"Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2279 — amending feed Regulation (EC) No 767/2009; pet-food labelling expressions and feed tolerances"

Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2279 amends Annexes II, IV, VI, VII and VIII to Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 (on the placing on the market and use of feed). It is relevant to pet food because it explicitly authorises specific expressions for "feed for pets" / "pet food" in several Union languages (including the English expression "pet food") and revises analytical-constituent and feed-additive tolerances in feed labelling. All statements below are copied verbatim from the saved eur-lex source text (OJ L 328/3).

Key provisions relevant to pet food / feed

• The recitals explain that, to allow meaningful labelling, specific expressions for feed for pets are permitted in some Union languages, and that developments in the pet-food sector of two Member States show such expressions are also adequate in their languages.
• Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 is amended to allow, in the designation of feed for pets, the expression "pet food" in English (among other language-specific expressions).

Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)

• COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2017/2279
• amending Annexes II, IV, VI, VII and VIII to Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the placing on the market and use of feed
• In order to allow a meaningful labelling, specific expressions for feed for pets are allowed in some Union languages. New developments in the pet food sector of two Member States suggest that specific expressions for pet food are also adequate in the language of these Member States.
• Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 should therefore be amended accordingly.
• in the designation of feed for pets the following expressions shall be allowed: in Bulgarian “храна”; in Spanish “alimento”; in Czech the designation “kompletní krmná směs” may be replaced by “kompletní krmivo” and “doplňková krmná směs” may be replaced by “doplňkové krmivo”; in English “pet food”; in Italian “alimento”; in Hungarian “állateledel”; in Dutch “samengesteld voeder”; in Polish “karma”; in Slovenian “hrana za hišne živali”; in Finnish “lemmikkieläinten ruoka”; in Estonian “lemmikloomatoit”; in Croatian “hrana za kućne ljubimce”.’

Source: pdf-raw/eu-feed-abp/reg_2017_2279_petfood.txt (faithful text extraction of the eur-lex official page for CELEX 32017R2279, retrieved via headless browser after solving the AWS WAF JS challenge).