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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 482/2013 of 24 May 2013 amending Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 laying down lists            of third countries, territories or parts thereof authorised for the introduction into the European Union of certain animals            and fresh meat and the veterinary certification requirements (Text with EEA relevance)         

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# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 482/2013                     

# of 24 May 2013

# amending Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 laying down lists of third countries, territories or parts thereof authorised for the                        introduction into the European Union of certain animals and fresh meat and the veterinary certification requirements                     

# (Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Directive 2002/99/EC of 16 December 2002 laying down the animal health rules governing the production,                           processing, distribution and introduction of products of animal origin for human consumption(1), and in particular the introductory phrase of Article 8, the first subparagraph of Article 8(1) and (4) thereof,                        

Whereas:

(1)Commission Regulation (EU) No 206/2010(2) lays down the veterinary certification requirements for the introduction into the Union of certain consignments of live animals                              or fresh meat. It also lays down the lists of third countries, territories or parts thereof from which those consignments                              may be introduced into the Union.

(2)Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 provides that consignments of fresh meat intended for human consumption are to be imported into                              the Union only if they come from the third countries, territories or parts thereof listed in Part 1 of Annex II to that Regulation                              for which there is a model veterinary certificate corresponding to the consignment concerned listed in that Part.

(3)Four parts of the territory of Botswana are listed in Part 1 of Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 206/2010, as regions from which                              imports of certain fresh meat into the Union are authorised. Those regions consist of a number of veterinary disease control                              zones.

(4)In March 2013, a Commission audit was carried out in Botswana in order to evaluate the animal health control system in place,                              in particular as regards controls concerning foot-and-mouth disease. The audit found that the risk of introduction of the                              foot-and-mouth disease virus into the veterinary disease control zones 6 and 4a of the territory of that third country cannot                              be considered negligible.

(5)Surveillance identified the presence of the foot–and-mouth disease virus in goats and wild game in the intensive surveillance                              zone in veterinary disease control zone 6. That intensive surveillance zone is not authorised for export of fresh meat to                              the Union. However, the proximity of that area to the authorised part of veterinary disease control zone 6 from which such                              exports are authorised constitutes a risk.

(6)The veterinary disease control zone 4a borders other areas of Botswana from which imports of fresh meat into the Union are                              not authorised. The Commission audit identified shortcomings as regards the animal health surveillance in veterinary disease                              control zone 4a. In addition, a number of shortcomings were identified as regards the delimitation of that zone from the areas                              from which imports of fresh meat into the Union are not authorised. Those shortcomings constitute a non-negligible risk as                              regards foot-and-mouth disease.

(7)The Commission audit also found that the system to verify the effectiveness of official controls is well organised in the                              rest of the territory of Botswana and it has shown improvements compared with the situation reported in the previous audit                              in 2011.

(8)In view of the risk of introduction of foot-and-mouth disease through the import of fresh meat from species susceptible to                              that disease from veterinary disease control zones 6 and 4a of Botswana into the Union, the authorisation to export into the                              Union such fresh meat from those veterinary disease control zones should however be suspended.

(9)Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(10)The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain                              and Animal Health,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

# Article 1U.K.

In Part 1 of Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 206/2010, the entry for Botswana is replaced by the following:

# Article 2U.K.

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 States.

Done at Brussels, 24 May 2013.

*For the Commission*                            

*The President*                            

José Manuel Barroso                            

1

OJ L 18, 23.1.2003, p. 11.                           

2

OJ L 73, 20.3.2010, p. 1.