2005/61/EC: Commission Decision of 27 January 2005 concerning protection measures in relation to Newcastle disease in Bulgaria and repealing Decision 2004/908/EC (notified under document number C(2005) 145)Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2005-01-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bulgaria, animal disease, import restriction, live poultry

28.1.2005

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 27 January 2005

concerning protection measures in relation to Newcastle disease in Bulgaria and repealing Decision
2004/908/EC

(notified under document number C(2005) 145)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2005/61/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Therefore the measures adopted by the Commission in
relation to the outbreak of Newcastle disease in Bulgaria
and Decision
should
2004/908/EC should be repealed and replaced by this
Decision.

accordingly

amended

be

Having regard to Council Directive 91/496/EEC of 15 July 1991
laying down the principles governing the organisation of
veterinary checks on animals entering the Community from
third
89/662/EEC,
90/425/EEC and 90/675/EEC (1), and in particular Article
18(7) thereof,

amending Directives

countries

and

Having regard to Council Directive 97/78/EC of 18 December
1997 laying down the principles governing the organisation of
veterinary checks on products entering the Community from
third countries (2), and in particular Article 22(6) thereof,

Whereas:

in Bulgaria.

the disease

On 23 December 2004 Bulgaria confirmed an outbreak
of Newcastle disease in the administrative district of
In order to reduce the risk of
Kardzhali
introduction of
into the Community,
Commission Decision 2004/908/EC of 23 December
2004 concerning protection measures in relation to
Newcastle disease in Bulgaria (3) was adopted as an
immediate measure to suspend imports of live poultry,
ratites,
farmed and wild feathered game birds and
hatching eggs of these species from Bulgaria.

(1)

(2)

(4)

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

Member States shall suspend imports from the administrative
district of Kardzhali in Bulgaria of live poultry, ratites, farmed
and wild feathered game and hatching eggs of these species.

Article 2

Member States shall suspend imports from the administrative
district of Kardzhali in Bulgaria of:

(a)

fresh meat of poultry, ratites, farmed and wild feathered
game; and

(b) meat preparations and meat products consisting of, or
containing meat of the species referred to in point (a).

Bulgaria has communicated further information on the
disease situation and requested regionalisation to allow
lifting of the suspension for the country other than the
administrative district of Kardzhali, since the situation in
the rest of the country appears to be satisfactory.

Article 3

(1) OJ L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 56. Directive as last amended by the 2003

Act of Accession.

(2) OJ L 24, 30.1.1998, p. 9. Directive as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(OJ L 165, 30.4.2004, p. 1; corrected in OJ L 191, 28.5.2004, p. 1).

(3) OJ L 381, 28.12.2004, p. 82.

By way of derogation from Article 2(a) and (b), Member
1.
the products covered that
States shall authorise imports of
Article which have been obtained from poultry,
ratites,
farmed and wild feathered game coming from the adminis-
trative district of Kardzhali
in Bulgaria and which were
slaughtered or killed before 16 November 2004.

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and they shall give immediate appropriate publicity to the
measures
inform the
shall
Commission thereof.

adopted. They

immediately

Article 5

Decision 2004/908/EC is repealed.

Article 6

This Decision shall apply until 16 May 2005.

Article 7

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 27 January 2005.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

In the veterinary certificates accompanying consignments
2.
of the products referred to in paragraph 1, the following words
shall be included:

farmed or wild

‘Fresh poultry meat/fresh ratite meat/fresh meat of wild
feathered game/fresh meat of farmed feathered game/meat
product consisting of, or containing meat of poultry,
ratites,
game meat/meat
preparation consisting of, or containing meat of poultry,
ratites,
in
farmed or wild feathered game meat (*)
accordance with Article 3(1) of Decision 2005/61/EC.
___________
(*) Delete as appropriate’.

feathered

By way of derogation from point (b) of Article 2 of this
3.
Decision, Member States
shall authorise imports of meat
products consisting of, or containing meat of poultry, ratites,
farmed and wild feathered game, when the meat of these species
has undergone one of the specific treatments referred to in
points B, C or D in Part IV of the Annex to Commission
Decision 97/222/EC (1).

Article 4

The Member States shall amend the measures they apply to
trade so as to bring them into compliance with this Decision

(1) OJ L 89, 4.4.1997, p. 39. Decision as last amended by Decision

2004/857/EC (OJ L 369, 16.12.2004, p. 65).