Commission Regulation (EC) No 1609/2000 of 24 July 2000 establishing a list of products excluded from the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 737/90 on the conditions governing imports of agricultural products originating in third countries following the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station
Date: 2000-07-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: USSR, agricultural product, import, nuclear accident, public health, radioactive pollution

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1609/2000

of 24 July 2000

establishing a list of products excluded from the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 737/90
on the conditions governing imports of agricultural products originating in third countries
following the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

(5)

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 737/90 of 22
March 1990 on the conditions governing imports of agricul-
tural products originating in third countries following the acci-
last
dent at
amended by Regulation (EC) No 616/2000 (2) and in particular
Article 6 thereof,

the Chernobyl nuclear power

station (1), as

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

According to Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 737/90,
the Commission shall adopt a list of products excluded
from its application.

Most agricultural products currently imported from third
countries are free of radioactive contamination from the
Chernobyl accident or so slightly contaminated as to
present a negligible risk to health.

The list of products excluded from the application of
Regulation (EEC) No 737/90 was established by Com-
mission Regulation (EC) 727/97 (3)
to take this into
account.

The results obtained from a study carried out for the
Commission assessing the potential
imports by
Member States of agricultural products containing radio-
caesium in excess of the limits laid down in Regulation

for

(EEC) No 737/90 indicate that two further food products
(tea and certain herbs) should be excluded.

A modified style of presentation of the list of products
to which Council Regulation (EEC) No 737/90 is applic-
able has already been introduced in Commission Regula-
tion (EC) No 1661/1999 of 27 July 1999 laying down
detailed rules for the application of Regulation (EEC) No
737/90 (4) and will facilitate the use of the list by the
customs offices.

(6)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Committee under
Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 737/90,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Regulation (EC) No 727/97 is hereby repealed.

Article 1

Article 2

All products other than those listed in the Annex are excluded
from the scope of Regulation (EEC) No 737/90.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the third day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 24 July 2000.

For the Commission

Margot WALLSTRÖM

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 82, 29.3.1990, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 75, 24.3.2000, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 108, 25.4.1997, p. 16.

(4) OJ L 197, 29.7.1999, p. 17.

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LIST OF PRODUCTS TO WHICH REGULATION (EEC) No 737/90 IS APPLICABLE

ANNEX

CN code

Description

0101 19 10

Live horses, other than pure-bred breeding animals, for slaughter

0102 90

0103 91

0103 92

0104 10

Live bovine animals, other than pure-bred breeding animals, domestic species

Live swine, other than pure-bred breeding animals, weighing less than 50 kg

Live swine, other than pure-bred breeding animals, weighing 50 kg or more

Live sheep, other than pure-bred breeding animals

0104 20 90

Live goats, other than pure-bred breeding animals

0105

Live poultry, that is to say, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and
guinea fowls

0106 00

Other live animals

Chapter 2

Meat and edible meat offal

ex Chapter 4

Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere
specified or included, except products of CN codes 0408 11 20, 0408 19 20, 0408 91 20
and 0408 99 20

ex 0709 51

Mushrooms, fresh or chilled, other than cultivated mushrooms

ex 0710 80 69

ex 0711 90 60

Mushrooms (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen, other than
cultivated mushrooms

Mushrooms provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas,
in
sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), but unsuitable in that state for immediate
consumption, other than cultivated mushrooms

in brine,

ex 0712 30 00

Dried mushrooms, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared, other
than cultivated mushrooms

0810 40

Cranberries, bilberries and other fruits of the genus Vaccinium, fresh

0811 90 50

0811 90 70

0812 90 40

1601 00

Fruits of the species Vaccinium myrtillus, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in
water, frozen, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

Fruits of the species Vaccinium myrtilloides and Vaccinium angustifolium, uncooked or cooked
by steaming or boiling in water, frozen, whether or not containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter

Fruits of the species Vaccinium myrtillus, provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur
dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), but unsuitable in
that state for immediate consumption

Sausages and similar products, of meat, offal or blood; food preparations based on these
products

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CN code

Description

1602

Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood

ex 1603 00

Extracts and juices of meat

ex 2001 90 50

ex 2003 10 80

Mushrooms, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid, other than cultivated mush-
rooms

Mushrooms, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, other than
cultivated mushrooms