2000/68/EC: Commission Decision of 22 December 1999 amending Commission Decision 93/623/EEC and establishing the identification of equidae for breeding and production (notified under document number C(1999) 5004) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1999-12-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: equidae, health certificate, health control, import, third country, veterinary drug

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 22 December 1999

amending Commission Decision 93/623/EEC and establishing the identification of equidae for
breeding and production

(notified under document number C(1999) 5004)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2000/68/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 90/427/EEC of 26 June
1990 on zootechnical and genealogical conditions governing
intra-Community trade in equidae (1), as last amended by the
Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden, and in partic-
ular Article 8(1) thereof,

(7)

Having regard to Council Directive 90/426/EEC of 26 June
1990 on animal health conditions governing the movement
and import from third countries of equidae (2), as last amended
by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden, and in
particular Article 4(4)(ii) thereof,

Whereas:

imation of laws of the Member States relating to veter-
amended by
inary medicinal products (4),
Directive 93/40/EEC (5);

last

as

according to Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90
of 26 June 1990 laying down a Community procedure
for the establishment of maximum residue limits of
veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal
origin (6), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1308/
99 (7), with effect from 1 January 2000 the administra-
tion to food-producing animals of veterinary medicinal
products containing pharmacologically active substances
which are not mentioned in Annexes I, II or III to that
Regulation shall be prohibited within the Community
without exemption. Consequently, equidae can only
receive medical
treatment with medicinal products
substances
containing
mentioned in Annexes I, II or III to that Regulation;

pharmacologically

active

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

by Decision 93/623/EEC (3) the Commission established
the identification document
(passport) accompanying
registered equidae;

in order to safeguard the continued identity of
the
animal it is necessary to amend Decision 93/623/EEC by
introducing a life-number;

(8)

in accordance with Article 4(4)(ii) of Directive 90/
426/EEC, equidae for breeding and production must be
identified during their movement by a method to be
established by the Commission;

certain parts of
the information provided for by
Decision 93/623/EEC can be used for the identification
of equidae for breeding and production;

the Commission considers modifying Article 1 of
Directive 81/851/EEC in order to introduce a definition
of food-producing animals and to allow exemptions of
certain groups of these species, if the animals included in
such groups are sufficiently identified and controlled.
Equidae clearly identified and specifically marked in their
identification document as not intended for slaughter or
intented for slaughter under controlled conditions in
accordance with Community law qualify for
such
exemptions;

equidae for breeding and production as well as registered
equidae, may become equidae for slaughter for human
consumption as definied in Article 2(d) of Directive
90/426/EEC at a certain stage of their life;

(9)

the administration of veterinary medicinal products to
equidae is subject to the provisions of Council Directive
81/851/EEC of 25 September 1981 on the approx-

as its meeting of 9 to 11 November 1999 the Scientific
Committee for Veterinary Medicinal products considered
the Commission's request
to indicate an appropriate
general withdrawal period for substances not included in
the annexes to Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 and
recommended that this withdrawal period shall be at
least six months.

(1) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 55.
(2) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 42.
(3) OJ L 298, 3.12.1993, p. 45.

(4) OJ L 317, 6.11.1981, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 214, 24.8.1993, p. 31.
(6) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 1.
(7) OJ L 156, 23.6.1999, p. 1.

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(10)

(11)

(12)

(13)

(14)

(15)

(16)

for

the provisions of Council Directive 64/433/EEC of 26
June 1964 on conditions
the production and
marketing of fresh meat (1), as last amended by Directive
95/23/EC (2), apply to meat from solipeds. In accordance
with that Directive animals for slaughter must be identi-
fied so as to enable the competent authorities to deter-
mine their origin. Article 7(3) of Directive 90//426/EEC
requires the official veterinarian at the slaughterhouse to
record the identification number or identification docu-
ment number of the slaughtered equidae;

in accordance with Directive 64/433/EEC the official
veterinarian must, during the
ante-mortem health
inspection, pay attention to any signs that the animals
have had substances with pharmacological
effects
administered to them or have consumed any other
substances which may make their meat harmful
to
human health. The check of the medication record in
the identification document shall therefore be part of
this assessment;

the conditions for imports of equidae should be those
laid down in Directive 90/426/EEC and in particular in
Commission Decisions
93/
197/EEC (4);

93/196/EEC (3)

and

it is necessary to modify the identification document of
registered equidae accordingly;

it is furthermore necessary to establish the identification
for equidae for breeding and production
document
based on the identification document
for registered
equidae;

in order to allow the Member States time for the imple-
the proposed measures a transitional
mentation of
period should be provided for;

the measures provided for in this Decision are in accord-
ance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on
Zootechnics and the Standing Veterinary Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

‘6. Section IX:

Medicinal Treatment

Part I and Part II or Part III of this Section must be duly
completed in accordance with the instructions provided for
in this Section.’

2. A new section is added in accordance with the Annex to the

present Decision.

Article 2

1.
The identification number mentioned in Section II(1) of
the identification document laid down by Decision 93/623/EEC
shall be the life-number of the animal, which must be main-
tained or a reference to which must be established whenever
the competent authorities modify registration details of the
animal

in question.

2.
The identification number referred to in paragraph 1 shall
be the identification number referred to in Article 7(3) of
Directive 90/426/EEC.

Article 3

identification document

for
The
breeding and production during their movement must contain
at least the information provided for in Sections I, II, III, IV and
IX of the identification document laid down by Decision 93/
623/EEC.

accompanying

equidae

Article 4

Member States shall ensure that as from 1 July 2000 at the
latest registred equidae and equidae for breeding and produc-
tion are accompanied by the identification document referred
to in Articles 1 and 3 respectively, except, where compulsory
entries into the Section referred to in Article 1 require issuing
of that Section without delay before this date.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 5

Article 1

Done at Brussels, 22 December 1999.

The Annex to Decision 93/623/EEC is amended as follows:

1. In part II(A) of the General Instructions for the passport the
following words are inserted in the appropriate number
order:

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 243, 11.10.1995, p. 7.
(2) OJ L 243, 11.10.1995, p. 7.
(3) OJ L 86, 6.4.1993, p. 7.
(4) OJ L 86, 6.4.1993, p. 16.

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