2004/786/EC: Commission Decision of 18 November 2004 amending Decision 92/471/EEC as regards model veterinary certificates for imports of bovine embryos (notified under document number C(2004) 4380) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2004-11-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal breeding, cattle, form, import, veterinary inspection

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 18 November 2004

amending Decision 92/471/EEC as regards model veterinary certificates for imports of bovine
embryos

(notified under document number C(2004) 4380)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2004/786/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

laying down the animal health requirements applicable to
intra-Community trade in and imports of deep-frozen
semen of domestic animals of the bovine species (3).

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

to

regard

Council Directive

Having
of
25 September 1989 on animal health conditions governing
importation from third
in and
intra-Community
countries of embryos of domestic animals of
the bovine
species (1), and in particular Article 9(1)(b) thereof,

89/556/EEC

trade

Whereas:

Commission Decision 92/471/EEC of 2 September 1992
concerning animal health conditions and veterinary certi-
fication for importation of bovine embryos from third
countries (2) provides that Member States are only to
authorise the importation of bovine embryos conforming
to the guarantees laid down in the animal health certi-
ficates in accordance with Part I of Annexes A and B to
that Decision.

(4)

(5)

Although the risk of transmission of certain contagious
diseases via embryos assessed by the
International
Embryo Transfer Society (IETS)
is negligible provided
that embryos are properly handled between collection
and transfer, appropriate upstream safeguards should be
taken with regard to semen used for fertilisation.

It is necessary, in the interests of animal health, that the
same conditions as apply to intra-Community trade in
bovine embryos also apply to imports of such embryos,
in particular with regard to semen used for fertilisation
which should comply with Directive 88/407/EEC.

(6)

Decision 92/471/EEC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

(7)

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

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

The animal health conditions laid down in Directive
in bovine
intra-Community
89/556/EEC for
embryos are stricter than those which apply to imports
of such embryos.

trade

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Under Directive 89/556/EEC bovine embryos are not to
be sent from the territory of a Member State to that of
another Member State unless they have been conceived
as a result of artificial insemination or in vitro fertilisation
with semen from a donor sire standing at a semen
collection centre or with semen stored in a semen
storage
centre, both of which centres have been
approved by the competent authority in accordance
with Council Directive 88/407/EEC of 14 June 1988

Article 1

Annexes A and B to Decision 92/471/EEC are amended in
accordance with the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision shall apply from 26 November 2004.

(1) OJ L 302, 19.10.1989, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 806/2003 (OJ L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 270, 15.9.1992, p. 27. Decision as last amended by Decision

(3) OJ L 194, 22.7.1988, p. 10. Directive as

last amended by

2004/52/EC (OJ L 10, 16.1.2004, p. 67).

Commission Decision 2004/101/EC (OJ L 30, 4.2.2004, p. 15).

(1)

(2)

(3)

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This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 18 November 2004.

For the Commission

David BYRNE
Member of the Commission

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Annexes A and B to Decision 92/471/EEC are amended as follows:

1. Part I of Annex A is replaced by the following:

ANNEX

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2. Part I of Annex B is replaced by the following:

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