L 136/52 Official Journal of the European Union 24.5.2011 COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 506/2011 of 23 May 2011 amending Regulation (EU) No 2972011 imposing special conditions governing the import of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety ('), and in particular Article 53 (1) (b)(ii) thereof, Whereas: (1)  Article 53 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 provides for the possibility to adopt appropriate Union emergency measures for food and feed imported from a third country in order to protect public health, animal health or the environment, where the risk cannot be contained satisfactorily by means of measures taken by the Member States individually. (2)  Following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station on 11 March 2011, the Commission was informed that radionuclide levels in certain food products originating in Japan such as milk and spinach exceeded the action levels in food applicable in Japan. Such contamination may constitute a threat to public and animal health within the Union and therefore Commission  Implementing  Regulation (EU) No 297/2011 imposing special conditions governing the import of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station () was adopted on 25 March 2011. (3)  On 12 May 2011, the Commission was informed of the finding of a high level of the radioactive caesium in green tea leaves, originating in the prefecture Kanagawa. This finding was confirmed on 13 May 2011 by three other findings of high level of the radioactive caesium in green tea leaves from this prefecture. This prefecture is not among the 12 prefectures of the affected zone, where a testing of all feed and food originating from these () OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1. () O] L 80, 26.3.2011, p. 5. prefectures is required before export to the EU. Given these recent findings it is appropriate to add Kanagawa as 13th prefecture to the affected zone. (4) It is appropriate to clarify the requirements for products consigned from the affected zone but originating in a region outside the affected zone. (5) It is therefore appropriate to amend Regulation (EU) No 297/2011 accordingly. (6)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EU) No 297/2011 is amended as follows (1) Article 2, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following: ‘3. Each consignment of the products referred to in Article 1, which leaves Japan from the date of entry into force of this Regulation, shall be accompanied by a declaration, attesting that — the product has been harvested and/or processed before 11 March 2011, or — the product is originating in and consigned from a prefecture other than Fukushima, Gunma, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Miyagi, Yamagata, Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba and Kanagawa, or — the product is consigned from the prefectures Fukushima, Gunma, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Miyagi, Yamagata, Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba and Kanagawa, but not originating in one of these prefectures and has not been exposed to radioactivity during transiting, or