2001/356/EC: Commission Decision of 4 May 2001 concerning certain protection measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom and repealing Decision 2001/172/EC (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2001) 1406)
Date: 2001-05-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: United Kingdom, export restriction, foot-and-mouth disease, live animal, meat, milk product

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 4 May 2001

concerning certain protection measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United
Kingdom and repealing Decision 2001/172/EC

(notified under document number C(2001) 1406)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2001/356/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 90/425/EEC of 26 June
1990 concerning veterinary and zootechnical checks applicable
in intra-Community trade in certain live animals and products
with a view to the completion of the internal market (1), as last
amended by Directive 92/118/EEC (2), and in particular Article
10 thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 89/662/EEC of 11
December 1989 concerning veterinary checks
in intra-
Community trade with a view to the completion of the internal
market (3), as last amended by Directive 92/118/EEC, and in
particular Article 9 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease have been declared
in the United Kingdom.

The foot-and-mouth disease situation in the United
Kingdom is liable to endanger
the herds of other
Member States in view of the placing on the market and
trade in live biungulate animals and certain of their
products.

The United Kingdom has taken measures in the frame-
work of Council Directive 85/511/EEC of 18 November
1985 introducing Community measures for the control
of foot-and-mouth disease (4), as last amended by the
Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden, and
furthermore has introduced further measures within the
affected areas.

(1) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 29.
(2) OJ L 62, 15.3.1993, p. 49.
(3) OJ L 395, 30.12.1989, p. 13.
(4) OJ L 315, 26.11.1985, p. 11.

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

(11)

(12)

The disease situation in the United Kingdom requires
reinforcing the control measures for foot-and-mouth
disease taken by the United Kingdom by adopting addi-
tional Community protective measures.

In collaboration with the Member State concerned the
Commission adopted Decision 2001/172/EC concerning
certain protection measures with regard to foot-and-
mouth disease in the United Kingdom (5), as
last
amended by Decision 2001/318/EC (6).

Council Directive 64/432/EEC (7), as last amended by
Directive 2000/20/EC (8), concerns health problems
affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals and
swine.

Council Directive 91/68/EEC (9), as last amended by
Commission Decision 94/953/EC (10), concerns animal
health conditions governing intra-Community trade in
ovine and caprine animals.

Council Directive 64/433/EEC (11), as last amended by
Directive 95/23/EC (12), concerns health conditions for
the production and marketing of fresh meat.

Council Directive 94/65/EC (13) lays down the require-
ments for the production and placing on the market of
minced meat and meat preparations.

Council Directive 91/495/EEC (14), as last amended by
Directive 94/65/EC, concerns public health and animal
health problems affecting the production and placing on
the market of rabbit meat and farmed game meat.

Council Directive 80/215/EEC (15), as last amended by
the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden,
concerns
intra-
animal health problems
Community trade in meat products.

affecting

Council Directive 77/99/EEC (16), as last amended by
Council Directive 97/76/EC (17), concerns health prob-
lems affecting the production and marketing of meat
products and certain other products of animal origin.

(5) OJ L 62, 2.3.2001, p. 22.
(6) OJ L 109, 19.4.2001, p. 75.
(7) OJ 121, 29.7.1964, p. 1977/64.
(8) OJ L 163, 4.7.2000, p. 35.
(9) OJ L 46, 19.2.1991, p. 19.
(10) OJ L 371, 31.12.1994, p. 14.
(11) OJ 121, 29.7.1964, p. 2012/64.
(12) OJ L 243, 11.10.1995, p. 7.
(13) OJ L 368, 31.12.1994, p. 10.
(14) OJ L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 41.
(15) OJ L 47, 21.2.1980, p. 4.
(16) OJ L 26, 31.1.1977, p. 85.
(17) OJ L 10, 16.1.1998, p. 25.

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(13)

(14)

(15)

(16)

(17)

(18)

Council Directive 92/118/EEC (1), as last amended by
Directive 2001/7/EC (2),
lays down animal health and
public health requirements governing trade in and
imports 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.

