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►B COMMISSIONDECISION
of29September2000
laying down animal and public health conditions and veterinary certification for imports of
farmed ratite meat amending Decision 94/85/EC drawing up a list of third countries from which
theMemberStatesauthoriseimportsoffreshpoultrymeat
(notified under document number C(2000) 2885)
(TextwithEEArelevance)
(2000/609/EC)
(OJ L 258, 12.10.2000, p. 49)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
►M1Commission Decision 2000/782/EC of 8 December 2000 L 309 37 9.12.2000
►M2Commission Decision 2003/573/EC of 31 July 2003 L 194 89 1.8.2003
►M3Commission Decision 2003/810/EC of 17 November 2003 L 305 11 22.11.2003
►M4Commission Decision 2004/118/EC of 28 January 2004 L 36 34 7.2.2004
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COMMISSIONDECISION
of29September2000
laying down animal and public health conditions and veterinary
certification for imports of farmed ratite meat amending Decision94/85/EC drawing up a list of third countries from which the
Member Statesauthoriseimportsoffreshpoultrymeat
(notified under document number C(2000) 2885)
(TextwithEEArelevance)
(2000/609/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 91/494/EEC of 26 June 1991 on
animal health conditions governing intra-Comunity trade and importsfrom third countries of fresh poultrymeat (
1), as last amended by Direc-
tive 1999/89/EC (2), and in particular Articles 9(1), 11(1), 12, 14(1) and
14a thereof,
Having regard to Council Directive 92/118/EEC of 17 December 1992
laying down animal health and public health requirements governing
trade in and imports into the Community of products not subject tothe said requirements laid down in specific Community rules referredto in Annex A(1), to Directive 89/662/EEC and, as regards pathogens,to Directive 90/425/EEC (
3), as last amended by Directive 97/79/EC (4),
and in particular Article 10 thereof,
Whereas:
(1)Ratites are ‘poultry’ according to Article 2 of Directive 91/494/
EEC as well as ‘farmed game’ according to Article 2 of Council
Directive 91/495/EEC of 27 November 1990 concerning publichealth and animal health problems affecting the production andplacing on the market of rabbit meat and farmed game meat (
5).
(2)Ratite meat can be imported from third countries if at least theanimal health requirements of Chapter III of Directive 91/494/
EEC and, according to Annex I Chapter 11 of Directive 92/118/
EEC, the public health requirements of Chapter III of Directive91/495/EEC are fulfilled.
(3)By the effect of this Decision Article 17 of Directive 91/495/EEC will become obsolete for freshmeat of farmed ratites.
(4)Neither Commission Decision 94/984/EC of 20 December 1994
laying down animal health conditions and veterinary certificates
for the importation of fresh poultry meat from third countries (6),
as last amended by Decision 2000/352/EEC (7), nor Commission
Decision 97/219/EC of 28 February 1997 laying down animaland public health conditions and veterinary certification forimports of farmed game meat and rabbit meat from third coun-
tries (
8), as amended by Commission Decision 2000/160/EC (9),
are applicable to ratite meat because of these birds is excludedfrom the scopes of these Decisions.
(5)It is necessary to lay down the animal and public health condi-tions and veterinary certification for import of farmed ratite meatinto the Community accordingly.2000D0609 — EN — 14.02.2004 — 004.001 — 2
(1) OJ L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 35.
(2) OJ L 300, 23.11.1999, p. 17.
(3) OJ L 62, 15.3.1993, p. 49.
(4) OJ L 24, 30.1.1998, p. 31.
(5) OJ L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 41.
(6) OJ L 378, 31.12.1994, p. 11.
(7) OJ L 124, 25.5.2000, p. 64.
(8) OJ L 88, 3.4.1997, p. 45.
(9) OJ L 51, 24.2.2000, p. 37.
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(6)Commission Decision 96/659/EC of 22 November 1996,
concerning protective measures in relation to Crimean Congo
haemorrhagic fever (1), as last amended by Decision 97/183/
EC (2), authorises Member States to import ratite meat provided
that extra guaranteees are given in relation to Crimean Congohaemorrhagic fever; these guarantees should be taken intoconsideration.
(7)The Czech Republic, Israel and Switzerland are not free fromNewcastle disease, however, they apply measures to controlNewcastle disease which are at least equivalent to those laiddown in Council Directive 92/66/EEC (
3), as last amended by
the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden.
(8)It is appropriate on this basis to allow the importation of farmed
ratite meat from the mentioned countries.
