2006/572/EC: Commission Decision of 18 August 2006 amending Decision 2005/393/EC as regards the restricted zones in relation to bluetongue in Spain and Portugal (notified under document number C(2006) 3700)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-08-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Portugal, Spain, animal disease, disease prevention, sheep, trade restriction, transport of animals, veterinary inspection

L 227/60

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

19.8.2006

COMMISSION DECISION

of 18 August 2006

amending Decision 2005/393/EC as regards the restricted zones in relation to bluetongue in Spain
and Portugal

(notified under document number C(2006) 3700)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/572/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 2000/75/EC of 20
November 2000 laying down specific provisions
the
control and eradication of bluetongue (1), and in particular
Article 8(3)(c) and the third paragraph of Article 19 thereof,

for

(6)

(7)

(8)

Whereas:

Consequently, these councils should be considered free of
bluetongue and, on the basis of the substantiated request
submitted by Portugal, deleted from the areas listed for
restricted zones.

Decision 2005/393/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

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Directive 2000/75/EC lays down control
rules and
measures to combat bluetongue in the Community,
and
including
surveillance zones and a ban on animals leaving those
zones.

establishment

protection

the

of

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Commission Decision 2005/393/EC of 23 May 2005 on
protection and surveillance zones in relation to blue-
tongue and conditions applying to movements from or
through these zones (2) provides for the demarcation of
areas where protection and
the global geographic
surveillance zones (the restricted zones) are to be estab-
lished by the Member States in relation to bluetongue.

Annex I to Decision 2005/393/EC is amended in accordance
with the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision shall apply from the day following its publication
in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Spain has informed the Commission that the presence of
the vector has been detected in a number of new
peripheral areas of the restricted zone.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Consequently, the restricted zone related to Spain should
be extended taking into account of the data available on
the ecology of
its
seasonal activity.

the vector and the evolution of

Portugal has informed the Commission that no virus has
circulated in the councils of Oleiros, Sertã and Vila de Rei
since November 2005.

Done at Brussels, 18 August 2006.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 327, 22.12.2000, p. 74.
(2) OJ L 130, 24.5.2005, p. 22. Decision as last amended by Decision

2006/273/EC (OJ L 99, 7.4.2006, p. 35).

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ANNEX

1. In Annex I to Decision 2005/393/EC, the list of restricted zones in Zone E (serotype 4) which relates to Spain is

replaced by the following:

‘S p a i n :

— Autonomous Region of Extremadura: provinces of Cáceres, Badajoz

— Autonomous Region of Andalucia: provinces of Cádiz, Córdoba, Huelva, Jaén (comarcas of Alcalá la Real, Andújar,

Huelma, Jaén, Linares, Santiesteban del Puerto, Ubeda), Málaga, Sevilla

— Autonomous Region of Castilla-La Mancha: provinces of Albacete (comarca of Alcaraz), Ciudad Real, Toledo

— Autonomous Region of Castilla y León: provinces of Avila (comarcas of Arenas de San Pedro, Candeleda, Cebreros,
Las Navas del Marqués, Navaluenga, Sotillo de la Adrada), Salamanca (comarcas of Béjar, Ciudad Rodrigo and
Sequeros)

— Autonomous Region of Madrid: province of Madrid (comarcas of Alcalá de Henares, Aranjuez, Arganda del Rey,
Colmenar Viejo, El Escorial, Griñón, Municipio de Madrid, Navalcarnero, San Martín de Valdeiglesias, Torrelaguna,
Villarejo de Salvanés).’

2. In Annex I to Decision 2005/393/EC, the list of restricted zones in Zone E (serotype 4) which relates to Portugal is

replaced by the following:

‘P o r t u g a l :

— Regional Direction of Agriculture of Algarve: all concelhos

— Regional Direction of Agriculture of Alentejo: all concelhos

— Regional Direction of Agriculture of Ribatejo e Oeste: concelhos of Almada, Barreiro, Moita, Seixal, Sesimbra,
Montijo, Coruche, Setúbal, Palmela, Alcochete, Benavente, Salvaterra de Magos, Almeirim, Alpiarça, Chamusca,
Constância, Abrantes and Sardoal

— Regional Direction of Agriculture of Beira Interior: concelhos of Penamacor, Fundão, Idanha-a-Nova, Castelo Branco,

Proença-a-Nova, Vila Velha de Ródão and Mação.’