2003/235/EC: Commission Decision of 3 April 2003 amending Decision 94/278/EC drawing up a list of third countries from which Member States authorise imports of certain products subject to Council Directive 92/118/EEC, with respect to imports of frogs' legs from Egypt (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2003) 1093)
Date: 2003-04-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Egypt, import, import policy, meat product, originating product, third country

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(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 3 April 2003

amending Decision 94/278/EC drawing up a list of third countries from which Member States
authorise imports of certain products subject to Council Directive 92/118/EEC, with respect to
imports of frogs' legs from Egypt

(notified under document number C(2003) 1093)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2003/235/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 92/118/EEC of 17
December 1992 laying down animal health and public health
requirements governing trade in and imports into the Commu-
nity of products not subject to the said requirements laid down
in specific Community rules referred to in Annex A(1) to Direc-
tive 89/662/EEC and, as regards pathogens, to Directive 90/
425/EEC (1), as last amended by Commission Decision 2001/7/
EC (2), and in particular Article 10 thereof,

(3)

(4)

(5)

Therefore it is necessary to amend Decision 94/278/EC
to reintroduce Egypt and it is also appropriate to update
and consolidate in the present Decision the list of the
third countries from which the Member States authorise
imports of frogs' legs intended for human consumption.

To avoid unnecessary disruption in trade,
it is appro-
priate for the present Decision to be applied three days
after its publication in the Official Journal.

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,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Decision 94/278/EC of 18 March 1994
drawing up a list of third countries from which Member
States authorise imports of certain products subject to
Council Directive 92/118/EEC (3), sets out the list of the
third countries from which the Member States authorise
imports of frogs' legs intended for human consumption.
This Decision was amended by Commission Decision
95/134/EC (4) to include Egypt in the above mentioned
list.

However, the last amendment to Decision 94/278/EC,
which is Commission Decision 2002/574/EC (5), does
not include Egypt in the list of the third countries from
which the Member States authorise imports of frogs' legs
intended for human consumption.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Part XII of the Annex to Decision 94/278/EC is replaced by the
text in the Annex to this Decision.

(1) OJ L 62, 15.3.1993, p. 49.
(2) OJ L 2, 5.1.2001, p. 27.
(3) OJ L 120, 11.5.1994, p. 44.
(4) OJ L 89, 21.4.1995, p. 44.
(5) OJ L 181, 11.7.2002, p. 23.

Article 2

This Decision shall apply from 7 April 2003.

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This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 3 April 2003.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

‘PART XII

List of third countries from which Member States authorise imports of frogs'

legs intended for human

consumption

All third countries in the Annex to Decision 97/296/EC and the following countries:

(BA)

(EG)

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Egypt

(HU)

Hungary

(MK (*)) Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

(*) Provisional code which does not prejudge in any way the definitive nomenclature for this country, which will be

agreed following the conclusion of negotiations currently taking place on this subject at the United Nations.’