Intensified import controls in EU

: Published: 03 December 2021

The concept for import controls at the EU's external borders has been changed and supplemented by so-called risk profiles. This leads to changes in the regular import controls for food from third countries into the EU.

Here is a selection of the current risk profile-based regular import controls. It can serve as a suggestion for the adaptation of internal inspection plans. We have limited ourselves only to those import goods and countries of origin which we consider important. In addition to fruit and vegetables, other product groups that may be of interest to our customers will also be taken into account from now on.

New entries

Food	KN Code	Country of origin	Reason /frequency
Lemons (Citrus limon, Citrus limonum)	0805 50 10	Turkey	Pesticide residues / 20% ³⁾
Groundnuts (peanuts), otherwise prepared or preserved	2008 11 91 2008 11 96 2008 11 98	Brazil	Pesticide residues / 20%
Oilcake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of groundnut oil	2305 00 00
Groundnut flours and meals	ex 1208 90 00

Extension of the scope of the inspection and/or increase in the inspection frequency

Food	KN Code	Country of origin	Reason /frequency
Okra	ex 0709 99 90 ex 0710 80 95	India	Additional test for ethylene oxide / 20% Pesticide residues / 20% ^{3), 12), 22)}
Mandarins (including tangerines and satsumas); clementines, wilkings and similar citrus hybrids	0805 21 0805 22 0805 29	Turkey	Pesticide residues / 20% ³⁾
Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus)	ex 0810 90 20	Malaysia	Pesticide residues / 50% ³⁾
Peppers of the genus Capsicum (other than sweet)	ex 0709 60 99 ex 0710 80 59	Uganda	Pesticide residues / 50% ³⁾
Groundnuts (peanuts), in shell, shelled	1202 41 00 1202 42 00	USA	Aflatoxins / 20%
Sesame seed	1207 40 90 ex 2008 19 19 ex 2008 19 99	Sudan	Salmonella /50%
Vine leaves	ex 2008 99 99	Turkey	Pesticide residues / 50% ^{26), 29)}

Footnotes and numbering cited according to the regulation

³⁾ Residues of at least those pesticides listed in the control programme adopted in accordance with Article 29(2) of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 February 2005 on maximum residue levels of pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin and amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC (OJ L 70, 16.3.2005, p. 1) that can be analysed with multi-residue methods based on GC-MS and LC-MS (pesticides to be monitored in/on products of plant origin only).
¹²⁾ Residues of Diafenthiuron.
²²⁾ Residues of Ethylene Oxide (sum of ethylene oxide and 2-chloro-ethanol, expressed as ethylene oxide).
²⁶⁾Residues of at least those pesticides listed in the control programme adopted in accordance with Article 29(2) of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 February 2005 on maximum residue levels of pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin and amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC (OJ L 70, 16.3.2005, p. 1) that can be analysed with multi-residue methods based on GC-MS and LC-MS (pesticides to be monitored in/on products of plant origin only).
²⁸⁾Residues of Dithiocarbamates (dithiocarbamates expressed as CS2, including maneb, mancozeb, metiram, propineb, thiram and ziram) and Metrafenone.

Link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2021/1900/oj

Autor: Dr. Frank Mörsberger

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