Council Directive 88/407/EEC (3), as last amended by the
Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden, lays
down the animal health requirements applicable to intra-
Community trade in and imports of deep-frozen semen
of domestic animals of the bovine species.

Council Directive 89/556/EEC (4), as last amended by the
Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden,
concerns the animal health conditions governing intra-
Community trade in and imports from third countries of
embryos of domestic animals of the bovine species.

Council Decision 90/424/EEC (5), as last amended by
Decision 2001/12/EC (6), concerns expenditure in the
veterinary field.

Council Decision 90/426/EEC (7), as last amended by
Commission Decision 2001/298/EC (8), concerns animal
health conditions governing the movement and import
from third countries of equidae.

Commission Decision 2001/304/EC (9), as last amended
by Decision 2001/345/EC (10), concerns marking and
use of certain animal products in relation to Decision
2001/172/EC concerning certain protection measures
with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United
Kingdom.

(19) Decision 2001/172/EC has been amended seven times
and therefore it appears appropriate to consolidate the
provisions of this Decision. It is therefore necessary to
repeal Decision 2001/172/EC but for practical reasons
to construe any reference to Decision 2001/172/EC as
reference to the present Decision.

(20)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Without prejudice to the measures taken by the United
Kingdom within the framework of Directive 85/511/EEC, the
United Kingdom shall ensure that:

(1) OJ L 62, 15.3.1993, p. 49.
(2) OJ L 2, 5.1.2001, p. 27.
(3) OJ L 194, 22.7.1988, p. 10.
(4) OJ L 302, 19.10.1989, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 19.
(6) OJ L 3, 6.1.2001, p. 27.
(7) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 42.
(8) OJ L 102, 12.4.2001, p. 63.
(9) OJ L 104, 13.4.2001, p. 6.
(10) OJ L 122, 3.5.2001, p. 31.

1. no live animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine
species and other biungulates move between those parts of
its territory listed in Annex I and Annex II;

2. no live animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine
species and other biungulates are dispatched from or moved
through those parts of its territory listed in Annex I and
Annex II;

competent authorities of

Without prejudice to the restrictions on movement of
susceptible animals within and through Great Britain
applied by the
the United
Kingdom, and derogating from the provisions in the first
paragraph,
the competent authorities may authorise the
direct and uninterrupted transit of biungulate animals
through the areas listed in Annex I and Annex II on main
roads and railway lines;

3. the health certificates provided for in Council Directive 64/
432/EEC accompanying live bovine and porcine animals
and in Council Directive 91/68/EEC accompanying live
ovine and caprine animals consigned from parts of the
territory of the United Kingdom not listed in Annex I and
Annex II to other Member States shall bear the following
words:

‘Animals
conforming to Commission Decision 2001/
172/EC of 1 March 2001 concerning certain protection
measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the
United Kingdom’;

4. the health certificates accompanying biungulates, other than
those covered by the certificates mentioned in paragraph 3,
consigned from parts of the territory of the United Kingdom
not listed in Annex I and Annex II to other Member States
shall bear the following words:

‘Live biungulates conforming to Commission Decision
2001/172/EC of 1 March 2001 concerning certain protec-
tion measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the
United Kingdom’;

5. the movement to other Member States of animals accompa-
nied by an animal health certificate referred to in para-
graphs 3 or 4 shall only be allowed following three days
advance notification dispatched by the local veterinary
authority to the central and local veterinary authorities in
the Member State of destination.

Article 2

1.
The United Kingdom shall not dispatch fresh meat of the
bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungu-
lates coming from those parts of its territory listed in Annex I
or obtained from animals originating in those parts of the
United Kingdom.

Fresh meat referred to in the first subparagraph shall include
minced meat and meat preparations
in accordance with
Directive 94/65/EC.

