{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-767/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-767/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2009/767",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the placing on the market and use of feed, amending European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 and repealing Council Directive 79/373/EEC, Commission Directive 80/511/EEC, Council Directives 82/471/EEC, 83/228/EEC, 93/74/EEC, 93/113/EC and 96/25/EC and Commission Decision 2004/217/EC (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-767",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Specific mandatory labelling requirements for feed materials",
  "text": "1. In addition to the requirements provided for in Article 15, the labelling of feed materials shall also include:\n(a) the name of the feed material; the name shall be used in compliance with Article 24(2); and\n(b) the compulsory declaration corresponding to the respective category as set out in the list in Annex 5; the compulsory declaration may be replaced by the particulars laid down in the Catalogue of Feed Materials referred to in Article 24 for each feed material in the respective category.\n2. In addition to the requirements provided for in paragraph 1, the labelling of feed materials shall include the following when additives are incorporated:\n(a) the species or categories of animals for which the feed material is intended where the additives in question have not been authorised for all animal species or have been authorised with maximum limits for some species;\n(b) instructions for proper use in accordance with point 4 of Annex II, where a maximum content of the additives in question is set; and\n(c) the minimum storage life for additives other than technological additives.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Art. 16(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2022) by The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 18(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 16(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Feed (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/654), regs. 1, 103; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/767/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:19.286515+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."
}