2000/332/EC: Commission Decision of 25 April 2000 amending Decision 97/20/EC establishing the list of third countries fulfilling the equivalence conditions for the production and placing on the market of bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods (notified under document number C(2000) 1052) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2000-04-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Viet Nam, health control, import, marketing, mollusc, third country

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Official Journal of the European Communities

13.5.2000

COMMISSION DECISION

of 25 April 2000

amending Decision 97/20/EC establishing the list of third countries fulfilling the equivalence
conditions for the production and placing on the market of bivalve molluscs, echinoderms,
tunicates and marine gastropods

(notified under document number C(2000) 1052)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2000/332/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

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 97/20/EC is replaced by the Annex to
this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 25 April 2000.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 91/492/EEC of 15 July
1991 laying down the health conditions for the production
and the placing on the market of live bivalve molluscs (1), as
last amended by Directive 97/79/EC (2) and in particular Article
9(3)(b) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Decision 97/20/EC of 17 December
1996 (3), as last amended by Decision 98/571/EC (4),
establishes the list of third countries from which imports
of bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine
gastropods in whatever form are authorised for human
consumption.

Commission Decision 2000/333/EC (5)
down
special conditions for the import of bivalve molluscs,
echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods origin-
ating in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, therefore
Decision 97/20/EC should be amended to include the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam in part I of the list.

lays

(1) OJ L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 24, 30.1.1998, p. 31.
(3) OJ L 6, 10.1.1997, p. 46.
(4) OJ L 277, 14.10.1998, p. 42.
(5) See page 42 of this Official Journal.

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ANNEX

List of third countries from which imports of bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods in
whatever form for human consumption are authorised

I. Third countries which have been the subject of a specific decision based on Council Directive 91/492/EEC

AU

CL

Australia

Chile

MA Morocco

PE

VN

KR

TN

TR

Peru

Socialist Republic of Vietnam

South Korea

Tunisia

Turkey

II. Third countries, which may be the subject of a provisional decision, based on Council Decision 95/408/EC

CA

FO

GL

NZ

TH

Canada

Faeroe Islands

Greenland

New Zealand

Thailand (only for products sterilised or heat-treated under the conditions laid down in Commission Decision
93/25/EEC)

US

United States of America