in force 2025-12-26 INSERTED+1,796 −0§
Amended by Regulation (EU) 2025/2650 32025R2650
applies from: unknown (an inserted provision states its own application date only in prose)
This is a new article introducing a simplified regime for micro or small primary operators, exempting them from certain obligations set out in Article 4 and instead requiring a one-time simplified declaration through the information system referenced in Article 33.
It further sets out what information such operators must provide, allows for use of existing systems or databases containing that information in place of a new declaration, and permits substitution of geolocation data with postal addresses for these operators.
Cited: Art. 4a, v2
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inserted text (02023R1115-20251226)
Article 4a Simplified regime for micro or small primary operators 1. The obligations laid down in Article 4(2), Article 4(3), second sentence, and Article 4(4), point (c), shall not apply to micro or small primary operators. 2. Micro or small primary operators shall submit a one-time simplified declaration in the information system referred to in Article 33 before placing relevant products on the market or exporting them. Those operators shall be assigned a declaration identifier after submitting their one-time simplified declaration. 3. Micro or small primary operators shall provide the information set out in Annex III when submitting the simplified declaration in the information system referred to in Article 33. Those operators may update the information contained in their simplified declaration following any major changes to the information they provided. 4. Where all information listed in Annex III is available in a system or database that exists under Union or Member State law, other than the information system referred to in Article 33, micro or small primary operators shall not be required to submit a one-time simplified declaration in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article. Member States shall make that information per operator available in the information system referred to in Article 33. The micro or small primary operator shall place the relevant products on the Union market or export them only after having been assigned a declaration identifier. 5. For micro or small primary operators, the geolocation referred to in Article 9(1), point (d), may be replaced by the postal address of all plots of land or the postal address of the establishment from which the relevant commodities that the relevant product contains, or has been made using, were produced.