2006/60/EC: Commission Decision of  2 February 2006  amending Annex C to Council Directive 89/556/EEC as regards the model animal health certificate for intra-Community trade in embryos of domestic animals of the bovine species  (notified under document number C(2006) 193)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-02-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal breeding, cattle, health certificate, health control, intra-EU trade, veterinary inspection

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 2 February 2006

amending Annex C to Council Directive 89/556/EEC as regards the model animal health certificate
for intra-Community trade in embryos of domestic animals of the bovine species

(notified under document number C(2006) 193)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/60/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 89/556/EEC of 25
September 1989 on animal health conditions governing intra-
Community trade in and importation from third countries of
embryos of domestic animals of the bovine species (1), and in
particular Article 16 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Directive 89/556/EEC sets out
animal health
conditions governing intra-Community trade in and
embryos of
importation from third countries of
domestic animals of the bovine species.

the

inter alia, that bovine embryos
That Directive provides,
are not to be sent from one Member State to another
insemi-
unless they have been conceived by artificial
in vitro fertilisation using semen from a
nation or
donor
semen collection centre
a
standing at
sire
approved by the competent authority for the collection,
processing and storage of semen or semen imported in
accordance with Council Directive 88/407/EEC of 14
June 1988 laying down the animal health requirements
applicable to intra-Community trade in and imports of
semen of domestic animals of the bovine species (2).

The model animal health certificate for intra-Community
trade in embryos of domestic animals of
the bovine
laid down in Annex C to Directive
species
89/556/EEC. That certificate does not
contain any
specific requirements concerning semen used for fertili-
sation.

is

Problems have been encountered in trade in embryos in
particular following the adoption of stricter rules for
the admission of bulls into semen collection centres

in Directive 88/407/EEC, as amended by Directive
2003/43/EC (3).

In order to avoid certification problems, an additional
certification requirement
should be included in the
current model animal health certificate providing for an
obligation that semen used for fertilisation is to comply
with Directive 88/407/EEC.

Directive 89/556/EEC 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

(5)

(6)

(7)

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Annex C to Directive 89/556/EEC is replaced by the text in the
Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision shall apply from 23 February 2006.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 2 February 2006.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 302, 19.10.1989, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 806/2003 (OJ L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 1).
(2) OJ L 194, 22.7.1988, p. 10. Directive as

last amended by

Commission Decision 2006/16/EC (OJ L 11, 17.1.2006, p. 21).

(3) OJ L 143, 11.6.2003, p. 23.

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