2000/161/EC: Commission Decision of 14 February 2000 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(2000) 286) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2000-02-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: game meat, health certificate, import, rabbit meat, third country

L 51/38

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Official Journal of the European Communities

24. 2. 2000

COMMISSION DECISION

of 14 February 2000

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(2000) 286)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2000/161/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 92/118/EEC of 17
December 1992 laying down animal health and public health
requirements governing trade
into the
Community of products not subject to the said requirements
laid down in specific Community rules referred to in Annex
A (I) to Directive 89/662/EEC and, as regards pathogens, to
Directive 90/425/EEC (1), as last amended by Directive 97/
79/EC (2), and in particular Article 10 thereof,

in and imports

Whereas:

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

The responsible veterinary authorities of Russia have
undertaken to notify the Commission and the Member
States, by telex or fax, within 24 hours of confirmation
of the occurrence of the abovementioned disease or of
the adoption of vaccination against it.

A regionalisation should be applicable to imports of
farmed cloven-hoofed game meat, excepting swine, from
the Russian region of Murmansk.

It is therefore necessary to amend Decision 97/217/EC.

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

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Commission Decision 97/217/EC (3), as last amended by
Decision 1999/758/EC (4),
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.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Following a Community veterinary mission in the
Russian region of Murmansk, it appears that the health
situation in this territory is controlled by veterinary
services which
guarantees
offer
concerning diseases which might be transmitted through
the imports into the Community of
farmed or wild
cloven-hoofed game meat, excluding swine.

satisfactory

can

The responsible veterinary authorities of Russia have
confirmed that the region of Murmansk has during the
last 24 months been free from foot-and-mouth disease.

No vaccinations have been carried out against
disease during the past 12 months.

this

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

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 14 February 2000.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 62, 15.3.1993, p. 49.
(2) OJ L 24, 30.1.1998, p. 31.
(3) OJ L 88, 3.4.1997, p. 20.
(4) OJ L 300, 23.11.1999, p. 27.

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