98/16/EC: Commission Decision of 15 December 1997 amending Commission Decision 93/402/EEC concerning animal health conditions and veterinary certification for imports of fresh meat from South American countries (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1997-12-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: South America, fresh meat, health certificate, health control, import, meat processing industry

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 15 December 1997

amending Commission Decision 93/402/EEC concerning animal health
conditions and veterinary certification for imports of fresh meat from South
American countries

(Text with EEA relevance)

(98/16/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to the Council Directive 72/462/EEC, of
12 December 1972, on health and veterinary inspection
problems upon importation of bovine, ovine and caprine
animals and swine, fresh meat or meat products from
third countries (1), as last amended by Council Directive
96/91/EC (2), in particular Articles 14 and 22 thereof,

Whereas the animal health conditions and veterinary
certification for imports of fresh meat from Colombia,
Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile and Argentina are laid
down by Commission Decision 93/402/EEC (3), as last
amended by Decision 96/595/EEC (4);

Whereas the territories of Argentina from which Member
States authorise the imports of deboned sheep meat were
defined in function of the control of the foot-and-mouth
disease; whereas Argentina has not recorded cases of foot-
and-mouth disease since April 1994;

Whereas the veterinary authorities of Argentina have
provided the necessary guarantees;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in
conformity with the opinion of the Standing Veterinary
Committee,

Article 1

Annex I of Decision 93/402/EEC is replaced by the
Annex of this Decision.

Article 2

Member States authorise, for 60 days following the date of
notification of this Decision to Member States, imports of
fresh meat
from Argentina produced and certified in
accordance with the conditions laid down in Decision
93/402/EEC prior to the entry into force of this Decision.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 15 December 1997.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 302, 31. 12. 1972, p. 28.
(2) OJ L 13, 16. 1. 1997, p. 26.
(3) OJ L 179, 22. 7. 1993, p. 11.
(4) OJ L 261, 15. 10. 1996, p. 41.

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

DESCRIPTION OF TERRITORIES OF SOUTH AMERICA ESTABLISHED FOR ANIMAL
HEALTH CERTIFICATION PURPOSES

Country

Territory

Code

Version

Description of territory

Argentina

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

AR

AR-1

AR-2

AR-3

AR-4

BR

BR-1

01/93

01/93

01/94

01/93

01/97

01/93

01/96

CL

CO

CO-1

01/93

01/93

01/93

CO-2

01/93

CO-3

01/93

Whole country

South of 42nd parallel

North of 42nd parallel

Provinces of Entre Ríos, Corrientes and Misiones

Provinces of Catamarca, San Juan, La Rioja, Mendoza
Neuquén, Río Negro, San Luís, La Pampa, Córdoba, Santa
Fe, Santiago del Estero, Chaco, Formosa and Buenos Aires

Whole country

States of: Rio Grande do Sul, Paran ´a, Minas Gerais (except
regional delegations of Oliveira, Passos, S˜ao Gonçalo de
Sapucai, Setelagoas and Bambuí), S˜ao Paulo, Espírito
Santo, Mato Grosso do Sul (except for the municipalities
of Sonora, Aquidauana, Bodoquena, Bonito, Caracol,
Coxim, Jardim, Ladario, Miranda, Pedro Gomes, Porto
Murtinho, Rio Negro, Rio Verde de Mato Grosso and
Corumb ´a), Santa Catarina, Goias and the regional units of
Cuiaba (except for the municipalities of Santo António do
Leverger, Nossa Senhora do Livramento, Poconé and
Bar˜ao de Melgaço), C ´aceres (except for the municipality of
C ´aceres), Lucas do Rio Verde, Rondonopolis (except for
the municipality of Itiquira), Barra do Garças and Barra
do Bugres in Mato Grosso

Whole country

Whole country

The zone included within the following borderlines: from
the point where the Murri river flows into the Atrato river,
downstream along the Atrato river to where it flows into
the Atlantic Ocean, from this point to the Panamanian
border following the Atlantic coastline to Cabo Tiburón;
from this point
to the Pacific Ocean following the
Colombian-Panamanian border; from this point to the
mouth of the Valle River along the Pacific coast and from
this point along a straight line to the point where the
Murri river flows into the Atrato river

The municipalities of Arboletas, Necocli, San Pedro de
Uraba, Turbo, Apartado, Chigorodo, Mutata, Dabeiba,
Uramita, Murindo, Riosucio (right bank of
the Atrato
river) and Frontino

The zone included within the following borderlines: from
the Sinu river on the Atlantic Ocean,
the mouth of
upstream along the Sinu river to its headwaters of Alto
Paramillo, from this point to Puerto Rey on the Atlantic
Ocean, following the borderline between the department
of Antioquia and Córdoba, and from this point to the
mouth of the Sinu river along the Atlantic coast

Paraguay

Uruguay

PY

UY

01/93

01/93

Whole country

Whole country’