. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/EEC/357 
18 September 2009  
 (09-4394) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
 
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  Commission of the European Communities. Health & Consumers 
Directorate-General, Directorate D – Animal Health and Welfare 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO;  ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Live bovine animals (CN 0102); fresh bovine meat (CN 0201, CN 0202) 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[ ] All trading partners 
[X] Specific regions or countries:  Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, 
Ireland, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Aust ria, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, 
Sweden as well as certain regions in Italy,  Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom  
5. Title of the notified document:  "Commission Decision of 5 August 2009 amending 
Decision 2003/467/EC as regards the declaration that certain Member States and regions thereof are officially free of bovine brucellosis"  Language:  English/French/Spanish  
Number of pages:  4  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2009/sps/EEC/09_3212_00_e.pdf
 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2009/sps/EEC/09_3212_00_f.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2009/sps/EEC/09_3212_00_s.pdf  
6. Description of content:  Directive 64/432/EEC provides that an EC member State or part 
of an EC member State may be declared officially free of bovine brucellosis as regards bovine herds, subject to compliance with certa in conditions set out in that Directive. 
The lists of EC member States and regions ther eof declared free of bovine brucellosis are 
set out in Commission Decision 2003/467/EC of 23 June 2003 establishing the official 
tuberculosis, brucellosis and enzootic-bovine -leukosis-free status of certain EC member 
States and regions of EC member States as regards bovine herds. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [X] food safety, [X] animal health, [ ] plant protection, [ 
] protect humans from animal/plant pest or  disease, [ ] protect territory from other 
damage from pests.    
8. Is there a relevant international stan dard?  If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex standard 
or related text)   G/SPS/N/EEC/357 
Page 2  
 
  [X] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)  Terrestrial Animal Health Code 2007, 
chapter 2.3.1.   Bovine brucellosis  
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)    
[ ] None 
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
 [X] Yes   [ ] No 
 If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:    
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:  "Commission 
Decision of 23 June 2003 establishing the offici al tuberculosis, brucellosis, and enzootic-
bovine-leukosis-free status of certain Member States and regions of Member States as 
regards bovine herds" [OJ L 156, 25.6.2003, p. 7 4–78] (available in EC official languages). 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriSer v.do?uri=OJ:L:2003:156:0074:01:EN:HTML  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  30 June 2009   
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  6 August 2009   
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  6 August 2009   
[ ] 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] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if 
available) of other body:  sps@ec.europa.eu 
13. Texts available from:  [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:  
sps@ec.europa.eu