2004/146/EC: Commission Decision of 12 February 2004 amending Decision 2003/135/EC as regards the extension of the eradication and vaccination plans in the Bad Kreuznach district (Germany) and the termination of the vaccination plans in the Federal State of Saarland (Germany) (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2004) 337)
Date: 2004-02-12
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, animal plague, swine, vaccination

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 12 February 2004

amending Decision 2003/135/EC as regards the extension of the eradication and vaccination plans
in the Bad Kreuznach district (Germany) and the termination of the vaccination plans in the
Federal State of Saarland (Germany)

(notified under document number C(2004) 337)

(Only the German and French texts are authentic)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2004/146/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 2001/89/EC of 23 October
2001 on Community measures for the control of classical
swine fever (1), and in particular Article 16(1) and Article 20(2)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

The Commission adopted Commission Decision 2003/
135/EC of 27 February 2003 on the approval of the
plans for the eradication of classical swine fever and the
feral pigs against classical
emergency vaccination of
swine fever in Germany, in the Federal States of Lower
Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate
and Saarland (2) as one of a number of measures to
combat classical swine fever.

The German authorities have informed the Commission
about the recent evolution of the disease in feral pigs in
Saarland and in Rhineland-Palatinate. This information
suggests that in Saarland the situation has improved and
vaccination is no longer
appropriate.
However,
in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-
Palatinate, the area where the eradication and the vacci-
nation plan are to be applied should be extended.

considered

(3)

Decision 2003/135/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

(1) OJ L 316, 1.12.2001, p. 5.
(2) OJ L 53, 28.2.2003, p. 47.

(4)

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 2003/135/EC is amended as follows:

1. Paragraph 9 of point 1(C) of the Annex to Decision 2003/
replaced by the

135/EC concerning Bad Kreuznach is
following:

‘In the Bad Kreuznach district: the municipalities Becher-
bach, Reiffelbach, Schmittweiler, Callbach, Meisenheim,
Breitenheim, Rehborn, Lettweiler, Odernheim a. Glan, Ober-
hausen a. d. Nahe, Duchroth, Hallgarten, Feilbingert,
Hochstätten, Niederhausen, Norheim, Bad Münster a. Stein-
Ebernburg, Altenbamberg, Fürfeld, Tiefenthal, Neu-Bamberg,
Frei-Laubersheim, Boos, Hackenheim, Hüffelsheim, Ober-
streit,
Staudernheim,
Traisen, Volxheim, Abtweiler, Bad Kreuznach, Bad Sobern-
heim, Biebelsheim, Bretzenheim, Dorsheim, Eckenroth,
Guldental,
Langenlonsheim,
Laubenheim, Mandel, Pfaffen-Schwabenheim, Pleitersheim,
Raumbach, Roth, Roxheim, Rümmelsheim, Schweppen-
Stromberg, Waldböckelheim, Waldlaubersheim,
hausen,
Warmsroth, Weinsheim and Windesheim;’

Schloßböckelheim,

Hargesheim,

Rüdesheim,

Gutenberg,

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2. Paragraph 9 of point 2(C) of the Annex to Decision 2003/
replaced by the

135/EC concerning Bad Kreuznach is
following:
‘In the Bad Kreuznach district: the municipalities Becher-
bach, Reiffelbach, Schmittweiler, Callbach, Meisenheim,
Breitenheim, Rehborn, Lettweiler, Odernheim a.Glan, Ober-
hausen a.d. Nahe, Duchroth, Hallgarten, Feilbingert, Hoch-
staetten, Niederhausen, Norheim, Bad Muenster a. Stein-
Ebernburg, Altenbamberg,
Tiefenthal, Neu-
Bamberg, Frei-Laubersheim, Boos, Hackenheim, Hüffel-
sheim, Oberstreit, Rüdesheim, Schloßböckelheim, Staudern-
heim, Traisen, Volxheim, Abtweiler, Bad Kreuznach, Bad
Sobernheim, Biebelsheim, Bretzenheim, Dorsheim, Ecken-
roth, Guldental, Gutenberg, Hargesheim, Langenlonsheim,
Laubenheim, Mandel, Pfaffen-Schwabenheim, Pleitersheim,
Raumbach, Roth, Roxheim, Rümmelsheim, Schweppen-
hausen,
Stromberg, Waldböckelheim, Waldlaubersheim,
Warmsroth, Weinsheim and Windesheim;’

Fuerfeld,

3. Point 2(D) of

the Annex to Decision 2003/135/EC is

deleted.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of Germany
and the French Republic.

Done at Brussels, 12 February 2004.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission