EN Official Journal of the European Union L 101/1

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE

No 1/2010

of 29 January 2010

amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) to the EEA Agreement

THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, as amended by the Protocol adjusting the Agreement on the European Economic Area, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Agreement’, and in particular Article 98 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Annex I to the Agreement was amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 56/2009 of 29 May 2009 (1).

(2) Commission Regulation (EC) No 394/2008 of 30 April 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007 as regards the conditions for exempting certain animals of susceptible species from the exit ban provided for in Council Directive 2000/75/EC (2) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(3) Regulation (EC) No 454/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 998/2003 on the animal health requirements applicable to the non-commercial movements of pet animals, as regards the extension of the transitional period (3) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(4) Commission Regulation (EC) No 504/2008 of 6 June 2008 implementing Council Directives 90/426/EEC and 90/427/EEC as regards methods for the identification of equidae (4) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(5) Commission Regulation (EC) No 708/2008 of 24 July 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007 as regards the conditions for exempting certain animals of susceptible species from the exit ban provided for in Council Directive 2000/75/EC (5) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(6) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1108/2008 of 7 November 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007 as regards the minimum requirements for bluetongue monitoring and surveillance programmes and the conditions for exempting semen from the exit ban provided for in Council Directive 2000/75/EC (6) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(7) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1304/2008 of 19 December 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007 as regards the conditions for exempting certain animals of susceptible species from the exit ban provided for in Council Directive 2000/75/EC (7) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(8) Council Directive 2008/73/EC of 15 July 2008 simplifying procedures of listing and publishing information in the veterinary and zootechnical fields and amending Directives 64/432/EEC, 77/504/EEC, 88/407/EEC, 88/661/EEC, 89/361/EEC, 89/556/EEC, 90/426/EEC, 90/427/EEC, 90/428/EEC, 90/429/EEC, 90/539/EEC, 91/68/EEC, 91/496/EEC, 92/35/EEC, 92/65/EEC, 92/66/EEC, 92/119/EEC, 94/28/EC, 2000/75/EC, Decision 2000/258/EC and Directives 2001/89/EC, 2002/60/EC and 2005/94/EC (8) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(9) Commission Decision 2008/404/EC of 21 May 2008 amending Decision 2003/467/EC as regards the declaration that a certain administrative region of Italy is officially free of bovine tuberculosis and that certain administrative regions of Poland are officially free of enzootic bovine leukosis (9) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(10) Commission Decision 2008/476/EC of 6 June 2008 amending Decision 2008/185/EC to include the departments of Côtes-d’Armor, Finistère, Ille-et-Vilaine, Morbihan and Nord, France, in the list of regions free of Aujeszky’s disease (10) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(11) Commission Decision 2008/576/EC of 4 July 2008 amending Annex III to Decision 2003/467/EC as regards the list of the officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free regions in Poland (11) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(12) Commission Decision 2008/655/EC of 24 July 2008 approving the emergency vaccination plans against bluetongue of certain Member States and fixing the level of the Community’s financial contribution for 2007 and 2008 (12) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(13) Commission Decision 2008/661/EC of 1 August 2008 amending Decision 2007/182/EC on a survey for chronic wasting disease in cervids (13) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(14) Commission Decision 2008/674/EC of 13 August 2008 amending Decision 2007/683/EC approving the plan for the eradication of classical swine fever in feral pigs in certain areas of Hungary (14) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(15) Commission Decision 2008/682/EC of 18 August 2008 amending Decision 2007/870/EC as regards the approval of the plan for the emergency vaccination against classical swine fever of pigs in holdings with a marker vaccine in Romania (15) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(16) Commission Decision 2008/686/EC of 20 August 2008 amending Decision 2005/59/EC as regards areas where the plans for the eradication of classical swine fever in feral pigs and the emergency vaccination of feral pigs against classical swine fever are to be implemented in Slovakia (16) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(17) Commission Decision 2008/755/EC of 24 September 2008 amending Decision 2005/176/EC laying down the codified form and the codes for the notification of animal diseases pursuant to Council Directive 82/894/EEC (17) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(18) Commission Decision 2008/816/EC of 20 October 2008 amending Decision 2003/467/EC as regards the declaration that certain administrative regions of Poland are officially free of enzootic bovine leucosis (18) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(19) Commission Decision 2008/838/EC of 3 November 2008 concerning preventive vaccination against low pathogenic avian influenza in mallard ducks in Portugal and certain measures restricting the movements of such poultry and their products (19) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(20) Commission Decision 2008/984/EC of 10 December 2008 amending Annex C to Council Directive 64/432/EEC and Decision 2004/226/EC as regards diagnostic tests for bovine brucellosis (20), as corrected by OJ L 10, 15.1.2009, p. 35, is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(21) Commission Decision 2008/988/EC of 17 December 2008 amending Decision 2008/185/EC as regards the inclusion of the Netherlands in the list of Member States free of Aujeszky’s disease and of Hungary in the list of Member States where an approved national control programme for that disease is in place (21) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(22) Regulation (EC) No 504/2008 repeals Commission Decisions 93/623/EEC (22) and 2000/68/EC (23) which are incorporated into the Agreement and are therefore to be repealed under the Agreement.

