(11)Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/354note establishes as particular nutritional purpose the long-term supply of grazing animals with trace elements and/or vitamins for feed intended for ruminants with a functional rumen, which is allowed to be administered in the form of bolus. A cessation of the use of cobalt compounds as an additive in feed, in particular dietetic feed in the form of bolus for grazing animals, would prevent operators from meeting that particular nutritional purpose with regard to the specific nutritional needs of ruminants whose process of assimilation, absorption or metabolism can be impaired by a lack of cobalt in their diet. Such lack of feed appropriate to the conditions of grazing ruminants would therefore be detrimental to the welfare of those animals.