2006/263/EC: Commission Decision of  27 March 2006  amending Decision 2005/648/EC concerning protection measures in relation to Newcastle disease in Bulgaria  (notified under document number C(2006) 893) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-03-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bulgaria, animal disease, game meat, health certificate, import restriction, meat product, poultry, poultrymeat

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 27 March 2006

amending Decision 2005/648/EC concerning protection measures in relation to Newcastle disease in
Bulgaria

(notified under document number C(2006) 893)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/263/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(7) 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(6) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

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.

Commission Decision 2005/648/EC of 8 September
2005 concerning protection measures in relation to
Newcastle disease in Bulgaria (3) was adopted following

(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).
(3) OJ L 238, 15.9.2005, p. 16.

an outbreak of Newcastle disease in the administrative
region of Vratsa. That Decision suspends the importation
of live poultry, ratites, farmed and wild feathered game
and hatching eggs, fresh meat and meat preparations and
meat products from these species.

On 23 January 2006 Bulgaria confirmed an outbreak of
Newcastle disease
administrative district of
Blagoevgrad in Bulgaria.

in the

Taking account of the current epidemiology situation in
Bulgaria in relation to Newcastle disease and the fact that
that country has applied certain disease control measures
and has sent further information on the disease situation
to the Commission. On the basis of this information, it
appears that
for the
regions of Vratsa and Blagoevgrad is still satisfactory. It
is
the suspension of
imports to those regions and to prolong the period of
application of Decision 2005/648/EC.

the situation in Bulgaria, except

therefore appropriate to limit

The Annex to Decision 2005/648/EC should therefore be
amended accordingly.

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
Commission Decision 2005/432/EC (4).

for poultry meat

The measures provided for
accordance with
Committee of the Food Chain and Animal Health,

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(4) OJ L 151, 14.6.2005, p. 3.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 2005/648/EC is amended as follows:

accordance with the model set out Annex IV to Decision
2005/432/EC:

“Meat products treated in accordance with Commission
Decision 2005/648/EC” ’;

1.

in Article 5 the date ‘23 August 2006’ is replaced by ‘23
January 2007’;

3. the Annex is replaced by the Annex to this Decision.

2. the following paragraphs are added to Article 3:

‘4.
The specific treatment applied in accordance with
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
to
Decision 2005/432/EC, and the following wording shall be
added to that certificate:

in Annex III

set out

Article 2

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 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

“Meat products treated in accordance with Commission
Decision 2005/648/EC”.

Done at Brussels, 27 March 2006.

5.
The specific treatment applied in accordance with
paragraph 3 of this Article shall be certified by adding the
following wording to the veterinary certificate drawn up in

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX

Administrative district of Blagoevgrad
Administrative district of Vratsa’