#32026R1189EU Updates Import Rules on Restricted Antimicrobials in Animals and Animal Products
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This regulation updates EU import controls for animals and animal-origin products from non-EU countries, focusing on restricted antimicrobial medicines. It supports the EU rule that exporters must not use antimicrobials to promote growth or increase yield, and must not use antimicrobials reserved for treating serious human infections. The practical impact is on non-EU producers, exporters, and authorities that want access to the EU market. They need to show that animals and animal products meet the EU’s antimicrobial-use restrictions before consignments can enter the Union. The regulation also replaces the earlier 2024 implementing regulation on this topic.
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Key Changes
- Updates Regulation (EU) 2021/405 to apply EU restrictions on certain antimicrobial medicines to imports of animals and animal-origin products
- Links EU market access for relevant third-country consignments to compliance with bans on growth-promotion antimicrobials and human-reserved antimicrobials
- Repeals Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2598 and replaces it with the updated framework
Obligations
What this law requires
Animals and products of animal origin exported from third countries to the EU must not come from animals treated with antimicrobial medicinal products used to promote growth or increase yield.
Animals and products of animal origin exported from third countries to the EU must not come from animals treated with antimicrobial medicinal products reserved in the EU for treatment of serious human infections.
Third countries or regions seeking to export covered animals or animal-origin goods to the EU must provide sufficient guarantees that the exported animals or products comply with EU restrictions on specified antimicrobial medicinal products.
Consignments of covered animals and animal-origin goods from third countries may enter the EU only where the relevant third country or region appears on the Commission list established for that purpose under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/405 as amended.
Economic operators importing covered animals or products of animal origin into the EU must ensure that consignments can demonstrate compliance with the EU antimicrobial-use restrictions before entry is allowed.