G/SPS/N/EU/306  
 
14 February 2019  
(19-0862) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
1. Notifying Member: EUROPEAN UNION  
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible: European Commission, Health and Food Safety Directorate -
General  
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, 
where applicable): Live animals and animal products  
4. Regions or countries like ly to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable : 
[X] All trading partners  
[ ] Specific regions or countries:  
5. Title of the notified document: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1882 
of 3 December 2018 on the application of certain disease prevention and control rules to 
categories of listed diseases and establishing a list of species and groups of species posing 
a considerable risk for the spread of those listed diseases . Language(s): English, French 
and Spanish.  Number of pages: 9 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/SPS/EEC/19_0865_00_e.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/SPS/EEC/19_0865_00_f.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/SPS/EEC/19_0865_00_s.pdf  
6. Description of content: Regulation (EU) 2016/429 in Article 5 and Annex II establishes 
a harmonised list of transmissible animal diseases ('listed diseases') which pose a risk to 
animal or public health in the Union. Those listed diseases require different  management 
approaches, set out in Article 9 of the basic regulation, which depend on the seriousness 
of their impact on public or animal health, economy, society or the environment. The  basic 
regulation sets out predefined criteria for the categorisation of listed disease in order to 
lay down which listed diseases are to be subject to which management measures. 
This Commission Implementing Regulation assigns the above referred categories of 
measures to listed diseases, based on pre -set criteria.  
In additio n, the rules for the prevention and control of a specific transmissible animal 
disease should apply to species of animals, which can transmit the disease in question, in 
accordance with the criteria set out in Article 8 of the basic regulation. This implem enting 
regulation assigns to each listed disease a list of such animal species to which the 
measures for specific listed diseases will apply in the Union ('listed species').  
The date of application of this Regulation is 21 April 2021.  
7. Objective and rationale: [  ] food safety, [X]  animal health, [  ] plant protection, 
[X] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [  ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.  G/SPS/N/EU/306  
 
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  8. Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text) :  
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g.  Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number) :  
[ ] International Plant Protection Conventio n (e.g.  ISPM number) :  
[X] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?  
[ ] Yes   [  ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard: The categorisation of diseases and listing of animal species in 
set out in Regulation (EU) 2018/1882 is in line with the general principles set up in the 
OIE Terrestrial and Aquatic Animal Health Codes. It serves for the EU internal 
management of animal diseases.  
The categorisation of animal diseases is set up here for the purposes of the 
EU management of listed diseases, depending of the level of impact of those diseases and 
the measures that will need to be taken for them in the European Union.  
9. Other relevant  documents and language(s) in which these are available:   
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : 3 December 2018  
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : 4 December 2018  
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [  ] Six months from date of publication , 
and/or  (dd/mm/yy) : 24 December 2018  
[ ] Trade facilitating measure  
12. Final date for comments: [  ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [X]  Natio nal Notification 
Authority, [X]  National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address 
(if available) of other body:  
European Commission  
DG Health and Food Safety, Unit D2 -Multilateral International Relations  
Rue Froissart 101  
B-1049 Brussels  
Tel: +(32 2) 29 54263  
Fax: +(32 2) 29 98090  
E-mail: sps@ec.europa.eu  
13. Text(s) available from: [X]  National Notification Authority, [X]  National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:   
European Commission  
DG Health and Food Safety, Unit D2 -Multilateral International Relations  
Rue Froissart 101  
B-1049 Brussels  
Tel: +(32 2) 29 54263  
Fax: +(32 2) 29 98090  
E-mail: sps@ec.europa.eu