2006/296/EC: Commission Decision of  18 April 2006  amending Annex I to Council Decision 79/542/EEC as regards imports of bovines from Chile  (notified under document number C(2006) 1552)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-04-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Chile, cattle, health control, import (EU), live animal

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 18 April 2006

amending Annex I to Council Decision 79/542/EEC as regards imports of bovines from Chile

(notified under document number C(2006) 1552)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/296/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), and in
particular Article 3(1) and 7(e) thereof,

animals,

(4)

(5)

Decision 79/542/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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Whereas:

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

(1)

(2)

(3)

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.

Article 2

This Decision shall apply from 21 April 2006.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Chile has requested the Community to authorise imports
of bovine animals from Chile.

Done at Brussels, 18 April 2006.

in
The disease situation in Chile is acceptable and,
addition,
it is already listed for non-domestic animals
other than swine. Chile should therefore be listed for
imports of bovines into the Community.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 320, 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 2006/259/EC (OJ L 93, 31.3.2006, p. 65).

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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

2

3

BG — Bulgaria

BG-0 Whole country

Veterinary certificate

Model(s)

4

—

BG-1

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

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

Specific
conditions

6

VI

SG

5

A

CA — Canada

CA-0 Whole country

POR-X

IVb IX

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

A

CA-1 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, 50°30′ latitude
longitude, 50°45′
— North-easterly to a point 119°

latitude

— 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

GL-0 Whole country

HR — Croatia

HR-0 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

B

B

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

POR-X, POR-Y, SUI

BOV-X, 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

V

I

X

I

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2

3

4

5

PM — St Pierre Miquelon

PM-0 Whole country

RO — Romania

RO-0 Whole country

XM — Montenegro (***)

XM-0 Whole custom territory (a)

XS — Serbia (***)

XS-0 Whole custom territory (a)

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

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

6

V

X

X

Exclusively for live animals other than animals belonging to the cervidae species.

(*) Without prejudice to specific certification requirements provided for by any relevant Community agreement with third countries.
(**)
(***) 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 Montengegro are Republics with individual customs forming a State Union and therefore are listed separately.

(a)

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

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.

“II”:

“III”:

“IVa”:

“IVb”:

“V”:

“VI”:
“VII”:

“VIII”:

“IX”:

“X”:

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.

Geographical constraints:

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)”.’