2007/848/EC: Commission Decision of 11 December 2007 approving certain national programmes for the control of salmonella in flocks of laying hens of Gallus gallus (notified under document number C(2007) 6100) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2007-12-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, environmental risk prevention, food safety, laying poultry, public health, veterinary inspection, zoonosis

19.12.2007

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 333/83

COMMISSION DECISION

of 11 December 2007

approving certain national programmes for the control of salmonella in flocks of laying hens of
Gallus gallus

(notified under document number C(2007) 6100)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/848/EC)

Certain Member States have submitted their national
programmes for the control of salmonella in laying
flocks of Gallus gallus.

Those programmes were found to comply with relevant
Community veterinary legislation and in particular with
Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003.

The national control programmes should therefore be
approved.

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

The national programmes for the control of salmonella in
laying flocks of Gallus gallus submitted by the Member States
listed in the Annex are approved.

This Decision shall apply from 1 January 2008.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 11 December 2007.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 of
the
the Council of 17 November
European Parliament and of
2003 on the control of salmonella and other specified food-
borne zoonotic agents (1) and, in particular Article 6(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(1)

(2)

(3)

The purpose of Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 is to
ensure that proper and effective measures are taken to
detect and control salmonella and other zoonotic agents
at all relevant stages of production, processing and distri-
bution, particularly at the level of primary production, in
order to reduce their prevalence and the risk they pose to
public health.

A Community target was established for the reduction of
the prevalence of all salmonella serotypes with public
health significance in laying flocks of Gallus gallus at
the level of primary production by Commission Regu-
lation (EC) No 1168/2006 of 31 July 2006 imple-
menting Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 of
the
European Parliament and of the Council as regards a
Community target for the reduction of the prevalence
of certain salmonella serotypes in laying hens of Gallus
gallus and amending Regulation (EC) No 1003/2005 (2).

In order to achieve the Community target Member States
are to establish national programmes for the control of
salmonella in laying flocks of Gallus gallus and submit
them to the Commission in accordance with Regulation
(EC) No 2160/2003.

(1) OJ L 325, 12.12.2003, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1237/2007 (OJ L 280, 24.10.2007, p. 5).

(2) OJ L 211, 1.8.2006, p. 4.

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ANNEX

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

Cyprus

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxemburg

The Netherlands

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Slovenia

Slovakia

Spain

Sweden

The United Kingdom