2004/590/EC: Commission Decision of 4 June 2004 recognising the fully operational character of the Cypriot database for bovine animals (notified under document number C(2004) 1969) (Only the Greek text is authentic)(Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2004-06-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Cyprus, agricultural census, cattle, data collection, database, labelling, meat processing industry

6.8.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 260/9

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 4 June 2004

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

(notified under document number C(2004) 1969)

(Only the Greek text is authentic)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2004/590/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:

Cyprus has presented a request for recognition of the
fully operational character of the database that forms
part of
the Cypriot system for the identification and
registration of bovine animals, pursuant to Regulation
(EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of
the Council of 17 June 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).

on births, (iv) the event database shall be re-enforced to
the information concerning the
ensure the quality of
(v) measures shall
application of replacement eartags,
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).

(4)

(5)

The Cypriot authorities undertook to implement
the
agreed improvement measures at the latest by 30 April
2004.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The Cypriot authorities have submitted appropriate infor-
mation that was updated to 31 March 2004.

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

including inspections,

The Cypriot authorities have undertaken to improve the
reliability of this database ensuring in particular that (i)
shall be
additional measures,
implemented to improve the observation of
the five
working days deadline for notification by the keeper of
births, deaths and movements, in particular onto farms,
(ii) additional measures shall be implemented to allow
rapid correction of errors or omissions detected automa-
tically or during on-the-spot inspections, (iii) additional
plausibility tests shall be implemented to ensure the
quality of the information in the database, in particular

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Cyprus.

Done at Brussels, 4 June 2004.

For the Commission

David BYRNE
Member of the Commission

(1)

(2)

(3)

(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).