Community Guide to the Principles of Good Practice for the Microbiological Classification and Monitoring of Bivalve Mollusc Production and Relaying Areas with regard to Implementing Regulation 2019/627 – Issue 4, September 2021

This guide has been revised and updated in order to be adapted to the EU Implementing Regulation 2019/627. This work was carried out under the coordination of the EURLMB together with an advisory group of independent experts in microbiological control, and a working group of experts from several EU Member States with production areas of bivalve molluscs, most of whom had been involved on the elaboration of previous guides for microbiological control of bivalve molluscs production areas. This guide is intended to contribute to a better understanding, and to recommend best practices for the application of EU legislation regulating the official controls in production and relaying areas for live bivalve molluscs. This is intended purely as a guidance tool, and it is necessary to take into account that only the text of the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/627 has legal force.