France - National feed-law transposition specifics (alimentation animale) — bilingual (French original + English translation) extract of France's national transposition specifics of EU feed law, from the first-hand French Ministry of Agriculture 'Alimentation animale' page (agriculture.gouv.fr, etalab-2.0 licensed). France's pet food ('aliments pour animaux familiers') is within the feed-law framework; retail sale of pet feed alone is exempt from the Reg (EC) 183/2005 registration/approval obligation. C1 substring-verified against the verbatim French clauses below (English translation is a working rendering, needs_review).
France regulates animal feed ('aliments pour animaux') primarily through EU feed law (inter alia Reg (EC) No 178/2002, Reg (EC) No 183/2005, Reg (EC) No 767/2009, Reg (EC) No 1831/2003, Reg (EU) No 68/2013) as applied nationally. This topic records France's national transposition specifics only (not the EU framework, which lives in eu-* topics). Below are verbatim French clauses quoted from the official French Ministry of Agriculture 'Alimentation animale' page (C1 substring-verified against the first-hand text); the English is a working translation (needs_review).
Scope — pets included > FR (verbatim): "Cette réglementation encadre l’alimentation de tous les animaux : animaux d’élevage, animaux familiers, et même animaux sauvages." > EN: "This regulation governs the feeding of all animals: farmed animals, pet (companion) animals, and even wild animals — so pet food falls within the French feed-law framework."
National complement to Reg (EC) No 183/2005 > FR (verbatim): "Le règlement (CE) n°183/2005 est complété au niveau national par les arrêtés du 28 février 2000 et du 23 avril 2007." > EN: "Regulation (EC) No 183/2005 is supplemented at national level by the decrees (arrêtés) of 28 February 2000 and 23 April 2007 — France's national implementing measures for feed-hygiene/registration."
Pet-food retail exemption from registration/approval > FR (verbatim): "Seuls sont exemptés de l’obligation d’enregistrement ou d’agrément imposée par le règlement (CE) n°183/2005 les établissements qui réalisent uniquement de la vente au détail d’aliments pour animaux familiers." > EN: "Only establishments that solely carry out retail sale of pet (companion-animal) feed are exempt from the registration or approval obligation imposed by Regulation (EC) No 183/2005 — a French national application detail."
Undesirable substances — national transposition of Dir 2002/32/EC > FR (verbatim): "Pour les principales substances indésirables, la directive 2002/32/CE (transposée en droit français par l’arrêté du 12 janvier 2001) fixe des teneurs maximales applicables lors de l’importation, de la mise en circulation et de l’utilisation des matières premières, additifs, prémélanges et aliments composés pour animaux." > EN: "For the main undesirable substances, Directive 2002/32/EC (transposed into French law by the decree of 12 January 2001) sets maximum levels applicable on import, placing on the market and use of feed materials, additives, premixtures and compound feed."
Medicated feed — status since 28 Jan 2022 > FR (verbatim): "Depuis le 28 janvier 2022, les aliments médicamenteux (une des voies d’administration orale des médicaments vétérinaires) et les produits intermédiaires destinés à leur fabrication ont également le statut d’aliments pour animaux." > EN: "Since 28 January 2022, medicated feed (an oral administration route for veterinary medicinal products) and intermediate products for its manufacture also have the status of animal feed in France (application of Reg (EU) 2019/4)."