Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1159 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of the European Parliament and of the Council by laying down rules on appropriate measures to ensure the effective and safe use of veterinary medicinal products authorised and prescribed for oral administration via routes other than medicated feed and administered by the animal keeper to food-producing animals.

This Regulation applies to authorized and prescribed veterinary medicinal products administered orally in drinking water, mixed into feed, or administered on the surface of feed immediately prior to feeding and administered by the animal keeper to food-producing animals. It lays down rules on the decision of the veterinarians on the use of the veterinary medicinal product; information and instructions on safe disposal of feed or drinking water containing veterinary medicinal products to protect the environment and prevent antimicrobial resistance; prescription of antimicrobial and antiparasitic veterinary medicinal products; handling and use of veterinary medicinal products by animal keepers; equipment used for preparing and mixing veterinary medicinal products for oral administration in drinking water, milk, milk replacers or other forms of liquid feed; product information of an antimicrobial or antiparasitic veterinary medicinal product to be administered to a terrestrial food-producing animal species by means of mixing into solid feed or administered on the surface of solid feed immediately prior to feeding or a veterinary medicinal product to be administered orally by means of mixing into drinking water or liquid feed; and the development of national guidelines on good practice by the Member States to facilitate the application of this Regulation.
This Regulation underlines that biocidal products, feed additives or other substances used in drinking water shall not be used simultaneously with a veterinary medicinal product where there is evidence of negative interactions or incompatibilities between those products and the veterinary medicinal product when added to drinking water.