2006/650/EC: Commission Decision of 25 September 2006 amending Decision 2005/393/EC as regards restricted zones in relation to bluetongue (notified under document number C(2006) 4227)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-09-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, Netherlands, animal disease, disease prevention, sheep, trade restriction, transport of animals

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 25 September 2006

amending Decision 2005/393/EC as regards restricted zones in relation to bluetongue

(notified under document number C(2006) 4227)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/650/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
the
November 2000 laying down specific provisions
control and eradication of bluetongue (1), and in particular
Article 8(3) thereof,

for

Whereas:

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

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

establishment

protection

the

of

On 8 September 2006, the Netherlands informed the
Commission of a new confirmed case of bluetongue in
cattle in the north part of the country. In view of those
findings, the restricted zone should be extended to the
whole of the Netherlands.

Following a substantiated request submitted by Germany,
the
is appropriate to amend the demarcation of
it
restricted zone in Germany.

Decision 2005/393/EC should 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

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
the global geographic
areas where protection and
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 is addressed to the Member States.

Following the notification of outbreaks of bluetongue in
mid-August and early September 2006 by Belgium,
Germany, France and the Netherlands, the Commission
times Decision 2005/393/EC as
has amended several
regards
zones
the
concerned.

demarcation of

restricted

the

Done at Brussels, 25 September 2006.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

(1)

(2)

(3)

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

2006/633/EC (OJ L 258, 21.9.2006, p. 7).

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ANNEX

Annex I to Decision 2005/393/EC is amended as follows:

1. The list of restricted zones in Zone F (serotype 8) which relates to the Netherlands is replaced by the following:

‘The Netherlands: Whole territory.’

2. The list of restricted zones in Zone F (serotype 8) which relates to Germany is replaced by the following:

‘Germany:

Hessen
— im Landkreis Kassel die Gemeinden Breuna, Liebenau, Zierenberg, Wolfhagen, Naumburg, Bad Emstal,

Schauenburg, Habichtswald, Calden, Ahnatal, Baunatal, Hofgeismar, Grebenstein, Fuldabrück

— Stadt Kassel

— im Schwalm-Eder-Kreis die Gemeinden Fritzlar, Niedenstein, Gudensberg, Wabern, Borken (Hessen), Bad Zwesten,
Jesberg, Gilserberg, Schwalmstadt, Neuental, Frielendorf, Homberg (Efze), Neukirchen, Schrecksbach, Willings-
hausen, Edermünde, Guxhagen, Körle, Melsungen, Felsberg, Malsfeld, Knüllwald, Schwarzenborn, Oberaula,
Ottrau, Morschen

— Landkreis Waldeck-Frankenberg

— im Landkreis Hersfeld-Rotenburg die Gemeinden Ludwigsau, Neuenstein, Kirchheim, Niederaula, Breitenbach a.

Herzberg

— im Landkreis Fulda die Gemeinden Bad Salzschlirf, Großenlüder, Fulda, Hosenfeld, Neuhof, Flieden, Eichenzell,

Kalbach

— Landkreis Marburg-Biedenkopf

— Vogelsbergkreis

— Lahn-Dill-Kreis

— Landkreis Gießen

— Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg

— Wetteraukreis

— Hochtaunuskreis

— Stadt Frankfurt am Main

— Stadt Offenbach

— Landkreis Offenbach

— Main-Kinzig-Kreis

— Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis

— Stadt Wiesbaden

— Main-Taunus-Kreis

— Landkreis Groß-Gerau

— Stadt Darmstadt

— Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg

— im Landkreis Bergstraße die Gemeinden Groß-Rohrheim, Biblis, Lampertheim, Bürstadt, Zwingenberg, Bensheim,

Einhausen, Lorsch, Heppenheim, Lautertal, Lindenfels

Niedersachsen
— Stadt Osnabrück

— Im Landkreis Grafschaft Bentheim die Gemeinden Bad Bentheim, Suddendorf, Ohne, Samern, Schüttorf, Quendorf,

Isterberg, Nordhorn, Engden

— Im Landkreis Emsland die Gemeinden Emsbüren, Salzbergen, Lünne, Spelle, Schapen

— Im Landkreis Osnabrück die Gemeinden Glandorf, Bad Laer, Bad Rothenfelde, Dissen, Bad Iburg, Hilter, Melle,

Bissendorf, Georgsmarienhütte, Hagen, Hasbergen

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Nordrhein-Westfalen

Gesamtes Landesgebiet

Rheinland-Pfalz
— Kreis Ahrweiler
— Kreis Altenkirchen
— Kreis Alzey-Worms
— Im Kreis Bad Dürkheim die Verbandsgemeinden Lambrecht (Pfalz), Hettenleidelheim, Freinsheim, Grünstadt Land
— Stadt Bad Dürkheim
— Kreis Bad Kreuznach
— Kreis Bernkastel-Wittlich
— Kreis Birkenfeld
— Kreis Bitburg-Prüm
— Kreis Cochem-Zell
— Kreis Daun
— Donnersbergkreis
— Stadt Grünstadt
— Kreis Kaiserslautern
— Stadt Kaiserslautern
— Stadt Koblenz
— Kreis Kusel
— Stadt Mainz
— Kreis Mainz Bingen
— Kreis Mayen-Koblenz
— Kreis Neuwied
— Im Kreis Südwestpfalz die Verbandsgemeinden Wallhalben, Waldfischbach-Burgalben, Thaleischweiler-Fröschen,
Zweibrücken-Land sowie die Ortsgemeinden Donsieders, Clausen, Leimen aus der Verbandsgemeinde Rodalben,
die verbandsfreie Gemeinde Rodalben und die Exklave zu Wilgartswiesen in der Verbandsgemeinde Rodalben

— In der Stadt Pirmasens die Stadtteile Windsberg, Hengsberg, Fehrbach
— Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis
— Rhein-Lahn-Kreis
— Im Rhein-Pfalz Kreis die Verbandsgemeinde Heßheim, verbandsfreie Gemeinde Bobenheim-Roxheim
— Stadt Trier
— Kreis Trier-Saarburg
— Westerwaldkreis
— Stadt Worms
— Stadt Zweibrücken

Saarland
Gesamtes Landesgebiet.’