Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/272 of 12 February 2025 concerning the renewal of the authorisation of L-cystine as a feed additive for all animal species and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1006/2013

The authorisation of the substance specified in the Annex, belonging to the additive category ‘nutritional additives’ and to the functional group ‘amino acids, their salts and analogues’, is renewed subject to the conditions laid down in that Annex.

Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1006/2013 is repealed.

1 The feed additive L-cystine, as authorised by Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1006/2013 and premixtures containing that additive, which are produced and labelled before 5 September 2025 in accordance with the rules applicable before 5 March 2025, may continue to be placed on the market and used until the stocks concerned are exhausted.

2 Compound feed and feed materials containing the feed additive referred to in paragraph 1, which are produced and labelled before 5 March 2026 in accordance with the rules applicable before 5 March 2025, may continue to be placed on the market and used until the stocks concerned are exhausted if they are intended for food-producing animals.

3 Compound feed and feed materials containing the feed additive referred to in paragraph 1, which are produced and labelled before 5 March 2027 in accordance with the rules applicable before 5 March 2025, may continue to be placed on the market and used until the stocks concerned 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.