EFTA Surveillance Authority Decision No 30/07/COL of 19 February 2007 concerning the Norwegian national scrapie control programme and additional guarantees regarding intra-Community trade and import to Norway
Date: 2007-02-19
Institutions: EFTA Surveillance Authority
Subjects: Norway, animal disease, disease prevention, import, intra-EU trade, sheep, veterinary inspection

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Official Journal of the European Union

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EFTA SURVEILLANCE AUTHORITY DECISION

No 30/07/COL

of 19 February 2007

concerning the Norwegian national scrapie control programme and additional guarantees regarding
intra-Community trade and import to Norway

THE EFTA SURVEILLANCE AUTHORITY,

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

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,

HAVING REGARD to the Act referred to at Point 7.1.12 of
Chapter I of Annex I to the EEA Agreement, Regulation (EC)
No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of
22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and
eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalo-
pathies as amended and as adapted to the EEA Agreement by
Protocol 1 thereto (1),

HAVING REGARD to the Act referred to at point 7.2.27 of
Chapter I of Annex I
to the EEA Agreement, Commission
Regulation (EC) No 546/2006 of 31 March 2006 implementing
Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and
of the Council as regards national scrapie control programmes
and
from certain
and
requirements of Decision 2003/100/EC and repealing Regu-
lation (EC) No 1874/2003 (2),
adapted to the EEA
Agreement by Protocol 1 thereto,

derogating

guarantees

additional

as

HAVING REGARD to the EFTA Surveillance Authority Decision
No 21/07/COL of 14 February 2007, whereby the competent
College Member is instructed to adopt the Decision concerning
the Norwegian national scrapie control programme and addi-
tional guarantees regarding intra-Community trade and import
to Norway if
the draft decision is in accordance with the
opinion of the EFTA Veterinary Committee (EVC),

WHEREAS Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 provides
the
approval of the national scrapie control programmes of EEA
EFTA States if they comply with certain criteria laid down in
that Regulation,

for

WHEREAS Regulation (EC) No 546/2006 provides for additional
guarantees in intra-Community trade and official movements

(1) OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 94, 1.4.2006, p. 28.

restrictions relating to holdings of ovine and caprine animals
destined for the EEA EFTA States whose national scrapie control
programmes have been approved by the EFTA Surveillance
Authority,

WHEREAS by letter of 14 February 2006, Norway submitted a
national scrapie control programme to the EFTA Surveillance
Authority and, on 20 November 2006, following discussions at
the package meeting in Oslo, certain amendments to that
programme as well as detailed information clarifying the
extent of
submitted to the EFTA
Surveillance Authority,

the programme were

WHEREAS the EFTA Surveillance Authority, in close cooperation
with the European Commission, has examined the proposed
Norwegian national
and this
examination shows that the Norwegian programme fulfils the
requirement for approval,

control programme

scrapie

the national

WHEREAS it is therefore appropriate to provide for the approval
of
scrapie control programme submitted by
Norway in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 999/2001
and Regulation (EC) No 546/2006,

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

the

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

1. The Norwegian national scrapie control programme and the
additional guarantees regarding intra-Community trade and
import to Norway submitted on 14 February 2006 and on
20 November 2006 are hereby approved.

2. Pursuant to Article 109(2) of the EEA Agreement, the EFTA
forward to the European
Surveillance Authority shall
Commission the Norwegian national
control
scrapie
programme and the additional guarantees regarding intra-
Community
and any
amendments thereto.

and import

to Norway

trade

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

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

Done at Brussels, 19 February 2007.

For the EFTA Surveillance Authority

Bjørn T. GRYDELAND
President

Niels FENGER
Director