Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/2975 of 25 September 2024 amending Delegated Regulations (EU) 2021/1698 and (EU) 2021/2306 as regards the import into the Union of high-risk organic and in-conversion products

High-risk products and the third countries in which they originate shall be listed together with the shares of consignments of those products to be subject to identity and physical checks and sampling by control authorities and control bodies in third countries, and by the competent authorities of the Member States, as appropriate, in an implementing act adopted in accordance with Article 46(8) of Regulation (EU) 2018/848 on the basis of a selection made after major, critical or repetitive non-compliances affecting the integrity of organic or in-conversion products or production. The shares referred to in the first subparagraph can be lower than 100 % and may, for the same product, be different for controls by control authorities and control bodies in third countries and the competent authorities of the Member States respectively.’

The first sentence of Article 6, paragraph (2), of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2306 is replaced by the following: ‘For consignments of high-risk products referred to in Article 8 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1698, the competent authority referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall check the documentation referred to in Article 16(6) of that Regulation and carry out identity and physical checks and take at least one representative sample of consignments in accordance with the applicable percentage laid down in the implementing act referred to in Article 8 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1698’.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from the date on which the implementing act adopted in accordance with Articles 46(8) of Regulation (EU) 2018/848 becomes applicable.