2007/862/EC: Commission Decision of 13 December 2007 amending Decision 2006/805/EC as regards animal health control measures relating to classical swine fever in Hungary and Slovakia (notified under document number C(2007) 6158) (Text with EEA relevance )
Date: 2007-12-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Hungary, Slovakia, animal plague, export restriction, health control, swine, veterinary inspection

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 13 December 2007

amending Decision 2006/805/EC as regards animal health control measures relating to classical
swine fever in Hungary and Slovakia

(notified under document number C(2007) 6158)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/862/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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

Having regard to Council Directive 89/662/EEC of 11
December 1989 concerning
in intra-
Community trade with a view to completion of the internal
market (2), and in particular Article 9(4) thereof,

veterinary

checks

Whereas:

Commission Decision 2006/805/EC of 24 November
animal health control measures
2006 concerning
relating to classical
in certain Member
swine fever
States (3) was adopted in response to outbreaks of
in certain Member States. That
classical swine fever
Decision establishes certain disease control measures
concerning classical swine fever in those Member States.

(1)

(2)

ological information available, the areas in Slovakia and
Hungary where control measures relating to classical
swine fever apply should be amended to include parts
of those districts.

(3)

(4)

The disease
significantly
situation in Slovakia has
improved in the District Veterinary and Food Adminis-
trations of Trenčín (comprising Trenčín and Bánovce nad
Bebravou districts), Prievidza (comprising Prievidza and
Partizánske districts)
and Púchov (comprising Ilava
district only). The measures provided for in Decision
2006/805/EC concerning those areas should therefore
no longer apply.

For the sake of transparency of Community legislation,
the list of the Member States concerned or the regions
thereof as set out in the Annex to Decision 2006/805/EC
should be replaced by the text in the Annex to this
Decision.

(5)

Decision 2006/805/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

Slovakia has informed the Commission about the recent
evolution of that disease in feral pigs and the presence of
that disease in the district of Nové Zámky, bordered by
the districts Komárno and Levice in Slovakia and the
county of Pest in Hungary. In the light of the epidemi-

(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

(1) 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).

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

(2) 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 in OJ L 195,
2.6.2004, p. 12.

the European Parliament and of

(3) OJ L 329, 25.11.2006, p. 67. Decision as last amended by Decision

2007/631/EC (OJ L 255, 29.9.2007, p. 45).

Article 1

The Annex to Decision 2006/805/EC is replaced by the text in
the Annex to this Decision.

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This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 13 December 2007.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX

PART I

1. Germany

A. Rhineland-Palatinate

(a)

in the Kreis Ahrweiler: the municipalities of Adenau and Altenahr;

(b) in the Kreis Daun: the municipalities of Obere Kyll and Hillesheim; in the municipality of Daun the localities of
Betteldorf, Dockweiler, Dreis-Brück, Hinterweiler and Kirchweiler; in the municipality of Kelberg the localities
of Beinhausen, Bereborn, Bodenbach, Bongard, Borler, Boxberg, Brücktal, Drees, Gelenberg, Kelberg, Kirsbach,
Mannebach, Neichen, Nitz, Reimerath and Welcherath;
in the municipality of Gerolstein the localities of
Berlingen, Duppach, Hohenfels-Essingen, Kalenborn-Scheuern, Neroth, Pelm and Rockeskyll and the town of
Gerolstein;

(c)

in the Kreis Bitburg-Prüm: in the municipality of Prüm the localities of Büdesheim, Kleinlangenfeld, Neuendorf,
Olzheim, Roth bei Prüm, Schwirzheim and Weinsheim.

B. North Rhine-Westfalia

(a)

in the Kreis Euskirchen: the towns of Bad Münstereifel, Mechernich and Schleiden, the localities of Billig,
Euenheim,
Kreuzweingarten, Niederkastenholz,
Palmersheim, Rheder, Roitzheim, Schweinheim, Stotzheim, Wißkirchen (in the town of Euskirchen), and the
municipalities of Blankenheim, Dahlem, Hellenthal, Kall and Nettersheim;

Flamersheim,

Kuchenheim,

Euskirchen,

Kirchheim,

(b) in the Kreis Rhein-Sieg: the towns of Meckenheim and Rheinbach, the municipality of Wachtberg, the localities
of Witterschlick, Volmershofen, Heidgen (in the municipality of Alfter) and the localities of Buschhoven,
Morenhoven, Miel and Odendorf (in the municipality of Swisttal);

(c)

the city of Aachen: south of the motorways A4, A544 and the Bundesstrasse B1;

(d) the city of Bonn: south of

the Bundesstrasse 56 and the motorway A 565 (Bonn-Endenich to Bonn-

Poppelsdorf) and southwest of the Bundesstrasse 9;

(e)

in the Kreis Aachen: the towns of Monschau and Stolberg, and the municipalities of Simmerath and Roetgen;

(f)

in the Kreis Düren: the towns of Heimbach and Nideggen, and the municipalities of Hürtgenwald and
Langerwehe.

2. France

The territory of the Departments of Bas-Rhin and Moselle located west of the Rhine and the Marne-Rhine Canal, north
of the motorway A 4, east of the Saar and south of the border with Germany and the municipalities of Holtzheim,
Lingolsheim and Eckbolsheim.

1. Hungary

PART II

The territory of the county of Nógrád and the territory of the county of Pest located north and east of the Danube,
south of the border with Slovakia, west of the border with the county of Nógrád and north of the motorway E 71.

2. Slovakia

The territory of the District Veterinary and Food Administrations (DVFA) of Žiar nad Hronom (comprising Žiar nad
Hronom, Žarnovica and Banská Štiavnica districts), Zvolen (comprising Zvolen, Krupina and Detva districts), Lučenec
(comprising Lučenec and Poltár districts), Veľký Krtíš (comprising Veľký Krtíš district), Komárno (comprising the
territory located east of motorway 64, north of the border with Hungary and west of Nové Zámky district), Nové
Zámky (comprising the territory located east of Komárno district and east of motorway 64, south of motorway 75
and north of the border with Hungary) and Levice (comprising the territory located east of Nové Zámky district and
east of motorway 66 (E77), south of motorway 75, north of the border with Hungary and west of Veľký Krtíš district).

1. Bulgaria:

The whole territory of Bulgaria.’

PART III