(9)Some third countries are not free from Newcastle disease and donot apply measures, which are at least equivalent to those laiddown in Directive 92/66/EEC. These countries, however, shouldhave the possibility to export fresh ratite meat to the EuropeanUnion provided that their measures to control the said disease
offer animal health guarantees at least equivalent to those
offered by Chapter II of Directive 91/494/EEC.
(10)Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe have given the necessaryguarantees referred to above to allow imports of farmed ratitemeat under the conditions laid down in the certificate in Annex
II, Part 2, Model B in this Decision and have submitted to the
Commission a satisfactory statistically based sampling plan forsurveillance for Newcastle disease on holdings from whichfarmed ratites will be sent for slaughter for export to the EU.
(11)Council Directive 93/119/EC of 22 December 1993, laying downrequirements on the protection of animals at the time ofslaughter or killing (
4), should be taken into consideration when
establishing the import conditions for ratite meat from thirdcountries.
(12)Council Directive 96/22/EC of 29 April 1996 concerning theprohibition on the use in stockfarming of certain substanceshaving a hormonal or thyrostatic action and of beta-agonists,and repealing Directives 81/602/EEC, 88/146/EEC and 88/299/
EEC (
5) and Council Directive 96/23/EC of 29 April 1996 on
measures to monitor certain substances and residues thereof inlive animals and animal products and repealing Directives 85/358/EEC and 86/469/EEC and Decisions 89/187/EEC and 91/664/EEC (
6) have to be taken into consideration when public
health requirements are established for the importation of ratite
meat.
(13)A list of third countries allowed to use the certificates for
imports of ratite meat must be established to achieve completeharmonisation of the conditions for import of ratite meat.
(14)This list must be based on the principal list of third countriesfrom which Member States authorise imports of fresh poultrymeat as it is drawn up by Commission Decision 94/85/EC (
7),
as last amended by Decision 96/2/EC (8).
(15)Tunisia has given the necessary guarantees to be included in thelist drawn up by Decision 94/85/EC.2000D0609 — EN — 14.02.2004 — 004.001 — 3
(1) OJ L 302, 26.11.1996, p. 27.
(2) OJ L 76, 18.3.1997, p. 32.
(3) OJ L 260, 5.9.1992, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 340, 31.12.1993, p. 21.
(5) OJ L 125, 23.5.1996, p. 3.
(6) OJ L 125, 23.5.1996, p. 10.
(7) OJ L 44, 17.2.1994, p. 31.
(8) OJ L 1, 3.1.1996, p. 6.
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(16)The measures provided for in this Decision have followed the
notification procedure of the Agreement on the Application of
the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) laid down withinthe framework of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
(17)The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance
with the opinion of the Standing Veterinary Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
Member States shall authorise the importation of fresh meat of farmed
ratites only from third countries or parts of third countries listed in
Annex I, provided that it meets the requirements of the correspondinghealth certificate set out in Annex II and that it is accompanied by sucha certificate, duly completed and signed. The certificate shall includethe general part conforming to Annex II, Part 1, and one of the specific
health attestations conforming to Annex II, Part 2, according to the
required model (A or B) as specified in Annex I.
Article 2
In the Annex of Decision 94/85/EC the following new line is inserted
in accordance with the alphabetic order of the ISO code:
‘TN Tunisia x ’
Article 3
This Decision shall apply for consignments certified as from 1 October
2000.
Article 4
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.2000D0609 — EN — 14.02.2004 — 004.001 — 4
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ANNEXI
Listofthirdcountriesorpartsofthirdcountrieswhichareallowedtoexportfarmed
ratite meattotheEuropeanUnion
ISO-Code Country Parts of the territoryModel
certificate
to be used
(A or B)
AR Argentina A
AU Australia ABG Bulgaria A
BR-1 Brazil The States of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa
Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo and Mato
Grosso do SulA
BW Botswana B
CA Canada ACH Switzerland ACL Chile ACY(*) Cyprus(*) A
CZ (*) CzechRepublic (*) A
HR Croatia AEE (*) Estonia (*) AHU(*) Hungary(*) AIL Israel ALT (*) Lithuania (*) ALV(*) Latvia (*) A
MT(*) Malta (*) A
NA Namibia BNZ New Zealand APL(*) Poland (*) ARO Romania ASI(*) Slovenia (*) A
SK(*) Slovak Republic (*) A
TH Thailand ATN Tunisia AUS United States of America AZA SouthAfrica B2000D0609 — EN — 14.02.2004 — 004.001 — 5
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ISO-Code Country Parts of the territoryModel
certificate
to be used
(A or B)
ZW Zimbabwe B
(*) Only applicable until this Acceding State becomes a Member State of the Community.2000D0609 — EN — 14.02.2004 — 004.001 — 6
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ANNEXII
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