Commission Directive 2006/83/EC of 23 October 2006 adapting Directive 2002/4/EC on the registration of establishments keeping laying hens, covered by Council Directive 1999/74/EC, by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania
Date: 2006-10-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bulgaria, EC Directive, EU law - national law, European Commission, Romania, accession to the European Union, approximation of laws, laying poultry, livestock farming

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COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2006/83/EC

of 23 October 2006

adapting Directive 2002/4/EC on the registration of establishments keeping laying hens, covered by
Council Directive 1999/74/EC, by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Article 2

1. Member States shall adopt and publish, by the date of
accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union at
the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions
necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith
communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions
and a correlation table between those provisions and this
Directive.

They shall apply those provisions from the date of accession of
Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union.

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain
a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a
reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member
States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the
text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in
the fields covered by this Directive.

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force subject to, and on the date
of, the entry into force of the Treaty of Accession of Bulgaria
and Romania.

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 23 October 2006.

For the Commission

Olli REHN
Member of the Commission

Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of Bulgaria and
Romania, and in particular Article 4(3) thereof,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania,
and in particular Article 56 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Pursuant to Article 56 of the Act of Accession, where
acts which remain valid beyond 1 January 2007 require
adaptation by reason of accession, and the necessary
adaptations have not been provided for in the Act of
Accession or its Annexes, the necessary adaptations are
to be adopted by the Commission in all cases where the
Commission adopted the original act.

The Final Act of the Conference which drew up the
Treaty of Accession indicated that the High Contracting
Parties reached political agreement on a set of adap-
tations to acts adopted by the Institutions required by
reason of accession and invited the Council and the
before
Commission
accession, completed and updated where necessary to
take account of the evolution of the law of the Union.

adaptations

adopt

these

to

Commission Directive 2002/4/EC of 30 January 2002 on
the registration of establishments keeping laying hens,
covered by Council Directive 1999/74/EC (1)
should
therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Directive 2002/4/EC is amended as set out in the Annex.

(1) OJ L 30, 31.1.2002, p. 44.

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ANNEX

AGRICULTURE

VETERINARY AND PHYTOSANITARY LEGISLATION

VETERINARY LEGISLATION

32002 L 0004: Commission Directive 2002/4/EC of 30 January 2002 on the registration of establishments keeping
laying hens, covered by Council Directive 1999/74/EC (OJ L 30, 31.1.2002, p. 44), as amended by:

— 12003 T: Act concerning the conditions of accession and the adjustments to the Treaties — Accession of the Czech
Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the
Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic
(OJ L 236, 23.9.2003, p. 33).

The list in Part 2.2 of the Annex is replaced by the following:

‘ATAustria

BE Belgium

BG Bulgaria

CY Cyprus

CZ Czech Republic

DE Germany

DK Denmark

EE Estonia

EL Greece

ES Spain

FI Finland

FR France

HU Hungary

IE Ireland

IT Italy

LT Lithuania

LU Luxembourg

LV Latvia

MT Malta

NL Netherlands

PL Poland

PT Portugal

RO Romania

SE Sweden

SI Slovenia

SK Slovakia

UK United Kingdom.’