2006/328/EC: Commission Decision of  4 May 2006  amending Decision 2006/274/EC concerning certain protection measures relating to classical swine fever in Germany  (notified under document number C(2006) 1897)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-05-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, animal breeding, animal plague, health certificate, swine, trade restriction, veterinary inspection

5.5.2006

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 4 May 2006

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

(notified under document number C(2006) 1897)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/328/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Article 1

Decision 2006/274/EC is amended as follows:

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,

Whereas:

Outbreaks of classical swine fever have occurred in
Germany.

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
extend the measures taken by Germany pursuant
to
Council Directive 2001/89/EC of 23 October 2001 on
Community measures for the control of classical swine
fever (3).

1. In Article 1, paragraph 2(b) is replaced by the following:

‘(b)

the transport of breeding and production pigs to a
holding outside Germany, provided that
the vehicles
used for transport of pigs comply with the requirements
in Article 6(2)(a) and that the pigs have been resident
for at least 30 days, or since birth if less than 30 days of
age, on a single holding:

(i) which is situated outside the areas listed in Annex I;

(ii) which has not received live pigs during the 30-day
period immediately prior to the date of dispatch of
the pigs;

On the basis of new epidemiological
information
provided by Germany, the duration for the minimum
residence of pigs in the holding of origin should be
reduced from 45 days to 30 days.

(iii) on which the clinical examination carried out in
accordance with Chapter IV(D)(2) of the Annex to
Decision 2002/106/EC have been completed with
negative results.’

Decision 2006/274/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

2. Article 2, paragraph 1(b) is replaced by the following:

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

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

(1) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 29. Directive as last amended by Directive
2002/33/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
(OJ
L 315, 19.11.2002, p. 14).

(2) OJ L 99, 7.4.2006, p. 36. Decision as last amended by Decision

2006/306/EC (OJ L 113, 27.4.2006).

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

Accession.

‘(b) no pigs are dispatched from the areas listed in Annex
I(B) to other areas within Germany, except for direct
transport of:

(i)

slaughter pigs to a slaughterhouse for immediate
slaughter, provided that
the pigs originate from
one single holding;

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

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(ii) breeding and production pigs to a holding, provided
that the pigs have been resident for at least 30 days,
or since birth if less than 30 days of age, on a single
holding:

— which has not received live pigs during the 30-
day period immediately prior to the date of
dispatch of the pigs; and

— on which the clinical examination carried out in
accordance with Chapter IV(D)(2) of the Annex
to Decision 2002/106/EC have been completed
with negative results.’

3. Article 2, paragraph 2(b) is replaced by the following:

‘(b)

to a holding situated within the areas laid down in
Annex I, provided that the pigs have been resident for
at least 30 days, or since birth if less than 30 days of
age, on a single holding:

(i) which has not received live pigs during the 30-day
period immediately prior to the date of dispatch of
the pigs;

(ii) on which the clinical examination carried out in
accordance with Chapter IV(D)(2) of the Annex to
Decision 2002/106/EC have been completed with
negative results.

the

shall

record

above
The German authorities
movements and inform immediately the Commission
in the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and
Animal Health on the movements
take place
from a holding situated within the areas laid down in
Annex I (A) to a holding situated within the areas laid
down in Annex I (B).’

that

4. Article 6 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 6

Member States shall ensure that vehicles which have been
used for the transport of pigs in Germany or have entered a
holding in Germany where pigs are kept are cleaned and
disinfected twice after
the last operation before these
vehicles may be used for the transport of pigs outside
Germany.’

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 4 May 2006.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission