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Official Journal EN
of the European Union L series
2024/2210 6.9.2024
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2024/2210
of 5 September 2024
amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1550 by updating the multiannual programme of
controls for the period 2021-2025 and establishing the programme of Commission controls for
2025 in the Member States to verify the application of Union agri-food chain legislation
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 118(1), point (b), thereof,
Whereas:
(1) The responsibility to enforce Union agri-food chain legislation lies with Member States, whose competent authorities
monitor and verify, through the organisation of official controls, that relevant Union requirements are effectively
complied with and enforced. Parallel to this monitoring and verification, Article 116 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625
requires Commission experts to perform controls, including audits, in Member States to verify the application of
Union legislation. These Commission controls should be performed in the areas of food and feed safety, animal
health and welfare, plant health, plant protection products, and the functioning of national control systems and
competent authorities, which operate them, taking into account synergies with control arrangements under the
common agricultural policy.
(2) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1550(2) established in Chapters 1 to 10 of the Annex thereto a
multiannual programme of controls to be carried out by Commission experts in the Member States to verify the
application of Union agri-food chain legislation for the period 2021-2025, aligned with the Commission’s term of
office and reflecting its priorities.
(3) In accordance with Article 38(4) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 of the European Parliament and of the Council(3),
which applies from 13 May 2024, Article 118 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 is not to apply to controls, including
audits, of geographical indications. Consequently, the reference to geographical indications in Chapter 7 of the
Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1550 should be removed.
(4) In accordance with Article 118(1), point (b), of Regulation (EU) 2017/625, Chapter 11 of the Annex to
Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1550 setting out the programme of Commission controls for the following year
is to be communicated to the Member States by the end of each year. Chapter 11 should be updated to reflect the
programme of Commission controls planned for 2025.
(1) OJ L 95, 7.4.2017, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2017/625/oj.
(2) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1550 of 23 October 2020 establishing the multiannual programme of controls for
the period 2021-2025 to be carried out by Commission experts in the Member States to verify the application of Union agri-food
chain legislation (OJ L 354, 26.10.2020, p. 9, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2020/1550/oj).
(3) Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 on geographical indications for wine,
spirit drinks and agricultural products, as well as traditional specialities guaranteed and optional quality terms for agricultural
products, amending Regulations (EU) No 1308/2013, (EU) 2019/787 and (EU) 2019/1753 and repealing Regulation (EU)
No 1151/2012 (OJ L, 2024/1143, 23.4.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1143/oj).
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(5) Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1550 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(6) Given that a part of this amendment concerns the annual programme of controls for 2025, which applies as of
1 January 2025, the date of application of that part of the amendment should be deferred to coincide with that date,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
The Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1550 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.
Article 2
This Decision shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Union.
Points 1 and 3 of the Annex shall apply from 1 January 2025.
Done at Brussels, 5 September 2024.
For the Commission
The President
Ursula VON DER LEYEN
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The Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1550 is amended as follows:
(1) in the sixth paragraph, the second sentence is replaced by the following:
‘Chapter 11 sets out the programme of controls for 2025.’;
(2) in Chapter 7, ‘Food quality’, in the table, the second row, corresponding to the entry for ‘Geographical indications’, is
deleted;
(3) Chapter 11 is replaced by the following:
‘11. Programme of controls for 2025
Area Priority area Focus in 2025
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&
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Safety of meat of mammals and birds and products thereof
Food of animal origin Safety of milk and products thereof
Safety of fishery products
Food of non-animal origin Microbiological safety
Residues in live animals and food of Chemical safety – residues
animal origin
deef
&
deeF
ytefas
Feed hygiene
Feed safety Medicated feed
Animal by-products and derived products
htlaeh
laminA
Category A diseases under Regula African swine fever
tion (EU) 2016/429 Highly pathogenic avian influenza
Category B and C diseases under
Monitoring system for category B and C diseases
Regulation (EU) 2016/429
Contingency planning covered during African swine fever and
highly pathogenic avian influenza audits
Preparedness & prevention
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (One Health)
Pandemic transmission pathways (One Health)
laminA eraflew Slaughter Ruminants and poultry
Transport Livestock vessels
htlaeh
tnalP
Plant pest outbreaks Plant pest outbreaks presenting a significant threat
Plant health survey programmes
Preparedness and prevention
Contingency planning
DUS
&
PPP
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Chemical safety (authorisation, marketing and use of pesticides)
Plant protection products (PPP)
Sustainable use of pesticides
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2024/2210/oj 3/4Area Priority area Focus in 2025
ytilauq
dooF
Organic farming Organic farming
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otni
yrtnE
sdoog
dna
slamina
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seirtnuoc
driht
morf
Official controls on animals and
Animals and goods
goods
RMA
Monitoring of antimicrobial resis
tance (AMR) in zoonotic and com AMR in zoonotic and commensal bacteria
mensal bacteria
stcepsa
lareneG
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nihtiw
niahc
doof-irga
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Follow-up of audit recommenda
General and sectoral follow-up of audit recommendations
tions
Genetically modified organisms
GMOs
(GMOs)
Any emergency situations, emer
ging problems and new develop Emergency situations, emerging problems and new developments’
ments
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