2004/620/EC: Commission Decision of 26 July 2004 amending Annexes I and II to Council Decision 79/542/EEC as regards model certificates relating to the importation of bovine animals for slaughter and bovine, ovine and caprine fresh meat (notified under document number C(2004) 2838)(Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2004-07-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: beef, cattle, fresh meat, goatmeat, import licence, sheepmeat

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 26 July 2004

amending Annexes I and II to Council Decision 79/542/EEC as regards model certificates relating to
the importation of bovine animals for slaughter and bovine, ovine and caprine fresh meat

(notified under document number C(2004) 2838)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2004/620/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 72/462/EEC of 12
December 1972 on health and veterinary inspection problems
upon importation of bovine, ovine and caprine animals and
swine, fresh meat or meat products from third countries (1),
and in particular Article 11(2) thereof,

(3)

(4)

in Part 1 of Annex II

reasons,
two
Argentine provinces should be deleted and a supple-
mentary
should be
amended.

related to Uruguay

the names of

guarantee

Annexes
therefore be amended accordingly.

I and II

to Decision 79/542/EEC should

The measures provided for
accordance with
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

Having regard to Council Directive 2002/99/EC of 16
December 2002 laying down the
animal health rules
governing the production, processing, distribution and intro-
duction
human
for
of
consumption (2), and in particular Article 9(4) thereof,

products

animal

origin

of

Whereas:

(1)

Council Decision 79/542/EEC of 21 December 1976
drawing up a list of third countries or parts of third
countries, and laying down animal and public health
and veterinary certification conditions, for importation
into the Community of certain live animals and their
fresh meat (3) provides that
those animals
and meat are to meet the requirements set out in the
appropriate model certificates drawn up under
that
Decision.

imports of

(2)

For reasons of clarity and transparency, it is opportune to
amend certain references and attestations in some of the
model veterinary certificates in Part 2 of Annex I and in
Part 2 of Annex II to Decision 79/542/EEC. For the same

(1) OJ L 302, 31.12.1972, p. 28. Directive as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 807/2003 (OJ L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 36).

(2) OJ L 18, 23.1.2003, p. 11.
(3) OJ L 146, 14.6.1979, p. 15. Decision as

last amended by
Commission Decision 2004/554/EC (OJ L 248, 22.7.2004, p. 1).

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 79/542/EEC is amended as follows:

1. In Part 2 of Annex I, the model ‘BOV-Y’ is replaced by the

text in Annex I to this Decision.

2. In Part 1 of Annex II, in the column ‘description of territory’
corresponding to the code of territory AR-1, ‘La Pampa’ and
‘Santiago del Estero’ are deleted and in the column ‘SG’
line ‘OVI’,
corresponding to the code of territory ‘UY-0’,
the entry ‘B’ is deleted and replaced by ‘A’.

3. In Part 2 of Annex II,

the models ‘BOV’ and ‘OVI’ are
replaced by the text in Annex II to this Decision, and in
models ‘POR’,
‘SUW’ and ‘EQW’
in box 5 ‘Intended destination of the meat’, point 5.2 is
replaced by the following:

‘RUW’,

‘EQU’,

‘RUF’,

‘SUF’,

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Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 26 July 2004.

For the Commission

David BYRNE
Member of the Commission

Article 2

This Decision shall apply from 17 September 2004.

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ANNEX I

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