# EUR-Lex - 52011PC0524 - EN

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# 52011PC0524

**Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Council Directive 64/432/EEC as regards computer databases which are part of the surveillance networks in the Member States /* COM/2011/0524 final - 2011/0228 (COD) */**

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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

The Proposal
for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council amending Regulation
(EC) No 1760/2000 as regards electronic identification of bovine animals and
deleting the provisions on voluntary beef labelling, makes necessary to amend
accordingly Council Directive 64/432/EEC as regards computer databases which
are part of the surveillance networks in the Member States. The elements of the computer databases laid down in Directive 64/432/EEC do not include so far any
reference to electronic means of identification.

Therefore, Council Directive 64/432/EEC as regards computer databases which are part of the surveillance
networks in the Member States should be amended taking
into account the Proposal for a Regulation of the
European Parliament and the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 as
regards electronic identification of bovine animals and deleting the provisions
on voluntary beef labelling. Based on this, the two proposals are presented
under the same legislative package.

This draft Directive of the European
Parliament and the Council has no financial implications for the budget of the
European Union.

Directive 64/432/EEC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

2011/0228 (COD)

Proposal for a

DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
AND OF THE COUNCIL

amending Council Directive 64/432/EEC as
regards computer databases which are part of the surveillance networks in the
Member States

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE
COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the
Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 43(2),

Having regard to the proposal from the
European Commission,

After
transmission of the draft legislative act to the national Parliaments,

Having regard to the opinion of the
European Economic and Social Committee[1],

Acting in
accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure,

Whereas:

(1) 
Council Directive 64/432/EEC of 26 June 1964 on
animal health problems affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals and
swine[2]
applies to trade in bovine animals and swine within the Union. That Directive
provides that the competent authority in a Member State may introduce a system
of surveillance networks. Those networks include a computer database which is
to contain at least a number of elements laid down in Directive 64/432/EEC, inter
alia the identification code of each animal.

(2) 
Regulation of the European Parliament and of the
Council (EC) No 1760/2000 of 17 July 2000 establishing a system for the
identification and registration of bovine animals and regarding the labelling
of beef and beef products[3], lays down rules on the use of electronic means of identification
of bovine animals.

(3) 
The elements of the computer databases laid down
in Directive 64/432/EEC do not
include any reference to electronic means of identification.

(4) 
In the interest of consistency of Union
legislation, such element should be added to the list of elements to be
included in the computer databases laid down in Directive 64/432/EEC.

(5) 
Directive 64/432/EEC should therefore be amended
accordingly,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

In Article 14(3), in part C, point (1) of
Directive 64/432/EEC, shall be replaced as follows:

"(1)         for each animal:

– 
the unique identification code,

– 
date of birth,

– 
sex,

– 
breed or colour of coat,

– 
identification code of the mother or, in the
case of an animal imported from a third country, the unique identification code
of the individual means of identification allocated to the animal by the Member
State of destination in accordance to Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000,

– 
identification number of the holding where born,

– 
identification numbers of all holdings where the
animal has been kept and the dates of each change of holding,

– 
date of death and slaughter,

– 
the type of electronic identifier, if applied to
the animal."

Article 2

1.           Member States shall adopt and
publish, by [**] at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative
provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith
communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and a correlation
table between those provisions and this Directive.

They shall apply those provisions from [...].

When Member States adopt those provisions, they
shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a
reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall
determine how such reference is to be made.

2.           Member States shall communicate
to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they
adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on
the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal
of the European Union.

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member
States.

Done at Brussels,

For the European Parliament                       For
the Council

The President                                                 The
President

[1]               OJ C xx, xx.xx. xxxx, p. xx.

[2]               OJ 121, 29.7.1964, p. 1977/64.

[3]               OJ L 204, 11.8.2000, p. 1.