2006/892/EC: Commission Decision of 5 December 2006 amending Decisions 2006/7/EC, 2006/265/EC and 2006/533/EC as regards an extension of their period of application (notified under document number C(2006) 5860)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-12-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Croatia, Switzerland, animal disease, health control, import restriction, poultry, veterinary inspection, zoonosis

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 5 December 2006

amending Decisions 2006/7/EC, 2006/265/EC and 2006/533/EC as regards an extension of their
period of application

(notified under document number C(2006) 5860)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/892/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 91/496/EEC of 15 July 1991
laying down the principles governing the organisation of
veterinary checks on animals entering the Community from
third
89/662/EEC,
90/425/EEC and 90/675/EEC (1), and in particular Article
18(7) thereof,

amending Directives

countries

and

Having regard to Council Directive 97/78/EC of 18 December
1997 laying down the principles governing the organisation of
veterinary checks on products entering the Community from
third countries (2), and in particular Article 22(6) thereof,

Whereas:

(3)

(4)

included,

Following the outbreak of avian influenza, caused by a
in southeastern
highly pathogenic H5N1 virus strain,
Asia starting in December 2003,
the Commission
adopted several protection measures in relation to avian
influenza. Those measures
in particular,
Commission Decision 2006/7/EC of 9 January 2006
concerning certain protection measures in relation to
the import of feathers from certain third countries (3),
Commission Decision 2006/265/EC of 31 March 2006
concerning certain protection measures in relation to a
suspicion of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Swit-
zerland (4) and Commission Decision 2006/533/EC of 28
July 2006 concerning certain temporary protection
measures
avian
influenza in Croatia (5).

in relation to highly pathogenic

(1)

(2)

Community measures concerning imports of
feathers,
in particular the relevant provisions concerning import
requirements for untreated feathers laid down in Chapter
VIII of Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of
the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 October
2002 laying down health rules concerning animal by-
products not intended for human consumption (6). That
legislative procedure however has not been completed.

Decisions 2006/7/EC, 2006/265/EC and 2006/533/EC
apply until 31 December 2006. However, as outbreaks
of the Asian lineage of the avian influenza virus still
to the
occur
Community has therefore not diminished,
it is appro-
those Decisions
priate to prolong the application of
until 30 June 2007.

in third countries

and the

threat

Decisions

2006/115/EC (7)

Decisions
Croatia

2006/563/EC (9)
Switzerland
and

Commission
and
2006/135/EC (8) have been repealed and replaced by
and
Commission
2006/415/EC (10).
have
informed the Commission that the competent authorities
of those countries are now applying protection measures
that are equivalent to those applied by the competent
as provided in
authorities of
the Member States,
Decisions
The
references in the Annexes to Decisions 2006/265/EC
and 2006/533/EC should therefore be updated.

2006/415/EC.

2006/563/EC

and

(5)

Decisions 2006/7/EC, 2006/265/EC and 2006/533/EC
should therefore be amended accordingly.

the

Since
the
Commission has been revising the existing permanent

adoption of Decision 2006/7/EC,

(6)

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) OJ L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 56. Directive as last amended by the 2003

Act of Accession.

(2) OJ L 24, 30.1.1998, p. 9. Directive as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(OJ L 165, 30.4.2004, p. 1); corrected by OJ L 191, 28.5.2004,
p. 1.

(3) OJ L 5, 10.1.2006, p. 17. Decision as last amended by Decision

2006/521/EC (OJ L 205, 27.7.2006, p. 26).

(4) OJ L 95, 4.4.2006, p. 9. Decision as amended by Decision

2006/405/EC (OJ L 158, 10.6.2006, p. 14).

(5) OJ L 212, 2.8.2006, p. 19.

(6) OJ L 273, 10.10.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 208/2006 (OJ L 36, 8.2.2006,
p. 25).

(7) OJ L 48, 18.2.2006, p. 28. Decision as amended by Decision

2006/277/EC (OJ L 103, 12.4.2006, p. 29).

(8) OJ L 52, 23.2.2006, p. 41. Decision as last amended by Decision

2006/384/EC (OJ L 148, 2.6.2006, p. 53).

(9) OJ L 222, 15.8.2006, p. 11.
(10) OJ L 164, 16.6.2006, p. 51. Decision as amended by Decision

2006/506/EC (OJ L 199, 21.7.2006, p. 36).

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

2. The Annex is replaced by Annex II to this Decision.

Article 1

Article 4

In Article 4 of Decision 2006/7/EC, the date ‘31 December
2006’ is replaced by ‘30 June 2007’.

Article 2

Decision 2006/265/EC is amended as follows:

shall

immediately take the necessary
The Member States
measures to comply with this Decision and publish those
measures. They shall
immediately inform the Commission
thereof.

1. In Article 3 the date ‘31 December 2006’

‘30 June 2007’.

is replaced by

Article 5

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

2. The Annex is replaced by Annex I to this Decision.

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 5 December 2006.

Decision 2006/533/EC is amended as follows:

1. In Article 5 the date ‘31 December 2006’

‘30 June 2007’.

is replaced by

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

‘ANNEX

Part of the territory of Switzerland referred to in Article 1(1)

ISO
country
code

CH

Name of country

Part of territory

Switzerland

In Switzerland: all areas of the territory of Switzerland for which the autho-
rities of Switzerland have formally applied equivalent restrictions to those
laid down in Commission Decisions 2006/415/EC and 2006/563/EC.’

ANNEX II

‘ANNEX

Part of the territory of Croatia referred to in Article 1

ISO
country
code

HR

Name of country

Part of territory

Croatia

In Croatia: all areas of the territory of Croatia for which the competent
authorities of Croatia formally apply protection measures that are equivalent
to those laid down in Commission Decision 2006/563/EC.’