2005/43/EC: Commission Decision of 30 December 2004 amending Decision 95/388/EC as regards the updating of the model health certificates for intra-Community trade in semen, ova and embryos of the ovine and caprine species (notified under document number C(2004) 5544)Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2004-12-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal disease, disease prevention, embryo and foetus, goat, health certificate, intra-EU trade, sheep

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 30 December 2004

amending Decision 95/388/EC as regards the updating of the model health certificates for intra-
Community trade in semen, ova and embryos of the ovine and caprine species

(notified under document number C(2004) 5544)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2005/43/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 92/65/EEC of 13 July 1992
laying down animal health requirements governing trade in and
imports into the Community of animals, semen, ova and
embryos not subject to animal health requirements laid down
in specific Community rules referred to in Annex A(I)
to
Directive 90/425/EEC (1), and in particular the fourth indent
of Article 11(2) and the third indent of Article 11(3) thereof,

Whereas:

Directive 92/65/EEC lays down the
requirements
governing
embryos of the ovine and caprine species.

trade

animal health
and

in semen, ova

(4)

(5)

It is therefore necessary to align the animal health model
certificates in Annexes I and II to Decision 95/388/EC
with the updated rules.

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:

Article 1

Annex I to Decision 95/388/EC is replaced by Annex I to

1.
this Decision.

Annex II to Decision 95/388/EC is replaced by Annex II

2.
to this Decision.

Article 2

Commission Decision 95/388/EC (2)
specimen certificate applicable to such trade.

lays down the

This Decision shall apply from 1 January 2005.

the

Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of
European
Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying
down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of
spongiform encephalopathies (3)
certain transmissible
now provides the legal basis for all measures relating
to TSEs
in animals. Commission Regulation (EC)
No 1492/2004 amended Regulation (EC) No 999/2001
to clarify the specific TSE-related requirements for trade
in semen, ova and embryos of the ovine and caprine
species and to provide derogations
semen and
for
embryos from animals of certain genotypes.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 30 December 2004.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

(1)

(2)

(3)

(1) OJ L 268, 14.9.1992, p. 54. Directive as last amended by Directive

2004/68/EC (OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 321).

(2) OJ L 234, 3.10.1995, p. 30.
(3) OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1. Regulation as

(EC) No 1492/2004 (OJ

last amended by
L 274,

Commission Regulation
24.8.2004, p. 3).

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ANNEX I

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ANNEX II

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