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Official Controls Regulation | Regulation on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health, plant reproductive material, plant protection products

[17] Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety; Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs; Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin; Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down ...[+++]specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption.

2. The Commission may, by means of implementing acts, lay down rules on uniform practical arrangements on official controls performed on certain categories of food or feed to verify compliance with the rules referred to in points (a) to (e) of Article 1(2) to address newly identified risks which may arise through food or feed to human or animal health or, in relation to GMOs and plant protection products, also to the environment, or any such risks emerging from new patterns of production or consumption of food or feed, and which cannot ...[+++] be effectively addressed in the absence of such common rules regarding uniform minimum frequency of such official controls, where a minimum level of official control is necessary to respond to the specific hazards and risks which exist in relation to each category of food and feed and the different processes it undergoes.

Those delegated acts shall address newly identified risks which may be posed through food or feed to human or animal health or, in relation to GMOs and plant protection products to the environment, or any such risks emerging from new patterns of production or consumption of food or feed, or which cannot be effectively addressed in the absence of common specifications for the official controls and for the action to be taken by the competent authorities following such official controls, and shall lay down ...[+++]rules on:

Those legislative proposals shall address newly identified risks which may be posed through food or feed to human or animal health or, in relation to GMOs and plant protection products to the environment, or any such risks emerging from new patterns of production or consumption of food or feed, or which cannot be effectively addressed in the absence of common specifications for the official controls and for the action to be taken by the competent authorities following such official controls, and shall lay down ...[+++]rules on: