2007/152/EC: Commission Decision of 6 March 2007 amending Decision 2006/805/EC as regards animal health control measures relating to classical swine fever in Hungary (notified under document number C(2007) 671) (Text with EEA relevance )
Date: 2007-03-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Hungary, animal plague, health legislation, swine, trade restriction, veterinary inspection, zootechnics

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 6 March 2007

amending Decision 2006/805/EC as regards animal health control measures relating to classical
swine fever in Hungary

(notified under document number C(2007) 671)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/152/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 90/425/EEC of 26 June
1990 concerning veterinary and zootechnical checks applicable
in intra-Community trade in certain live animals and products
with a view to the completion of the internal market (1), and in
particular Article 10(4) thereof,

control of classical swine fever (4). Accordingly,
is
appropriate to amend Decision 2006/805/EC so that
the relevant disease control measures provided for in
that Decision also concern that county.

it

(3)

For the sake of transparency of Community legislation,
the list of the Member States concerned or the regions
thereof as set out in the Annex to Decision 2006/805/EC
should be replaced by the text in the Annex to this
Decision.

(4)

Decision 2006/805/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

Having regard to Council Directive 89/662/EEC of 11
December 1989 concerning
in intra-
Community trade with a view to completion of the internal
market (2), and in particular Article 9(4) thereof,

veterinary

checks

(5)

The measures provided for
accordance with
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Decision 2006/805/EC of 24 November
animal health control measures
2006 concerning
relating to classical
in certain Member
swine fever
States (3) was adopted in response to outbreaks of
classical swine fever
in certain Member States. That
Decision establishes certain disease control measures
concerning classical swine fever in those Member States.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 2006/805/EC is amended as follows:

Hungary informed the Commission that in January 2007,
the presence of that disease was found in feral pigs in the
county of Nógrád and it has
taken the necessary
measures to control that disease in accordance with the
measures provided for in Council Directive 2001/89/EC
of 23 October 2001 on Community measures for the

1. The first paragraph of Article 1 is replaced by the following:

‘This Decision lays down certain control measures in relation
to classical swine fever in the Member States or regions
in the Annex (the Member States
thereof as
concerned).’;

set out

(1) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 29. Directive as last amended by Directive
(OJ
2002/33/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
L 315, 19.11.2002, p. 14).

(2) OJ L 395, 30.12.1989, p. 13. Directive as last amended by Directive
2004/41/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
(OJ
L 157, 30.4.2004, p. 33), as corrected by OJ L 195, 2.6.2004, p. 12.
(3) OJ L 329, 25.11.2006, p. 67. Decision as last amended by Decision

2007/137/EC (OJ L 57, 24.2.2007, p. 25).

2. The Annex to Decision 2006/805/EC is replaced by the text

in the Annex to this Decision.

(4) OJ L 316, 1.12.2001, p. 5. Directive as last amended by Directive

2006/104/EC (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 352).

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This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 6 March 2007.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX

PART I

1. Germany

A. Rhineland-Palatinate:

(a) in the Kreis Ahrweiler: the municipalities Adenau and Altenahr;

in the municipality Daun the localities
(b) in the Kreis Daun: the municipalities Obere Kyll and Hillesheim,
Betteldorf, Dockweiler, Dreis-Brück, Hinterweiler and Kirchweiler,
in the municipality Kelberg the localities
Beinhausen, Bereborn, Bodenbach, Bongard, Borler, Boxberg, Brücktal, Drees, Gelenberg, Kelberg, Kirsbach,
Mannebach, Neichen, Nitz, Reimerath and Welcherath, in the municipality Gerolstein the localities Berlingen,
Duppach, Hohenfels-Essingen, Kalenborn-Scheuern, Neroth, Pelm and Rockeskyll and the City of Gerolstein;

(c) in the Kreis Bitburg-Prüm:

in the municipality Prüm the localities Büdesheim, Kleinlangenfeld, Neuendorf,

Olzheim, Roth bei Prüm, Schwirzheim and Weinsheim.

B. North Rhine-Westfalia:

(a) in the Kreis Euskirchen: the cities Bad Münstereifel, Mechernich, Schleiden and the localities of Billig, Euenheim,
Euskirchen, Flamersheim, Kirchheim, Kuchenheim, Kreuzweingarten, Niederkastenholz, Palmersheim, Rheder,
Roitzheim, Schweinheim, Stotzheim, Wißkirchen (in the City Euskirchen), and the municipalities Blankenheim,
Dahlem, Hellenthal, Kall and Nettersheim;

(b) in the Kreis Rhein-Sieg: the cities Meckenheim and Rheinbach, the municipality Wachtberg, the localities
Witterschlick, Volmershofen, Heidgen (in the municipality Alfter) and the localities Buschhoven, Morenhoven,
Miel and Odendorf (in the municipality Swisttal);

(c) the city Aachen: south of the motorways A4, A544 and the Bundesstrasse B1;

(d) the city Bonn: south of the Bundesstrasse 56 and the motorway A 565 (Bonn-Endenich to Bonn-Poppelsdorf)

and southwest of the Bundesstrasse 9;

(e) in the Kreis Aachen: the cities Monschau and Stolberg, and the municipalities Simmerath and Roetgen;

(f)

in the Kreis Düren: the cities Heimbach and Nideggen, and the municipalities Hürtgenwald and Langerwehe.

2. France

The territory of the Department of Bas-Rhin and Moselle located west of the Rhine and the channel Rhine Marne,
north of the motorway A 4, east of the river Sarre and south of the border with Germany and the municipalities
Holtzheim, Lingolsheim and Eckbolsheim.

PART II

1. Hungary

The territory county of Nógrád.

2. Slovakia

The territory of the District Veterinary and Food Administrations (DVFA) of Trenčín (comprising Trenčín and Bánovce
nad Bebravou districts), Prievidza (comprising Prievidza and Partizánske districts), Púchov (comprising Ilava district
only), Žiar nad Hronom (comprising Žiar nad Hronom, Žarnovica and Banská Štiavnica districts), Zvolen (comprising
Zvolen, Krupina and Detva districts), Lučenec (comprising Lučenec and Poltár districts) and Veľký Krtíš.

1. Bulgaria

The whole territory of Bulgaria.’

PART III