Commission Decision of 22 December 2006 approving contingency plans for the control of foot-and-mouth disease pursuant to Council Directive 2003/85/EC (notified under document number C(2006) 6855)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-12-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bulgaria, Romania, disease prevention, foot-and-mouth disease, veterinary inspection, veterinary legislation

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 22 December 2006

approving contingency plans for the control of

foot-and-mouth disease pursuant to Council

Directive 2003/85/EC

(notified under document number C(2006) 6855)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/18/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of the Republic 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,

the Republic of

Having regard to Council Directive 2003/85/EC of 29
September 2003 on Community measures for the control of
foot-and-mouth disease repealing Directive 85/511/EEC and
Decisions
amending
Directive 92/46/EEC (1), and in particular Article 72(7) thereof,

91/665/EEC and

89/531/EEC and

(4)

(5)

(6)

Whereas:

are due

and Romania

Bulgaria
to the
Community on 1 January 2007. Accordingly, Bulgaria
and Romania have submitted their contingency plans
for
to the
Commission for approval.

foot-and-mouth disease

control of

to accede

the

fulfil

Those contingency plans as amended by Bulgaria and
Romania following the suggestions made during their
the criteria laid down in Directive
evaluation,
to a regular update and an
2003/85/EC and, subject
effective implementation, permit the desired objectives
of that Directive to be attained and should therefore be
approved.

For the sake of clarity of Community legislation, Decision
2004/435/EC should be repealed and replaced by this
Decision.

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)

Directive 2003/85/EC sets out the control measures to be
applied in the event of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth
disease, as well as certain preventive measures aimed at
increasing the
the
farming community
and the
competent
concerning that disease. Pursuant to this Directive the
contingency plans of the Member States for the control
of foot-and-mouth disease are to be approved by the
Commision.

and preparedness of

awareness

authorties

Subsequently, Commission Decision 2004/435/EC of 29
April 2004 approving certain contingency plans for the
foot-and-mouth disease (2) approved those
control of
the Czech Republic, Estonia,
contingency plans
Cyprus,
Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia and these Members States are
listed in the the Annex to that Decision.

Lithuania, Hungary, Malta,

Latvia,

for

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

contingency

The
to the
Commission on 7 November 2006 for the control of foot-
and-mouth disease are approved.

by Bulgaria

submitted

plans

Article 2

contingency plans

to the
The
Commission on 9 November 2006 for the control of foot-
and-mouth disease are approved.

submitted by Romania

Article 3

(1) OJ L 306, 22.11.2003, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Decision

2006/552/EC (OJ L 217, 8.8.2006, p. 29).

(2) OJ L 154, 30.4.2004, p. 56, as corrected by OJ L 189, 27.5.2004,

p. 45.

The Annex sets out the list of Member States having their
contingency plans approved for
foot-and-
mouth disease pursuant to Directive 2003/85/EC.

the control of

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Article 4

Article 6

Decision 2004/435/EC is repealed.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 5

This Decision shall apply subject to and from the date of the
entry into force of the Treaty of Accession of Bulgaria and
Romania.

Done at Brussels, 22 December 2006.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

ANNEX

List of Member States as referred to in Article 3

Country

Bulgaria

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Estonia

Hungary

Latvia

Lithuania

Malta

Poland

Romania

Slovenia

Slovakia

Code

BG

CY

CZ

EE

HU

LV

LT

MT

PL

RO

SI

SK