Feed additives: Regulation (EU) 2026/94 moves the list of national reference laboratories to the JRC website and changes the rules on reference samples and EURL fees
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/94 of 15 January 2026, published on 16 January, amends Regulation (EC) No 378/2005 on the duties of the EU reference laboratory for feed additives (EURL — the JRC in Geel). The list of national reference laboratories (NRLs) supporting the EURL is removed from the regulation: the JRC publishes and updates it, first with effect from 5 February 2026.
- Member States designate NRLs to the consortium supporting the EURL and inform the EURL and the Commission; withdrawal follows the same procedure. Annex II with the list of laboratories is repealed, as is the annual notice by NRLs of how many applications they can handle as rapporteur laboratory — the EURL now designates rapporteurs in ongoing consultation. Detailed EURL guidelines for NRLs are no longer mandatory.
- The JRC website lists two Polish NRLs: the National Feed Laboratory of the National Research Institute of Animal Production in Lublin and the National Veterinary Research Institute in Puławy. Germany has designated four laboratories and Bulgaria the Austrian agency AGES in Vienna; among EFTA countries the list includes Norway’s Institute of Marine Research.
- An applicant for renewal of a feed additive authorisation need not supply new reference samples if the samples held by the EURL are in the form in which the additive is to be placed on the market. The renewal fee is EUR 0, EUR 4,000 (component 2 only) or EUR 6,000 depending on the exemptions applied; the same applies to applications to modify authorisation conditions.
- The EURL may charge an additional fee where extra tasks arise after the application — for example, when methods of analysis must be re-evaluated in light of scientific and technical progress. The applicant has 15 days to object, and the EURL then states in its evaluation report to EFSA which tasks it could not carry out.