2005/209/EC: Commission Decision of 11 March 2005 amending Decision 2004/288/EC as regards the prolongation of the temporary access of Australia and New Zealand to the Community reserves of foot-and-mouth disease virus antigens granted under that Decision (notified under document number C(2005) 561) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2005-03-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Australia, EU stock, New Zealand, cooperation policy, foot-and-mouth disease, vaccine

L 68/42

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

15.3.2005

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 11 March 2005

amending Decision 2004/288/EC as regards the prolongation of the temporary access of Australia
and New Zealand to the Community reserves of foot-and-mouth disease virus antigens granted
under that Decision

(notified under document number C(2005) 561)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2005/209/EC)

(4)

(5)

(6)

virus

disease

Taking account of the capacity and availability of foot-
and-mouth
in the
Community antigen reserves, it appears that the prolon-
gation requested by Australia and New Zealand may be
granted without
the
unnecessarily
Community’s contingency arrangements.

compromising

antigens

stored

Therefore, the requested prolongation of the temporary
access of Australia and New Zealand to the Community
reserves of foot-and-mouth disease virus antigens should
be
and Decision 2004/288/EC amended
granted
accordingly.

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

In Article 1(1) of Decision 2004/288/EC, ‘31 December 2004’
is replaced by ‘31 December 2005’.
Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 11 March 2005.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 2003/85/EC of 29
September 2003 on Community measures for the control of
foot-and-mouth disease repealing Directive 85/511/EEC and
Decision
amending
Directive 92/46/EEC (1), and in particular Article 83(3) thereof,

91/665/EEC and

89/531/EEC and

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Commission Decision 2004/288/EC of 26 March 2004
granting Australia and New Zealand temporary access to
the Community reserves of foot-and-mouth disease virus
antigens (2), provides for those countries to be granted
access to the Community reserves of antigens for the
formulation of vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease
until 31 December 2004.

Australia has undertaken to increase its stocks of foot-
and-mouth disease virus antigens and indicated its
into an arrangement with the
intention to enter
Community on mutual access to stocks of certain foot-
and-mouth disease virus antigens. Pending this possible
arrangement, Australia has requested a prolongation of
the temporary access to the Community reserves of foot-
and-mouth disease virus antigens.

requested a prolongation of

New Zealand has
the
temporary access to the Community reserves of foot-
and-mouth disease virus antigens due to unforeseen
delays in the constitution of
its own stocks of such
antigens.

(1) OJ L 306, 22.11.2003, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 91, 30.3.2004, p. 58.