2006/285/EC: Commission Decision of  12 April 2006  amending Decision 2003/135/EC as regards the extension of plans for the eradication and emergency vaccination of feral pigs against classical swine fever to certain areas of North Rhine-Westfalia and Rhineland-Palatinate and the termination of these plans in other areas of Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany)  (notified under document number C(2006) 1531)
Date: 2006-04-12
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, animal plague, swine, vaccination, veterinary inspection, wild mammal

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 12 April 2006

amending Decision 2003/135/EC as regards the extension of plans for the eradication and
emergency vaccination of feral pigs against classical swine fever to certain areas of North Rhine-
Westfalia and Rhineland-Palatinate and the termination of these plans in other areas of Rhineland-
Palatinate (Germany)

(notified under document number C(2006) 1531)

(Only the German and French texts are authentic)

(2006/285/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 2001/89/EC of 23 October
2001 on Community measures for the control of classical swine
fever (1), and in particular Articles 16(1) and 20(2) thereof,

(3)

(4)

(5)

fever

swine

Germany has also informed the Commission that the
situation in certain areas of
classical
Rhineland-Palatinate has improved significantly and that
the plans for the eradication of classical swine fever and
emergency vaccination plans of feral pigs against classical
swine fever no longer need to be applied in those areas.

Decision 2003/135/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

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

(1)

(2)

Commission Decision 2003/135/EC of 27 February
2003 on the approval of the plans for the eradication
of classical swine fever and the emergency vaccination of
feral pigs against classical swine fever in Germany, in the
federal states of Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia,
Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland (2) was adopted as one
of a number of measures to combat classical swine fever.

The Annex to Decision 2003/135/EC is replaced by the text in
the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of Germany
and the French Republic.

Germany has informed the Commission that classical
swine fever has spread to feral pigs in certain areas of
North Rhine-Westfalia. Germany has also stated that the
plans for the eradication of classical swine fever and the
emergency vaccination plan of feral pigs against classical
swine fever have been extended to those areas and
certain adjacent areas of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Done at Brussels, 12 April 2006.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 316, 1.12.2001, p. 5. Directive as amended by the 2003 Act of

Accession.

(2) OJ L 53, 28.2.2003, p. 47. Decision as last amended by Decision

2005/950/EC (OJ L 345, 28.12.2005, p. 30).

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX

1. AREAS WHERE ERADICATION PLANS ARE IN PLACE:

A. In the federal state Rhineland-Palatinate:

(a)

the Kreise: Südliche Weinstraße, Ahrweiler and Daun;

(b) the cities of: Landau and Pirmasens;

(c)

in the Kreis Bitburg-Prüm: the municipality Prüm, the localities Burbach, Balesfeld and Neuheilenbach (in the
municipality Kyllburg);

(d) in the Kreis Cochem-Zell: the municipalities Kaisersesch and Ulmen;

(e)

in the Kreis Germersheim: the municipalities Lingenfeld, Bellheim and Germersheim;

(f)

in the Kreis Mayen-Koblenz: the municipality Vordereifel, the municipality Mendig in the west of the motorway
A 61 and the Bundesstrasse B 262 and the city Mayen in the west of the Bundesstrasse B 262 and in the north
of the Bundesstrasse 258;

(g)

the municipalities Waldfischbach-Burgalben, Rodalben, Hauenstein, Dahner-
in the Kreis Südwestpfalz:
Felsenland,
Schmitshausen, Herschberg,
and Thaleischweiler-Fröschen,
Pirmasens-Land
Schauerberg, Weselberg, Obernheim-Kirchenarnbach, Hettenhausen, Saalstadt, Wallhalben and Knopp-Labach.

localities

the

B.

