2001/793/EC: Commission Decision of 9 November 2001 amending Decision 2000/585/EC as regards imports of wild farmed feathered game meat from Argentina, Thailand and Tunisia (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2001) 3410)
Date: 2001-11-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: game meat, health certificate, import, pigmeat, rabbit meat, third country

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 9 November 2001

amending Decision 2000/585/EC as regards imports of wild farmed feathered game meat from
Argentina, Thailand and Tunisia

(notified under document number C(2001) 3410)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2001/793/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 91/494/EEC of 26 June
1991 on animal health conditions governing intra-Community
trade in and imports from third countries of fresh poultry-
meat (1), as last amended by Directive 1999/89/EC (2), and in
particular Articles 11, 12 and 14 thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 92/45/EEC of 16 June 1992
on public health and animal health problems relating to the
killing of wild game and the placing on the market of wild
game meat (3), as last amended by Directive 97/79/EC (4), and
in particular Article 16(2) and (3) thereof,

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(1) to Directive 89/662/EEC and, as regards pathogens, to
Directive 90/425/EEC (5), as last amended by Commission
Decision 1999/724/EC (6), and in particular Article 10 thereof,

in and imports

Whereas:

(1)

Annex II
to Decision 2000/585/EC of 7 September
2000 laying down animal and public health conditions
and veterinary certifications for import of wild and
farmed game meat and rabbit meat from third countries
and repealing Commission Decisions 97/217/EC, 97/
218/EC, 97/219/EC and 97/220/EC (7), as last amended
by Decision 2001/736/EC (8), lists third countries which
are entitled to use the certificates for the different cate-
gories of wild or farmed game meat.

(1) OJ L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 35.
(2) OJ L 300, 23.11.1999, p. 17.
(3) OJ L 268, 14.9.1992, p. 35.
(4) OJ L 24, 30.1.1998, p. 31.
(5) OJ L 62, 15.3.1993, p. 49.
(6) OJ L 290, 12.11.1999, p. 32.
(7) OJ L 251, 6.10.2000, p. 1.
(8) OJ L 275, 18.10.2001, p. 32.

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

According to the animal health situation in the different
third countries specific conditions have to be fulfilled
and these are reflected in the veterinary certificate.

The
animal health situation concerning Newcastle
disease in poultry has improved in Argentina and Thai-
land. Therefore the introduction of wild game bird meat
should be allowed an the requirements for meat of
farmed game birds should be amended for Argentina
and Thailand.

An inspection carried out in Tunisia in October 2000 by
the Commission has shown that the animal health status
of the poultry sector and its control are satisfactory. The
results of this mission and the guarantees received allow
for the authorisation of the introduction of farmed game
bird meat from Tunisia into the Community.

Opportunity shall be taken to correct a mistake in the
model J certificate for the meat of ‘wild swine’.

Decision 2000/585/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Annex II to Decision 2000/585/EC is replaced by the text

1.
in Annex I to this Decision.

2.
In Annex III to Decision 2000/585/EC the model J certifi-
cate is replaced by the text of the model in Annex II to this
Decision.

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This Decision shall apply to imports of wild and farmed game meat certified as from 1 December 2001.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 9 November 2001.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

ANNEX Ι

‘ANNEX ΙΙ

Animal health guarantees to be requested on certification of wild and farmed game meat and rabbit meat

Country

Code of territory

Cloven-hoofed game, excluding wild
swine

Wild swine

Game birds

Wild solipeds

Leporidae
(rabbit and hare)

Other wild land-
mammals

Wild

Farmed

Wild

Farmed

Wild

Farmed

Wild

Domestic rabbit

MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2)

AR

AU

BG

Argentina

Australia

Bulgaria

BR

Brazil

BW

Botswana

CA

CH

CL

CY

Canada

Switzerland

Chile

Cyprus

AR

AU

BG

BG-1

BG-2

BG-3

BR

BR-1

BW

BW-01

CA

CH

CL

CY

—

A

—

A

A

—

—

—

—

A

A

A

A

A

—

F

—

F

F

—

—

—

—

F

F

F

F

F

9

1, 2

9

9

9

—

J

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

J

J

—

J

9

9

9

—

G

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

G

G

—

G

2, 3

D

D

D

D

D

D

—

D

—

—

D

D

D

D

8

8

8

8

8

8

I

I

I

I

I

I

—

I

—

—

I

I

I

I

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

B

B

—

—

—

—

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

—

E

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

E

—

—

—

L

2
9
7
/
1
4

E
N

O

f
f
i
c
i
a
l

J
o
u
r
n
a
l

o
f

t
h
e

E
u
r
o
p
e
a
n
C
o
m
m
u
n
i
t
i
e
s

.

