2004/751/EC: Commission Decision of 22 October 2004 approving on behalf of the European Community amendments to Annex V to the Agreement between the European Community and New Zealand on sanitary measures applicable to trade in live animals and animal products (notified under document number C(2004) 4022)Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2004-10-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: New Zealand, animal product, approval, fishery product, health legislation, honey, live animal, mutual recognition principle, trade agreement (EU), veterinary legislation, wool

L 332/16

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

6.11.2004

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 22 October 2004

approving on behalf of the European Community amendments to Annex V to the Agreement
between the European Community and New Zealand on sanitary measures applicable to trade in
live animals and animal products

(notified under document number C(2004) 4022)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2004/751/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Decision 97/132/EC of 17 December
the Agreement between the
1996 on the conclusion of
European Community and New Zealand on sanitary measures
applicable to trade in live animals and animal products (1), and
in particular the third paragraph of Article 3 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Council Decision 2002/957/EC of 28 November 2002
on the conclusion of an Agreement in the form of an
Exchange of Letters concerning the amendment to the
Annexes
to the Agreement between the European
Community and New Zealand on sanitary measures
applicable
animal
in live
products (2), provided for the possibility of recognising
the
the New Zealand certification
systems for fresh meat and meat-based products and
for other animal products.

equivalence of

to trade

animals

and

the Agreement

The Joint Management Committee for the Agreement
(‘the
established under Article 16 of
Committee’), at
its meeting on 1 and 2 June 2004,
issued a recommendation concerning the determination
for bovine
of equivalence of
embryos,
for
human consumption, honey and wool. The Committee
also recommended the determination of equivalence of
fishery products and issued
certification systems for
recommendations concerning the general
format of
Annex V.

live bivalve molluscs

sanitary requirements

feathered game,

As a result of those recommendations it is appropriate to
amend Annex V to the Agreement.

Those amendments should be approved on behalf of the
Community.

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

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

(1) OJ L 57, 26.2.1997, p. 4. Decision as amended by Decision

1999/837/EC (OJ L 332, 23.12.1999, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 333, 10.12.2002, p. 13.

Article 1

to the

recommendations made by

Pursuant
Joint
Management Committee established under Article 16 of the
Agreement between the European Community and New
Zealand on sanitary measures applicable to trade in live
animals and animal products, the amendments to Annex V to
that Agreement
the
Community.

are hereby approved on behalf of

the

The text of an Exchange of Letters constituting an Arrangement
with New Zealand, including the amendments to Annex V to
the Agreement, is attached to this Decision.

Article 2

The Director-General for Health and Consumer Protection is
hereby empowered to sign the Agreement in the form of an
Exchange of Letters in order to bind the Community.

Article 3

This Decision shall apply from the first day of
following the month in which New Zealand notifies
Commission in writing that
approval of
been completed.

the month
the
its internal procedures for the
the amendments referred to in Article 1 have

The Commission shall
States of
without delay.

inform the Council and the Member
the notification referred to in the first paragraph

Article 4

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 22 October 2004.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission