2005/763/EC: Commission Decision of 28 October 2005 amending Decision 2005/393/EC as regards the restricted zones in relation to bluetongue in Spain (notified under document number C(2005) 4162)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2005-10-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Spain, animal disease, disease prevention, sheep, trade restriction, veterinary legislation

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 28 October 2005

amending Decision 2005/393/EC as regards the restricted zones in relation to bluetongue in Spain

(notified under document number C(2005) 4162)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2005/763/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 2000/75/EC of 20
November 2000 laying down specific provisions
the
control and eradication of bluetongue (1), and in particular
Article 8(2)(d), Article 8(3) and the third paragraph of Article
19 thereof,

for

(5)

(6)

Decision 2005/393/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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Whereas:

Article 1

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Directive 2000/75/EC lays down control
rules and
measures to combat bluetongue in the Community,
including
and
surveillance zones and a ban on animals leaving those
zones.

establishment

protection

the

of

Commission Decision 2005/393/EC of 23 May 2005 on
protection and surveillance zones in relation to blue-
tongue and conditions applying to movements from or
through these zones (2) provides for the demarcation of
areas where protection and
the global geographic
surveillance zones (the restricted zones) are to be estab-
lished by the Member States in relation to bluetongue.

Spain has informed the Commission that virus circu-
lation has been detected in a number of peripheral
areas of the restricted zone.

As a consequence the restricted zone should be extended
taking account of the data available on the ecology of the
vector and the evolution of its seasonal activity.

In Decision 2005/393/ EC, the part for zone E relating to Spain,
is replaced by the following:

‘Spain:

— Province of Cádiz, Málaga, Sevilla, Huelva, Córdoba,

Cáceres, Badajoz,

— Province of Jaen (comarcas of Jaen and Andujar),

— Province of Toledo (comarcas of Almorox, Belvis de Jara,
Gálvez, Mora, Los Navalmorales, Oropesa, Talavera de la
Reina, Toledo, Torrijos and Juncos),

— Province of Avila (comarcas de Candelada, Arenas de San

Pedro, Sotillo de la Adrada,

(1) OJ L 327, 22.12.2000, p. 74.
(2) OJ L 130, 24.5.2005, p. 22. Decision as last amended by Decision

2005/603/EC (OJ L 206, 9.8.2005, p. 11).

— Province of Ciudad Real

(comarcas of Almadén,
Almodóvar del Campo, Horcajo de los Montes, Malagón
and Piedrabuena),

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— Province of Salamanca (comarcas of Bejar and Sequeros),

Article 3

— Province of Madrid (comarcas of Aranjuez, El Escorial,
Grinon, Navalcarnero and San Martin de Valdeiglesias).’

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 28 October 2005.

Article 2

This Decision shall apply from 1 November 2005.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission