2007/522/EC: Commission Decision of 18 July 2007 amending Decision 2006/802/EC as regards pigmeat obtained from pigs which were vaccinated with a live attenuated conventional vaccine in Romania (notified under document number C(2007) 3418)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2007-07-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Romania, animal plague, derogation from EU law, marketing restriction, pigmeat, swine, traceability, trade restriction, vaccination

25.7.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

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(Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is not obligatory)

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DECISIONS

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 18 July 2007

amending Decision 2006/802/EC as regards pigmeat obtained from pigs which were vaccinated with
a live attenuated conventional vaccine in Romania

(notified under document number C(2007) 3418)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/522/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 Bulgaria and
Romania,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania,
and in particular Article 42 thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 2001/89/EC of 23 October
2001 on Community measures for the control of classical swine
fever (1), and in particular the third subparagraph of Article
19(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Decision 2006/802/EC of 23 November
eradication of
2006 approving the plans
classical swine fever in feral pigs and the emergency
vaccination of
in holdings
that disease in Romania (2) was adopted to
against
combat classical swine fever in that Member State.

those pigs and of pigs

the

for

Article 4 of that Decision approves the plan submitted by
Romania to the Commission on 27 September 2006 for
the emergency vaccination against classical swine fever of
pigs in pig holdings with a live attenuated conventional
vaccine (the approved plan).

(1) 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).

(2) OJ L 329, 25.11.2006, p. 34.

(4)

(5)

(6)

Article 5(c) of Decision 2006/802/EC lays down that
Romania is to ensure that the pigmeat obtained from
pigs which are vaccinated in accordance with Article 4
of
that Decision is limited for the private domestic
consumption or for the direct supply, by the producer,
of small quantities to the final consumer or to the local
market
to be
in the same municipality and is not
dispatched to the other Member States. Article 5(b) of
that Decision provides for the special marking of such
pigmeat.

that

The approved plan provides
the movement of
domestic pigs from non-professional holdings and of
pigmeat, pig products and by-products from those pigs
is prohibited, except
family consumption in the
holding of origin. Where appropriate, live animals may
be commercialised exclusively on the local market.

for

On 3 May 2007, Romania submitted to the Commission
an amendment to the approved plan. The approved plan,
as amended, authorises, under certain conditions,
the
direct movement of pigs from smaller or non-profes-
sional holdings and, where the emergency vaccination
with a live attenuated conventional vaccine has been
carried out
in accordance with Article 4 of Decision
2006/802/EC, to a slaughterhouse located in the same
county as the holding of origin or, if no slaughterhouse
is located in that county, to a slaughterhouse located in
an adjacent county.

In addition, Romania has requested a temporary dero-
gation from Article 5(c) of Decision 2006/802/EC until
31 August 2007 in order to be able to market
the
pigmeat obtained from those pigs on a county level in
view of
that arose to find a
the major difficulties
sufficient local market in the municipality.

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(7)

(8)

(9)

The amendment to the approved plan and the request for
a derogation from Article 5(c) of Decision 2006/802/EC
are compatible with the objective of eradicating classical
in the interests of
swine fever in Romania. However,
to
animal health,
certain conditions,
in
in particular,
question should be marked with a special mark to
guarantee full traceability and it should not be dispatched
to the other Member States.

the derogation should be subject
the pigmeat

Decision 2006/802/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

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

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 2006/802/EC is amended as follows:

1. Article 4 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 4

Plan for the emergency vaccination against classical
swine fever of pigs
in pig holdings with a live
attenuated conventional vaccine

The plan submitted by Romania to the Commission on
27 September 2006, as amended by the amendment
submitted to the Commission on 3 May 2007,
for the
emergency vaccination against classical swine fever of pigs
in pig holdings with a live attenuated conventional vaccine,
in the area as set out in point 4 of the Annex, is approved.’

(a) has been registered in the slaughterhouse according to

the instructions of the competent authority;

(b) has been kept and stored separately from pigmeat not

referred to in this Article;

(c) is marked with a special health or identification mark

which:

(i) is different from the marks referred to in Article 5(b);

(ii) cannot be confused with the Community stamp, as
referred to in Article 4 of Decision 2006/779/EC;

(d) may only be dispatched to establishments within the

same county as the holding of origin of the pigs;

(e) is accompanied by a certificate issued by an official veter-
identification and desti-

inarian, specifying the origin,
nation of the pigmeat.

The pigmeat referred to in paragraph 1 shall not be

2.
dispatched to other Member States.’

Article 2

Romania shall take the necessary measures to comply with this
immediately
Decision and publish those measures.
inform the Commission thereof.

It shall

Article 1(2) shall apply until 31 August 2007.

Article 3

Article 4

2. The following Article 5a is inserted:

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

‘Article 5a

Derogation from the condition set out in Article 5(c)

Done at Brussels, 18 July 2007.

1.
By way of derogation from Article 5(c), Romania may
authorise the marketing of pigmeat, obtained from pigs
which are vaccinated in accordance with Article 4 for the
local market in the same county as the holding of origin of
those pigs, provided that it:

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission