This is a description of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/187.
**Essence of the Act:**
The regulation amends Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/405, which lists third countries or regions authorized to export certain animals and goods intended for human consumption to the EU, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2017/625 on official controls. The changes reflect updates in control plans, guarantees provided by third countries, and the scope of products covered. The regulation updates the lists of countries authorized to export specific animal products to the EU, based on their compliance with EU food safety standards and control plans.
**Structure and Main Provisions:**
The regulation consists of two articles and an annex.
* **Article 1** outlines the amendments to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/405, specifically replacing Articles 8 and 9 and modifying Annexes I, V, VI, VIII, and IX.
* **Article 2** specifies that the regulation will come into force twenty days after its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union and confirms its binding and directly applicable nature in all Member States.
* The **Annex** provides the detailed amendments to Annexes I, V, VI, VIII, and IX of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/405, including updated lists of third countries authorized for the entry into the Union of consignments of certain animals and goods intended for human consumption.
**Main Provisions for Practical Use:**
* **Addition of Meat Preparations:** Expands the scope of Articles 8 and 9 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/405 to include meat preparations of farmed rabbit, wild leporidae, and wild land mammals other than ungulates and leporidae.
* **Updates to Annex I:** Modifies Annex I to reflect the approval of control plans for specific products from various countries, including Albania (crustaceans), North Macedonia (casings), Uganda (aquaculture: finfish and finfish products), and Kyrgyz Republic (honey).
* **Changes Regarding Ukraine:** Deletes Ukraine from Annex V (fresh meat of farmed rabbit and wild leporidae) and Annex VIII (live, chilled, frozen or processed bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods). Also, the remark in Annex IX for Ukraine is changed to ‘aquaculture: finfish and finfish products only’.
* **Inclusion of “O” Designation:** Adds the “O” designation for eggs for Israel and for milk and eggs for Tunisia in Annex I, indicating authorization for shelf-stable composite products containing these ingredients.
* **Updates to Remarks in Annex IX:** Modifies the remarks in Annex IX for Japan and Uganda to specify “aquaculture: finfish and finfish products only.”
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