2007/488/EC: Commission Decision of 11 July 2007 granting exemptions to Italy under Council Directive 92/119/EEC for the transport of pigs for slaughter on public and private roads to a slaughterhouse within protection zones in Cremona (notified under document number C(2007) 3314)
Date: 2007-07-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Italy, Lombardy, animal disease, derogation from EU law, health control, swine, transport of animals, veterinary inspection

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Official Journal of the European Union

12.7.2007

COMMISSION DECISION

of 11 July 2007

granting exemptions to Italy under Council Directive 92/119/EEC for the transport of pigs for
slaughter on public and private roads to a slaughterhouse within protection zones in Cremona

(notified under document number C(2007) 3314)

(Only the Italian text is authentic)

(2007/488/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

outbreak of swine vesicular disease in the municipality
of Romano di Lombardia, Province of Bergamo,
Italy.
The measures provided for in that protection zone are
no longer applied. Accordingly, Decision 2007/123/EC
should be repealed.

Having regard to Council Directive 92/119/EEC of 17
December 1992 introducing general Community measures for
the control of certain animal diseases and specific measures
relating to swine vesicular disease (1) and in particular point
7(2)(d) of Annex II thereof,

(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

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

and Fiesco, Province of Cremona,

On 7 and 15 May 2007 protection zones were estab-
lished by the competent authority in Italy around
outbreaks of swine vesicular disease in the municipalities
in
of Salvirola
accordance with Article 10 of Directive 92/119/EEC.
On 14 June 2007 a protection zone was established
around an outbreak in the municipality of Offanengo,
Province of Cremona. The protection zones
are
partially overlapping.

Accordingly, the movement and transport of pigs on
public and private roads within those protection zones
have been prohibited.

Italy has

submitted two requests

However,
for an
exemption from that prohibition for the transport of
pigs for slaughter coming from outside those protection
zones, on public and private roads within the protection
zones,
them to slaughterhouses
situated in the protection zones.

in order to transport

Article 1

Italy may authorise the transport of pigs for slaughter coming
from outside the protection zones established on 7 and 15 May
2007 around the outbreaks of swine vesicular disease that
occurred in the municipalities of Salvirola and Fiesco and the
protection zone established on 14 June 2007 around the
outbreak that occurred in the municipality of Offanengo, (the
pigs), on public and private roads within those protection
zones, to slaughterhouses ‘2037 M/S’ and ‘523M’ (the slaugh-
terhouse), subject to the conditions set out in Article 2.

Article 2

The conditions applying to the exemptions provided for in
Article 1 are as follows:

(a)

the dispatch of the pigs must be notified at least 24 hours
in advance by the official veterinarian for the holding of
origin to the official veterinarian for the slaughterhouse;

It is appropriate to provide for those two exemptions,
subject to the condition that Italy takes strict control and
precaution measures that guarantee that there is no risk
of the spread of the disease.

(b) the transport of the pigs to the slaughterhouse must be via a
that corridor must be laid down in

corridor; details of
advance by Italy;

Commission Decision 2007/123/EC of 20 February
2007 was adopted to grant a similar exemption for a
around an
slaughterhouse

in the protection zone

(1) OJ L 62, 15.3.1993, p. 69. Directive as

last amended by

Commission Directive 2007/10/EC (OJ L 63, 1.3.2007, p. 24).

(c) vehicles carrying the pigs must be sealed by the competent
authority before or on entry to the corridor; at the time of
sealing,
the competent authority must record the regis-
tration number of the vehicle and the number of pigs trans-
ported therein;

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(d) on arrival at the slaughterhouse, the competent authority

Article 3

shall:

(i) inspect and remove the seal on the vehicle;

Decision 2007/123/EC is repealed.

Article 4

(ii) be present at the unloading of the pigs;

This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.

(iii) record the registration number of the vehicle and the

number of pigs therein;

Done at Brussels, 11 July 2007.

(e) any vehicle carrying pigs

to the slaughterhouse shall
immediately following unloading, cleaning and
undergo,
disinfection under official control and in accordance with
the instructions of
the competent authority, before the
vehicle leaves the slaughterhouse.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission