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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 743/2013 of 31 July 2013 introducing protective measures on imports of bivalve molluscs from Turkey intended for human consumption Text with EEA relevance

Type Implementing Regulation

Publication 2013-08-01

Last updated 2017-12-22

State Expired

Department European Commission

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COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 743/2013

of 31 July 2013

introducing protective measures on imports of bivalve molluscs from Turkey intended for human consumption

(Text with EEA relevance)

Article 1

This Regulation shall apply to live, chilled, frozen and processed bivalve molluscs intended for human consumption and originating in Turkey.

Article 2

Member States shall not allow importation into the Union of live and chilled bivalve molluscs from Turkey.

Article 3

Member States shall, using appropriate sampling plans and detection methods, carry out tests on consignments of frozen and processed bivalve molluscs originating in Turkey as provided for in paragraph 2.

Those tests shall take place at the border inspection post of entry into the Union of the consignments concerned.

Member States shall carry out the tests necessary to identify:

(a)the contamination level of Escherichia coli in all consignments of frozen bivalve molluscs;

(b)the presence of marine biotoxins in all consignments of frozen or processed bivalve molluscs.

The consignments subjected to tests referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall stay under supervision of competent authorities at the border inspection post concerned until the results of those tests are received and assessed.

If the tests referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 indicate that a consignment is likely to be injurious to human health, the competent authority shall immediately seize and destroy the consignments.

Article 4

All expenditures incurred in the application of this Regulation shall be charged to the operator or his representative responsible for the consignment at the time of presentation of that consignment to the border inspection post of entry into the Union.

Article 5

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply until 31 December 2021.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

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