2003/851/EC: Commission Decision of 5 December 2003 amending Decision 2003/526/EC concerning protection measures relating to classical swine fever in Belgium, France, Germany and Luxembourg (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2003) 4523)
Date: 2003-12-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, animal plague, health certificate, swine, transport of animals, veterinary inspection

L 322/30

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

9.12.2003

COMMISSION DECISION

of 5 December 2003

amending Decision 2003/526/EC concerning protection measures relating to classical swine fever
in Belgium, France, Germany and Luxembourg

(notified under document number C(2003) 4523)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2003/851/EC)

(6)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 2003/526/EC is amended as follows:

1. In Article 7, the following second paragraph is added:

‘However, Article 6(1)(c) shall not apply to pigs to be moved
directly to slaughterhouses for the purpose of immediate
slaughter.’

2. In the Annex, Part 2, France, the second indent is replaced

by the following:
‘— the territory of the department Bas-Rhine located:

(i)
west of the road D 264 from the border with Germany
(Wissembourg) to Soultz-sous-Forêts, (ii) north of the
road D 28 from Soultz-sous-Forêts to Reichshoffen, (iii)
east of the roads D 853 from Reichshoffen to Sturzel-
bronn and D 35 from Sturzelbronn to the border with
Germany (Bremen-Telle),
the border
between France and Germany from Bremen-Telle to
Wissembourg.’

south of

(iv)

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 5 December 2003.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 90/425/EEC of 26 June
1990 concerning veterinary and zootechnical checks applicable
in intra-Community trade in certain live animals and products
with a view to the completion of the internal market (1), and in
particular Article 10(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

In response to the classical swine fever situation in
certain parts of Belgium, Germany, France and Luxem-
bourg, the Commission has adopted several Decisions,
and in particular Decision 2003/526/EC (2). That Deci-
sion has been prolonged by Decision 2003/772/EC (3).

Classical swine fever has spread further in feral pigs in
Bas-Rhine in France.

To prevent any further spread of classical swine fever,
the area in which certain measures laid down in Deci-
sion 2003/526/EC apply should be extended.

Pursuant to Decision 2003/526/EC the Member States
concerned may allow the movements of pigs proceeding
from holdings located within areas where classical swine
fever has been detected in feral pigs and dispatched to
other areas in the same Member State, only from hold-
ings of dispatch where a clinical examination and serolo-
gical tests for classical swine fever have been carried out.
However, in the light of the improvement of the epide-
miological situation in domestic pigs it is appropriate to
amend the procedures established to dispatch pigs for
immediate slaughter from the areas where classical swine
fever has been detected in feral pigs to slaughterhouses
located outside these areas in the same Member State.

(5)

Decision 2003/526/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

(1) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 29. Directive as last amended by Directive
2002/33/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L
315, 19.11.2002, p. 14).
(2) OJ L 183, 22.7.2003, p. 46.
(3) OJ L 280, 30.10.2003, p. 21.