Commission Regulation (EC) No 650/2003 of 10 April 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the import of live ovine and caprine animals (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-04-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU control, animal disease, disease prevention, goat, health control, import, live animal, sheep

11.4.2003

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 650/2003

of 10 April 2003

amending Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards
the import of live ovine and caprine animals

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

the
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of
European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying
down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of
certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (1), as last
amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 260/2003 (2), and
in particular Article 23 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 260/2003, amending
Regulation (EC) No 999/2001, introduced new Commu-
nity rules for eradication following the confirmation of
scrapie in a small ruminant holding, based on the
opinion of the Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) of 4
and 5 April 2002 on safe sourcing of small ruminant
materials. In the interests of consistency with such rules
for eradication, the rules for intra-Community trade in
breeding sheep were also amended to remove scrapie-
related restrictions from trade in sheep of the ARR/ARR
prion protein genotype.

(2)

(3)

(4)

Rules for the import of live ovine and caprine animals
should be amended to reflect rules for intra-Community
trade.

Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee
on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex IX to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 is amended in
accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

into force on the 20th day
This Regulation shall enter
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Union.

It shall apply from 1 October 2003.

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

Done at Brussels, 10 April 2003.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 37, 13.2.2003, p. 7.

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Chapter E of Annex IX is replaced by the following:

ANNEX

‘CHAPTER E

Imports of ovine and caprine animals

Ovine and caprine animals imported into the Community after 1 October 2003 are to be subject to the presentation of
an animal health certificate attesting that:

(a) either they were born in and continuously reared on holdings in which a case of scrapie has never been diagnosed,
and, in the case of ovine and caprine animals for breeding, they satisfy the requirements of subparagraphs (i) and (ii)
of point (a) of Chapter A(I) of Annex VIII;

(b) or they are sheep of the ARR/ARR prion protein genotype, as defined in Annex I to Commission Decision 2002/

1003/EC, coming from a holding where no case of scrapie has been reported in the last six months.

If they are destined for a Member State which benefits, for all or part of its territory, from the provisions laid down in
point (b) or (c) of Chapter A(I) of Annex VIII, they shall comply with the additional guarantees, general or specific, which
have been defined in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 24(2).’