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 89/608/EEC,
89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC, 91/496/EEC, 96/23/EC, 96/93/EC and 97/78/EC and Council Decision 92/438/EEC (Official
Controls Regulation)(1), and in particular Article 19(2), point (a), thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Annex II to Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644(2) sets out criteria for the selection of specific
combinations of substance groups and commodity groups for the national risk-based control plans for production
in the Member States. Based on practical experience with the application of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644,
there are no relevant substances from substance group A(3), point (b) for raw bovine, ovine and caprine milk and
for honey in the national risk-based control plans for production in the Member States to be checked. Furthermore,
after the entry into force of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644, the content of the subgroups of prohibited or
unauthorised pharmacologically active substances in food-producing animals (‘Group A substances’) referred to in
Annex I to that Delegated Regulation has evolved. As a consequence, there are no relevant substances from
substance group A(3), point (f) for certain commodities to be checked. Therefore, the mandatory requirement of
sampling should be removed from the table in point A.1 of Annex II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644 for
the combinations of substance groups and commodity groups concerned.
(2) Annex IV to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644 contains a provision on Group A substances that specifies the
criteria for the selection of specific combinations of substance groups and commodity groups for the national
randomised surveillance plans for production in the Member States. To improve the clarity of that provision, it
should be rephrased.
(3) Based on practical experience with the application of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644, there are no relevant
substances from substance group B(1), point (e) for all commodity groups and no relevant substances from
substance group B(2) for raw bovine, ovine and caprine milk in the national randomised surveillance plans for
production in the Member States to be checked. Therefore, the mandatory requirement of sampling should be
removed from the table in Annex IV to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644 for the combinations of substance
groups and commodity groups concerned.
(4) Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(1) OJ L 95, 7.4.2017, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2017/625/oj.
(2) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644 of 7 July 2022 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European
Parliament and of the Council with specific requirements for the performance of official controls on the use of pharmacologically
active substances authorised as veterinary medicinal products or as feed additives and of prohibited or unauthorised pharmacologically
active substances and residues thereof (OJ L 248, 26.9.2022, p. 3, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2022/1644/oj).
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2024/2562/oj 1/3EN
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(5) As the rules laid down in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644 are to be included in the national risk-based control
plans and the national randomised surveillance plans that are to be submitted to the Commission for evaluation
annually in accordance with Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1646(3), this Regulation should
apply for the first time to the plans for the year 2025. This Regulation should therefore apply from 1 January 2025,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Annexes II and IV to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644 are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2
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 January 2025.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 3 June 2024.
For the Commission
The President
Ursula VON DER LEYEN
(3) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1646 of 23 September 2022 on uniform practical arrangements for the
performance of official controls as regards the use of pharmacologically active substances authorised as veterinary medicinal products
or as feed additives and of prohibited or unauthorised pharmacologically active substances and residues thereof, on specific content of
multi-annual national control plans and specific arrangements for their preparation (OJ L 248, 26.9.2022, p. 32, ELI: http://data.
europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2022/1646/oj).
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ANNEX
Annexes II and IV to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644 are amended as follows:
(1) Annex II is amended as follows:
(a) in point A.1, in the table, the entry for substance group A(3), point (b) is replaced by the following:
‘A(3), X X X X X X X’
point (b)
(b) in point A.1, in the table, the entry for substance group A(3), point (f) is replaced by the following:
‘A(3), X X X X X X X’
point (f)
(2) Annex IV is amended as follows:
(a) the part on Group A substances is replaced by the following:
‘Group A substances
The samples that consist in combinations of substance groups and commodity groups shall be different from the
samples taken referred to in the national risk-based control plans for production in the Member States.’;
(b) in the part on Group B substances, in the table, the entry for substance group B1e is replaced by the following:
‘B1e’
(c) in the part on Group B substances, in the table, the entry for substance group B2 is replaced by the following:
‘B2 X X X X X X’
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2024/2562/oj 3/3