2004/215/EC: Commission Decision of 1 March 2004 implementing Council Directive 64/432/EEC as regards additional guarantees for intra-Community trade in bovine animals relating to infectious bovine rhinotracheitis and the approval of the eradication programmes presented by certain Member States (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2004) 573)
Date: 2004-03-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal disease, cattle, intra-EU trade, veterinary inspection, veterinary legislation

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 1 March 2004

implementing Council Directive 64/432/EEC as regards additional guarantees for intra-Community
trade in bovine animals relating to infectious bovine rhinotracheitis and the approval of the eradi-
cation programmes presented by certain Member States

(notified under document number C(2004) 573)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2004/215/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(5)

Additional guarantees exist as regards Denmark, Austria,
Finland and Sweden as well as Italy, concerning the
province of Bolzano. Those Member States consider that
their territory is free from infectious bovine rhinotra-
cheitis and Italy takes the same view for the Province of
Bolzano. In accordance with Article 10(1) of Directive
64/432/EEC, they submitted supporting documentation
to the Commission,
in particular substantiating that
monitoring of the situation is continued.

To Member States or regions thereof that are recognised
as being free of that disease and which are currently
listed in the Annex to Commission Decision 93/42/
EEC (2) only minimum requirements for the dispatch of
bovine animals for breeding and production to other
Member States should apply.

For the standardisation of BHV1 tests in laboratories the
World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has
adopted a strong positive, a weak positive and negative
serum as OIE international standards for BHV1 tests
which are available at the OIE Reference Laboratories for
rhinotracheitis mentioned in the
infectious bovine
and
for Diagnostic Tests
of
Manual
Vaccines (3).

Standards

Until 1 May 2004 when modified animal health condi-
tions and veterinary certification for imports into the
Community of bovine animals come into force it must
be ensured that the reference to Decision 93/42/EEC
providing for the additional guarantees with regard to
infectious bovine rhinotracheitis
for bovine animals
coming from third countries is construed as reference to
the relevant provisions of the present Decision.

(6)

(7)

(8)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 64/432/EEC of 26 June
1964 on animal health problems affecting intra-Community
trade in bovine animals and swine (1), and in particular Article
9(2) and Article 10(2) thereof,

Whereas:

Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis is the description of the
most prominent clinical signs of the infection with the
bovine herpesvirus type 1 (BHV1). As many infections
with that virus
control
measures should be directed to the eradication of the
infection rather than to the suppression of symptoms.

subclinical

course,

run a

Part II of Annex E to Directive 64/432/EEC lists ‘infec-
tious bovine rhinotracheitis’ among the diseases for
which national control programmes may be approved
and additional guarantees requested.

Germany has submitted a programme conducted with
the aim of eradicating the BHV1 infection in all parts of
its territory, which complies with the criteria set out in
Article 9(1) of Directive 64/432/EEC and provides for
rules for the national movement of bovine animals
which are equivalent to those previously implemented in
Denmark, Austria, the Province of Bolzano in Italy and
Sweden which were successful in eradicating the disease
from those countries.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

It is therefore appropriate to approve the programme
presented by Germany and, as requested by that Member
State, to define at the same time additional guarantees in
relation to trade in bovine animals in order to secure the
success of that programme.

(9)

It is appropriate to combine in a single Decision the
approval of the German programme and the additional
guarantees for infectious bovine rhinotracheitis. Decision
93/42/EEC should therefore be repealed.

(2) OJ L 16, 25.1.1993, p. 50. Decision as last amended by Decision

2000/502/EC (OJ L 200, 8.8.2000, p. 62).

(1) OJ 121, 29.7.1964, p. 1977/64. Directive as last amended by Regu-

(3) Manual of Standards for Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines, Fourth

lation (EC) No 21/2004 (OJ L 5, 9.1.2004, p. 8).

Edition, August 2000.

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(10)

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

(b) after the second indent: ‘Article 2 of Commission Decision

2004/215/EC’.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The programmes presented by the Member States listed in the
first column of the table in Annex I for the control and eradica-
tion of
the infection with the bovine herpesvirus type 1
(BHV1), hereinafter referred to as ‘infectious bovine rhinotra-
cheitis’,
in regions of these Member States specified in the
second column of the table in Annex I are approved.

