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21 December 2022  
(22-9611) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, received on 20 December 2022, is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of  the United Kingdom . 
 
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The Official Controls (Import of High Risk Food and Feed not of Animal Origin) (Amendment) 
(England) Regulations 2022 ; The Official Controls (Import of High Risk Food and Feed of Non -Animal 
Origin) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2022 ; The Official Contro ls (Import of High Risk Food and 
Feed of Non -Animal Origin) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2022  
G/SPS/N/GBR/21  of 7 September 2022 notified draft legislative amendments to the temporary 
increase of official controls applicable to certain  food and feed of non -animal origin entering 
Great  Britain from the countries listed in Annexes 1,2 and 2a to retained Regulation 2019/1793. 
The Regulations introducing these amendments have now been published and are available below:  
The Official Controls (Import of High Risk Food and Feed and Non -Animal Origin) (Amendment of 
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793) (England) Regulations 2022  
The Official Controls (Import of High Risk Food and Feed of Non -Animal Origin) Amendment (Scotland) 
Regulations 2022  
The Official Controls (Import of High Risk Food and Feed Non -Animal Origin) (Amen dment) (Wales) 
Regulations 2022  
The versions of the draft legislation notified through G/SPS/N/GBR/21 dated 7 September 2022 
incorrectly included Turkish hazelnuts, controlled for aflatoxins at 5% checks, in Annex 2. This has 
now been rectified.  
This adde ndum concerns a:  
[ ] Modification of final date for comments  
[X] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation  
[X] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regulation  
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation  
[ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication or date of entry into force  
[ ] Other:  
Comment period: (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified measure 
in terms of products and/or potentially affected Members, a new  deadline for receipt of 
comments should be provided, normally of at least 60 calendar days. Under other 
circumstances, such as extension of originally announced final date for comments, the 
comment period provided in the addendum may vary.)  
[ ] Sixty day s from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable  G/SPS/N/GBR/21/Add.1  
 
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  Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [X]  National Notification Authority, 
[ ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address  (if available) of other 
body:  
UK SPS Contact Point, Defra, Nobel House, London SW1P 3JR  
E-mail: UKSPS@defra.gov.uk  
Text(s) available from: [  ] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:  
UK SPS Contact Point, Defra, Nobel House, London SW1P 3JR  
E-mail: UKSPS@defra.gov.uk  
 
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