Commission Regulation (EC) No 976/2006 of  29 June 2006  adopting exceptional support measures for the pigmeat market in Germany
Date: 2006-06-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, aid system, market support, meat processing industry, pigmeat, swine

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 976/2006

of 29 June 2006

adopting exceptional support measures for the pigmeat market in Germany

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 of
29 October 1975 on the common organisation of the market
in pigmeat (1), and in particular Article 20(1) and the second
paragraph of Article 22 thereof,

(4)

(5)

(6)

Whereas:

Aid should be granted for the delivery to the competent
German authorities of piglets from the zones concerned.

Provision should be made for the competent German
authorities
and surveillance
controls
measures
required and to inform the Commission
accordingly.

to apply

all

Restrictions on the free movement of piglets have applied
for several weeks in the zones concerned and this
situation has
increase in the
animals' weight and has consequently brought about an
intolerable
situation. This Regulation
should therefore apply from 12 June 2006.

lead to a substantial

animal-welfare

(1)

(2)

The German authorities have established protection and
surveillance zones in accordance with Articles 9, 10 and
11 of Council Directive 2001/89/EC of 23 October 2001
on Community measures for the control of classical
swine fever (2) on account of outbreaks of classical
swine fever in certain production regions in Germany.
As a consequence, the marketing of piglets and their
transport to fattening units are temporarily prohibited
in those zones.

(7)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Pigmeat,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The restrictions on the free movement of goods resulting
from the application of these veterinary measures are
likely to cause serious disturbance of
the pigmeat
in Germany. As a consequence, exceptional
market
market
support measures applying solely to piglets
from the zones directly affected should be adopted for
the time strictly necessary.

From 12 June 2006, producers of pigmeat may be
for aid granted by the competent

1.
eligible, on application,
German authorities on delivery to them of:

(a) piglets covered by CN code 0103 91 10 and weighing 8 kg
or more on average per batch (hereafter system piglets);

(3) With a view to preventing the disease from spreading
any further, piglets
reared in the zones concerned
should be excluded from normal trade and processed
into products
than human
intended for uses other
consumption in accordance with Article 3 of Council
Directive 90/667/EEC of 27 November 1990 laying
down the veterinary rules for the disposal and processing
of animal waste, for its placing on the market and for the
prevention of pathogens in feedstuffs of animal or fish
amending Directive 90/425/EEC (3) or
origin and
disposed of by incineration.

(b) piglets covered by CN code 0103 91 10 and weighing

25 kg or more on average per batch.

50 % of

2.
the expenditure on the aid referred to in
paragraph 1, covering a total maximum number of 65 000
piglets of which 13 000 ‘system piglets’ at maximum, shall be
financed by the Community budget.

Article 2

(1) OJ L 282, 1.11.1975, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1913/2005 (OJ L 307, 25.11.2005, p. 2).

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

Accession of 2003.

(3) OJ L 363, 27.12.1990, p. 51. Directive as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 806/2003 (OJ L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 1).

Only animals reared in the surveillance zones located within the
referred to in Annex I may be delivered to the
regions
competent German authorities, provided that
the veterinary
measures established by the competent German authorities
apply in those zones on the day the animals are delivered.

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Article 3

On the day they are delivered to the competent German
1.
the animals shall be transported to the slaugh-
authorities,
terhouse, weighed and slaughtered in such a way as
to
prevent the disease from spreading. Transport and slaughtering
shall take place in accordance with the conditions laid down in
Annex II.

The animals shall be transported to a rendering plant and
2.
processed into products covered by CN codes 1501 00 11,
1506 00 00 or 2301 10 00 in accordance with Article 3 of
Directive 90/667/EEC or disposed of by incineration.

The transport of

to the slaughterhouse,
the animals
3.
slaughter and transport to the rendering plant shall be carried
out under the continuous monitoring of the competent German
authorities.

Article 4

The aid referred to in Article 1(1)

for ‘system piglets’
1.
weighing 8 kg or more but less than 12 kg on average per
batch and for piglets weighing 25 kg or more but less than
32 kg on average per batch shall be calculated per kilogram
on the basis of
the price reported by the German price
reporting agency ZMP for the week preceding the delivery of
the piglets to the competent authorities.

with paragraph 1 of this Article for ‘system piglets’ weighing
12 kg on average per batch.

3.
The aid on piglets weighing 32 kg or more on average per
batch may not exceed the aid fixed in accordance with
paragraph 1 of
this Article for piglets weighing 32 kg on
average per batch.

Article 5

The competent German authorities shall
take all measures
necessary to ensure compliance with this Regulation and in
inform the Commission
particular with Article 2. They shall
accordingly as soon as possible.

Article 6

The competent German authorities shall communicate each
Wednesday to the Commission the number and total weight
of ‘system piglets’ and other piglets delivered in accordance with
this Regulation in respect of the previous week.

Article 7

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi-
cation in the Official Journal of the European Union.

The aid on ‘system piglets’ weighing 12 kg or more on
2.
average per batch may not exceed the aid fixed in accordance

It shall apply from 12 June 2006.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 29 June 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

Regions as referred to in Article 2

In the Federal Land of North Rhine Westphalia, the surveillance zones (area 1) established in accordance with Council
Directive 2001/89/EC and defined in the Annex of the ‘Schweinepest-Schutzverordnung’ of 6 April 2006, published in
the electronic ‘Bundesanzeiger’ of 6 April 2006, as last amended by the fifth Regulation amending the ‘Schweinepest-
Schutzverordnung’ of 31 May 2006, published in the electronic ‘Bundesanzeiger’ of 2 June 2006.

ANNEX II

Conditions for transport and slaughter as referred to in Article 3(1)

1. On the day of delivery to the competent German authorities, the animals are to be weighed by load and slaughtered at

a slaughterhouse.

2. The animals are to be slaughtered but no other operations connected with slaughter are to be performed. The dead
pigs are to be transported immediately from the slaughterhouse to the rendering plant. Transport must take place in
sealed lorries, which are to be weighed on departure from the slaughterhouse and on arrival at the rendering plant.

3. The dead pigs are to be sprayed with a denaturing product (methylene blue) to ensure that the meat is not used for

human consumption.