{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-1831/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-1831/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2003/1831",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2003 on additives for use in animal nutrition (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-1831",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Urgent authorisation",
  "text": "(1.) In specific cases where urgent authorisation is needed to ensure the protection of animal welfare, the appropriate authority may provisionally authorise the use of an additive for a maximum period of five years. ...\n(2.) The appropriate authority may withdraw a provisional authorisation given under paragraph 1.\n(3.) Where the appropriate authority determines that a provisional authorisation is to be withdrawn, the appropriate authority may specify, in relation to the withdrawal of a provisional authorisation, a period of time, or different periods of time, within which:\n(a) existing stocks of the product concerned, and any products derived from it or containing it, may be placed on the market or used;\n(b) the product concerned, and any products derived from it or containing it, may continue to be produced, placed on the market or used;\n(c) the labelling of the product concerned, and any products derived from it or containing it, may continue to be applied.\n(4.) The appropriate authority may prescribe other transitional measures not falling within paragraph 3 in relation to the withdrawal of a provisional authorisation.\n(5.) Where the appropriate authority determines that a feed additive is, or is not, to be provisionally authorised (including a determination to withdraw a provisional authorisation), the appropriate authority must communicate the determination to the Food Safety Authority and:\n(a) in the event of a determination to provisionally authorise a feed additive:\n(i) the provisional authorisation must, to the extent that it is possible to do so, include information equivalent to that which must be included for an authorisation under Article 9(1);\n(ii) the appropriate authority must specify the date on which the provisional authorisation is to have effect; and\n(iii) the Food Safety Authority must enter the provisional authorisation, including the information mentioned in paragraph (i), in the Register;\n(b) in the event of a determination to withdraw a provisional authorisation:\n(i) the appropriate authority must specify the date on which the withdrawal is to have effect; and\n(ii) the Food Safety Authority must update the Register accordingly.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 15 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Feed (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/654), regs. 1, 23; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 15 renumbered as Art. 15(1) (1.4.2025) by The Food and Feed (Regulated Products) (Amendment, Revocation, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/361), regs. 1(2), 3(10)(a) (with reg. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 15(1) omitted (1.4.2025) by virtue of The Food and Feed (Regulated Products) (Amendment, Revocation, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/361), regs. 1(2), 3(10)(b) (with reg. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 15(2)-(5) inserted (1.4.2025) by The Food and Feed (Regulated Products) (Amendment, Revocation, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/361), regs. 1(2), 3(10)(c) (with reg. 23)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2003/1831/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:55:53.254259+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}