# Commission Implementing Decision of 14 February 2014 amending Annex I to Decision 2004/558/EC as regards the approval of a            control programme for eradicating infectious bovine rhinotracheitis in a region in Italy (notified under document C(2014)            737) (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/90/EU)         

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# Commission Implementing Decision

# of 14 February 2014

# amending Annex I to Decision 2004/558/EC as regards the approval of a control programme for eradicating infectious bovine                        rhinotracheitis in a region in Italy                     

# (notified under document C(2014) 737)

# (Text with EEA relevance)

# (2014/90/EU)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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

Having regard to Council Directive 64/432/EEC of 26 June 1964 on animal health problems affecting intra-Community trade in                           bovine animals and swine(1), and in particular Article 9(2) thereto,                        

Whereas:

(1)Directive 64/432/EEC lays down rules for trade within the Union in bovine animals. Article 9 thereof provides that a Member                              State which has a compulsory national control programme for one of the contagious diseases listed in Annex E(II) thereto,                              may submit its programme to the Commission for approval. That list includes infectious bovine rhinotracheitis. Infectious                              bovine rhinotracheitis is the description of the most prominent clinical signs of the infection with the bovine herpes virus                              type 1 (BHV1).

(2)Article 9 of Directive 64/432/EEC also provides for the definition of the additional guarantees which may be required in intra-Union                              trade.

(3)Commission Decision 2004/558/EC(2) approves the programmes for the control and eradication of BHV1 presented by the Member States listed in Annex I thereto                              for the regions listed in that Annex and for which additional guarantees apply in accordance with Article 9 of Directive 64/432/EEC.

(4)Italy has submitted to the Commission a programme for the control and eradication of BHV1 in the Autonomous Region of Valle                              d’Aosta. This programme complies with the criteria set out in Article 9(1) of Directive 64/432/EEC. This programme also provide                              for rules for the movement of bovine animals within and into that region, which are equivalent to those previously implemented                              in the Province of Bolzano in Italy, which were successful in eradicating the disease in that Province.

(5)The programme presented by Italy for the Autonomous Region of Valle d’Aosta and the additional guarantees presented in accordance                              with Article 9 of Directive 64/432/EEC should be approved.

(6)Annex I to Decision 2004/558/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

# Article 1U.K.

Annex I to Decision 2004/558/EC is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.

# Article 2U.K.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 14 February 2014.

*For the Commission*                            

Tonio Borg                            

*Member of the Commission*                            

## ANNEXU.K.

Annex I to Decision 2004/558/EC is replaced by the following:

### “ANNEX I

1

OJ 121, 29.7.1964, p. 1977/64.                           

2

Commission Decision 2004/558/EC of 15 July 2004 implementing Council Directive 64/432/EEC as regards additional guarantees                              for intra-Community trade in bovine animals relating to infectious bovine rhinotracheitis and the approval of the eradication                              programmes presented by certain Member States (OJ L 249, 23.7.2004, p. 20).