Foodstuffs of animal origin: maximum residue limits of veterinary medicinal products

OBJECTIVE: to defer the revision of the old substances in order to allow the Community procedure for the establishment of maximum residue limits of veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin to continue on a sound scientific basis. COMMUNITY MEASURE: Council Regulation 434/97/EEC amending Regulation 2377/90/EEC laying down a Community procedure for the establishment of maximum residue limits of veterinary medicinal products of animal origin. SUBSTANCE: the regulation defers the deadline for the evaluation of substances the use of which was authorized on 1 January 1997 and in respect of which documented applications for the establishment of maximum residue limits have been lodged with the Commission or with the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products before 1 January 1996: - until 1 January 1998 in the case of products derived from pyrasolidon, nitroimidazoles, arsanilic acid and phenylbutazone; - until 1 January 2000 in the case of other substances. The Agency shall publish the list of these substances before 7 June 1997. ENTRY INTO FORCE: 07/03/1997. The regulation is applicable from 1 January 1997. �