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The prohibitions provided for in paragraph 1 shall not

2.
apply to:

(a) fresh meat obtained before 1 February 2001 provided that
the meat is clearly identified, and since this date has been
transported and stored separately from meat which is not
destined for dispatch outside the areas mentioned in
Annex I;

(b) fresh meat obtained from animals reared outside the areas
listed in Annex I and Annex II and transported in deroga-
tion to Article 1(1) directly and under official control in
sealed means of transport to a slaughterhouse situated in
the area listed in Annex I outside the protection zone for
immediate slaughter. Such meat shall only be placed on the
market
in the United Kingdom and conform to the
following conditions:

— all such fresh meat must bear the health mark in

accordance with Decision 2001/304/EC,

— the plant will be operated under

strict veterinary

control,

— the fresh meat must be clearly identified, and trans-
ported and stored separately from meat which is
destined for dispatch outside the United Kingdom,

— the control of the compliance with the above listed
conditions shall be carried out by the competent veter-
inary authority under the supervision of the central
veterinary authorities who will communicate to the
other Member States and the Commission a list of those
establishments which they have approved in application
of these provisions;

(c) fresh meat obtained from cutting plants situated in the area

listed in Annex I under the following conditions:

— only fresh meat as described in subparagraph (a) or
fresh meat obtained from animals reared and slaugh-
tered outside the area listed in Annex I will be
processed in this establishment,

— all such fresh meat must bear the health mark in
accordance with Chapter XI of Annex I to Directive
64/433/EEC or in the case of meat from other biungu-
lates the health mark provided for in Chapter III of
Annex I to Directive 91/495/EEC,

— the plant will be operated under

strict veterinary

control,

— the fresh meat must be clearly identified, and trans-
ported and stored separately from meat which is not
destined for dispatch outside the areas mentioned in
Annex I,

— the control of the compliance with the above listed
conditions shall be carried out by the competent veter-
inary authority under the supervision of the central
veterinary authorities who will communicate to the
other Member States and the Commission a list of those
establishments which they have approved in application
of these provisions.

3. Meat consigned from the United Kingdom to other
Member States shall be accompanied by a certificate from an
official veterinarian. The certificate shall bear the following
words:

‘Meat conforming to Commission Decision 2001/172/EC
of 1 March 2001 concerning certain protection measures
with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United King-
dom’.

Article 3

1.
The United Kingdom shall not dispatch meat products of
animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and
other biungulates coming from those parts of
the United
Kingdom listed in Annex I or prepared using meat obtained
from animals originating in those parts of the United Kingdom.

2.
The restrictions described in paragraph 1 shall not apply
to meat products which have undergone one of the treatments
laid down in Article 4(1) of Directive 80/215/EEC, or to meat
products as defined in Directive 77/99/EEC which have been
the
subjected during preparation uniformly
substance to a pH value of less than 6.

throughout

The prohibitions described in paragraph 1 shall not apply

3.
to:

(a) meat products prepared from meat derived from biungulate
animals slaughtered before 1 February 2001 provided that
the meat products are clearly identified, and since this date
have been transported and stored separately from meat
products which are not destined for dispatch outside the
areas mentioned in Annex I;

(b) meat products prepared in establishments under

the

following conditions:

— all fresh meat used in the establishment must conform

to the conditions of Article 2(2)(a) or (c),

— all meat products used in the final product will
conform to the conditions of paragraph (a) or be made
from fresh meat obtained from animals reared and
slaughtered outside the area listed in Annex I,

— all meat products must bear the health mark in accord-
ance with Chapter VI of Annex B to Directive 77/
99/EEC,

— the establishment will be operated under strict veter-

inary control,

— the meat products must be clearly identified and trans-
ported and stored separately from meat and meat prod-
ucts which are not destined for dispatch outside the
areas mentioned in Annex I,

— the control of the compliance with the above listed
conditions shall be carried out by the competent
authority under the responsibility of the central veter-
inary authorities who will communicate to other
Member States and the Commission a list of those
establishments which they have approved in application
of these provisions;

(c) meat products prepared in the parts of the territory which
are not included in Annex I using meat obtained before 1
February 2001 from parts of
the territory included in
Annex I provided that the meat and meat products are
clearly identified and transported and stored separately
from meat and meat products which are not destined for
dispatch outside the areas mentioned in Annex I.

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4. Meat products consigned from the United Kingdom to
other Member States shall be accompanied by an official certifi-
cate. The certificate shall bear the following words:

‘Meat products conforming to Commission Decision 2001/
172/EC of 1 March 2001 concerning certain protection
measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the
United Kingdom’.