In the federal state North Rhine-Westfalia:

(a)

the city of Aachen: south of the motorways A4, A544 and the Bundesstrasse B1;

(b) the city of Bonn: south of

the Bundesstrasse 56 and the motorway A 565 (Bonn-Endenich to Bonn-

Poppelsdorf) and southwest of the Bundesstrasse 9;

(c)

in the Kreis Aachen: the cities Monschau and Stolberg, the municipalities Simmerath and Roetgen;

(d) in the Kreis Düren: the cities Heimbach and Nideggen, the municipalities Hürtgenwald and Langerwehe;

(e)

in the Kreis Euskirchen: the cities Bad Münstereifel, Mechernich, Schleiden and the localities Billig, Euenheim,
Euskirchen, Flamersheim, Kirchheim, Kuchenheim, Kreuzweingarten, Niederkastenholz, Palmersheim, Rheder,
Roitzheim, Schweinheim, Stotzheim, Wißkirchen (in the city Euskirchen), the municipalities Blankenheim,
Dahlem, Hellenthal, Kall and Nettersheim;

(f)

in the Kreis Rhein-Sieg: the cities Meckenheim and Rheinbach, the municipality Wachtberg, the localities
Witterschlick, Volmershofen, Heidgen (in the municipality Alfter) and the localities Buschhoven, Morenhoven,
Miel and Odendorf (in the municipality Swisttal);

2. AREAS WHERE THE EMERGENCY VACCINATION IS APPLIED:

A. In the federal state Rhineland-Palatinate:

(a)

the Kreise: Südliche Weinstraße, Ahrweiler and Daun;

(b) the cities of: Landau and Pirmasens;

(c)

in the Kreis Bitburg-Prüm: the municipality Prüm, the localities Burbach, Balesfeld and Neuheilenbach (in the
municipality Kyllburg);

(d) in the Kreis Cochem-Zell: the municipalities Kaisersesch and Ulmen;

(e)

in the Kreis Germersheim: the municipalities Lingenfeld, Bellheim and Germersheim;

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(f)

in the Kreis Mayen-Koblenz: the municipality Vordereifel, the municipality Mendig in the west of the motorway
A 61 and the Bundesstrasse B 262 and the city Mayen in the west of the Bundesstrasse B 262 and in the north
of the Bundesstrasse 258;

(g)

in the Kreis Südwestpfalz:
the municipalities Waldfischbach-Burgalben, Rodalben, Hauenstein, Dahner-
Schmitshausen, Herschberg,
Pirmasens-Land
Felsenland,
and Thaleischweiler-Fröschen,
Schauerberg, Weselberg, Obernheim-Kirchenarnbach, Hettenhausen, Saalstadt, Wallhalben and Knopp-Labach.

localities

the

B.

In the federal state North Rhine-Westfalia:

(a)

the city of Aachen: south of the motorways A4, A544 and the Bundesstrasse B1;

(b) the city of Bonn: south of

the Bundesstrasse 56 and the motorway A 565 (Bonn-Endenich to Bonn-

Poppelsdorf) and southwest of the Bundesstrasse 9;

(c)

in the Kreis Aachen: the cities Monschau and Stolberg, the municipalities Simmerath and Roetgen;

(d) in the Kreis Düren: the cities Heimbach and Nideggen, the municipalities Hürtgenwald and Langerwehe.

(e)

in the Kreis Euskirchen: the cities Bad Münstereifel, Mechernich, Schleiden and the localities Billig, Euenheim,
Euskirchen, Flamersheim, Kirchheim, Kuchenheim, Kreuzweingarten, Niederkastenholz, Palmersheim, Rheder,
Roitzheim, Schweinheim, Stotzheim, Wißkirchen (in the city Euskirchen), the municipalities Blankenheim,
Dahlem, Hellenthal, Kall and Nettersheim;

(f)

in the Kreis Rhein-Sieg: the cities Meckenheim and Rheinbach, the municipality Wachtberg, the localities
Witterschlick, Volmershofen, Heidgen (in the municipality Alfter) and the localities Buschhoven, Morenhoven,
Miel and Odendorf (in the municipality Swisttal).’