Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/538 of 4 April 2022 concerning the renewal of the authorisation of sodium benzoate as feed additive for weaned piglets, the new authorisation for weaned piglets of other Suidae and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) No 496/2011 (holder of the authorisation Taminco Finland Oy) (Text with EEA relevance)

The substance specified in the Annex, belonging to the additive category ‘zootechnical additives’ and to the functional group ‘other zootechnical additives’ is authorised and renewed as an additive in animal nutrition, subject to the conditions laid down in that Annex.

Implementing Regulation (EU) No 496/2011 is repealed.

1 The substance referred to in Article 1 and premixtures containing it, which are produced and labelled before 25 October 2022 in accordance with the rules applicable before 25 April 2022 may continue to be placed on the market and used until the existing stocks are exhausted.

2 Feed materials and compound feed containing the substance referred to in paragraph 1, which are produced and labelled before 25 April 2023 in accordance with the rules applicable before 25 April 2022 may continue to be placed on the market and used until the existing stocks are exhausted.

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