2007/664/EC: Commission Decision of 12 October 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) 4674) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2007-10-12
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: United Kingdom, animal product, foot-and-mouth disease, health control, veterinary inspection

13.10.2007

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 12 October 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) 4674)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/664/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 89/662/EEC of 11
in intra-
December 1989 concerning
Community trade with a view to the completion of
the
internal market (1), and in particular Article 9(4) thereof,

veterinary

checks

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)

foot-and-mouth

Following recent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in
Great Britain, Commission Decision 2007/554/EC of 9
August 2007 concerning certain protection measures
the United
against
Kingdom (3) was
control
the
measures against foot-and-mouth disease taken by that
Member State in the framework of Council Directive
2003/85/EC of 29 September 2003 on Community
measures for the control of foot-and-mouth disease (4).

disease
adopted to reinforce

in

Decision 2007/554/EC lays down rules applicable to the
dispatch from high and low risk areas in Great Britain of
products considered safe that either were produced
before the restrictions were put in place in the United
Kingdom, from raw material sourced from outside those
restricted areas, or that have undergone a treatment
proven effective in inactivating possible foot-and-mouth
disease virus.

(1) 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); corrected version OJ L 195, 2.6.2004,
p. 12.

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

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

2007/608/EC (OJ L 241, 14.9.2007, p. 26).

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

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

information provided by the United
On the basis of
Kingdom,
it is now appropriate to lay down rules for
the dispatch of certain categories of meat from certain
areas that have not recorded any outbreak of foot-and-
mouth disease for at least 90 days prior to slaughter and
which
conditions.
certain
Accordingly, a new Annex should be added to Decision
2007/554/EC listing those areas as Annex III thereto.

comply with

specified

In addition, problems have been encountered with the
supply of certain medical devices manufactured in
accordance with Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14
June 1993 concerning medical devices (5) from animal
tissues that were subject to treatments that render them
non-viable and incapable of disease transmission. Such
medical devices
to
the prohibition set out
in the first subparagraph of
Article 8(1) of Decision 2007/554/EC.

should therefore not be subject

In the interests of consistency of Community legislation,
Commission Decision 2005/176/EC of 1 March 2005
laying down the codified form and the codes for the
to Council
notification of animal diseases pursuant
Directive 82/894/EEC (6)
the
description of the areas listed in Annex III to Decision
2007/554/EC, added by the present Decision.

should be used for

Given the disease situation in the United Kingdom, it is
application of Decision
necessary
2007/554/EC until 15 November 2007.

to extend

the

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

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

(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

(5) OJ L 169, 12.7.1993, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1).

(6) OJ L 59, 5.3.2005, p. 40. Decision as amended by Decision

2006/924/EC (OJ L 354, 14.12.2006, p. 48).

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 2007/554/EC is amended as follows:

1. In Article 2, paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:

‘4.
The prohibition set out in paragraph 2 shall not apply
to meats bearing the health mark in accordance with
Chapter III of Section I of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No
854/2004, provided that:

(a)

the meat is clearly identified, and has been transported
and stored since the date of production separately from
meat which is not eligible,
in accordance with this
Decision, for dispatch outside the areas listed in Annex I;

(b) the meat complies with one of the following conditions:

(i) it was obtained before 15 July 2007; or

(iii) no animal of species susceptible to foot-and-mouth
disease has been introduced into the holding referred
to in point (ii) during the 21 days prior to the date
of loading, or in the case of farmed game prior to
the date of on-farm slaughtering, except in the case
of pigs coming from a supplying holding which
complies with the conditions laid down in point
(ii),
in which case the period of 21 days may be
reduced to 7 days;

(iv) the animals or,

in the

case of

farmed game
slaughtered on the farm, the carcasses have been
in means of
transported under official control
transport
that have been cleaned and disinfected
before loading from the holding referred to in
point (ii) directly to the designated slaughterhouse;

(v) the animals have been slaughtered less than 24
hours following the time of arrival at the slaugh-
terhouse and separately from animals the meat of
which is not eligible for dispatch from the area listed
in Annex I;

(ii) it is derived from animals reared for at least 90 days
prior to the date of slaughter and slaughtered; or in
the case of meat obtained from wild game of species
susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease (“wild game”)
killed, outside the areas listed in Annex I and II; or