1
5
1
1
2
0
0
1

.

Country

Code of territory

Cloven-hoofed game, excluding wild
swine

Wild swine

Game birds

Wild solipeds

Leporidae
(rabbit and hare)

Other wild land-
mammals

Wild

Farmed

Wild

Farmed

Wild

Farmed

Wild

Domestic rabbit

MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2)

CZ

Czech
Republic

EE

GL

HR

HU

IL

LI

LV

NA

Estonia

Greenland

Croatia

Hungary

Israel

Lithuania

Latvia

Namibia

NC

New Caledonia

NZ

New Zealand

PL

RO

Poland

Romania

CZ

CZ-1

CZ-2

EE

GL

HR

HU

IL

LI

LV

NA

NA-01

NC

NZ

PL

RO

A

A

A

A

A

A

A

—

A

A

—

A

A

A

A

A

F

F

F

F

F

F

F

—

F

F

—

F

F

F

F

F

—

J

—

—

—

—

J

—

—

—

—

2, 3

—

—

J

—

—

7

—

9

G

G

G

—

—

—

G

—

—

—

—

—

—

G

—

—

1, 2

9

D

D

D

—

D

D

D

D

D

—

—

—

—

D

D

D

8

8

I

I

I

—

—

I

I

I

I

—

—

—

—

I

I

I

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

B

B

—

—

—

—

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

—

—

—

E

E

—

—

—

E

E

—

—

—

E

—

E

.

1
5
1
1
2
0
0
1

.

E
N

O

f
f
i
c
i
a
l

J
o
u
r
n
a
l

o
f

t
h
e

E
u
r
o
p
e
a
n
C
o
m
m
u
n
i
t
i
e
s

L

2
9
7
/
1
5

Country

Code of territory

Cloven-hoofed game, excluding wild
swine

Wild swine

Game birds

Wild solipeds

Leporidae
(rabbit and hare)

Other wild land-
mammals

Wild

Farmed

Wild

Farmed

Wild

Farmed

Wild

Domestic rabbit

MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2) MC (1)

SC (2)

RU

Russia

SL

SK

SZ

TH

TN

US

UY

ZA

Slovenia

Slovak Republic

Swaziland

Thailand

Tunisia

United States of
America

Uruguay

South Africa

RU

RU-1

SL

SK

SZ

SZ-01

TH

TN

US

UY

ZA

ZA-01

ZW

Zimbabwe

ZW

ZW-01

Third countries, other than those above,
appearing on the list of the first part of the
Annex to Decision 79/542/EEC as last
amended

—

—

A

A

—

A

—

—

A

—

—

A

—

—

—

1, 2

9

1, 2

—

F

F

F

—

F

—

—

F

—

—

F

—

—

—

5

2, 3

2, 3

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

J

—

—

—

—

—

9

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

G

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

D

D

—

—

D

D

D

—

—

—

—

—

—

8

8

8

I

I

—

—

I

I

I

—

—

—

—

—

B

B

—

—

—

—

B

B

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

C

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

H

E

E

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

(1) MC: model certificate to be completed. The letters (A, B, C, D, etc.) appearing in the tables refer to the models of animal health guarantees, as described in Annex III to the present Decision, to be applied for each category of fresh meat and

origin in accordance with Article 2 of this Decision. A dash “—” indicates that imports are not authorised.

(2) SC: specific conditions. The numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.) appearing in the table refer to the special conditions to be provided by the exporting country as described in Annex IV. These supplementary guarantees must be inserted by the exporting

country in section V of each model of certificate set down in Annex III.’

L

2
9
7
/
1
6

E
N

O

f
f
i
c
i
a
l

J
o
u
r
n
a
l

o
f

t
h
e

E
u
r
o
p
e
a
n
C
o
m
m
u
n
i
t
i
e
s

.

1
5
1
1
2
0
0
1

.

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