Commission Regulation (EC) No 1472/2004 of 18 August 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 1874/2003 approving the national scrapie control programmes of certain Member States, and defining additional guarantees, and granting derogations concerning breeding programmes for TSE resistance in sheep pursuant to Decision 2003/100/EC(Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2004-08-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Denmark, Finland, Sweden, animal disease, livestock farming, sheep

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1472/2004

of 18 August 2004

amending Regulation (EC) No 1874/2003 approving the national scrapie control programmes of
certain Member States, and defining additional guarantees, and granting derogations concerning
breeding programmes for TSE resistance in sheep pursuant to Decision 2003/100/EC

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down
rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain
transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (1), and in particular
point (b)(ii) of Section 1 of Chapter A of Annex VIII thereof,

(5)

Whereas:

On 28 March 2004, Finland has submitted a national
scrapie control programme which is considered to meet
the required criteria set out
in Regulation (EC) No
999/2001 and Finland is likely to have a low prevalence
the national
of scrapie in its territory. Accordingly,
scrapie
Finland should be
control programme of
approved.

provided

programme

On the basis of its national scrapie control programme,
Finland should be granted a derogation from the
in Decision
breeding
2003/100/EC. Furthermore,
trade guar-
antees required by Annex VIII, Chapter A and Annex
IX, Chapter E to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 and set
out in Regulation (EC) No 1874/2003, as well all other
provisions provided for in that Regulation should apply
as concerns Finland.

the additional

for

Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 provides for the approval
of national scrapie control programmes of Member States
if they comply with certain criteria laid down in that
Regulation. Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 also provides
for the definition of any additional guarantees which may
be required for intra-Community trade and imports in
accordance with that Regulation.

(6)

Regulation (EC) No 1874/2003 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

in

spongiform encephalopathies

Commission Decision 2003/100/EC of 13 February
2003 laying down minimum requirements for the estab-
lishment of breeding programmes for resistance to trans-
sheep (2),
missible
provides that each Member State is to introduce a
breeding programme to select for resistance to TSEs in
certain sheep breeds. Decision 2003/100/EC also
from the
provides
requirement for Member States to establish a breeding
scrapie
programme on the basis of
control
in
submitted
programme
accordance with Regulation (EC) No 999/2001, where
it provides for
the continuous active monitoring of
dead-on-farm ovine and caprine animals in all flocks in
that Member State.

their national

a possibility

to derogate

approved

and

for

(3)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1874/2003 (3) approved
the national scrapie control programmes of Denmark
and Sweden.

(1) OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1. Regulation as

last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 876/2004 (OJ L 162, 30.4.2004,
p. 52).

(2) OJ L 41, 14.2.2003, p. 41.
(3) OJ L 275, 25.10.2003, p. 12.

(7)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
Standing
accordance with
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

opinion

the

the

of

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1874/2003 is replaced by the
text in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day
following that of its publication in the Official
Journal of the
European Union.

(1)

(2)

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 18 August 2004.

For the Commission

David BYRNE
Member of the Commission

ANNEX

‘ANNEX

Member States whose national scrapie control programme has been approved

Denmark

Finland
Sweden.’