2005/450/EC: Commission Decision of 20 June 2005 amending Decision 92/452/EEC as regards embryo collection teams in New Zealand and the United States of America (notified under document number C(2005) 1812) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2005-06-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: New Zealand, United States, animal breeding, cattle, health control, import, veterinary inspection

L 158/24

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

21.6.2005

COMMISSION DECISION

of 20 June 2005

amending Decision 92/452/EEC as regards embryo collection teams in New Zealand and the United
States of America

(notified under document number C(2005) 1812)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2005/450/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 89/556/EEC of 25
September 1989 on animal health conditions governing intra-
Community trade in and importation from third countries of
embryos of domestic animals of the bovine species (1), and in
particular Article 8(1) thereof,

(5)

(6)

Whereas:

appropriate rules set out in Directive 89/556/EEC and
the embryo collection teams concerned have been offi-
cially approved for exports to the Community by the
veterinary services of those countries.

Decision 92/452/EEC should therefore be amended
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

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

embryo collection teams

Commission Decision 92/452/EEC of 30 July 1992
and
establishing lists of
embryo production teams approved in third countries
for export of bovine embryos to the Community (2)
provides
are only to import
embryos from third countries where they have been
collected, processed and stored by embryo collection
teams listed in that Decision.

that Member States

New Zealand has requested that amendments should be
made to the list as regards entries for that country,
notably the deletion of seven centres and amendments
to the addresses of
three centres. Furthermore, New
Zealand has changed the lettering in the approval
number of centres.

The United States of America have requested that
amendments should be made to the list as regards
entries for that country, notably the addition of one
centre and amendments to the addresses of three centres.

New Zealand and the United States of America have
regarding compliance with the
provided guarantees

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The Annex to Decision 92/452/EEC is amended in accordance
with the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision shall apply from 24 June 2005.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 20 June 2005.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU

Member of the Commission

(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 250, 29.8.1992, p. 40. Decision as last amended by Decision

2005/29/EC (OJ L 15, 19.1.2005, p. 34).

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EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 158/25

ANNEX

The Annex to Decision 92/452/EEC is amended as follows:

(a)

the list for New Zealand is replaced by the following:

‘NZ

NZEB01

NZ

NZEB02

NZ

NZEB04

Premier Genetics NZ Ltd
Ingram Road, RD 3, Drury
South Auckland

Animal Breeding Services Ltd,
Kihikihi ET Centre
3680 State Highway 3, RD 2
Hamilton

Advanced Genetics,
100 Paradise Gully Road,
RD 5C
Oamaru

Dr Thomas Edward Dixon, Dr
Crawford

John

Dr John David Hepburn, Dr Lindsay
Chitty

Dr Neil Sanderson’

(b) the row for United States of America embryo collection team No 92VA055 E794 is replaced by the following:

‘US

92VA055 E794

2420, Grace Chapel Road,
Harrisonburg, VA 22801

Randall Hinshaw’

(c)

the row for United States of America embryo collection team No 92VA056 E794 is replaced by the following:

‘US

92VA056 E794

2420, Grace Chapel Road,
Harrisonburg, VA 22801

Sarah S. Whitman’

(d) the row for United States of America embryo collection team No 96TX088 E928 is replaced by the following:

‘US

96TX088 E928

Ultimate Genetics/Normangee,
4140 OSR Normangee,
TX 77871

Dr Joe Oden’

(e)

the following row for the United States of America is added:

‘US

04TN113 E795

Large Animal Services
Embryo Transfer Center
272 Bowers Road Greeneville,
TN 37743

Mitchell L. Parks’