
Article 1 
The feed additives cobaltous chloride hexahydrate, cobaltous nitrate hexahydrate and cobaltous sulphate monohydrate, belonging to the group ‘trace elements’, shall be withdrawn from the market.
Article 2 
In the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2003, the entries ‘cobaltous chloride hexahydrate’, ‘cobaltous nitrate hexahydrate’ and ‘cobaltous sulphate monohydrate’, related to the element E3 Cobalt-Co, are deleted.
Article 3 

1. Existing stocks of the products referred to in Article 1 may continue to be placed on the market and used as feed additives until 26 August 2014.
2. Premixtures produced with the additives referred to in pararaph 1 may continue to be placed on the market and used until 26 February 2015.
3. Compound feed and feed materials which have been labelled in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 until 26 August 2015 and produced with the additives referred to in paragraph 1 or with the premixtures referred to in paragraph 2 may continue to be placed on the market and used until stocks are exhausted.
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, 5 February 2014.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO