Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2652 of 15 September 2023 amending and correcting Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2292 with regard to requirements for the entry into the Union of honey, meat, highly refined products, gelatine capsules, fishery products and requirements for private attestation and amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/630 as regards private attestation requirements for composite products exempted from official controls at border control posts

‘3 No official certificate shall be required for the entry into the Union of gelatine capsules covered by HS headings 3913, 3926 or 9602 of Part Two of Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, nor for gelatine capsules as part of the products of animal origin referred to in point 1(b) of this Article or as part of the composite products referred to in Article 20(1) of this Regulation, where those capsules are not derived from ruminant bones.’

‘2 By way of derogation from paragraph 1 of this Article, for the composite products exempted from official controls at border control posts in accordance with Article 48, point (h), of Regulation (EU) 2017/625, the private attestation shall accompany the composite products at the time of their placing on the market, except for the products referred to in Article 20(4) of this Regulation, for which a private attestation is not required.’

Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2292 is corrected as follows: (1) Article 14 is corrected as follows: (a) point (d) is replaced by the following: ‘(d) production of highly refined products of animal origin referred to by HS headings 2932 or 3503 of Part Two of Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87.’; (b) point (e) is deleted; (2) in Article 21(1), point (c) is replaced by the following: ‘(c) sprouts and seeds intended for the production of sprouts and referred to by the following HS subheadings: 070490, 070690, 070810, 070820, 070890, 071310, 071333, 071334, 071335, 071339, 071340, 071350, 071360, 071390, 091099, 120110, 120190, 120750, 120799, 120910, 120921, 120991 or 121490 of Part Two of Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87;’; (3) in Annex I, Part II, Section C, point (2)(a) is replaced by the following: ‘(a) point A.1 of Annex II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644 for group A substances referred to in Annex I to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644;’.

‘2 At the time of placing on the market, shelf-stable composite products referred to in paragraph 1, point (a), shall be accompanied by a private attestation in accordance with the model laid down in Annex V to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 .

Consignments of honey and of other apiculture products intended for human consumption may enter the Union from establishments that are not listed in accordance with Article 13 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2292 for a period of 12 months from the date of publication of this Regulation in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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