(d) the meat, if positively marked in column 8 of Annex III,
was obtained from wild game, that was killed in areas
where there has been no outbreak of foot-and-mouth
disease for at least a period of 90 days before the date
of killing and at a distance of at least 20 km from areas
not specified in columns 1, 2 and 3 of Annex III;

(iii) it complies with the conditions set out in points (c),

(d) and (e);

(c)

the meat was obtained from domestic ungulates or from
farmed game of species susceptible to foot-and-mouth
disease (“farmed game”), as specified for the respective
category of meat in one of the appropriate columns 4
to 7 in Annex III, and complies with the following
conditions:

(i) the animals have been reared for at least 90 days
prior to the date of slaughter on holdings situated
within the areas specified in columns 1, 2 and 3 of
Annex III, where there has been no outbreak of foot-
and-mouth disease during at least that period;

(ii) during the 30 days prior to the date of transport to
the slaughterhouse, or in the case of farmed game
prior
the
to the date of on-farm slaughtering,
animals have remained under the supervision of
the competent veterinary authorities on a single
holding which is situated in the centre of a circle
around the holding of at least 10 km radius, where
there has been no outbreak of
foot-and-mouth
disease during at least that period;

(e) meat referred to in points (c) and (d) must in addition

comply with the following conditions:

(i) the dispatch of such meat is only to be authorised
by the competent veterinary authority of the United
Kingdom, if the establishment of dispatch is situated
within the areas specified in columns 1, 2 and 3 of
Annex III;

(ii) the meat is at all times clearly identified, handled,
stored and transported separately from meat which
is not eligible for dispatch from the area listed in
Annex I;

(iii) during post-mortem inspection by the official vete-
rinarian in the establishment of dispatch, or in the
case of on-farm slaughtering of farmed game on the
holding referred to in point (c)(ii), or in the case of
wild game at the game-handling establishment, no
clinical signs or post-mortem evidence of foot-and-
mouth disease were established;

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(iv) the meat has remained in the establishments or
holdings referred to in point (iii) of this paragraph
least 24 hours following the post-mortem
for at
inspection of the animals referred to in point (c)
and (d);

(iii) of

(v) in the case where foot-and-mouth disease has been
diagnosed in the establishments or holdings referred
this paragraph, any further
to in point
preparation of meat for dispatch outside the area
listed in Annex I shall only be authorised after the
slaughter of all animals present, the removal of all
meat and dead animals and not earlier than 24
the total cleaning
hours after the completion of
and
and
those
holdings under the control of an official veterinarian;

disinfection of

establishments

(vi) the central veterinary authorities shall communicate
to the other Member States and the Commission a
list of those establishments and holdings which they
have approved for the purposes of application of
points (c), (d) and (e).’

2. Article 8 is amended as follows:

(b) Paragraph 7 is replaced by the following:

in the

and (j),

case of products
to be

‘7.
By way of derogation from paragraph 3, it shall be
sufficient,
referred to in
accompanied by a
paragraph 2(i)
commercial document stating that the products are for
use as in-vitro diagnostic,
laboratory reagents, medical
products or medical devices, provided that the products
are clearly labelled “for in-vitro diagnostic use only” or
“for laboratory use only”, as “medical products” or as
“medical devices”.’

3. In Article 17,

November 2007’.

‘15 October 2007’

is

replaced by ‘15

4. A new Annex III, the text of which is set out in the Annex

to the present Decision, is added.

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

(a)

In paragraph 2, point (j) is replaced by the following:

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

‘(j) medicinal

as

defined

products

tissue which is

in Directive
2001/83/EC, medical devices manufactured utilising
as
animal
referred to in Article 1(5)(g) of Directive 93/42/EEC,
veterinary medicinal products as defined in Directive
2001/82/EC, and investigational medicinal products
as defined in Directive 2001/20/EC.’

rendered non-viable

Done at Brussels, 12 October 2007.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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7

FG

8

WG

ANNEX

‘ANNEX III

1

2

3

GROUP

ADNS

Administrative Unit

Scottish Islands

Scotland

England

131

123

124

121

122

126
128

79
81

80
90

127

85
88
96
129
130

92

94

Shetland Islands

Orkney Islands

NA H-Eileanan An Iar

Highland

Moray

Aberdeenshire
Aberdeen City

Angus
Dundee City

Clackmannanshire
Perth & Kinross

Fife

Falkirk
Midlothian
West Lothian
City of Edinburgh
East Lothian

Scottish Borders

Stirling

125

Argyll and Bute

83
84
86
87
89
91
93
95

82
132
133

134

141

169

10
16
17
26
29

East Dunbartonshire
East Renfrewshire
City of Glasgow
Inverclyde
North Lanarkshire
Renfrewshire
South Lanarkshire
West Dunbartonshire

East Ayrshire
North Ayrshire
South Ayrshire

Dumfries & Galloway

Cumbria

Northumberland

Gateshead
Newcastle upon Tyne
North Tyneside
South Tyneside
Sunderland

144

Durham

52
55
58
64
69

Darlington
Hartlepool
Middlesbrough
Redcar and Cleveland
Stockton-on-Tees

4

B

+

+

+

+

+

+
+

+
+

+
+

+

+
+
+
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+

+

+

+

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+
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+

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+

+

+
+
+
+
+

5

S/G

+

+

+

+

+

+
+

+
+

+
+

+

+
+
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+

+

+

+

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6

P

+

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+

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7

FG

8

WG

1

2

3

GROUP

ADNS

Administrative Unit

151
38
39

176
177
78

Lancashire
Blackburn with Darwen
Blackpool

North Yorkshire excluding Selby
Selby District
York

53
45
60
61

32
11
6
4
13

1
8
20
24

30
18
19
5
3
21
31
15
27
34

12
14
23
28
74

140
54
35

142
44

157
47

153

159
71

161
50

East Riding of Yorkshire
City of Kingston upon Hull
North East Lincolnshire
North Lincolnshire

West Yorkshire consisting of
Wakefield District
Kirklees District
Calderdale District
Bradford
Leeds

South Yorkshire consisting of
Barnsley District
Doncaster District
Rotherham District
Sheffield District

Greater Manchester consisting of
Tameside District
Oldham District
Rochdale District
Bury District
Bolton District
Salford District
Trafford District
Manchester District
Stockport District
Wigan District

Merseyside consisting of
Knowsley District
Liverpool District
Sefton District
St. Helens District
Warrington

Cheshire County
Halton
Wirral District

Derbyshire County
City of Derby

Nottinghamshire County
City of Nottingham

Lincolnshire

Shropshire
Telford and Wrekin

Staffordshire County
City of Stoke-on-Trent

4

B

+
+
+

+
+
+

+
+
+
+

+
+
+
+
+

+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+
+
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+
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+
+

+
+

+

+
+

+
+

5

S/G

+
+
+

+
+
+

+
+
+
+

+
+
+
+
+

+
+
+
+

+
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+
+
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+
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+
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+

+

+
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6

P

+
+
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+
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+
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FG

8

WG

Wales

1

2

3

GROUP

ADNS

Administrative Unit

170
73
136

171

172

114

115

116

103

108

111

113

173
174

118

110

119

97

102

105

107

99

98

112

101

104

100

117

109

Devon County
Torbay
Plymouth

Cornwall County

Isles of Scilly

Isle of Wight
Sir Ynys Mon — Isle of Anglesey

Gwynedd

Conwy

Sir Ddinbych-Denbigshir

Sir Y Fflint-Flintshire

Wrecsam-Wrexham

North Powys
South Powys

Sir Ceredigion-Ceredigion

Sir Gaerfyrddin-Carmarthen

Sir Benfro-Pembrokeshire

Abertawe-Swansea

Castell-Nedd Port Talbot-Neath Port
Talbot
Pen-y-Bont Ar Ogwr — Bridgend

Rhondda/Cynon/Taf

Bro Morgannwg-The Valee of
Glamorgan

Bleanau Gwent
Tor-Faen — Tor Faen
Casnewydd — Newport

Merthyr Tudful-Merthyr Tydfil
Caerffili — Caerphilly
Caerdydd — Cardiff
Sir Fynwy — Monmouthshire

4

B

+
+
+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+
+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

5

S/G

+
+
+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+
+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

6

P

+
+
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+

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+

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ADNS = Animal Disease Notification System Code (Decision 2005/176/EC)
B
S/G
P
FG
WG

= bovine meat
= sheep and goat meat
= pig meat
= farmed game of species susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease
= wild game of species susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease’