2006/775/EC: Commission Decision of 13 November 2006 amending Annex D to Council Directive 95/70/EC as regards the list of exotic mollusc diseases subject to harmonised Community control measures (notified under document number C(2006) 5309)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-11-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal disease, health control, marketing, mollusc, shellfish farming, veterinary inspection, veterinary legislation

15.11.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 314/33

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 13 November 2006

amending Annex D to Council Directive 95/70/EC as regards the list of exotic mollusc diseases
subject to harmonised Community control measures

(notified under document number C(2006) 5309)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/775/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 95/70/EC of 22 December
1995 introducing minimum Community measures
the
control of certain diseases affecting bivalve molluscs (1), and
in particular Article 9 thereof,

for

Whereas:

(4)

(5)

(6)

The species referred to as susceptible host species for the
diseases and pathogens in question should be in line with
the most recent edition of the OIE International Aquatic
Animal Health Code.

II

of Annex

It is appropriate to take into account the diseases listed in
Part
Council Directive
IV
COM(2005)362 (3), in order to ensure an effective tran-
sition to the new Community aquatic animal health legis-
lation.

to

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)

The

Directive 95/70/EC introduces minimum Community
measures for the control of certain diseases affecting
bivalve molluscs.
such
harmonised measures are specified in Annex A to
Council Directive 91/67/EEC of 28 January 1991
concerning the animal health conditions governing the
placing on the market of aquaculture animals and
products (2), and in Annex D to Directive 95/70/EC.

diseases

subject

to

The diseases
referred to in Annex D to Directive
95/70/EC are diseases considered to be exotic to the
Community.

New epidemiological
investigations have demonstrated
that several diseases listed in Annex D to Directive
95/70/EC are either widespread in the Community
mollusc farming industry or without any significant
impact.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Annex D to Directive 95/70/EC is replaced by the text in the
Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 13 November 2006.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 332, 30.12.1995 p. 33. Directive as last amended by the 1993

Act of Accession.

(2) OJ L 46, 19.2.1991, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Regulation

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

(3) Not yet published in the Official Journal.

L 314/34

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

15.11.2006

ANNEX

‘ANNEX D

Disease

Susceptible host species

Infection with Bonamia exitiosa

Australian mud oyster (Ostrea angasi) and Chilean flat oyster (O. chilensis)

Infection with Perkinsus marinus

Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) and Eastern oyster (C. virginica)

Infection with Microcytos mackini

Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas), Eastern oyster (C. virginica), Olympia flat oyster
(Ostrea conchaphila) and European flat oyster (O. edulis)’