2007/833/EC: Commission Decision of 13 December 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) 6256) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2007-12-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: United Kingdom, animal product, foot-and-mouth disease, health certificate, health control, live animal, trade restriction, veterinary inspection

14.12.2007

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 13 December 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) 6256)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/833/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(2)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Decision 2007/554/EC lays down rules applicable to the
dispatch from the high risk areas, listed in Annex I, and
the low risk areas listed in Annex II, to that Decision
(‘restricted 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 inac-
tivating possible foot-and-mouth disease virus.

In Decision 2007/554/EC, as amended by Decision
2007/664/EC, the Commission laid down rules for the
dispatch of certain categories of meat from certain areas
listed in Annex III to Decision 2007/554/EC, as thus
amended, that have not recorded any outbreak of foot-
and-mouth disease for a period of at least 90 days prior
to slaughter and which comply with certain specified
conditions.

On the basis of the favourable evolution of the animal
health situation in the United Kingdom, and in particular
the favourable results of the completed surveillance, it is
now possible to exclude certain areas in Great Britain
from the scope of Decision 2007/554/EC and retaining
a low-risk area of about 50 km around the outbreak sites
the administrative units of which should be listed in
Annex II to that Decision.

The favourable evolution of the animal health situation
also allows to remove certain certification requirements
for products of animal origin, such as meat, milk and
animal by products, because such products are no longer
under the restrictions pertaining to areas listed in Annex
I and are therefore no longer of different animal health
status.

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

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

(7)

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

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

Having regard to Council Directive 89/662/EEC of 11
in intra-
December 1989 concerning
the
Community trade with a view to the completion of
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,

Having regard to Council Directive 2003/85/EC of 29
September 2003 on Community measures for the control of
foot-and-mouth disease repealing Directive 85/511/EEC and
Decisions 89/531/EEC and 91/665/EEC,
amending
Directive 92/46/EEC (3), and in particular Article 60(2) and
Article 62(1) and (3) thereof,

and

Whereas:

(1)

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 (4) was
control
the
measures against foot-and-mouth disease taken by that
Member State in the framework of Directive 2003/85/EC.

disease
adopted to reinforce

foot-and-mouth

in

(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 306, 22.11.2003, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Directive

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

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

2007/796/EC (OJ L 322, 7.12.2007, p. 37).

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 2007/554/EC is amended as follows:

1. Article 17 is replaced by the following:

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 shall apply until 31 December 2007.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

However, the prohibitions of dispatch laid down in Articles
2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 as well as the provisions laid down in
Articles 9 and 11 related to those prohibitions and the
provisions in Article 14 shall cease to apply.’

2. The Annexes are replaced by the text in the Annex to this

Decision.

Done at Brussels, 13 December 2007.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

The following areas in the United Kingdom:

1

GROUP

2

ADNS

3

Administrative Unit

The following areas in the United Kingdom:

ANNEX II

1

GROUP

England

2

ADNS

41

66

76

77

138

148

163

168

3

Administrative Unit

Bracknell Forest Borough

Slough

Windsor and Maidenhead

Wokingham

Buckinghamshire County, the districts of:
South Buckinghamshire

Hampshire County, the districts of:
Hart
Rushmoor

Surrey (except Tandridge District)

Greater London Authority, the boroughs of:
Hillingdon
Hounslow
Richmond upon Thames
Kingston upon Thames
Ealing
Harrow
Brent
Hammersmith and Fulham
Wandsworth
Merton
Sutton

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1

GROUP

2

ADNS

ANNEX III

3

Administrative Unit

4

B

5

S/G

6

P

7

FG

8

WG

ADNS = Animal Disease Notification System Code (Decision 2005/176/EC)

B

= bovine meat

S/G

= sheep and goat meat [meat of ovine and caprine animals]

P

FG

WG

= pig meat [meat of porcine animals]

= farmed game of species susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease
= wild game of species susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease’