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(Non-legislative acts) 
REGUL ATIONS 
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGUL ATION (EU) No 1306/2014 
of 8 December 2014 
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)  The Scientific Opinion of the European Food Safety Author ity of 2014 (3) (‘the EFSA Opinion’) indicates that 
infected animals, their faeces, feed and objects contaminate d with faeces are matr ices that have been repor ted to 
transmit those viruses. The EFSA Opinion provides further scientifi c suppor t for the protection measures estab ­
lished by Implementing Regulation (EU) No 750/2014. The epidemiological situation in the third countr ies 
affected by novel swine enteric coronavi rus disease caused by emerging porcine alphacoronav iruses, including the 
porcine epidemic diar rhoea virus and the porcine deltacoronavir us, has not change d in term s of the risk of the 
spread of those porcine entero-coronav iruses since the date of adop tion of Implementing Regulation (EU) 
No 750/2014. 
(3)  In light of the EFSA opinion and of the evolution in the disease situation, the protection measures established by 
Implementing Regulation (EU) No 750/2014 should be prolonged until the end of October 2015. 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, 9.12.2014 L 351/1 Official Jour nal of the European Union EN     
(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 regar ds the animal health requirements for the introduction into the Union of porcine animals (OJ L 203, 11.7.2014, p. 91). 
(3)The EFSA Jour nal 2014;12(10):3877. HAS ADOPTED THIS REGUL ATION: 
Article 1 
In the second paragraph of Article 2 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 750/2014, the date ‘12 Januar y 2015’ is 
replaced by ‘31 October 2015’ . 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 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 State s. 
Done at Brussels, 8 December 2014. 
For the Commission 
The Presid ent 
Jean-Claude JUNCKER  9.12.2014 L 351/2 Official Jour nal of the European Union EN