2004/283/EC: Commission Decision of 26 March 2004 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(2004) 965)
Date: 2004-03-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, animal plague, health certificate, swine, veterinary inspection

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(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 26 March 2004

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

(notified under document number C(2004) 965)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2004/283/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

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)

(5)

(6)

In response to classical swine fever in certain bordering
parts of Belgium, Germany, France and Luxembourg, the
Commission has adopted, inter alia, Decision 2003/526/
EC (2) which established certain additional disease
control measures.

The classical swine fever situation in Belgium has largely
improved and the measures adopted by Decision 2003/
526/EC concerning Belgium should no longer apply.

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

In the light of the overall disease situation in Germany,
France and Luxembourg it is appropriate to extend the
validity of Decision 2003/526/EC.

Decision 2003/526/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,

Article 1

Decision 2003/526/EC is amended as follows:

1. The title is replaced by the following: ‘Commission Decision
2003/526/EC concerning protection measures relating to
classical swine fever in certain Member States’.

2. In Article 2(1) ‘Belgium,’ is deleted.

3. In Article 4(1) and (2) the words ‘Belgium, France, Germany
‘certain

and Luxembourg’ are replaced by the words:
Member States’.

4. Article 4(3), is replaced by the following:

The health certificate provided for in Article 1 of
‘3.
Commission
accompanying
embryos and ova of swine dispatched from the Member
States concerned shall be completed by the following:

95/483/EC (*)

Decision

“Embryos/ova (**) in accordance with Commission Deci-
sion 2003/526/EC of 18 July 2003 concerning certain
protection measures relating to classical swine fever in
certain Member States (***).

(1) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 29. Directive as last amended by Directive
2002/33/EC of the European Parlament and of the Council (OJ L
315, 19.11.2002, p. 14).

(2) OJ L 183, 22.7.2003, p. 46. Decision as last amended by Decision

2003/851/EC (OJ L 322, 9.12. 2003, p. 30).

(**) Delete as appropriate.
(***) OJ L 183, 22.7.2003, p. 46.”

(*) OJ L 275, 18.8.1995, p. 30.’

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5. In Article 11 ‘30 April 2004’ is replaced by ‘31 October

2004’.

6. The Annex is amended as follows:
(a) point 1. Belgium is deleted;
(b) in point 2. France, the second indent is replaced by the

following:
‘— the territory of the Department of Bas-Rhin and
Moselle located: Western of the road D 264 from
the border with Germany at Wissembourg to Soultz
sous forêts; northern of the road D 28 from Soultz
sous forêts to Reichshoffen (the whole territory of
the Municipality of Reichshoffen is included in in
the area); eastern of the road D 62 from Reich-
shoffen to Bitche and then eastern of the road D 35

from Bitche to the border with Germany (in
Ohrenthal); southern of the border with Germany
from Ohrenthal to Wissembourg.’

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 26 March 2004.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission