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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 866/2013 of 9 September 2013 amending Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 as regards transit            of consignments of poultry meat from Belarus through Lithuania to the Russian territory of Kaliningrad (Text with EEA relevance)         

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# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 866/2013                     

# of 9 September 2013

# amending Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 as regards transit of consignments of poultry meat from Belarus through Lithuania to                        the Russian territory of Kaliningrad                     

# (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 paragraph of point 1 of Article 8, point 4 of Article 8                           and Article 9(4)(c) thereof,                        

Whereas:

(1)Directive 2002/99/EC lays down the general animal health rules governing the production, processing, distribution within the                              Union and the introduction from third countries of products of animal origin for human consumption and provides for establishing                              specific rules and certification for transit.

(2)Commission Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 of 8 August 2008 laying down a list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments                              from which poultry and poultry products may be imported into and transit through the Community and the veterinary certification                              requirements(2) lays down that certain commodities are only to be imported into and transit through the Union from third countries, territories,                              zones or compartments listed in the table in Part 1 of Annex I thereto. It also lays down the veterinary certification requirements                              for such commodities. Those requirements take also into account whether or not additional guarantees are requested due to                              the disease status of those third countries, territories, zones or compartments. The additional guarantees with which those                              commodities are to comply are set out in Part 2 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008.

(3)Article 4(4) of Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 requires that specified pathogen-free eggs, meat, minced meat and mechanically                              separated meat of poultry, ratites and wild game-birds, eggs and egg products transiting through the Union shall be accompanied                              by a certificate drawn up in accordance with the model certificate set out in Annex XI and complying with the conditions set                              out in that certificate.

(4)In view of the isolated geographic situation of the Russian territory of Kaliningrad, Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 798/2008                              derogates from the requirements of Article 4(4) of that Regulation and lays down specific conditions for transit of certain                              consignments from and bound for Russia through Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Those conditions include additional controls                              and the sealing of the consignments.

(5)Belarus requested the Commission to authorise the transit through the Union of poultry meat from Belarus through Lithuania                              to the Russian territory of Kaliningrad.

(6)Owing to the geographical situation of Kaliningrad and the already existing procedural structures laid down in Article 18(2)                              of Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 with regard to transit of commodities from and bound to Russia, the transit of poultry meat                              from Belarus through Lithuania to the Russian territory of Kaliningrad by rail or road should be permitted, provided the conditions                              laid down in Article 18(2), (3) and (4) for other commodities are complied with.

(7)Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 should be amended in order to include the commodity poultry meat in its Article 18(2) and to modify                              the entry for Belarus in Part 1 of Annex I to that Regulation.

(8)Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(9)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.

Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 is amended as follows:

The introductory paragraph in Article 18(2) is replaced by the following:

‘2.By way of derogation from Article 4(4), transit by road or rail shall be authorised between the border inspection posts in                                    Lithuania listed in the Annex to Decision 2009/821/EC, of consignments of eggs, egg products and poultry meat coming from                                    Belarus and bound for the Russian territory of Kaliningrad, where the following conditions are met:’                           

Annex I is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

# Article 2U.K.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth 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, 9 September 2013.

*For the Commission*                            

*The President*                            

José Manuel Barroso                            

## ANNEXU.K.

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 is amended as follows:

In Part 1 the entry for Belarus is replaced by the following:

In Part 2, in the section ‘*Additional guarantees (AG)*’, the entry ‘IX’ is replaced by the following:                           

‘ ‘IX’

:

only transit through Lithuania of consignments of eggs, egg products and poultry meat originating in Belarus and bound for                                    the Russian territory of Kaliningrad shall be permitted provided that Article 18(2), (3) and (4) is complied with.’                              

1

OJ L 18, 23.1.2003, p. 11.                           

2

OJ L 226, 23.8.2008, p. 1.