Amended proposal for a Council Directive amending Council Directive 93/53/EEC introducing minimum Community measures for the control of certain fish diseases
Date: 2000-04-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Scotland, animal disease, application of EU law, fishery resources, vaccination

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Amended proposal for a Council Directive amending Council Directive 93/53/EEC introducing
minimum Community measures for the control of certain fish diseases (1)

(2000/C 274 E/09)

(Text with EEA relevance)

COM(2000) 213 final (cid:151) 1999/0191(CNS)

(Submitted by the Commission pursuant to Article 250(2) of the EC Treaty on 10 April 2000)

(1) OJ C 342 E, 30.11.1999, p. 42.

INITIAL PROPOSAL

AMENDED PROPOSAL

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Unchanged

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 37 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,

Having regard to the opinion of
Committee,

the Economic and Social

Whereas:

(1) Council Directive 93/53/EEC (1) lays down that, in order to
control an outbreak of inter alia infectious salmon anaemia
(ISA), all fish in an infected farm are to be immediately
withdrawn.

(2) In May 1998, an outbreak of

this disease occurred in
Scotland, involving a number of sites that are infected or
are suspected of being infected.

(3) Experience gained has shown that it is possible to spread
the withdrawal over a period of time, without impairing
the efforts to eradicate the disease.

(4) A vaccination policy may offer a new tool for controlling
and containing ISA after an outbreak; at present no such
option is provided for under Community legislation.

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(1) OJ L 175, 19.7.1993, p. 23; Directive as amended by the Act of

Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden.

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INITIAL PROPOSAL

AMENDED PROPOSAL

(5) It is desirable to investigate fully the source of ISA, possible
spread of the disease and the interchange between farmed
and wild salmon.

(6) No Community compensation has been made payable to
salmon farmers for the compulsory withdrawal of entire
salmon farms under Council Directive 93/53/EEC.

(7) Given the current state of scientific and technical evidence
amended

93/53/EEC should

therefore

be

Directive
accordingly.

(5) Directive

93/53/EEC should

therefore

be

amended

(8) Directive

93/53/EEC should

therefore

be

amended

accordingly,

accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Unchanged

Article 1

Directive 93/53/EEC is hereby amended as follows:

1. The first indent of point (a) of Article 6 is replaced by the

1. The first indent of point (a) of Article 6 is replaced by the

following text:

following text:

(cid:145)(cid:151) all fish shall be withdrawn in accordance with a scheme

to be approved by the official service.(cid:146)

(cid:145)(cid:151) all fish shall be withdrawn in accordance with a scheme
established by the official service and approved by the
Commission in accordance with the procedure laid
down in Article 19.(cid:146)

2. Paragraph 1 of Article 14 is replaced by the following text:

Unchanged

(cid:145)1.
Vaccination against list II diseases in approved zones,
in approved farms situated in non-approved zones or in
zones or farms which have already begun the approval
procedures laid down by Directive 91/67/EEC shall be
forbidden. The procedures for vaccination in case of an
shall be specified in the
I diseases
outbreak of
contingency plans referred to in Article 15(1).(cid:146)

list

Article 2

Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and
administrative provisions to comply with this Directive by 31
December 1999. They shall forthwith inform the Commission
thereof.

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INITIAL PROPOSAL

AMENDED PROPOSAL

They shall apply those provisions from 1 January 2000.

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain
a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a
reference on the occasion of
their official publication.
Member States shall determine how such reference is to be
made.

Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text
of the provisions of national law which they adopt in the field
covered by this Directive. The Commission shall
inform the
other Member States thereof.

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day
following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.