2004/588/EC: Commission Decision of 3 June 2004 recognising the fully operational character of the Maltese database for bovine animals (notified under document number C(2004) 1964) (Only the English text is authentic)(Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2004-06-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Malta, agricultural census, cattle, data collection, database, labelling, meat processing industry

L 257/8

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

4.8.2004

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 3 June 2004

recognising the fully operational character of the Maltese database for bovine animals

(notified under document number C(2004) 1964)

(Only the English text is authentic)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2004/588/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to the Act of Accession of the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia, and in particular Article 57 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

the European Parliament and of

Malta has presented a request for recognition of the fully
operational character of the database that forms part of
the Maltese system for the identification and registration
to Regulation (EC) No
of bovine animals pursuant
1760/2000 of
the
Council of 17 July 2000 establishing a system for the
identification and registration of bovine animals and
regarding the labelling of beef and beef products and
repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 820/97 (1).
The European Union took note of Malta’s request and
considered that the request should be dealt with under
the appropriate procedures prior to accession.

The Maltese authorities have submitted appropriate infor-
mation that was updated to 25 March 2004.

including inspections,

The Maltese authorities have undertaken to improve the
reliability of this database ensuring in particular that: (i)
additional measures,
shall be
implemented to improve the observation of the seven
days deadline for notification by the keeper of births
and deaths, (ii) additional measures shall be implemented
to allow rapid correction of errors or omissions detected
automatically or during on-the-spot inspections, (iii) the

restrictive measures,

alarm system to detect deficiencies

event database shall be re-enforced by developing an
automatic
and
(iv) notification of
violations of
premium shall be introduced in the database as well as
on passports,
(v) measures shall be implemented to
ensure that controls on identification and registration
of bovine animals are carried out in accordance with
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1082/2003 (2).

(5)

(6)

The Maltese authorities undertook the commitment to
implement
the
latest by 30 April 2004.

the agreed improvement measures at

In view of the above, it is appropriate to recognise the
fully operational character of the Maltese database for
bovine animals,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The Maltese database for bovine animals is recognised as fully
operational from 1 May 2004.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Malta.

Done at Brussels, 3 June 2004.

For the Commission

David BYRNE
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 204, 11.8.2000, p. 1. Regulation as amended by the 2003 Act

(2) OJ L 156, 25.6.2003, p. 9. Regulation as amended by Regulation

of Accession.

(EC) No 499/2004 (OJ L 80, 18.3.2004, p. 24).