(1)

Regulation (EU) 2016/429 lays down, inter alia, the animal health requirements for the entry into the Union of consignments of animals, germinal products and products of animal origin, and it applies from 21 April 2021. One of those animal health requirements is that those consignments must come from a third country, territory or zone or compartment thereof, listed in accordance with Article 230(1) of that Regulation.

(2)

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/692 (2) supplements Regulation (EU) 2016/429 as regards the animal health requirements for the entry into the Union of consignments of certain species and categories of animals, germinal products and products of animal origin from third countries, territories or zones or compartments thereof. Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/692 provides that consignments of animals, germinal products and products of animal origin falling within its scope may only be permitted to enter into the Union if they come from a third country, territory or zone or compartment thereof, listed for the particular species and categories of animals, germinal products and products of animal origin, in accordance with the animal health requirements laid down in that Delegated Regulation.

(3)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404 (3) establishes the lists of third countries, territories or zones or compartments thereof, from which the entry into the Union of those species and categories of animals, germinal products and products of animal origin, that fall within the scope of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/692, is permitted. The lists and certain general rules concerning the lists are set out in Annexes I to XXII to that Implementing Regulation.

(4)

Annex IV to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404 sets out the list of third countries, territories or zones thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of equine animals. The erroneous reference in the title of column 2 of that list should be corrected. Annex IV to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404 should therefore be corrected accordingly.

(5)

Section A of Part 1 of Annex XV to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404 sets out the list of third countries, territories or zones thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of meat products from ungulates, poultry and game birds. In the fifth column of that list, the entry for Serbia as regards porcine animals, should reflect the risk-mitigating treatments B or C referred to in Article 1, point (a), of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1351 (4), which applied until 31 December 2021, and which are now set out in Annex XXVI to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/692. That entry for Serbia should be corrected, and Annex XV to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404 should therefore be corrected accordingly.

(6)

Annex XVI to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404 sets out the list of third countries, territories or zones thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of consignments of casings. Mongolia submitted to the Commission its response to a questionnaire concerning the entry into the Union of consignments of casings from that third country in terms of animal and public health. Mongolia has also provided sufficient evidence and guarantees to the Commission to be included in that list which should therefore be amended to include that third country. Annex XVI to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(7)

Annex XVII to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404 sets out a list of third countries, territories or zones thereof authorised for the entry into the Union of milk, colostrum, colostrum-based products, dairy products derived from raw milk and dairy products not subject to a specific risk-mitigating treatment against foot-and-mouth disease. That list should take account of the list of third countries or parts thereof authorised for the introduction into the European Union of consignments of raw milk, dairy products, colostrum and colostrum-based products and indicating the type of heat treatment required for such commodities set out in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EU) No 605/2010 (5), as Regulation (EU) No 605/2010 was repealed and replaced by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404. Annex XVII to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404 should therefore be corrected to include an entry for the Isle of Man, which was listed in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 605/2010.

(8)

Annex XXI to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404 sets out the list of third countries or territories or zones or compartments thereof from which the entry into the Union of consignments of live aquatic animals of listed species is authorised. That Annex should be corrected by reinserting Parts 2, 3 and 4 as applicable before the amendments made to Annex XXI to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404, by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1937 (6), and unintentionally deleted by that Implementing Regulation. Annex XXI to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404 should therefore be corrected accordingly.

(9)

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404 should therefore be amended and corrected accordingly.

(10)

As Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404 applies from 21 April 2021, in the interest of legal certainty, the amendments and corrections to be made to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404 by this Regulation should take effect as a matter of urgency.

(11)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,