EUROPA - Food Safety - Animal Nutrition - Feed Contaminants

Site Map What's New A to Z Index Contact

Language selector

Current language:en

EUROPA European Commission DG Health and Consumers Overview Food and Feed Safety

General Food LawAnimal NutritionLabelling & NutritionBiotechnologyNovel FoodChemical SafetyBiological SafetyOfficial controlsSustainabilityFood improvement agents

Animal Nutrition - Feed Additives - Authorisation Types

Additives are authorised for use in feed destined for specific animal species or groups of animal species.

Types of granted authorisations under European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 :

Authorisations issued to the holder of authorisation. Those authorisations are granted for the additives belonging to the categories "Zootechnical additives" and "Coccidiostats and histomonostats" as well as the additives consisting of, containing or produced from genetically modified organisms (GMOs)
Authorisations not issued to the holder of authorisation for substances belonging to the other categories of additives "technological additives", "sensory additives" and "nutritional additives".

Both types of authorisation are valid for 10 years throughout the EU. Those authorisations shall be renewable for 10-year periods. An application for renewal shall be sent to the Commission at least 1 year before the expiry date of the authorisation. The procedure for renewal is described in Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003.

	Print