5.
Derogating from the provisions in paragraph 4 it shall be
sufficient in the case of meat products which conform to the
requirements of paragraph 2 and have been processed in an
establishment operating HACCP (1) and an auditable standard
operating procedure which ensures that standards for treatment
are met and recorded that compliance with the conditions
required for the treatment laid down in paragraph 2 is stated in
the commercial document accompanying the consignment,
endorsed in accordance with Article 9.

Derogating from the provisions in paragraph 4 it shall be
6.
sufficient in the case of meat products heat treated in hermeti-
cally sealed containers so as to ensure that they are shelf stable
to be accompanied by a commercial document stating the heat
treatment applied.

Article 4

The United Kingdom shall not dispatch milk intended or
1.
not intended for human consumption from those parts of its
territory listed in Annex I.

The prohibitions described in paragraph 1 shall not apply
2.
to milk intended or not intended for human consumption
which has been subjected to at least:

(a) an initial pasteurization in accordance with the norms
defined in paragraph 3(b) of Chapter 1 in Annex I to
Directive 92/118/EEC, followed by a second heat treatment
by high temperature pasteurization, UHT, sterilization so as
to produce a negative reaction to the peroxidase test or by
a drying process which includes a heat treatment with an
equivalent effect to one of the above; or

(b) an initial pasteurization in accordance with the norms
defined in paragraph 3(b) of Chapter 1 in Annex I to
Directive 92/118/EEC, combined with the treatment by
which the pH is lowered below 6 and held there for at least
one hour.

3.
The prohibitions described in paragraph 1 shall not apply
to milk prepared in establishments situated in the areas listed
in Annex I under the following conditions:

(a) all milk used in the establishment must either conform to
the conditions of paragraph 2 or be obtained from animals
outside the area listed in Annex I,

(b) the establishment will be operated under strict veterinary

control,

(c) the milk must be clearly identified and transported and
stored separately from milk and milk products which are
not destined for dispatch outside the areas mentioned in
Annex I,

(1) HACCP = Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points.

(d) transport of raw milk from holdings situated outside the
areas mentioned in Annex I to the establishments referred
to above is carried out in vehicles which were cleaned and
disinfected prior to operation and had no subsequent
contact with holdings in the areas mentioned in Annex I
keeping animals of species susceptible to foot-and-mouth
disease,

(e) the control of the compliance with the above listed condi-
tions shall be carried out by the competent veterinary
authority under the supervision of the central veterinary
authorities who will communicate to other Member States
and the Commission a list of those establishments which
they have approved in application of these provisions.

4. Milk consigned from the United Kingdom to other
Member States shall be accompanied by an official certificate.
The certificate shall bear the following words:

‘Milk conforming to Commission Decision 2001/172/EC of
1 March 2001 concerning certain protection measures with
regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom’.

Derogating from the provisions in paragraph 4 it shall be
5.
sufficient in the case of milk which conforms to the require-
ments of paragraph 2(a) or (b) and has been processed in an
establishment operating HACCP and an auditable standard
operating procedure which ensures that standards for treatment
are met and recorded that compliance with the conditions
required for the treatment laid down in paragraph 2(a) or (b) is
stated in the commercial document accompanying the consign-
ment, endorsed in accordance with Article 9.

6.
Derogating from the provisions in paragraph 4 it shall be
sufficient in the case of milk which conforms to the require-
ments in paragraph 2(a) or (b) and which has been treated in
hermetically sealed containers so as to ensure that it is shelf
stable to be accompanied by a commercial document stating
the heat treatment applied.

Article 5

1.
The United Kingdom shall not dispatch milk products
intended or not intended for human consumption from those
parts of its territory listed in Annex I.

The prohibitions described in paragraph 1 shall not apply
intended for human

intended or not

2.
to milk products
consumption:

(a) produced before 1 February 2001;

(b) prepared from milk complying with the provisions in

Article 4(2) or (3);

(c) subject to a heat treatment at a temperature of at least
72 °C for at least 15 seconds, on the understanding that
such treatment was not necessary for finished products the
ingredients of which comply with the respective animal
health conditions laid down in this Decision;

(d) for export to a third country where import conditions
permit such products to be subject to treatment other than
laid down in this Decision.

