7. Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2003 on additives for use in animal nutrition OJ L 268, 18.10.2003, p. 29.

Regulation (EU) 2019/1243 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 adapting a number of legal acts providing for the use of the regulatory procedure with scrutiny to Articles 290 and 291 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (Text with EEA relevance) · European Union

In order to achieve the objectives of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU should be delegated to the Commission to amend Annexes I to IV to that Regulation in order to adapt them to technical progress and to supplement that Regulation with rules to allow for simplified provisions for the authorisation of additives which have been authorised for use in food. It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level, and that those consultations be conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making. In particular, to ensure equal participation in the preparation of delegated acts, the European Parliament and the Council receive all documents at the same time as Member States’ experts, and their experts systematically have access to meetings of Commission expert groups dealing with the preparation of delegated acts. Accordingly, Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 is amended as follows: in Article 3, paragraph 5 is replaced by the following: ‘5. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 21a amending Annex IV in order to adapt the general conditions set out therein to technological progress or scientific development.’; in Article 6, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following: ‘3. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 21a amending Annex I in order to adapt feed additive categories and functional groups as a result of technological progress or scientific development.’; in Article 7(5), the third subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 21a in order to supplement this Regulation by establishing rules to allow for simplified provisions for the authorisation of additives which have been authorised for use in food.’; in Article 16, paragraph 6 is replaced by the following: ‘6. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 21a amending Annex III to take technological progress and scientific development into account.’; in Article 21, the fourth paragraph is replaced by the following: ‘The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 21a amending Annex II.’; the following Article is inserted: ‘Article 21a Exercise of the delegation 1. The power to adopt delegated acts is conferred on the Commission subject to the conditions laid down in this Article. 2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 3(5), Article 6(3), Article 7(5), Article 16(6) and Article 21 shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of five years from 26 July 2019. The Commission shall draw up a report in respect of the delegation of power not later than nine months before the end of the five-year period. The delegation of power shall be tacitly extended for periods of an identical duration, unless the European Parliament or the Council opposes such extension not later than three months before the end of each period. 3. The delegation of power referred to in Article 3(5), Article 6(3), Article 7(5), Article 16(6) and Article 21 may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force. 4. Before adopting a delegated act, the Commission shall consult experts designated by each Member State in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making OJ L 123, 12.5.2016, p. 1.’; . 5. As soon as it adopts a delegated act, the Commission shall notify it simultaneously to the European Parliament and to the Council. 6. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 3(5), Article 6(3), Article 7(5), Article 16(6) and Article 21 shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or by the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council. in Article 22, paragraph 3 is deleted.

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