2000/78/EC: Commission Decision of 17 December 1999 amending Decision 97/365/EC on drawing up provisional lists of third country establishments from which the Member States authorise imports of products prepared from meat of bovine animals, swine, equidae and sheep and goats (notified under document number C(1999) 4688) (Text with EEA relevance.)
Date: 1999-12-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: health legislation, import, meat product, third country, veterinary legislation

4.2.2000

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 30/37

COMMISSION DECISION

of 17 December 1999

amending Decision 97/365/EC on drawing up provisional lists of third country establishments
from which the Member States authorise imports of products prepared from meat of bovine
animals, swine, equidae and sheep and goats

(notified under document number C(1999) 4688)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2000/78/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Decision 95/408/EC of 22 June
1995 on the conditions for drawing up, for an interim period,
provisional
lists of third country establishments from which
Member States are authorised to import certain products of
animal origin, fishery products or live bivalve molluscs (1), as
last amended by Decision 98/603/EC (2), and in particular
Article 2(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Commission Decision 97/222/EC (3), draws up a list of
third countries from which the Member States authorise
imports of meat products;

(2)

for the countries on that
the animal health and
veterinary certification requirements for importation of
meat products have been laid down in Commission
Decision 97/221/EC (4);

list

(6) a provisional

list of

establishments producing meat

products can thus be drawn up in respect of Bulgaria;

(7)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The text of the Annex to this Decision is added to the Annex
to Decision 97/365/EEC.

Article 2

This Decision shall apply with effect from 15 December 1999.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 17 December 1999.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

(3) provisional

lists of

third country establishments

from
which the Member States authorise imports of products
prepared from meat of bovine animals, swine, equidae and
sheep and goats have been drawn up by Commission
Decision 97/365/EC (5);

(4)

the Commission has received from Bulgaria a list of
fully meets the
establishments, with guarantees that
appropriate Community health requirements;

it

(5) a Community on-the-spot inspection has shown that the
hygiene standard of the establishment is sufficient and it
may therefore be entered on a first list of establishments
from which imports of meat products may be authorised;

(1) OJ L 243, 11.10.1995, p. 17.
(2) OJ L 289, 28.10.1998, p. 36.
(3) OJ L 89, 4.4.1997, p. 39.
(4) OJ L 89, 4.4.1997, p. 32.
(5) OJ L 154, 12.6.1997, p. 41.

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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