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The prohibitions described in paragraph 1 shall not apply

Article 6

3.
to:

(a) milk products prepared in establishments situated in the
areas listed in Annex I under the following conditions:

— all milk used in the establishment will either conform
to the conditions of Article 4(2) or be obtained from
animals outside the area listed in Annex I,

— all milk products used in the final product will either
conform to the conditions of paragraph 2 or be made
from milk obtained from animals outside the area listed
in Annex I,

— the establishment will be operated under strict veter-

inary control,

— the milk products must be clearly identified and trans-
ported and stored separately from milk and milk prod-
ucts which are not destined for dispatch outside the
areas mentioned in Annex I,

— the control of the compliance with the above listed
conditions shall be carried out by the competent
authority under the responsibility of the central veter-
inary authorities who will communicate to other
Member States and the Commission a list of those
establishments which they have approved in application
of these provisions;

(b) milk products prepared in the parts of the territory outside
the areas mentioned in Annex I using milk obtained before
1 February 2001 from parts of the territory mentioned in
Annex I provided that the milk products are clearly identi-
fied and transported and stored separately from milk prod-
ucts which are not destined for dispatch outside the areas
mentioned in Annex I.

4. Milk products consigned from the United Kingdom to
other Member States shall be accompanied by an official certifi-
cate. The certificate shall bear the following words:

‘Milk products conforming to Commission Decision 2001/
172/EC of 1 March 2001 concerning certain protection
measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the
United Kingdom’.

1.
The United Kingdom shall not send semen, ova and
embryos of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and
other biungulates from those parts of its territory listed in
Annex I to other parts of the United Kingdom.

2.
The United Kingdom shall not dispatch semen, ova and
embryos of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and
other biungulates from those parts of its territory listed in
Annex I and Annex II.

This prohibition shall not apply to frozen bovine semen

3.
and embryos produced before 1 February 2001.

The health certificate provided for

4.
in Directive 88/
407/EEC and accompanying frozen bovine semen consigned
from the United Kingdom to other Member States shall bear
the following words:

‘Frozen bovine semen conforming to Commission Decision
2001/172/EC of 1 March 2001 on certain protection meas-
ures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United
Kingdom’.

The health certificate provided for

5.
in Directive 89/
556/EEC and accompanying bovine embryos consigned from
the United Kingdom to other Member States shall bear the
following words:

‘Bovine embryos conforming to Commission Decision
2001/172/EC of 1 March 2001 on certain protection meas-
ures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United
Kingdom’.

Article 7

1.
The United Kingdom shall not dispatch hides and skins of
bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungu-
lates from those parts of its territory listed in Annex I.

2.
This prohibition shall not apply to hides and skins which
were produced before 1 February 2001 or which conform to
the requirements of paragraph 1(A) indents 2 to 5 or para-
graph 1(B),
indents 3 and 4 of Chapter 3 of Annex I to
Directive 92/118/EEC. Care must be taken to separate effec-
tively treated hides and skins from untreated hides and skins.

5.
Derogating from the provisions in paragraph 4 it shall be
sufficient in the case of milk products which conform to the
requirements of paragraph 2 and have been processed in an
establishment operating HACCP and an auditable standard
operating procedure which ensures that standards for treatment
are met and recorded that compliance with the conditions laid
down in paragraph 2 is stated in the commercial document
accompanying the consignment, endorsed in accordance with
Article 9.

3.
The United Kingdom shall ensure that hides and skins of
bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungu-
lates to be sent to other Member States shall be accompanied
by a certificate which bears the following words:

‘Hides and skins conforming to Commission Decision
2001/172/EC of 1 March 2001 on certain protection meas-
ures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United
Kingdom’.

Derogating from the provisions in paragraph 4 it shall be
6.
sufficient in the case of milk products which conform to the
requirements of paragraph 2 and which have been treated in
hermetically sealed containers so as to ensure that they are
shelf stable to be accompanied by a commercial document
stating the heat treatment applied.

