2005/804/EC: Commission Decision of 18 November 2005 amending Decision 2000/609/EC as regards the importation of fresh ratite meat from Australia and Uruguay (notified under document number C(2005) 4408)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2005-11-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: fresh meat, health certificate, import, originating product, poultrymeat, third country

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 18 November 2005

amending Decision 2000/609/EC as regards the importation of fresh ratite meat from Australia and
Uruguay

(notified under document number C(2005) 4408)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2005/804/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 91/494/EEC of 26 June
1991 on animal health conditions governing intra-Community
trade in and imports from third countries of
fresh poul-
trymeat (1) and in particular Article 9(1), Article 11(1), Article
12 and Article 14(1) and Article 14a thereof,

Council Directive 92/118/EC of 17 December 1992 laying
down animal health and public health requirements governing
trade in and imports into the Community of products not
laid down in specific
subject
to Directive
Community rules referred to in Annex A (I)
89/662/EEC and,
to Directive
90/425/EEC (2) and in particular Article 10 thereof,

said requirements

pathogens,

to the

regards

as

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Decision 94/85/EC of 16 February 1994
drawing up a list of
third countries from which the
Member States authorise imports of fresh poultrymeat (3)
includes Uruguay on that list.

Commission Decision 2000/609/EC of 29 September
2000 laying down animal and public health conditions
and veterinary certification for imports of farmed ratite
meat amending Decision 94/85/EC drawing up a list of
third countries from which the Member States authorise

(1) OJ L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 35. Directive as last amended by Directive

1999/89/EC (OJ L 300, 23.11.1999, p. 17).
(2) OJ L 62, 15.3.1993, p. 49. Directive as

last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 445/2004 (OJ L 72, 11.3.2004,
p. 60).

(3) OJ L 44, 17.2.1994, p. 31. Decision as last amended by Decision

2004/118/EC (OJ L 36, 7.2.2004, p. 34).

imports of fresh poultrymeat (4) provides that Member
States are to authorise the importation of fresh meat of
farmed ratites only from third countries or parts thereof
listed in Annex I to Decision 2000/609/EC, subject to
certain conditions. At present, Uruguay is not included in
that Decision.

Following a Commission mission in October 2004,
subsequent
follow-up and guarantees provided by
Uruguay, the animal and public health situation is now
satisfactory so as to allow that country to be included on
the list of approved third countries set out in Annex I to
Decision 2000/609/EC.

In view of Uruguay’s animal health status as regards
Newcastle disease,
imports of
fresh meat of farmed ratites from Uruguay are accom-
panied by the model health attestation ‘A’ as laid down
in Part 2 of Annex II to Decision 2000/609/EC.

is appropriate that

it

amended

Decision 2000/609/EC,
by Decision
as
2004/118/EC, provides erroneously that fresh meat of
farmed ratites from Australia must be accompanied by
the model health attestation ‘A’ as laid down in Part 2 of
Annex II to Decision 2000/609/EC, instead of the model
health attestation ‘B’
laid down in that Annex. That
mistake should therefore be corrected.

Decision 2000/609/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

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(4) OJ L 258, 12.10.2000, p. 49. Decision as last amended by Decision
2004/415/EC (OJ L 151, 30.4.2004, p. 73). Corrected version:
OJ L 208, 10.6.2004, p. 63.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Annex I to Decision 2000/609/EC shall be replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 18 November 2005.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

List of third countries or parts of third countries from which Member States are to authorise the importation of
fresh meat of farmed ratites

ISO code

Country

Parts of the territory

Model certificate to
be used
(A or B)

The States of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, São
Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul

AR

AU

BG

Argentina

Australia

Bulgaria

BR-1

Brazil

BW

Botswana

CA

CH

CL

HR

IL

NA

NZ

RO

TH

TN

US

UY

ZA

Canada

Switzerland

Chile

Croatia

Israel

Namibia

New Zealand

Romania

Thailand

Tunisia

United States of
America

Uruguay

South Africa

ZW

Zimbabwe

A

B

A

A

B

A

A

A

A

A

B

A

A

A

A

A

A

B

B’