2006/264/EC: Commission Decision of  27 March 2006  concerning protection measures in relation to Newcastle disease in Romania  (notified under document number C(2006) 892)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-03-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Romania, animal disease, game meat, health certificate, import restriction, meat product, poultry, poultrymeat

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 27 March 2006

concerning protection measures in relation to Newcastle disease in Romania

(notified under document number C(2006) 892)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/264/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 91/496/EEC of 15 July 1991
laying down the principles governing the organisation of
veterinary checks on animals entering the Community from
third
89/662/EEC,
90/425/EEC and 90/675/EEC (1), and in particular Article 18
thereof,

amending Directives

countries

and

Having regard to Council Directive 97/78/EC of 18 December
1997 laying down the principles governing the organisation of
veterinary checks on products entering the Community from
third countries (2), and in particular Article 22 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Newcastle disease is a highly contagious viral disease in
poultry and birds and there is a risk that the disease
agent might be introduced via international
trade in
live poultry and poultry products.

Romania has notified to the Commission the occurrence
of outbreaks of Newcastle disease on its territory.

In view of the animal health risk of disease introduction
into the Community, it is therefore appropriate to take
measures in relation to imports of live poultry, ratites,
farmed and wild feathered game birds and hatching eggs
of these species from Romania.

Romania has communicated further information on the
disease situation and asked for regionalisation to suspend
importation into the Community from those regions
affected by the disease only, since the situation in the
rest of the country appears to be satisfactory. The infor-
mation available at present gives the possibility to reduce
the protection measures to specific regions.

(1) OJ L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 56. Directive as last amended by the 2003

Act of Accession.

(2) OJ L 24, 30.1.1998, p. 9. Directive as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(OJ L 165, 30.4.2004, p. 1).

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

The information presented to the Commission shows
that the disease was suspected in Romania for the first
time on 22 November 2005.

Therefore, taking into account the incubation period of
the disease, the importation into the Community from
the affected regions in Romania should be suspended for
fresh meat of poultry,
ratites and wild and farmed
feathered game, meat preparations and meat products
consisting of, or containing meat of
those species,
obtained from birds slaughtered after 1 October 2005.

Commission Decision 2005/432/EC of 3 June 2005
laying down the animal and public health conditions
and model certificates for imports of meat products for
human consumption from third countries and repealing
Decisions 97/41/EC, 97/221/EC and 97/222/EC (3) lays
down the list of third countries or parts thereof from
importation
which meat products are authorised for
into the Community and establishes treatment regimes
for meat products considered effective in inactivating
certain pathogens.

covered

products

In order to prevent the risk of disease transmission via
the
by Decision 2005/432/EC,
appropiate treatment should be applied depending on
the country of origin and the
the health status of
species the product
is therefore
appropriate that imports of poultry meat products, origi-
nating from the affected regions in Romania and treated
the
to a temperature of at
product, should continue to be authorised for impor-
tation into the Community.

least 70 °C throughout

is obtained from.

It

In order to authorise imports of meat products subjected
to a heat treatment sufficient to inactivate any possible
virus in the meat, it is necessary to specify the required
treatment
in the health certificates
drawn up in accordance with Annexes III and IV to
Decision 2005/432/EC.

for poultry meat

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) OJ L 151, 14.6.2005, p. 3.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Member States shall suspend imports from the counties in
Romania listed in the Annex to this Decision of live poultry,
ratites, farmed and wild feathered game and hatching eggs of
these species.

Article 2

Member States shall suspend imports from the counties in
Romania listed in the Annex to this Decision of:

(a)

fresh meat of poultry, ratites, farmed and wild feathered
game; and

(b) meat preparations and meat products consisting of, or
containing meat of the species referred to in point (a).

Article 3

1.
By way of derogation from Article 2(a) and (b), Member
States shall authorise imports of the products covered by that
Article which have been obtained from poultry, ratites, farmed
and wild feathered game coming from the counties in Romania
listed in the Annex to this Decision and which were slaughtered
or killed before 1 October 2005.

2.
In the veterinary certificates accompanying consignments
of the products referred to in paragraph 1, the following words
shall be included:

consisting of, or

‘Fresh poultry meat/fresh ratite meat/fresh meat of wild
feathered game/fresh meat of farmed feathered game/meat
product
containing meat of poultry,
ratites, farmed or wild feathered game meat/meat preparation
consisting of, or containing meat of poultry, ratites, farmed
or wild feathered game meat (*) in accordance with Article
3(1) of Commission Decision 2006/264/EC.
___________
(*) Delete as appropriate.’

3.
Decision, Member States

By way of derogation from point (b) of Article 2 of this
shall authorise imports of meat

products consisting of, or containing meat of poultry, ratites,
farmed and wild feathered game, when the meat of these species
has undergone one of the specific treatments referred to in
points B, C or D in Part 4 of Annex II
to Commission
Decision 2005/432/EC.

specific

treatment

applied in accordance with
4.
The
paragraph 3 of
this Article shall be specified in point 9.1
column B in the veterinary certificate drawn up in accordance
with the model set out in Annex III to Decision 2005/432/EC,
and the following wording shall be added to that certificate:

‘Meat products
Decision 2006/264/EC’.

treated in accordance with Commission

The

specific

treatment

5.
applied in accordance with
paragraph 3 of this Article shall be certified by adding the
following wording to the veterinary certificate drawn up in
accordance with the model set out Annex IV to Decision
2005/432/EC:

‘Meat products
2006/264/EC’.

treated

in accordance with Decision

Article 4

Member States shall immediately take the necessary measures to
comply with this Decision and publish those measures. They
shall immediately inform the Commission thereof.

Article 5

This Decision shall apply until 31 July 2006.

Article 6

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 27 March 2006.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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Parts of the territory of Romania referred to in Articles 1 and 2 respectively:

ANNEX

Arges county

Brasov county

Bucharest county

Braila county

Buzau county

Caras-Severin county

Calarasi county

Constanta county

Dambovita county

Giurgiu county

Gorj county

Ialomita county

Ilfov county

Mehedinti county

Mures county

Olt county

Prahova county

Tulcea county

Vaslui county

Valcea county

Vrancea county