(23) This Decision concerns legislation regarding live animals other than fish and aquaculture animals. Legislation concerning these matters does not apply to Iceland, as specified in paragraph 2 of the Introductory Part of Chapter I of Annex I of the Agreement.

(24) This Decision is not to apply to Iceland and Liechtenstein,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

Chapter I of Annex I to the Agreement shall be amended as specified in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

The texts of Regulations (EC) No 394/2008, (EC) No 454/2008, (EC) No 504/2008, 708/2008, (EC) No 1108/2008 and (EC) No 1304/2008, Directive 2008/73/EC and Decisions 2008/404/EC, 2008/476/EC, 2008/576/EC, 2008/655/EC, 2008/661/EC, 2008/674/EC, 2008/682/EC, 2008/686/EC, 2008/755/EC, 2008/816/EC, 2008/838/EC, 2008/984/EC, as corrected by OJ L 10, 15.1.2009, p. 35, and 2008/988/EC in the Norwegian language, to be published in the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, shall be authentic.

Article 3

This Decision shall enter into force on 30 January 2010, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the Agreement have been made to the EEA Joint Committee (24).

Article 4

This Decision shall be published in the EEA Section of, and in the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Union.

Done at Brussels, 29 January 2010. For the EEA Joint Committee The President Alan SEATTER

(1) OJ L 232, 3.9.2009, p. 4.

(2) OJ L 117, 1.5.2008, p. 22.

(3) OJ L 145, 4.6.2008, p. 238.

(4) OJ L 149, 7.6.2008, p. 3.

(5) OJ L 197, 25.7.2008, p. 18.

(6) OJ L 299, 8.11.2008, p. 17.

(7) OJ L 344, 20.12.2008, p. 28.

(8) OJ L 219, 14.8.2008, p. 40.

(9) OJ L 141, 31.5.2008, p. 16.

(10) OJ L 163, 24.6.2008, p. 34.

(11) OJ L 183, 11.7.2008, p. 40.

(12) OJ L 214, 9.8.2008, p. 66.

(13) OJ L 215, 12.8.2008, p. 8.

(14) OJ L 220, 15.8.2008, p. 30.

(15) OJ L 222, 20.8.2008, p. 9.

(16) OJ L 224, 22.8.2008, p. 13.

(17) OJ L 258, 26.9.2008, p. 72.

(18) OJ L 283, 28.10.2008, p. 46.

(19) OJ L 299, 8.11.2008, p. 40.

(20) OJ L 352, 31.12.2008, p. 38.

(21) OJ L 352, 31.12.2008, p. 52.

(22) OJ L 298, 3.12.1993, p. 45.

(23) OJ L 23, 28.1.2000, p. 72.

(24) No constitutional requirements indicated.