2006/9/EC: Commission Decision of  6 January 2006  amending Annex I to Council Decision 79/542/EEC as regards transitional measures for transit of live animals from Bulgaria and Romania via the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro  (notified under document number C(2005) 5885) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2006-01-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, health certificate, health control, live animal, transit, veterinary inspection

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 6 January 2006

amending Annex I to Council Decision 79/542/EEC as regards transitional measures for transit of
live animals from Bulgaria and Romania via the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and
Montenegro

(notified under document number C(2005) 5885)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/9/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 2004/68/EC of 26 April
2004 laying down animal health rules for the importation
through the Community of certain live
into and transit
ungulate
amending Directives 90/426/EEC and
92/65/EEC and repealing Directive 72/462/EEC (1) in particular
Article 3(1) and Article 17 thereof,

animals,

Whereas:

(1)

Part 1 of Annex I to Council Decision 79/542/EEC of 21
December 1979 drawing up a list of third countries or
parts of third countries, and laying down animal and
public health and veterinary certification conditions, for
importation into the Community of certain live animals
and their fresh meat (2) sets out a list of third countries
and parts of third countries from which Member States
are authorised to import certain live animals.

(2)

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and
Montenegro are listed in Part 1 of Annex II to Decision

(1) OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 321, as corrected by OJ L 226, 25.6.2004,

p. 128.

(2) OJ L 146, 14.6.1979, p. 15. Decision as

last amended by
Commission Decision 2005/753/EC (OJ L 282, 26.10.2005, p. 22).

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

79/542/EEC for import into the Community of meat but
are not listed in Part 1 of Annex I and therefore import
and transit through the EU of the live animals covered by
this Decision is not presently authorised.

in addition,

the disease situation in these countries

is
However
in the interest of animal
acceptable and,
welfare it would be preferable to allow transit of
slaughter animals through these countries subject
to
certain conditions. Therefore for a transitional period
until 31 December 2006 and pending a Commission
through these
mission to these
countries of consignments of live animals referred to in
Decision 79/542/EEC for direct slaughter may be allowed
coming from the acceding countries of Bulgaria and
Romania and destined to a Member State. This transi-
and
tional period should apply only for Bulgaria
Romania in view of their intended accession.

countries,

transit

In order to ensure the health status of the individual
consignments additional conditions such as sealing of
the lorries and stamping of the certificate must be laid
down.

Part 1 of Annex I to Decision 79/542/EEC should 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

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 3

Article 1

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Part 1 of Annex I to Decision 79/542/EEC is replaced by the
Annex to this Decision.

Done at Brussels, 6 January 2006.

Article 2

This Decision shall apply from 12 January 2006.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

LIVE ANIMALS

Part 1

LIST OF THIRD COUNTRIES OR PARTS THEREOF (*)

Country (a)

Code of territory

Description of territory

1

BG — Bulgaria

CA — Canada

2

BG-0

BG-1

CA-0

CA-1

3

Whole country

The provinces of Varna, Dobrich, Silistra,
Choumen, Targovitchte, Razgrad, Rousse,
V. Tarnovo, Gabrovo,
Lovetch,
Plovdic, Smolian, Pasardjik, Sofia distric,
Sofia city, Pernik, Kustendil, Blagoevgrad,
Sliven, Starazagora, Vratza, Montana and
Vidin

Pleven,

Whole country except the Okanagan Valley
region of British Columbia described as
follows:
— From a point on the Canada/United
States border 120° 15′ longitude, 49°
latitude

— Northerly to a point 119° 35′ longitude,

— North-easterly to a point 119° longitude,

50° 30′ latitude

50° 45′ latitude

Whole country

POR-X

Southerly to a point on the Canada/United
States border 118° 15′
longitude, 49°
latitude

CH — Switzerland

CH-0

Whole country

CL — Chile

CL-0

Whole country

GL — Greenland

HR — Croatia

GL-0

HR-0

Whole country

Whole country

IS — Iceland

IS-0

Whole country

MK — The former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia (****)