Article 2

1.
Bovine animals for breeding and production coming from
Member States or regions thereof other than those listed in
Annex II and destined for Member States or regions thereof
listed in Annex I, shall meet at least the following additional
guarantees:

(a) they must come from a holding on which, according to
official information, no clinical or pathological evidence of
infectious bovine rhinotracheitis has been recorded for the
past 12 months;

(b) they must have been isolated in a facility approved by the
competent authority for 30 days immediately prior to
movement and all bovine animals in the same isolation
facility must have remained free of clinical signs of infec-
tious bovine rhinotracheitis during that period;

(c) they and all other bovine animals in the same isolation
facility must have been subjected with negative results to a
serological test carried out on blood samples, taken not
earlier than 21 days after their arrival at
the isolation
facility, for the detection of the following antibodies:

(i) in the case of vaccinated bovine animals, antibodies

against the gE-glycoprotein of the BHV1, or

(ii) in the case of unvaccinated bovine animals, antibodies

against the entire BHV1.

2.
Bovine animals for slaughter coming from Member States
or regions thereof other than those listed in Annex II and
destined for Member States or regions thereof listed in Annex I
shall be transported directly to the slaughterhouse of destina-
tion or to an approved assembly centre from where they shall
be removed in accordance with Article 7, second indent, of
Directive 64/432/EEC to the slaughterhouse to be slaughtered.

3.
In point 4 of Section C of the health certificate set out in
Model 1 of Annex F to Directive 64/432/EEC accompanying
bovine animals as referred to in paragraph 1, the following
information shall be inserted:

(a) after the first indent: ‘infectious bovine rhinotracheitis’,

Article 3

1.
Bovine animals for breeding and production coming from
Member States or regions thereof other than those listed in
Annex II and destined for Member States or regions thereof
free of infectious bovine rhinotracheitis and listed in Annex II,
shall meet the following additional guarantees:

(a) they shall comply with the additional guarantees provided

for in Article 2(1)(a) and (b);

(b) they and all other bovine animals in the same isolation
facility referred to in Article 2(1)(b) must have been
subjected with negative results to a serological test carried
out on blood samples taken not earlier than 21 days after
their arrival at the isolation facility, for the detection of
antibodies against the entire BHV1;

(c) they must not have been vaccinated against

infectious

bovine rhinotracheitis.

Bovine animals for slaughter coming from Member States
2.
or regions thereof other than those listed in Annex II and
destined for Member States or regions thereof listed in Annex II
shall be transported directly to the slaughterhouse of destina-
tion to be slaughtered in accordance with Article 7, first indent,
of Directive 64/432/EEC.

3.
In point 4 of Section C of the health certificate set out in
Model 1 of Annex F to Directive 64/432/EEC accompanying
bovine animals as referred to in paragraph 1, the following
information shall be inserted:

(a) after the first indent: ‘infectious bovine rhinotracheitis’,

(b) after the second indent: ‘Article 3 of Commission Decision

2004/215/EC’.

Article 4

Bovine animals for breeding and production originating in a
Member State or region thereof listed in Annex II and destined
for a Member State or region thereof listed in Annexes I or II
shall comply with the conditions provided for in Article 2(1)(a).

Article 5

Member States shall ensure that the serological test referred to
in Article 2(1)(c)(ii) and in Article 3(1)(b) for the detection of
antibodies against the entire BHV1 is standardised against the
strong positive, weak positive and negative serum adopted as
OIE international standards for BHV1 tests.

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Article 6

Article 8

Decision 93/42/EEC is repealed.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

References to Decision 93/42/EEC should be construed as refer-
ences to Article 3 of this Decision.

Done at Brussels, 1 March 2004.

Article 7

This Decision shall apply from 8 March 2004.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

ANNEX I

Member State

Regions of Member State to which the additional guarantees for infectious bovine
rhinotracheitis apply in accordance with Article 9 of Directive 64/432/EEC

Germany

All regions

ANNEX II

Member State

Regions of Member State to which the additional guarantees for infectious bovine
rhinotracheitis apply in accordance with Article 10 of Directive 64/432/EEC

Denmark

Italy

Austria

Finland

Sweden

All regions

Province of Bolzano

All regions

All regions

All regions