2005/828/EC: Commission Decision of  23 November 2005  amending Decision 2005/393/EC as regards the restricted zones in relation to bluetongue in Spain  (notified under document number C(2005) 4481)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2005-11-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Spain, animal disease, disease prevention, sheep, trade restriction, veterinary legislation

26.11.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 311/37

COMMISSION DECISION

of 23 November 2005

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

(notified under document number C(2005) 4481)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2005/828/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Article 1

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

Whereas:

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
the global geographic
areas where protection and
surveillance zones (the restricted zones) are to be estab-
lished by the Member States in relation to bluetongue.

In Annex I to Decision 2005/393/EC,
relating to Spain, is replaced by the following:

that part of zone E

‘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, Ocaña, Oropesa,
Quintanar de la Orden, Madridejos, Talavera de la
Reina, Toledo, Torrijos and Juncos)

Spain has informed the Commission that virus circu-
lation has been detected in a number of new peripherical
areas of the restricted zone concerning serotype 4.

— Province of Avila (comarcas de Arenas de San Pedro,
Candelada, Cebreros, Las Navas del Marques, Navaluenga,
Sotillo de la Adrada)

Consequently,
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.

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

— Province of Ciudad Real

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

— Province of Salamanca
Rodrigo and Sequeros)

(comarcas of Bejar, Ciudad

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

2005/763/EC (OJ L 288, 29.10.2005, p. 54).

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

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

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26.11.2005

Article 2

This Decision shall apply from 29 November 2005.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 23 November 2005.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission