
Article 1 
The substance specified in the Annex, belonging to the additive category ‘nutritional additives’ and to the functional group ‘amino acids, their salts and analogues’, is authorised as an additive in animal nutrition subject to the conditions laid down in that Annex.
Article 2 
In the ninth column of the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 403/2009, the following paragraph is added:
'Where voluntary declaration of the additive is made on the labelling of feed materials and compound feed, the following shall be included:
— name and identification number of the additive,
— added amount of the additive.'
Article 3 
Feed materials and compound feed as referred to in Article 2 which are produced and labelled before 25 February 2015 in accordance with the rules applicable before 25 August 2014 may continue to be placed on the market and used until the existing stocks are exhausted. As regards feed intended for pet animals, the time period for production and labelling referred to in the first sentence shall end 25 August 2016.
Article 4 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth 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, 4 August 2014.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
ANNEX

Identification number of the additive Name of the holder of authorisation Additive Composition, chemical formula, description, analytical method. Species or category of animal Maximum age Minimum content Maximum content Other provisions End of period of authorisation
mg/kg of complete feed with a moisture content of 12 %
Category of nutritional additives. Functional group: amino acids, their salts and analogues.
3c370 — L-valine 
L-valine minimum 98 % (on dry matter basis)

L-valine ((2S)-2-amino-3-methylbutanoic acid) produced by Corynebacterium glutamicum (KCCM 80058)

Chemical formula: C5H11NO2

CAS number: 72-18-4

For the determination of L-valine in the feed additive: Food Chemical Codex ‘L-valine monograph’.

For the determination of valine in premixtures, compound feed and feed materials: ion exchange chromatography coupled with post-column derivatisation and spectrophotometric detection (HPLC/VIS) — Commission Regulation (EC) No 152/2009 (OJ L 54, 26.2.2009, p.1).
 All species —   
1. 

— moisture content.

2. 

— name and identification number of the additive,
— added amount of the additive.
 25 August 2024
