2004/252/EC: Commission Decision of 10 March 2004 amending Decision 2001/106/EC as regards bovine semen storage centres (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2004) 709)
Date: 2004-03-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal breeding, cattle, exchange of information, intra-EU trade, veterinary inspection

17.3.2004

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 79/45

COMMISSION DECISION

of 10 March 2004

amending Decision 2001/106/EC as regards bovine semen storage centres

(notified under document number C(2004) 709)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2004/252/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 88/407/EEC of 14 June
1988 laying down the animal health requirements applicable to
intra-Community trade in and imports of semen of domestic
animals of the bovine species (1), and in particular Article 5(2)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Under Directive 88/407/EEC, as amended by Council
Directive 2003/43/EC (2),
intra-Community trade of
the bovine species is
semen of domestic animals of
permitted from semen collection centres or
semen
storage centres approved by the competent authorities
of the Member States where they are located and each
Member State is to send a list of semen collection or
storage centre(s) to the other Member States and to the
Commission.

Commission Decision 2001/106/EC of 24 January 2001
establishing a model for the lists of entities approved by
Member States in accordance with various provisions of
Community veterinary legislation, and the rules applying
to the transmission of these lists to the Commission (3)
lays down rules on how lists of semen collection centres
that each Member State has approved on its territory are
to be transmitted to the Commission. That Decision also
provides for models to be used for those lists.

(3)

(4)

(5)

To take account of the amendments made to Directive
88/407/EEC by Directive 2003/43/EC concerning semen
storage centres the scope of Decision 2001/106/EC
should be broadened in order to include bovine semen
storage centres.

Decision 2001/106/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

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

Annexes I and II to Decision 2001/106/EC are amended in
accordance with the Annex to this Decision.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 10 March 2004.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 194, 22.7.1988, p. 10. Directive as last amended by Commis-

sion Decision 2004/101/EC (OJ L 30, 4.2.2004, p 15.).

(2) OJ L 143, 11.6.2003, p. 23.
(3) OJ L 39, 9.2.2001, p. 39. Decision as amended by Decision 2002/

279/EC (OJ L 99, 16.4.2002, p. 17.).

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Annexes I and II to Decision 2001/106/EC are amended as follows:

1.

in Annex I, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:

ANNEX

Semen collection and storage centres approved in accordance with Article 5(1) of Directive 88/407/EEC and

‘2.
semen collection centres approved in accordance with Article 5(1) of Directive 90/429/EEC.’;

2.

in Annex II, Section II is replaced by the following: