EFTA Surveillance Authority Decision No 28/07/COL of 19 February 2007 concerning the official tuberculosis, brucellosis and enzootic bovine leucosis-free status of Norway as regards bovine herds
Date: 2007-02-19
Institutions: EFTA Surveillance Authority
Subjects: Norway, animal leucosis, animal tuberculosis, brucellosis, cattle, veterinary inspection

L 132/38

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

24.5.2007

EFTA SURVEILLANCE AUTHORITY DECISION

No 28/07/COL

of 19 February 2007

concerning the official tuberculosis, brucellosis and enzootic bovine leucosis-free status of Norway
as regards bovine herds

THE EFTA SURVEILLANCE AUTHORITY,

WHEREAS by letters of 14 February 2005, 13 December 2005
and 26 October 2006, Norway submitted to the Authority up-
dated information related to enzootic bovine leucosis as
requested by
following discussions with the
European Commission;

latter

the

HAVING REGARD to the Agreement on the European Economic
Area (hereinafter
in
particular Article 109 and Protocol 1 thereof,

the EEA Agreement),

referred to as

HAVING REGARD to the Agreement between the EFTA States on
the Establishment of a Surveillance Authority and a Court of
Justice, in particular Article 5(2)(d) and Protocol 1 thereof,

WHEREAS the EFTA Surveillance Authority, in close cooperation
with the European Commission, has examined all the documen-
tation submitted by Norway and this examination shows that
the scheme related to enzootic bovine leucosis submitted by
Norway complies with all the relevant conditions provided for
in Directive 64/432/EEC;

I of Annex I

HAVING REGARD to the Act referred to at Point 4.1.1 of
Chapter
to the EEA Agreement, Council
Directive 64/432/EEC of 26 June 1964 on animal health
problems affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals
and swine (1), as amended and as adapted to the EEA
Agreement by Protocol 1 thereto, and in particular to Annex
A(I)(4), Annex A(II)(7) and Annex D(I)(E) of that Act,

WHEREAS it
declared as officially free of enzootic bovine leucosis;

is therefore appropriate that Norway may be

WHEREAS by EFTA Surveillance Authority Decisions No
66/94/COL and No 67/94/COL of 27 June 1994, Norway
was granted brucellosis-free and tuberculosis-free status of
bovine herds, provided that certain conditions were met;

HAVING REGARD to the EFTA Surveillance Authority Decision
No 24/07/COL of 14 February 2007, whereby the competent
College Member is instructed to adopt the Decision concerning
the official
and enzootic bovine
leucosis-free status of Norway as regards bovine herds if the
draft decision is in accordance with the opinion of the EFTA
Veterinary Committee (EVC),

tuberculosis, brucellosis

WHEREAS Decisions No 66/94/COL and No 67/94/COL were
respectively replaced by the EFTA Surveillance Authority
Decisions No 227/96/COL
and No 225/96/COL of 4
December 1996;

WHEREAS Directive 64/432/EEC provides that EEA EFTA States
or parts or regions thereof may be declared officially free of
tuberculosis, brucellosis and enzootic bovine leucosis as regards
bovine herds subject to compliance with certain conditions set
out in that Act;

WHEREAS, in the interests of clarity, the status with regard to
the diseases
tuberculosis, brucellosis and enzootic bovine
leucosis, as regards bovine herds in Norway, should be set
out in the same Decision;

WHEREAS, accordingly, EFTA Surveillance Authority Decisions
No 225/96/COL and No 227/96/COL should be replaced by
this Decision;

WHEREAS by letter of 29 June 2004, Norway has submitted to
the Authority the relevant documentation related to enzootic
bovine leucosis in accordance with Annex D(I)(E) and Article 8
of Directive 64/432/EEC;

(1) OJ 121, 29.7.1964, p. 1977/64.

WHEREAS the measures provided for in this Decision are in
accordance with the opinion of
EFTA Veterinary
Committee assisting the EFTA Surveillance Authority,

the

24.5.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 132/39

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

1. In accordance with Directive 64/432/EEC, Norway is
tuberculosis, brucellosis and

declared as officially free of
enzootic bovine leucosis as regards bovine herds.

4. The EFTA Surveillance Authority Decisions No 227/96/COL
and No 225/96/COL of 4 December 1996 are replaced
hereby.

5. This Decision shall enter into force on 19 February 2007.

6. This Decision shall be authentic in the English language.

2. This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Norway.

Done at Brussels, 19 February 2007.

3. Pursuant to Article 109(2) of the EEA Agreement, the EFTA
Surveillance Authority shall forward this Decision and any
amendments thereto to the European Commission.

Bjørn T. GRYDELAND
President

Niels FENGER
Director

For the EFTA Surveillance Authority