4.
Derogating from the provisions in paragraph 3 it shall be
sufficient in the case of hides and skins which conform to the
requirements of paragraph 1(A) indents 2 to 5 of Chapter 3 of
Annex I to Directive 92/118/EEC to be accompanied by a
commercial document stating compliance with the conditions
required for the treatment laid down in paragraph 1(A) indents
2 to 5 of Chapter 3 of Annex I to Directive 92/118/EEC.

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Derogating from the provisions in paragraph 3 it shall be
5.
sufficient in the case of hides and skins which conform to the
requirements of paragraph 1(B) indents 2 and 3 of Chapter 3
of Annex I to Directive 92/118/EEC that compliance with the
conditions required for the treatment laid down in paragraph
1(B) indents 2 and 3 of Chapter 3 of Annex I to Directive
92/118/EEC is stated in the commercial document accompa-
nying the consignment, endorsed in accordance with Article 9.

products the ingredients of which comply with the respec-
tive animal health conditions laid down in this Decision,

(h) game trophies in accordance with paragraph 2(b) of part B
in Chapter 13 of Annex I to Directive 92/118/EEC,

(i) packed products intended for use as in vitro diagnostic or

laboratory reagents.

Article 8

1.
The United Kingdom shall not dispatch animal products
of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other
biungulates not mentioned in Articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7
produced after 1 February 2001 from those parts of its terri-
tory listed in Annex I.

The United Kingdom shall not dispatch dung and manure from
those parts of its territory listed in Annex I.

The prohibitions mentioned in paragraph 1 first subpara-

2.
graph shall not apply to:

(a) animal products referred to in paragraph 1 first subpara-

graph which have been subjected to:

— heat treatment in a hermetically sealed container with a

Fo value of 3,00 or more, or

— heat treatment in which the centre temperature is raised

to at least 70 °C;

(b) blood and blood products as defined in Chapter 7 of
Annex I to Directive 92/118/EEC which have been subject
to at least one of the following treatments:

— heat treatment at a temperature of 65 °C for at least
three hours, followed by an effectiveness check,

— irradiation at 2,5 megarads or gamma rays followed by

an effectiveness check,

— change of pH to pH 5 or lower for at least two hours,

followed by an effectiveness check;

— a treatment as provided for in Chapter 4 of Annex I to

Directive 92/118/EEC;

(c) lard and rendered fats which have been subject to the heat
treatment prescribed in paragraph 2(A) of Chapter 9 of
Annex I to Directive 92/118/EEC;

(d) animal casings to which the provisions in paragraph B
to Directive 92/118/EEC apply

Chapter 2 of Annex I
mutatis mutandis;

(e) sheep wool, ruminant hair and pigs bristles which have
undergone factory washing or have been obtained from
tanning and unprocessed sheep wool, ruminant hair and
pigs bristles which are securely enclosed in packaging and
dry;

(f) semi-moist and dried petfood conforming to the require-
ments of paragraphs 2 and 3 respectively of Chapter 4 of
Annex I to Directive 92/118/EEC;

(g) composite products which are not subject to further treat-
ment containing products of animal origin on the under-
standing that the treatment was not necessary for finished

The United Kingdom shall ensure that the animal prod-
3.
ucts mentioned in paragraph 2 to be sent to other Member
States shall be accompanied by an official certificate which
bears the following words:

‘Animal products conforming to Commission Decision
2001/172/EC of 1 March 2001 concerning certain protec-
tion measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the
United Kingdom’.

4.
Derogating from the provisions in paragraph 3 it shall be
sufficient in the case of products mentioned in paragraph 2(b),
(c) and (d) that compliance with the conditions for the treat-
ment stated in the commercial document required in accord-
ance with the respective Community legislation is endorsed in
accordance with Article 9.

5.
Derogating from the provisions in paragraph 3 it shall be
sufficient in the case of products mentioned in paragraph 2(e)
to be accompanied by a commercial document stating either
the factory washing or origin from tanning or compliance with
the conditions laid down in paragraphs 2 and 4 of Chapter 15
of Annex I to Directive 92/118/EEC.

