Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2651of 16 October 2025amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1698 as regards certain criteria for the establishment of the list of high-risk third countries and high-risk products

Article 8 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1698 is replaced by the following:

Article 8

List of high-risk third countries and high-risk products

High-risk products and the third countries in which they originate shall be listed together with the shares of consignments of those products to be subject to identity and physical checks and sampling by control authorities and control bodies in third countries, in an implementing act adopted in accordance with Article 46(8) of Regulation (EU) 2018/848 on the basis of a selection made after major, critical or repetitive non-compliances affecting the integrity of organic or in-conversion products or production, or the suspicion thereof.

The shares referred to in the first paragraph can be lower than 100 % and may, for the same product, be different for controls by control authorities and control bodies in third countries..

Article 2

Entry into force and application

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 16 October 2025.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula von der Leyen