COMMI SSION IMPLEMENTING REGUL ATION (EU) 2015/1746 
of 30 September 2015 
amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 750/2014 by extending the period of application of 
the protection measures in relation to porcine epidemic diar rhoea 
(Text with EEA relevance) 
THE EUR OPEAN COMMISSION, 
Having regar d to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, 
Having regard to Council Directive 91/496/EEC of 15 July 1991 laying down the principles governing the orga nization 
of veter inar y checks on animals entering the Community from third countr ies and amending Directives 89/662/EEC, 
90/425/EEC and 90/675/EEC (1), and in particular Article 18(1) and (7) thereof, 
Whereas: 
(1)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 750/2014 (2) was adopt ed following repor ts of a novel swine 
enteric corona virus disease caused by emerging porcine alphacoronaviruse s, including porcine epidemic diar rhoea 
virus and a new porcine deltacoronavir us in Nor th Amer ica. That Implementing Regulation lays down prot ection 
measures in relation to the introduction into the Union of consignments of live pigs for breeding and production 
from the areas in which the disease caused by those viruses is present in order to provide for the fulfilme nt of 
the necessar y guarant ees at the holding of origin and to prevent the introduction of porcine epidemic diar rhoea 
caused by those viruses into the Union. Those protection measures are to apply until 12 Januar y 2015. 
(2)  Implementing Regulation (EU) No 750/2014 was amended by Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1306/2014 (3) 
in order to extend its date of application until 31 October 2015 as the epidemiological situation in the third 
countr ies affect ed by novel swine enter ic corona virus disease caused by emerging porcine alphacoronav iruses, 
including the porcine epidemic diar rhoea virus and the porcine deltacoronavir us, had not changed in term s of 
the risk of the spread of those porcine entero-coronav iruses since the date of adoption of Implemen ting 
Regulation (EU) No 750/2014. 
(3)  In light of the evolution in the disease situation in the third countr ies concer ned and in the absence of new 
scientific information, the protect ion measures established by Implementing Regulation (EU) No 750/2014 
should be prolonged until the end of October 2016. The period of application of that Implementing Regulation 
should theref ore be amended according ly. 
(4)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committ ee on 
Plants, Animals, Food and Feed, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGUL ATION: 
Article 1 
In the second paragraph of Article 2 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 750/2014, the date ‘31 October 2015’ is 
replaced by ‘31 October 2016’ . 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the 
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(1)OJ L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 56. 
(2)Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 750/2014 of 10 July 2014 on prot ection measures in relation to porcine epidemic 
diar rhoea as regards the animal health requirements for the introduction into the Union of porcine animals (OJ L 203, 11.7.2014, p. 91). 
(3)Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1306/2014 of 8 December 2014 amending Implementin g Regulation (EU) 
No 750/2014 by extending the period of application of the protection measures in relation to porcine epidemic diar rhoea (OJ L 351, 
9.12.2014, p. 1). This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member State s. 
Done at Brussels, 30 September 2015. 
For the Commission 
The Presid ent 
Jean-Claude JUNCKER  1.10.2015 L 256/6 Official Jour nal of the European Union EN