Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1039 of 23 July 2018 concerning the authorisation of Copper(II) diacetate monohydrate, Copper(II) carbonate dihydroxy monohydrate, Copper(II) chloride dihydrate, Copper(II) oxide, Copper(II) sulphate pentahydrate, Copper(II) chelate of amino acids hydrate, Copper(II) chelate of protein hydrolysates, Copper(II) chelate of glycine hydrate (solid) and Copper(II) chelate of glycine hydrate (liquid) as feed additives for all animal species and amending Regulations (EC) No 1334/2003, (EC) No 479/2006 and (EU) No 349/2010 and Implementing Regulations (EU) No 269/2012, (EU) No 1230/2014 and (EU) 2016/2261 (Text with EEA relevance.)

The substances specified in the Annex, belonging to the additive category ‘nutritional additives’ and to the functional group ‘compounds of trace elements’, are authorised as feed additives in animal nutrition, subject to the conditions laid down in that Annex.

The authorised substances specified in the Annex as additives belonging to the additive category ‘nutritional additives’ and to the functional group ‘compounds of trace elements’ shall not be used in water for drinking.

In the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2003, the following additives are deleted from entry E4 for the element Copper-Cu: ‘cupric acetate, monohydrate, basic cupric carbonate, monohydrate, cupric chloride, dihydrate, cupric oxide, cupric sulphate, pentahydrate, copperlysine sulphate and cupric chelate of amino acids, hydrate’.

In the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 479/2006, the entry E4 for the additive ‘Cupric chelate of glycine hydrate’ is deleted.

In the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 349/2010, in the line 3b4.10 the text of the eighth column is replaced by the following: ‘Bovines: Bovines before the start of rumination: 15 (total); Other bovines: 30 (total). Ovines: 15 (total). Caprines: 35 (total) Piglets: suckling and weaned up to 4 weeks after weaning: 150 (total); from 5-th week after weaning up to 8 weeks after weaning: 100 (total). Crustaceans: 50 (total). Other animals: 25 (total)’.

In the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2012, in the line 3b409 the text of the eighth column is replaced by the following: ‘Bovines: Bovines before the start of rumination: 15 (total); Other bovines: 30 (total). Ovines: 15 (total). Caprines: 35 (total) Piglets: suckling and weaned up to 4 weeks after weaning: 150 (total); from 5-th week after weaning up to 8 weeks after weaning: 100 (total). Crustaceans: 50 (total). Other animals: 25 (total)’.

In the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1230/2014, in the line 3b411 the text of the eighth column is replaced by the following: ‘Bovines: Bovines before the start of rumination: 15 (total); Other bovines: 30 (total). Ovines: 15 (total). Caprines: 35 (total) Piglets: suckling and weaned up to 4 weeks after weaning: 150 (total); from 5-th week after weaning up to 8 weeks after weaning: 100 (total). Crustaceans: 50 (total). Other animals: 25 (total’.

In the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/2261, in the line 3b412 the text of the eighth column is replaced by the following: ‘Bovines: Bovines before the start of rumination: 15 (total); Other bovines: 30 (total). Ovines: 15 (total). Caprines: 35 (total) Piglets: suckling and weaned up to 4 weeks after weaning: 150 (total); from 5-th week after weaning up to 8 weeks after weaning: 100 (total). Crustaceans: 50 (total). Other animals: 25 (total’.

1 The substances ‘cupric acetate, monohydrate’, ‘basic cupric carbonate, monohydrate’, ‘cupric chloride, dihydrate’, ‘cupric oxide’, ‘cupric sulphate, pentahydrate’, ‘cupric chelate of amino acids, hydrate’ and ‘cupric chelate of glycine hydrate’ as authorised by Regulation (EC) No 1334/2003 and Regulation (EC) No 479/2006 and the copper compounds authorised by Regulation (EU) No 349/2010 and Implementing Regulations (EU) No 269/2012, (EU) No 1230/2014 and (EU) 2016/2261, and premixtures containing those substances, which are produced and labelled before 13 February 2019 in accordance with the rules applicable before 13 August 2018 may continue to be placed on the market and used until the existing stocks are exhausted.

2 Feed materials and compound feed containing the substances referred to in paragraph 1 which are produced and labelled before 13 August 2019 in accordance with the rules applicable before 13 August 2018 may continue to be placed on the market and used until the existing stocks are exhausted if they are intended for food-producing animals.

3 Feed materials and compound feed containing the substances referred to in paragraph 1 which are produced and labelled before 13 August 2020 in accordance with the rules applicable before 13 August 2018 may continue to be placed on the market and used until the existing stocks are exhausted if they are intended for non-food-producing animals.

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