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The concept for import controls at the EU's external borders has been changed and supplemented by so-called risk profiles. This leads to changes in the regular import controls for food from third countries into the EU.

 

Here is a selection of the current risk profile-based regular import controls. It can serve as a suggestion for the adaptation of internal inspection plans. We have limited ourselves only to those import goods and countries of origin which we consider important. In addition to fruit and vegetables, other product groups that may be of interest to our customers will also be taken into account from now on.

 

New entries

Food

KN Code

Country of origin

Reason /frequency

 Lemons
(Citrus limon, Citrus limonum)

0805 50 10

Turkey

Pesticide residues / 20% 3)

Groundnuts (peanuts), otherwise prepared or preserved

2008 11 91

2008 11 96

2008 11 98

Brazil

Pesticide residues / 20%

Oilcake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of groundnut oil

2305 00 00

Groundnut
flours and meals

ex 1208 90 00

 

 

Extension of the scope of the inspection and/or increase in the inspection frequency

Food

KN Code

Country of origin

Reason /frequency

Okra

ex 0709 99 90
ex 0710 80 95

India

Additional test for ethylene oxide / 20%
Pesticide residues / 20% 3), 12), 22)

Mandarins (including tangerines and satsumas); clementines, wilkings and similar citrus hybrids

0805 21

0805 22

0805 29

Turkey

Pesticide residues / 20% 3)

Jackfruit
(Artocarpus heterophyllus)

ex 0810 90 20

Malaysia

Pesticide residues / 50% 3)

Peppers of the genus Capsicum (other than sweet)

ex 0709 60 99
ex 0710 80 59

Uganda

Pesticide residues / 50% 3)

Groundnuts (peanuts), in shell, shelled

1202 41 00
1202 42 00

USA

Aflatoxins / 20%

Sesame seed

1207 40 90
ex 2008 19 19
ex 2008 19 99

Sudan

Salmonella /50%

Vine leaves

ex 2008 99 99

Turkey

Pesticide residues / 50% 26), 29)

 

Footnotes and numbering cited according to the regulation

3) Residues of at least those pesticides listed in the control programme adopted in accordance with Article 29(2) of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 February 2005 on maximum residue levels of pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin and amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC (OJ L 70, 16.3.2005, p. 1) that can be analysed with multi-residue methods based on GC-MS and LC-MS (pesticides to be monitored in/on products of plant origin only).
12) Residues of Diafenthiuron.
22) Residues of Ethylene Oxide (sum of ethylene oxide and 2-chloro-ethanol, expressed as ethylene oxide).
26) Residues of at least those pesticides listed in the control programme adopted in accordance with Article 29(2) of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 February 2005 on maximum residue levels of pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin and amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC (OJ L 70, 16.3.2005, p. 1) that can be analysed with multi-residue methods based on GC-MS and LC-MS (pesticides to be monitored in/on products of plant origin only).
28) Residues of Dithiocarbamates (dithiocarbamates expressed as CS2, including maneb, mancozeb, metiram, propineb, thiram and ziram) and Metrafenone.

 

Link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2021/1900/oj

 

 

Autor: Dr. Frank Mörsberger