98/648/EC: Commission Decision of 5 November 1998 amending Decision 97/217/EC establishing groups of third countries which are able to use the veterinary certification for imports of wild game meat, farmed game meat and rabbit meat from third countries (notified under document number C(1998) 3332) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1998-11-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: game meat, health certificate, import, rabbit meat, third country

L 308/42

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

18. 11. 98

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 5 November 1998

amending Decision 97/217/EC establishing groups of third countries which are
able to use the veterinary certification for imports of wild game meat, farmed
game meat and rabbit meat from third countries

(notified under document number C(1998) 3332)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(98/648/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Whereas the same regionalisation should be applicable to
imports of wild boar meat from the Czech Republic;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 92/45/EEC of 16
June 1992 on public health and animal health problems
relating to the killing of wild game and the placing on
the market of wild game meat (1), as last amended by
Council Directive 97/79/EC (2), and in particular Article
16(3) thereof,

Whereas Commission Decision 97/217/EC (3) lays down
groups of third countries, or parts thereof, which are able
to use the veterinary certification for imports of wild
game meat, farmed game meat and rabbit meat from third
countries;

imports of domestic animals of

Whereas the animal health conditions and veterinary
certification for
the
bovine and porcine species from certain European coun-
tries, were established by Commission Decision 98/
372/EC (4), as last amended by Commission Decision 98/
505/EC (5);

Whereas due to classical swine fever persistence in the
feral pig population some restrictions are established for
imports of
the Czech
live pigs from some parts of
Republic;

(1) OJ L 268, 14. 9. 1992, p. 35.
(2) OJ L 24, 30. 1. 1998, p. 31.
(3) OJ L 88, 3. 4. 1997, p. 201.
(4) OJ L 170, 16. 6. 1998, p. 34.
(5) OJ L 226, 13. 8. 1998, p. 50.

Whereas health restrictions were applied by the European
Community to some zones of Croatia due to certain prob-
lems concerning the veterinary controls in those parts;
whereas
veterinary
mission, it appears that the Croatian veterinary services
control satisfactorily the whole country;

recent Community

following

a

Whereas, as a result, it is approriate to make possible the
importation of game meat from the whole of Croatia;

Whereas the control of animal health diseases in some
zones of Zimbabwe is satisfactory; whereas, therefore, it is
appropriate to make possible the importation of cloven-
hoofed and wild soliped game meat from these parts of
Zimbabwe;

Whereas it is therefore necessary to amend Commission
Decision 97/217/EC;

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The Annex to Decision 97/217/EC is replaced by the
Annex to this Decision.

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This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 5 November 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

Groups of third countries which are able to utilise the veterinary certification as laid down in Decisions 97/218/EC, 97/219/EC and 97/220/EC

Cloven-hoofed game, excluding
wild swine

Wild swine

Column A

Column B

Column C

Column D

ISO
code

Country

ISO
code

Country

ISO
code

Country

ISO
code

Country

AR-1 Argentina (3) AR-3

+4

Argentina
(3) (11)

AU Australia (1) HU Hungary

AU

Australia (1)

BW Botswana (4) CA

Canada (1)

BG

CA

Bulgaria

NA Namibia (5)

CH Switzerland

Canada (1)

SZ

Swaziland (6) CY

Cyprus (1)

Farmed rabbits
and wild
leporidae

Column E

Third countries
ap-
pearing on the list of
the
the first part of
to Decision
Annex
79/542/EEC,
last
as
amended

Game birds

Wild solipeds

Other
wild land mammals

Column F

Column G

Column H

Column I

ISO
code

Country

ISO
code

Country

ISO
code

Country

ISO
code

Country

AU Australia (1)

AR

Argentina (1) BW Botswana

AU Australia (1)

BR

Brazil (1) (9)

TH Thailand

NA Namibia

CA

Canada

(1) (9)

BG Bulgaria

CA

Canada (1)

SZ

Swaziland

EE

Estonia

ZA

South
Africa

GL

Greenland (1)

CH Switzerland ZA

South
Africa (7)

CL

Chile (1)

ZW Zimbabwe (8) US

NZ New

CH Switzerland

ZW Zimbabwe

LI

Lithuania

Zealand (1)

United
States of
America (1)

CL

Chile (1)

LV

Latvia

CZ

Czech
Republic (2)

CY

Cyprus (1)

CZ

Czech
Republic

EE

Estonia

GL

Greenland

HR

Croatia (2)

HU Hungary

LI

LV

Lithuania

Latvia

NZ New

Zealand (1)

CY

Cyprus (1)

CZ

GL

Czech
Republic

Greenland
(10)

HR

Croatia

HU Hungary

IL

LI

Israel (1)

Lithuania

NZ New

Zealand (1)

PL

Poland

NZ New

Zealand

RO Romania

RU Russia

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Cloven-hoofed game, excluding
wild swine

Wild swine

Column A

Column B

Column C

Column D

ISO
code

Country

ISO
code

Country

ISO
code

Country

ISO
code

Country

Farmed rabbits
and wild
leporidae

Column E

Game birds

Wild solipeds

Other
wild land mammals

Column F

Column G

Column H

Column I

ISO
code

Country

ISO
code

Country

ISO
code

Country

ISO
code

Country

RO Romania

SL

SK

Slovenia

Slovak
Republic

TN Tunisia (1) (10)

US

United
States of
America (1)

PL

Poland

RO

Romania

SL

Slovenia

SK

Slovak
Republic

UY

Uruguay

US

United
States of
America (1)

(1) Excluding unplucked/unskinned and uneviscarated unless transported by aeroplane.
(2) The regionalisation as laid down in Decision 92/371/EEC (as last amended) applies.
(3) The regionalisation as laid down in Decision 93/402/EEC (as last amended) applies.
(4) The regionalisation as laid down in Decision 92/22/EEC (as last amended) applies.
(5) The regionalisation as laid down in Decision 92/24/EEC (as last amended) applies.
(6) The regionalisation as laid down in Decision 92/23/EEC (as last amended) applies.
(7) The regionalisation as laid down in Decision 92/21/EEC (as last amended) applies.
(8) The regionalisation as laid down in Decision 92/25/EEC (as last amended) applies.
(9) The regionalisation as laid down in Decision 94/984/EC (as last amended) applies.
(10) Only wild game meat.
(11) Only farmed game meat.

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