2002/807/EC: Commission Decision of 15 October 2002 amending Decision 2000/807/EC laying down the codified form and the codes for the notification of animal diseases pursuant to Council Directive 82/894/EEC (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2002) 3786)
Date: 2002-10-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal disease, exchange of information, health legislation, information system, veterinary legislation

L 279/50

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

17.10.2002

COMMISSION DECISION

of 15 October 2002

amending Decision 2000/807/EC laying down the codified form and the codes for the notification
of animal diseases pursuant to Council Directive 82/894/EEC

(notified under document number C(2002) 3786)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2002/807/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 82/894/EEC of 21
December 1982 on the notification of animal diseases within
the Community (1), as last amended by Commission Decision
2000/556/EC (2), and in particular the first indent of Article 5
(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Commission Decision 2000/807/EC (3)
lays down the
codified form and the codes for the notification of
animal diseases pursuant to Directive 82/894/EEC.

Decision 2002/309/EC, Euratom of the Council, and of
the Commission as regards the Agreement on Scientific
and Technological Cooperation, of 4 April 2002 on the
conclusion of seven Agreements with the Swiss Confed-
eration (4), provides for the approval of the Agreement
between the European Community and the Swiss
Confederation on Trade in Agricultural Products and
requires that Switzerland be added to the Animal Disease
Notification System (ADNS).

Further infectious salmon anaemia and viral haemor-
rhagic septicaemia should be included in the list of noti-
fiable diseases in ADNS as these diseases are respectively
in list I and list II of Annex A to Council Directive 91/
67/EEC of 28 January 1991, concerning the animal
health conditions governing the placing on the market
of aquaculture animals and their products (5), as last
amended by Directive 98/45/EC (6).

(4)

To permit the notification of outbreaks of classical swine
fever in feral pigs to be separated from those in domestic

pigs and for different subtypes of classical swine fever to
be notified separately, different codes should be given for
those diseases.

In order to protect confidentiality of the transmitted
information, the Annexes to this Decision should not be
published.

Decision 2000/807/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Decision are in accor-
dance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on
the Food Chain and Animal Health,

(5)

(6)

(7)

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Annexes IV to VII to Decision 2000/807/EC are amended in
accordance with the Annexes to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 15 October 2002.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 378, 31.12.1982, p. 58.
(2) OJ L 235, 19.9.2000, p. 27.
(3) OJ L 326, 22.12.2000, p. 80.
(4) OJ L 114, 30.4.2002, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 46, 19.2.1991, p. 1.
(6) OJ L 189, 3.7.1998, p. 12.