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COMMISSION OFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Brussels.9September1982
Proposalfora
-COUNCILDECISION
recognizingcertainpartsoftheterritoryoftheFederal
RepublicofGermanyasbeingeitherofficiallyswinefever
freeorswinefeverfree
(submittedtotheCouncilbytheCommission)
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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Article4«C«1«(c)ofCouncilDirective 64/432/EEClaysdownthattheCouncil
actingunanimously decidestorecognise asbeingofficially freeofswine
fever,forthepurposesofintra-Community tradeinlivepigs,partsofthe
territoryofaMemberStateprovidingthattherequirements arefulfilled.
Similarly,Article13«a»2ofCouncilDirective 72/461/EEClaysdownthatthe
Councilactingunanimously decidestorecognise asbeingfreeofswinefever,
forthepurposesofintra-Community tradeoffreshpigmeat,partsofthe
territoryofaMemberStateprovidingthattherequirements arefulfilled.
CertainpartsoftheterritoryoftheFederalRepublicofGermanyfulfillthe
requirements forbeingrecognised aseitherofficially freeorfreeofswine
feverthereforetheaimofthisproposalistherecognition ofthesepartsof
theterritory.

Proposalfora
CouncilDecision
recognisingcertainpartsoftheterritoryoftheFederalRepublicofGermanyas
beingeitherofficiallyswinefeverfreeorswinefeverfree
THECOUNCILOFTHEEUROPEANCOMMUNITIES,
HavingregardtotheTreatyestablishing theEuropeanEconomicCommunity,
HavingregardtoCouncilDirective64/432/EECof26June1964onanimalhealth
(1)problemsaffectingintra-Community tradeinbovineanimalsandswineaslast
(2)amendedbyDirective82/61/EECandinparticularArticle4C(<|)(c)thereof,
HavingregardtoCouncilDirective72/461/EECof12December1972onhealth
problemsaffectingintra-Community tradeinfreshmeat^aslastamendedby
(4)Directive81/476/EECfandinparticularArticle13a(2)thereof,
WhereasCommissionDecision82/351/EEC^ hasalreadyrecognised
certainpartsoftheterritoryoftheFederalRepublicofGermanyasbeing... ,,andwhereas ,, ,officiallyswinefeverfree,consequently thepartsoftheterritoryas
mentionedfulfilltherequirements forbeingrecognisedasofficiallyswine
feverfreeforthepurposeofintra-Community trade;
WhereasconcerningcertainotherpartsoftheterritoryoftheFederalRepublic
ofGermany,swinefeverhasnotbeendetectedformorethanoneyear,vaccination
againstthisdiseasemaybeauthorised andthepresenceofvaccinatedpigsis
permitted;W£c?ii^cftjentlythesepartsoftheterritoryfulfilltherequirementsforbeii
recognisedasswinefeverfreeforthepurposes'ofintra-Community tradeinfresh
meat,
HASADOPTEDTHISDECISION :
(1)OJNo121of29.7.1964,p.1977/64
(2)OJNoL29of6.2.1982,p.13
(3)OJNoL302of31.12.1972,p.24
(4)OJNoL186of8.7.1981,p.20
(5)OJNoL157of8.6.1982,p.26

Article 1
ThosepartsoftheterritoryoftheFederalRepublicofGermanyconstituted
bytheregionssetoutinAnnex1arerecognizedasofficially swinefever
freewithinthemeaningofArticle4c(1)(c)ofDirective64/432/EEC.
Article2
ThosepartsoftheterritoryoftheFederalRepublicofGermanyconstituted
bytheregionssetoutinAnnex2arerecognizedasswinefeverfreewithin
themeaningofArticle13a(2)ofDirective72/461/EEC.
Article3
ThisDecisionisaddressedtotheMemberStates.
DoneatBrussels, FortheCouncil

Annex1
Officially swinefeverfreeregionsintheFederalRepublicofGermany:
Bundesland Schleswig-Holstein ,FreieandHansestadt Hamburg,FreieHansestadt
BremenandStadtBremerhaven,Regierungsbezirke Detmold,Münster,Düsseldorf,
Arnsberg,Köln,Koblenz,Trier,Rheinhessen-Pfalz ,Stuttgart,Karlsruhe,
Tübingen,Freiburg,Oberfranken,Unterfranken,Oberpfalz,BundeslandSaarland,
Niederbayern andMittelfranken .
Annex2
SwinefeverfreeregionsintheFederalRepublicofGermany:
Regierungsbezirke Weser-Ems,Lüneburg,Hannover,Braunschweig,Kassel,
Giessen,Darmstadt,Schwaben,Oberbayern andBerlinWest.