MK-0

Whole country

NZ — New Zealand

NZ-0

Whole country

PM — Saint Pierre and
Miquelon

PM-0

Whole country

Veterinary certificate

Model(s)

4

—

BOV-X, BOV-Y, RUM,
OVI-X, OVI-Y

Specific
conditions

6

VI

SG

5

A

IVb
IX

V

I

X

I

BOV-X, OVI-X, OVI-Y,
RUM (**)

A

B

B

BOV-X, BOV-Y, OVI-X,
OVI-Y, RUM

POR-X, POR-Y, SUI

OVI-X, RUM

POR-X, SUI

OVI-X, RUM

BOV-X, BOV-Y, RUM,
OVI-X, OVI-Y

BOV-X, BOV-Y, RUM,
OVI-X, OVI-Y

POR-X, POR-Y

B

BOV-X, BOV-Y, RUM,
POR-X, POR-Y, OVI-X,
OVI-Y

BOV-X, BOV-Y, RUM,
OVI-X, OVI-Y, CAM

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2

3

4

5

RO — Romania

RO-0

Whole country

BOV-X, BOV-Y, RUM,
OVI-X, OVI-Y

XM — Montenegro (***)

XS — Serbia (***)

XM-0

XS-0

Whole custom territory (a)

Whole custom territory (a)

6

V

X

X

Without prejudice to specific certification requirements provided for by any relevant Community agreement with third countries.
Exclusively for live animals other than animals belonging to the cervidae species.

(*)
(**)
(***) Not including Kosovo as defined by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999.
(****) The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; provisional code that does not affect the definitive denomination of the country to be attributed after the conclusion of

the negotiations currently taking place in the United Nations.
Serbia and Montenegro are republics with individual customs forming a State Union and therefore are listed separately.

(a)

Specific conditions (see footnotes in each certificate):
“I”:

“II”:

“V”:

“III”:

“IVa”:

“IVb”:

territory where the presence of BSE in native cattle has been assessed as highly unlikely, for the purpose of exporting to the European Community animals certified
according to the models of certificate BOV-X and BOV-Y.
territory recognised as having an official tuberculosis-free status for the purposes of exports to the European Community of animals certified according to the model of
certificate BOV-X.
territory recognised as having an official brucellosis-free status for the purposes of exports to the European Community of animals certified according to the model of
certificate BOV-X.
territory recognised as having an official enzootic-bovine-leukosis (EBL)-free status for the purposes of exports to the European Community of animals certified according
to the model of certificate BOV-X.
territory with approved holdings recognised as having an official enzootic-bovine-leukosis (EBL)-free status for the purposes of exports to the European Community of
animals certified according to the model of certificate BOV-X.
territory recognised as having an official brucellosis-free status for the purposes of exports to the European Community of animals certified according to the model of
certificate OVI-X.
“VI”: Geographical constraints:
“VII”:

territory recognised as having an official tuberculosis-free status for the purposes of exports to the European Community of animals certified according to the model of
certificate RUM.
territory recognised as having an official brucellosis-free status for the purposes of exports to the European Community of animals certified according to the model of
certificate RUM.
territory recognised as having an official Aujeszky’s disease-free status for the purposes of exports to the European Community of animals certified according to the model
of certificate POR-X.
only until 31.12.2006 for transit through the territory of animals for direct slaughter which are consigned from Bulgaria or Romania and destined to a Member States in
lorries which have been sealed with a serially numbered seal. The seal number must be entered on the health certificate and the seal must be intact on arrival at the
designated border inspection post of entry into the Community and recorded in TRACES . The certificate must be stamped at the exit point of Bulgaria or Romania by the
competent veterinary authorities prior to transiting a third country with the following appropriate wording “ONLY FOR TRANSIT TO THE EU FROM BULGARIA/
ROMANIA (delete country as applicable) VIA THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA/MONTENEGRO/SERBIA (delete country as applicable)”.’

“VIII”:

“IX”:

“X”: