2007/608/EC: Commission Decision of 13 September 2007 amending Decision 2007/554/EC concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom (notified under document number C(2007) 4301) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2007-09-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: United Kingdom, animal product, foot-and-mouth disease, health control, sensitive area, veterinary inspection

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 13 September 2007

amending Decision 2007/554/EC concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth
disease in the United Kingdom

(notified under document number C(2007) 4301)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/608/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

restrictions, from raw material sourced from outside the
restricted areas or
that had undergone a treatment
proven effective in inactivating possible foot-and-mouth
disease virus.

to

regard

Council Directive

Having
of
11 December 1989 concerning veterinary checks in intra-
the
Community trade with a view to the completion of
internal market (1), and in particular Article 9(4) thereof,

89/662/EEC

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 (2), and in
particular Article 10(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Decision 2007/554/EC of 9 August 2007
concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-
mouth disease in the United Kingdom (3) was adopted
that disease in that
following recent outbreaks of
Member
to apply until
15 September 2007.

State. That Decision is

Decision 2007/554/EC defines the high and low risk
areas in the affected Member States and provides for a
prohibition on the dispatch of susceptible animals from
the high and low risk areas and on the dispatch of
products derived from susceptible animals
from the
high risk area. The Decision also provides for the rules
applicable to the dispatch from those areas of safe
that either had been produced before the
products

(1) OJ L 395, 30.12.1989, p. 13. Directive as last amended by Directive
2004/41/EC of
the Council
(OJ L 157, 30.4.2004, p. 33, corrected version OJ L 195,
2.6.2004, p. 12).

the European Parliament and of

(2) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 29. Directive as last amended by Directive
the Council

the European Parliament and of

2002/33/EC of
(OJ L 315, 19.11.2002, p. 14).

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Until 15 September 2007 Annexes I and II to Decision
2007/554/EC limit
the high and low risk areas re-
spectively to the perimeters of the consolidated surveil-
lance zone around the two outbreaks of foot-and-mouth
disease confirmed in the beginning of August 2007,
which was maintained until 8 September in accord-
ance with Article 44 of Directive 2003/85/EC of
29 September 2003 on Community measures for the
foot-and-mouth disease repealing Directive
control of
and
85/511/EEC
91/665/EEC and amending Directive 92/46/EEC (4).

89/531/EEC

Decisions

and

Following a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease on
12 September 2007 in Great Britain outside the areas
described
to Decision
I
2007/554/EC, the United Kingdom has taken measures
in the framework of Council Directive 2003/85/EC and
has introduced further measures within the affected areas.

in Annexes

and

II

The foot-and-mouth disease situation in the United
the herds of other
Kingdom is
Member States
trade in live biungulate
animals and the placing on the market of certain of
their products.

liable to endanger
in view of

Given the disease situation in the United Kingdom, it is
necessary to ensure
that Decision 2007/554/EC is
amended before the 15 September 2007 in order to
extended its application until at least 15 October 2007
and to enlarge the areas under restriction in the light of
the epidemiological situation.

(7)

Decision 2007/554/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

(3) OJ L 210, 10.8.2007, p. 36. Decision as amended by Decision

(4) OJ L 306, 22.11.2003, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Directive

2007/588/EC (OJ L 220, 25.8.2007, p. 27).

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

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(8)

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 2007/554/EC is amended as follows:

Article 2

Member States shall amend the measures which they apply to
trade so as to bring them into compliance with this Decision.
They shall immediately inform the Commission thereof.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

1. In Article 17,

‘15 October 2007’;

‘15 September 2007’

is

replaced by

Done at Brussels, 13 September 2007.

2. Annexes I and II are replaced by the text in the Annex to

this Decision.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

ANNEX II

The following areas in the United Kingdom:

Great Britain

Great Britain’