Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2543 of 11 December 2025 concerning the denial of the renewal of the authorisation of Patent Blue V as a feed additive for non-food producing animals and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) No 643/2013

The renewal of the authorisation of Patent Blue V as an additive in animal nutrition, belonging to the category ‘sensory additives’ and the functional group ‘colorants, substances that add or restore colour in feedingstuffs’, for use for non-food producing animals, is denied.

Implementing Regulation (EU) No 643/2013 is repealed.

1 Existing stocks of the additive referred to in Article 1, which are intended for non-food producing animals, and of premixtures containing it, shall be withdrawn from the market by 1 April 2026.

2 Feed materials and compound feed which have been produced with the additive or premixtures referred to in paragraph 1 before 1 April 2026, and which are intended for non-food producing animals, shall be withdrawn from the market by 1 July 2026.

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