16.12.2000 Official Journal of the European Communities L 319/1 | (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2697/2000 of 27 November 2000 concerning the provisional authorisations of additives in feedingstuffs (Text with EEA relevance) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Directive 70/524/EEC of 23 November 1970 concerning additives in feedingstuffs (*), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1887/2000 (%) (‘the Directive), and in particular Articles 3, 9e and 9i thereof, Whereas: (1)  Articles 9e(1) and 9i(1) of the Directive provide that a provisional authorisation of a new additive or a new use of an additive may be given for a specific period. (2) Article 4 of Council Directive establishes the procedure for such authorisation. (3) Article 9¢(2) and (3) and Article 9i(1) of the Directive provide that the duration of the provisional authorisations may not exceed four or five years, depending on the date of the first provisional authorisation. When the latter was given before 1 April 1998, the duration of the provisional authorisation may not exceed five years. In the case of additives whose first provisional authorisations were given after 1 April 1998, the duration of the provisional authorisation may not exceed four years. (4) The first provisional authorisation is given until 30 September of the current year or of the next year then may be extended each year for one year. During the last year of the provisional authorisation, the authorisation should only be extended to the fourth or fifth anniversary (as the case may be) of the initial provisional authorisation. () OJL 270, 14.12.1970, p. 1. () OJL 227, 7.9.2000, p. 13. () The current provisional authorisations of many additives expire on 30 September, and it is appropriate to extend for one year, or until the fourth or fifth anniversary (as the case may be) of the initial provisional authorisation, the period of these authorisations so that the necessary data for an authorisation for 10 years or without a time limit (depending on the nature of the additive in question) can be provided. The extension of the period of authorisation of the provisional authorisations must be considered as a purely administrative measure involving no new evaluation of the concerned additives. Provisional authorisations under this Regulation are granted for a specified period, but without prejudice to the possibility that they may be withdrawn at any time in accordance with Articles 9m and 11 of the Directive. In particular, authorisations for the use of antibiotics as additives in feedingstuffs are currently under review in the light of the fact that the Kingdom of Sweden has prohibited the use on its territory of all antibiotics as additives in feedingstuffs on the basis of Article 11 of the Directive, and the opinion issued by the Scientific Steering Committee on anti-microbial resistance on 28 May 1999. The Commission is also examining the more general question of the use of antibiotics as additives in feedingstuffs. In the light of the data submitted in the file and examined by the Member States, the conditions for the provisional authorisation under the conditions laid done in the Annex of the new uses of the additives ‘Tartrazine’ (E 102), ‘Sunset Yellow FCF' (E 110), ‘Patent Blue V' (E 131), and ‘Chlorophyll copper complex’ (E 141) belonging to the group of ‘Colorants, including pigments’ have been met. In the light of the data submitted in the file and examined by the Member States, the conditions for the modification of the physical forms under the conditions laid done in the Annex of the previously provisionally authorised enzyme preparations No 7 and No 8 have been met.