# Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/692 of 30 January 2020 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards rules for entry into the Union, and the movement and handling after entry of consignments of certain animals, germinal products and products of animal origin (Text with EEA relevance), Article 157: Dairy products subject to a risk-mitigating treatment

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. Consignments of dairy products not complying with the requirements set out in Article 156 shall only be permitted to enter the Union if the dairy products of the consignment have undergone at least one of the risk-mitigating treatments provided for in column A of Annex XXVII, where:
(a) they were processed from milk obtained from the species Bos Taurus, Ovis aries, Capra hircus, Bubalus bubalis or Camelus dromedarius;
(b) the third country or territory of origin or zone thereof has not been free from foot and mouth disease and infection with rinderpest virus for a period of at least 12 months prior to the date of milking, or if during that period vaccination against those diseases has been carried out.
2. Consignments of dairy products shall only be permitted to enter the Union if the dairy products of the consignment have undergone at least one of the risk-mitigating treatments provided for in column B of Annex XXVII where they were processed from milk obtained from species of animals other than those referred to in paragraph 1(a).
3. Consignments of dairy products that have been processed from raw milk or from dairy products obtained from more than one species of animal shall only be permitted to enter the Union if those dairy products have undergone either:
(a) at least the most severe of the risk-mitigating treatments assigned to the each species of animals of origin, where the mixing of raw milk or dairy products takes place before the final processing of the product; or
(b) the risk-mitigating treatment assigned to each species of animals of origin, where the mixing of the products takes place after processing of each ingredient of the dairy product.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/692/article/157 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-692/article-157
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