2009D0719 — EN — 28.05.2016 — 004.001

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►B COMMISSION DECISION of 28 September 2009 authorising certain Member States to revise their annual BSE monitoring programmes (notified under document C(2009) 6979) (Text with EEA relevance) (2009/719/EC) (OJ L 256 29.9.2009, p. 35)

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 28 September 2009

authorising certain Member States to revise their annual BSE monitoring programmes

(notified under document C(2009) 6979)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2009/719/EC)







Article 1

The Member States listed in the Annex may revise their annual monitoring programmes as provided for in Article 6(1b) of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 (the revised annual monitoring programmes).

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Article 2

1. The revised annual monitoring programmes shall apply only to bovine animals born in the Member States listed in the Annex and shall cover at least the following categories:

(a) all bovine animals above 72 months of age subject to normal slaughter for human consumption, or slaughtered in the context of a disease eradication campaign but showing no clinical signs of disease, as referred to in point 2.2 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001;

(b) all bovine animals above 48 months of age subject to emergency slaughter or with observations at ante mortem inspection as referred to in point 2.1 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001;

(c) all bovine animals above 48 months of age, as referred to in point 3.1 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III to that Regulation, which have died or been killed but which were not: (i) killed for destruction pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 716/96 ( 5 ); (ii) killed in the framework of an epidemic, such as foot-and-mouth disease; (iii) slaughtered for human consumption.

2. When bovine animals belonging to the animal categories referred to in paragraph 1 and born in one of the Member States listed in the Annex are tested for BSE in another Member State, the age limits for testing in force in the Member State where the tests are performed shall apply.

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3. By way of derogation from point (a) of paragraph 1, from 1 January 2013 Member States listed in the Annex may decide not to test animals in the subpopulation referred to in that point.

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Article 3

Decision 2008/908/EC is repealed.

Article 4

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

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ANNEX

List of Member States and territories authorised to revise their BSE annual monitoring programmes

— Belgium

— Czech Republic

— Denmark

— Germany

— Estonia

— Ireland

— Greece

— Spain

— France

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— Croatia

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— Italy

— Cyprus

— Latvia

— Lithuania

— Luxembourg

— Hungary

— Malta

— Netherlands

— Austria

— Poland

— Portugal

— Slovakia

— Slovenia

— Finland

— Sweden

— United Kingdom and the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man