2006/297/EC: Commission Decision of  20 April 2006  amending Decision 2006/274/EC concerning certain protection measures relating to classical swine fever in Germany  (notified under document number C(2006) 1652)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-04-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, animal plague, health control, swine

21.4.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 108/31

COMMISSION DECISION

of 20 April 2006

amending Decision 2006/274/EC concerning certain protection measures relating to classical swine
fever in Germany

(notified under document number C(2006) 1652)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/297/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

sampling methods and criteria for evaluation of
the
laboratory tests for the confirmation of classical swine
fever (4).

(5)

Decision 2006/274/EC should be amended accordingly.

Having regard to Council Directive 90/425/EEC of 26 June
1990 concerning veterinary and zootechnical checks applicable
in intra-Community trade in certain live animals and products
with a view to the completion of the internal market (1), and in
particular Article 10(4) thereof,

(6)

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:

Outbreaks of classical swine fever have occurred in
Germany.

Article 1

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

the measures taken by Germany pursuant

Commission Decision 2006/274/EC of 6 April 2006
concerning certain protection measures
relating to
classical swine fever in Germany and repealing Decision
2006/254/EC (2) was adopted in order to maintain and
to
extent
Council Directive 2001/89/EC of 23 October 2001 on
Community measures for the control of classical swine
fever (3). In particular, given the animal health risk linked
to trade of live pigs, the movement of pigs from and to
holdings situated within the areas situated in Annex I
thereof has been submitted to rules stricter than those
provided for in Directive 2001/89/EC.

Germany provided information that animal welfare
problems arise in keeping the pigs in certain holdings
in the surveillance zones where the prohibition on the
movement of pigs is maintained.

It is therefore appropriate that the German authorities
may authorise removal of pigs from a holding within a
surveillance zone under the conditions provided for in
Directive
Commission Decision
and
2002/106/EC of 1 February 2002 approving a Diag-
procedures,
nostic Manual

2001/89/EC

establishing

diagnostic

Decision 2006/274/EC is amended as follows:

In Article 2, the following third paragraph is added:

‘3.
By way derogation from paragraph 1(a) the competent
authority may authorise the direct transport of pigs from a
holding situated within a surveillance zone to a designated
holding in which no pigs are present and which is situated
within the same surveillance zone, provided that:

— this movement
conditions
point (f) and (2) Directive 2001/89/EC;

takes place in accordance with the
(1)

laid down in Article 11, paragraphs

— the examinations provided for in Chapter IV (D) (2) of
the Annex
to Decision 2002/106/EC have been
completed with negative results on the holding from
which the pigs are dispatched.

The German authorities shall record the above movements
and inform immediately the Commission thereof
in the
Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health’.

(1) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 29. Directive as last amended by Directive
the Council

the European Parliament and of

2002/33/EC of
(OJ L 315, 19.11.2002, p. 14).

(2) OJ L 99, 7.4.2006, p. 36.
(3) OJ L 316, 1.12.2001, p. 5. Directive as amended by the 2003 Act of

Accession.

(4) OJ L 39, 9.2.2002, p. 71. Decision as amended by Commission

Decision 2003/859/EC (OJ L 324, 11.12.2003, p. 55).

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This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 20 April 2006.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission