2003/702/EC: Commission Decision of 3 October 2003 amending Decision 2000/159/EC on the provisional approval of residue plans of third countries according to Council Directive 96/23/EC (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2003) 3497)
Date: 2003-10-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal product, import, live animal, pharmaceutical product, third country, veterinary inspection

8.10.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 254/29

COMMISSION DECISION

of 3 October 2003

amending Decision 2000/159/EC on the provisional approval of residue plans of third countries
according to Council Directive 96/23/EC

(notified under document number C(2003) 3497)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2003/702/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 96/23/EC of 29 April 1996
on measures to monitor certain substances and residues thereof
in live animals and animal products and repealing Directives
85/358/EEC and 86/469/EEC and Decisions 89/187/EEC and
91/664/EEC (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 806/
2003 (2), and in particular Article 29 thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 72/462/EEC of 12
December 1972 on health and veterinary inspection problems
upon importation of bovine, ovine and caprine animals and
swine, fresh meat or meat products from third countries (3), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 807/2003 (4), and in parti-
cular Article 3 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Decision 2000/159/EC of 8 February 2000
on the provisional approval of residue plans of third
countries according to Council Directive 96/23/EC (5), as
last amended by Decision 2003/485/EC (6), lists the third
countries which have submitted a plan, setting out the
guarantees offered by the third country as regards the
monitoring of the groups of residues and substances
referred to in Annex I to Directive 96/23/EC.

Certain third countries have presented residue moni-
toring plans to the Commission for products and species
not indicated in the Annex of Decision 2000/159/EC.
The evaluation of these monitoring plans and the addi-

information requested by

tional
the Commission
provided sufficient guarantees on the residue monitoring
in these third countries for the products or species indi-
cated. These products and species should be added in
the Annex of Decision 2000/159/EC for these countries.

(3)

(4)

Decision 2000/159/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,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The Annex to Decision 2000/159/EC is replaced by the text in
the Annex to this Decision.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 3 October 2003.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 125, 23.5.1996, p. 10.
(2) OJ L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 302, 31.12.1972, p. 28.
(4) OJ L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 36.
(5) OJ L 51, 24.2.2000, p. 30.
(6) OJ L 164, 2.7.2003, p. 14.

The residue monitoring plans of the following third countries are provisionally approved on the basis of Council Directive 96/23/EC for the animals or primary animal products appearing with an “X” in the
table.

Code ISO2

Country

Bovine

Ovine/
caprine

Swine

Equine

Poultry

Aquaculture

Milk

Eggs

Rabbit

Wild game

Farmed
game

Honey

ANNEX

‘ANNEX

AD

AE

AF

AL

AN

AR

AU

BD

BG

BH

BR

BW

BY

BZ

CA

CH

CL

CN

CO

Andorra (1)

X

X

United Arab Emirates

Afghanistan

Albania

Netherlands Antilles (3)

Argentina

Australia

Bangladesh

Bulgaria

Bahrain

Brazil

Botswana

Belarus

Belize

Canada

Switzerland

Chile

China

Colombia

X (2)

X

X

X

X (2)

X

X (2)

X (2)

X

X

X

X (2)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X (2)

X (2)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X (4)

X

X (3)

X

X

X (2)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

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Code ISO2

Country

Bovine

Ovine/
caprine

Swine

Equine

Poultry

Aquaculture

Milk

Eggs

Rabbit

Wild game

Farmed
game

Honey

CR

CU

CY

CZ

EC

EE

EG

ER

FK

FO

GL

GT

HK

HN

HR

HU

ID

IL

IN

IR

IS

JM

JP

Costa Rica

X (2)

X (2)

X (2)

Cuba

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Ecuador

Estonia

Egypt

Eritrea

Falkland Islands

Faeroe Islands

Greenland

Guatemala

Hong Kong (3)

Honduras

Croatia

Hungary

Indonesia

Israel

India

Iran

Iceland

Jamaica

Japan

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X (3)

X (3)

X (3)

X (3)

X (3)

X (3)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X (2)

X

X

X

X

X (2)

X

X

X (2)

X

X

X (2)

X (2)

X

X (2)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

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X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

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Code ISO2

Country

Bovine

Ovine/
caprine

Swine

Equine

Poultry

Aquaculture

Milk

Eggs

Rabbit

Wild game

Farmed
game

Honey

X

KE

KR

KW

LB

LK

LT

LV

MA

MD

MG

MK

MN

MT

MX

MY

MZ

NA

NC

NI

NO

NZ

OM

Kenya

South Korea

Kuwait

Lebanon

Sri Lanka

Lithuania

Latvia

Morocco

Moldova

Madagascar

Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia (5)

Mongolia

Malta

Mexico

Malaysia

Mozambique

Namibia

New Caledonia

Nicaragua

Norway (7)

New Zealand

Oman

X (2)

X (2)

X

X

X (2)

X

X (2)

X

X (2)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X (2)

X (2)

X

X

X

X

X (2)

X (2)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X (3)

X

X

X (3)

X (3)

X

X

X

X (6)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

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Equine

Poultry

Aquaculture

Milk

Eggs

Rabbit

Wild game

Farmed
game

Honey

.

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Code ISO2

Country

Bovine

X

X (2)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

PA

PE

PH

PK

PL

PY

RO

RU

SC

SG

SI

SK

SM

SR

SV

SY

SZ

TH

TM

TN

TR

TW

TZ

Panama

Peru

Philippines

Pakistan

Poland

Paraguay

Romania

Russia

Seychelles

Singapore (4)

Slovenia

Slovakia

San Marino (9)

Suriname

El Salvador

Syria

Swaziland

Thailand

Turkmenistan

Tunisia

Turkey

Taiwan

Tanzania

Ovine/
caprine

X (2)

X (2)

X (2)

X

X (2)

X

X

X

X (2)

X (2)

X (2)

X (2)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X (3)

X (3)

X (3)

X (3)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X (8)

X

X

X

X

E
N

O

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a
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J
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a
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3

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Code ISO2

Country

Bovine

UA

US

UY

UZ

VE

VN

YT

YU

ZA

ZM

ZW

Ukraine

United States

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Venezuela

Viet Nam

Mayotte

Serbia and Montenegro

South Africa

Zambia

Zimbabwe

X

X

X

X

X

Ovine/
caprine

X

X

X (2)

X

X

Swine

Equine

Poultry

Aquaculture

Milk

Eggs

Rabbit

Wild game

Farmed
game

Honey

X (3)

X

X

X (3)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Initial residue monitoring plan approved by veterinary sub-group EC/Andorra (in accordance with Decision No 2/1999 of EC/Andorra Joint Committee of 22 December 1999 — OJ L 31, 5.2.2000, p. 84).

(1)
(2) Only casings.
(3) Third country using only raw material from other approved third countries for food production.
(4) Exports of live horses for slaughter (food producing animals only).
(5) Appropriate denomination still under discussion at UN.
(6) Peninsular (western) Malaysia only.
(7) Monitoring plan approved in accordance with Decision of EFTA Surveillance Authority No 223/96/COL of 4 December 1996 (OJ L 78, 20.3.1997, p. 38).
(8) Only for reindeer from Murmansk region.
(9) Monitoring plan approved in accordance with Decision No 1/94 of the EC-San Marino Cooperation Committee of 28 June 1994 (OJ L 238, 13.9.1994, p. 25).’

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