6.
Derogating from the provisions in paragraph 3 it shall be
sufficient in the case of products mentioned in paragraph 2(g)
which have been produced in an establishment operating
HACCP and an auditable standard operating procedure which
ensures that pre-processed ingredients comply with the respec-
tive animal health conditions laid down in this Decision and
that this is stated on the commercial document accompanying
the consignment, endorsed in accordance with Article 9.

7.
Derogating from the provisions in paragraph 3 it shall be
sufficient in the case of products mentioned in paragraph 2(i)
to be accompanied by a commercial document stating that the
laboratory
products are for use as in vitro diagnostic or
reagents, provided that the products are clearly labelled ‘for in
vitro diagnostic use only’ or ‘for laboratory use only’.

Article 9

required by Community legislation for

Where reference is made to this Article, the competent authori-
ties of the United Kingdom shall ensure that the commercial
document
intra-
Community trade be endorsed by the attachment of a copy of
an official certificate stating that the production process has
been audited and found in compliance with the appropriate
requirements in Community legislation and suitable to destroy
the
the products
concerned have been produced from pre-processed materials
which had been certified accordingly, and provisions are in
place to avoid possible re-contamination with the foot-and-
mouth disease virus after treatment.

foot-and-mouth disease virus or

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Such verifying certification of the production process shall bear
a reference to this Decision, shall be valid for 30 days, shall
state the expiry date and shall be renewable after inspection of
the establishment.

Article 10

1.
The United Kingdom shall ensure that vehicles which
have been used for the transport of live animals are cleaned
and disinfected after each operation, and shall furnish proof of
such disinfection.

2.
The United Kingdom shall ensure that operators of ports
of exit in the United Kingdom ensure that the tyres of road
vehicles departing from the United Kingdom are exposed to
disinfectant.

Article 11

The restrictions laid down in Articles 3, 4, 5 and 8 shall not
apply to the dispatch from the parts of the territory of the
United Kingdom listed in Annex I of the products referred to in
Articles 3, 4, 5 and 8,

if such products were:

— either not produced in the United Kingdom and remained
in their original packaging indicating the country of origin
of the products, or

— produced in an approved establishment situated in the parts
of the territory of the United Kingdom listed in Annex I
from pre-processed products not originating from these
areas, which have been since introduction onto the territory
of the United Kingdom transported, stored and processed
separately from products which are not destined for
dispatch outside the areas mentioned in Annex I and are
accompanied by a commercial document or official certifi-
cate as required by this Decision.

dispatched from the United Kingdom between 1 and 21
February 2001.

The precautionary measures referred to in the first subpara-
graph shall be taken without prejudice to the provisions of
Article 6 of Decision 90/424/EEC.

3. Member States shall cooperate in monitoring personal
luggage of passengers travelling from the United Kingdom and
in information campaigns carried out to prevent introduction
of products of animal origin onto the territory of Member
States other than the United Kingdom.

4.
The United Kingdom shall ensure that equidae dispatched
from its territory to another Member State are accompanied by
an animal health certificate in accordance with the model in
Annex C of Directive 90/426/EEC, which shall only be issued
for equidae that for the past 15 days prior to certification have
not been in a protection and surveillance zone established in
accordance with Article 9 of Directive 85/511/EEC.

Article 13

Any reference

1.
construed as reference to the present Decision.

to Decision 2001/172/EC shall be

2.

Commission Decision 2001/172/EC is hereby repealed.

Article 14

Member States shall amend the measures which they apply to
trade so as to bring them into compliance with this Decision.
They shall

immediately inform the Commission thereof.

This Decision shall apply until midnight on 18 May 2001.

Article 15

Article 12

Article 16

1. Member States other than the United Kingdom shall not
send live animals of susceptible species to the part of the
territory of the United Kingdom listed in Annex I.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 4 May 2001.

2. Without prejudice to the measures already taken by
Member States, Member States other than the United Kingdom
shall take any precautionary measure, including the isolation of
susceptible animals and preventive killing of sheep, goats,
camelides
farmed

cloven-hoofed

game of

species

and

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

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Great Britain, Northern Ireland.

Great Britain, Northern Ireland.

ANNEX I

ANNEX II