Regulation (EC) No 669/2009 is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation.
Implementing Regulation (EU) No 884/2014 is amended as follows:
the following points (i), (j) and (k) are added to Article 1(1):
groundnuts in shell and shelled, peanut butter, groundnuts otherwise prepared or preserved (feed and food) originating in or consigned from Brazil;
Capsicum sp. and nutmeg originating in or consigned from India;
nutmeg originating in or consigned from Indonesia.’;
the following sentence is added to Article 1(3):
‘This Regulation shall also not apply to consignments of feed and food of a gross weight not exceeding 20 kg.’;
in Article 5(2), point (a) is replaced by the following:
in Article 5(2), points (d) and (e) are replaced by the following:
the Ministry of Health and Medical Education for food from Iran;
the General Directorate of Food and Control of the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock of the Republic of Turkey for food from Turkey;’;
the following sentence is added to Article 6:
‘In case of a consignment in which packaging is combining several small packages/entities, it is sufficient that the identification number of the consignment is mentioned on the package combining these small packages/entities’;
the first sentence of Article 9(4) is replaced by the following:
‘The competent authority at the DPE shall authorise transfer of the consignment to a DPI after favourable completion of the checks referred to in paragraph 2 and the relevant entries of Part II of the CED (II.3, II.5, II.8 and II.9) are completed.’;
Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 884/2014 is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Consignments of feed and food referred to in Article 1(1)(i)(j) and (k) which left the country of origin prior to the entry into force of this Regulation may be imported into the EU without being accompanied by a health certificate and the results of sampling and analysis.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 8 January 2016.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude Juncker