2005/740/EC: Commission Decision of 20 October 2005 amending Decision 2005/693/EC concerning certain protection measures in relation to avian influenza in Russia (notified under document number C(2005) 4176)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2005-10-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Russia, animal disease, disease prevention, import restriction, infectious disease, originating product, poultry

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 20 October 2005

amending Decision 2005/693/EC concerning certain protection measures in relation to avian
influenza in Russia

(notified under document number C(2005) 4176)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2005/740/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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
(1) and (6) 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 (1) and (5)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Avian influenza is an infectious viral disease in poultry
and birds, causing mortality and disturbances which can
quickly take epizootic proportions liable to present a
serious
to animal and public health and to
reduce sharply the profitability of poultry farming.

threat

Commission Decision 2005/693/EC of 6 October 2005
concerning certain protection measures in relation to
avian influenza in Russia (3) was adopted following
outbreaks of avian influenza in Russia. That Decision
suspends the importation of birds, other than poultry,
from Russia.

In addition, Decision 2005/693/EC suspends the impor-
tation of unprocessed feathers and unprocessed parts of
feathers from those regions of Russian listed in Annex I
to that Decision. However, the importation of unpro-
cessed feathers and parts of unprocessed feathers, are
still authorised from those regions of Russia not listed
in Annex I to that Decision, subject to certain conditions,

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

Act of Accession.

(2) OJ L 24, 31.1.1998, 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 version in OJ L 191,
28.5.2004, p. 1).

(3) OJ L 263, 8.10.2005, p. 22.

including those
the Ural
mountains, in which outbreaks had not occurred at the
date of adoption of Decision 2005/693/EC.

located west of

regions

On 19 October 2005, Russia informed the Commission
that an outbreak of avian influenza has occurred in Tula,
in the Central Federal District of Russia,
in which no
outbreaks had been previously reported and from
which unprocessed feathers and parts of unprocessed
feathers may still be imported,
in accordance with
Decision 2005/693/EC.

In relation to the recent outbreaks of highly pathogenic
avian influenza caused by Influenza A virus of subtype
H5N1 in Turkey, Romania and Russia, circumstantial
evidence and molecular
epidemiology data strongly
suggest that the avian influenza virus has spread into
those third countries proceeding from central Asia via
migratory birds. This is also suggested by the report of
a recent mission to Russia carried out by the World
Organization for Animal Health (O.I.E.),
that was
published on 14 October 2005.

The importation into the Community of unprocessed
feathers
should
and parts of unprocessed feathers
therefore be banned from those regions of Russia
where the outbreak of avian influenza has recently
occurred or which are at particular risk,
in accordance
with current knowledge on the flyways of migratory
brids proceeding from the areas in central Asia and
Siberia where the disease has been recorded.

Annex I to Commission Decision 2005/693/EC 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

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

In Annex I of Decision 2005/693/EC the following points 4, 5,
6 and 7 are added:

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‘4. Central Federal District

7. Privolzhsky (Volga) Federal District

Includes the following Subjects of the Russian Federation:
Belgorod Oblast, Bryansk Oblast,
Ivanovo Oblast, Kaluga
Oblast, Kostroma Oblast, Kursk Oblast, Lipetsk Oblast,
city), Moscow Oblast, Oryol Oblast,
Moscow (federal
Ryazan Oblast, Smolensk Oblast, Tambov Oblast, Tver
Oblast, Tula Oblast, Vladimir Oblast, Voronezh Oblast,
Yaroslavl Oblast.

Includes the following Subjects of the Russian Federation:
Bashkortostan Republic, Chuvashia Republic, Kirov Oblast,
Mari El Republic, Mordovia Republic, Nizhny Novgorod
Oblast, Orenburg Oblast, Penza Oblast, Perm Oblast,
Permyakia Autonomous District, Samara Oblast, Saratov
Oblast, Tatarstan Republic, Udmurtia Republic, Ulyanovsk
Oblast.’

5. Southern Federal District

Includes the following Subjects of the Russian Federation:
Adygeya Republic, Astrakhan Oblast, Chechnya Republic,
Dagestan Republic, Ingushetia Republic, Kabardino-Balkaria
Republic, Kalmykia Republic, Karachay-Cherkessia Republic,
Krasnodar Krai, North Ossetia-Alania Republic, Stavropol
Krai, Rostov Oblast, Volgograd Oblast.

6. Northwestern Federal District

Includes the following Subjects of the Russian Federation:
Arkhangelsk Oblast, Komi Republic, Novgorod Oblast,
Pskov Oblast, Vologda Oblast.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 20 October 2005.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission