Commission Regulation (EC) No 214/2005 of 9 February 2005 amending Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards monitoring of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in caprine animals (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2005-02-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU control, animal disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, disease prevention, epidemiology, goat, health control, infectious disease

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 214/2005

of 9 February 2005

amending Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council
as regards monitoring of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in caprine animals

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

the results of an increased monitoring of TSEs in goats
will be essential.

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
the first paragraph of Article 23 thereof,

Whereas:

Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 lays down rules for the
monitoring of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
(TSE) in caprine animals.

(4)

(5)

In line with the SSC and EFSA opinions and statement
above, the monitoring of goats should be extended in
order to improve Community eradication programmes.
Those programmes also increase the level of consumer
protection, although the safe sourcing of goat products is
further assured by the current measures, in particular the
provisions on the removal of specified risk materials, in
Regulation (EC) No 999/2001.

The extended monitoring should be based on a recom-
mendation for a statistically valid survey by the CRL in
order to determine the prevalence of BSE in goats as
the
soon as possible and to improve knowledge of
geographical and within-flock distribution.
should
therefore apply to all Member States with a focus on
the Member States affected by BSE.

It

(6)

Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

by

chaired

On 28 January 2005, a panel of experts on TSEs in small
the Community Reference
ruminants,
laboratory for TSEs (CRL), confirmed the detection of
bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
in a goat
slaughtered in France. It was the first case of BSE in a
small ruminant under natural conditions.

The former Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) adopted
during its meeting on 4-5 April 2002 an opinion on safe
sourcing of small ruminant materials should BSE become
likely in small ruminants. In its opinion, adopted during
its meeting of 26 November 2003, the Scientific Panel
the European Food Safety
on Biological Hazards of
Authority (EFSA) endorsed the statement of
the SSC
opinion with regard to the TSE-related safety of certain
small ruminant products. In its statement of 28 January
2005, the above Panel of EFSA also stresses that the
this single case of BSE infection in a
significance of
goat in France is yet to be assessed. In order to do so,

(7)

(8)

(9)

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

last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 36/2005 (OJ L 10, 13.1.2005,
p. 9).

In view of the importance to ensure the highest level of
consumer protection and to evaluate the prevalence of
BSE in goats, the amendments made by this Regulation
should enter into force without delay.

The monitoring programme in caprine animals should be
reviewed after at least 6 months of effective monitoring
and when the EFSA has delivered its opinion on a quan-
titative assessment of the residual risk posed by goat
meat and meat products derived there from.

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

opinion

the

the

of

(1)

(2)

(3)

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex III
accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 is amended in

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

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

Done at Brussels, 9 February 2005.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

In Annex III, in Part II of Chapter A, points 2 and 3 are replaced by the following:

‘2. Monitoring in ovine and caprine animals slaughtered for human consumption

(a) O v i n e a n i m a l s

Member States, in which the population of ewes and ewe lambs put to the ram exceeds 750 000 animals, shall
test a minimum annual sample of 10 000 ovine animals slaughtered for human consumption in accordance with
the sampling rules set out in point 4 (1).

(b) C a p r i n e a n i m a l s

Member States shall test healthy slaughtered caprine animals in accordance with the sampling rules set out in
point 4 and the minimum sample sizes listed in Table A.

Where a Member State experiences difficulty in collecting sufficient numbers of healthy slaughtered caprine
animals to reach its allotted minimum sample size,
it may choose to replace a maximum of 50 % of its
minimum sample size by testing dead caprine animals over the age of 18 months at the ratio of one to one
and in addition to the minimum sample size set out in point 3.

Table A

Member State

Minimum sample size in healthy slaughtered caprine
animals (1)

Spain

France

Italy

Greece

Cyprus

Austria

Other Member States

125 500

93 000

60 000

20 000

5 000

5 000

all

(1) Minimum sample sizes are set to take account of the size of the number of healthy slaughtered caprine animals and the
prevalence of BSE in the individual Member State. They are also intended to provide achievable targets. The minimum sample
sizes above 60 000 allow the detection of a prevalence of 0,0017 % with a 95 % confidence.

3. Monitoring in ovine and caprine animals not slaughtered for human consumption

Member States shall test in accordance with the sampling rules set out in point 4 and the minimum sample sizes
indicated in table B and table C, ovine and caprine animals which have died or been killed, but which were not:
— killed in the framework of a disease eradication campaign, or
— slaughtered for human consumption.

Table B

Member State population of ewes and ewe lambs
put to the ram

Minimum sample size of dead ovine animals (1)

> 750 000

100 000-750 000

40 000-100 000

< 40 000

10 000

1 500

500

100

(1) Minimum sample sizes are set to take account of the size of the ovine populations in the individual Member States and are
intended to provide achievable targets. The minimum sample sizes of 10 000, 1 500, 500 and 100 animals will allow the
detection of a prevalence of 0,03 %, 0,2 %, 0,6 % and 3 % respectively with a 95 % confidence.

(1) The minimum sample size has been calculated to detect a prevalence in slaughtered animals of 0,03 % with a 95 % confidence.

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Member State population of goats which have already kidded
and goats mated

Minimum sample size of dead caprine animals (1)

Table C

> 750 000

250 000-750 000

40 000-250 000

< 40 000

10 000

3 000

1 000

100 % up to 200

(1) Minimum sample sizes are set to take account of the size of the caprine populations in the individual Member States and are
intended to provide achievable targets. The minimum sample sizes of 10 000, 3 000, 1 000 and 200 animals will allow the
detection of a prevalence of 0,03 %, 0,1 %, 0,3 % and 1,5 % respectively with a 95 % confidence.’