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Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 72/462/EEC on health and veterinary 
inspection problems upon importation of bovine animals and swine and fresh meat from third 
countries, in order to include ovine and caprine animals 
COM(88) 742 final 
(Submitted by the Commission on 9 January 1989) 
(89/C 48/03) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE: 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament, Article 1 
Directive 72/462/EEC is hereby amended as follows: 
1. The title is replaced by the following: 
'Council Directive of 12 December 1972 on health and 
veterinary inspection problems upon importation of 
bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine and fresh 
meat from third countries'. 
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social 
Committee, 
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No... lays down the 
veterinary inspection conditions governing intra-Com-
munity trade in ovine and caprine animals; whereas, in 
order to enable that trade to develop harmoniously, 
common rules should be laid down as regards imports from 
third countries; 
Whereas Council Directive 72/462/EEC (*), as last amen­
ded by Directive 88/289/EEC (2), lays down health and 
veterinary inspection requirements for the importation of 
bovine animals and swine and fresh meat from third 
countries; 
Whereas ovine and caprine animals belong, together with 
bovine animals, to the Bovidae family and are receptive to 
the same diseases; whereas the Community's livestock is 
exposed to a similar risk in respect of imports from third 
countries; whereas reference should therefore generally be 
made to the rules laid down in Directive 72/462/EEC, 
subject to any changes which may be required in the light of 
the special characteristics of ovine and caprine animals, 2. In Article 1 (1), the following indent is added: 
'— domestic ovine or caprine animals for breeding, 
production or slaughter'. 
3. In Article 2, the first paragraph is replaced by the 
following: 
'For the purposes of this Directive, the definitions given 
in Article 2 of Directives 64/432/EEC, 64/433/EEC, 
72/461/EEC and Council Regulation (EEC) No... (*) 
shall apply as necessary. 
(!) OJ No L 302, 31. 12. 1972, p. 28. 
(2) OJ No L 124, 18. 5. 1988, p. 31. (i) OJ No L...' 
4. In the second paragraph of Article 2, point (c) is 
replaced by the following: 
'(c) "third country" means a country in which 
Directives 64/432/EEC and 64/433/EEC and 
Regulation (EEC) No ... do not apply'. 
5. In the second paragraph of Article 2, point (e) is 
replaced by the following: 
'(e) "holding" means an officially supervised agricul­
tural, industrial or commercial undertaking 
situated in the territory of a third country, on 
which bovine animals or swine, for rearing, 
production or slaughter, or ovine or caprine 
animals for breeding, production or slaughter are 
regularly kept or bred.' 
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6. In Article 3(1) and the first subparagraph of Article 3 
(2), 'bovine animals, swine' is replaced by 'bovine, 
ovine and caprine animals and swine'. 
7. The title of Chapter II is replaced by the following: 
'Chapter II: Importation of bovine, ovine and caprine 
animals and swine'. 
8. The first indent of Article 6 (a) is supplemented by the 
following: 
Teste des petits ruminants, Epizootic Haermorrhagic 
Disease, sheep pox, goat pox and Rift Valley Fever'. 
9. Article 8 (2) is replaced by the following: 
'2. It may be decided, in accordance with the 
procedure laid down in Article 29, that authorizations 
are to be confined to particular species, to bovine 
animals or swine for slaughter, rearing or production, 
to ovine or caprine animals for slaughter, breeding or 
production or to animals intended for particular 
purposes, or that all necessary animal health measures 
are to be applied after importation. 
In the case of animals for breeding, rearing or 
production, requirements imposed pursuant to this 
paragraph may vary from one Member State to another 
in order to take account of the special provisions for the 
benefit of Member States in the framework of intra-
Community trade.' 
10. Article 8 (3) is replaced by the following: 
'3. The reference basis for fixing animal health 
conditions in accordance with paragraph 1, for bovine 
tuberculosis, bovine and swine brucellosis, ovine and 
caprine brucellosis (B. melitensis) and contagious 
epidydimitis (B. ovis) shall be the standards laid down 
in Annex A to Directive 64/432/EEC or Annexes A, C, 
and D to Regulation (EEC) No... It may be decided, in 
accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 29, 
on a case-by-case basis to derogate from those 
standards where the third country concerned provides 
similar animal health guarantees; in that case, animal 
health conditions at least equivalent to those in the said 
Annexes shall be laid down in accordance with the 
same procedure in order to permit the entry of such 
animals into Community herds or flocks.' 11. In Article 9, 'bovine animals and swine' is replaced by 
'bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine'. 
12. In Article 10, in the first sentence, 'bovine animals and 
swine' is replaced by 'bovine, ovine and caprine 
animals and swine'. 
13. Article 10 (a) is replaced by the following: 
'(a) six months in the case of bovine animals or swine, 
for breeding or production, ovine or caprine 
animals for breeding and ovine or caprine animals 
for production;' 
14. The first subparagraph of Article 11 (1) is replaced by 
the following: 
'Member States shall not authorize the importation of 
bovine, ovine or caprine animals or swine unless a 
certificate drawn up by an official veterinarian of the 
exporting third country is produced'. 
15. Article 11 (l)(d) is replaced by the following: 
'(d) attest that the bovine, ovine or caprine animals or 
swine meet the requirements of this Directive and 
those laid down pursuant to this Directive with 
regard to importation from the third country 
concerned;' 
16. Article 12 (1) is replaced by the following: 
'1. Member States shall ensure that domestic bovine, 
ovine and caprine animals and domestic swine are 
subjected immediately upon arrival in the territory of 
the Community to an animal health inspection carried 
out by an official veterinarian, whatever the customs 
procedure under which they were declared.' 
17. The introductory sentence of Article 12 (2) is replaced 
by the following: 
'Member States shall ensure that bovine, ovine and 
caprine animals and swine are prohibited from 
movement within the Community if, during the 
inspection prescribed in paragraph 1, it is found that:' 
18. The third indent of Article 12 (2) is replaced by the 
following: 
'— the conditions laid down in this Directive and in 
Annexes A to D to Directive 64/432/EEC or 
Annexes A, C and D to Regulation (EEC) No... 
have not been complied with by the exporting third 
country.' 
19. Article 12 (4) is replaced by the following: 
'4. The certificate accompanying bovine, ovine or 
caprine animals and swine on importation must, 
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following the animal health inspection (import inspec­
tion), include a statement clearly indicating whether 
the animals have been admitted or refused entry.' 
20. Article 27 (l)(a) is replaced by the following: 
' (a) the frontier inspection posts for the importation of 
bovine, ovine or caprine animals and swine;' 
21. In the third subparagraph of Article 29 (4), 'save where 
the Council has decided by a simple majority against 
those measures' is deleted. 22. In the third subparagraph of Article 30 (4), 'save where 
the Council has decided by a simple majority against 
those measures' is deleted. 
Article 2 
Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations 
and administrative provisions necessary to comply with 
this Directive not later than 1 August 1989. They shall 
notify the Commission there of forthwith. 
Article 3 
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.