Proposal for a Council Regulation adapting Annex I to Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-02-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal health, animal nutrition, animal welfare, approximation of laws, enlargement of the Union, food inspection, foodstuff, foodstuffs legislation, health control

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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 

Brussels, 4.2.2008 
COM(2008) 48 final 

Proposal for a 

COUNCIL REGULATION 

adapting Annex I to Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of 
the Council on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with 
feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules  

(Text with EEA relevance) 

(presented by the Commission) 

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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 

Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishes a 
harmonised framework of general rules for the organisation of official controls regarding feed 
and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules.  

Provisions laid down in this Regulation are made for the organisation of official controls of 
feed and food, including feed and food imported into the territory of the Community.  

Annex  I  to  this  Regulation  lists  the  territories  in  which  this  Regulation  shall  apply.  The 
Regulation  was  adopted  on  30.04.2004,  i.e.  before  the  accession  of  new  Member  States. 
Annex I has not yet been amended to include those new Member States. 

EU  enlargement,  and  the  consequent  adjustments  to  the  Treaties  on  which  the  European 
Union is founded, require that Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004 should apply to these territories. 
For this reason, Annex I should be modified accordingly.  

This proposal has no financial implications for the Community budget. 

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Proposal for a 

COUNCIL REGULATION 

adapting Annex I to Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of 
the Council on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with 
feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules  

(Text with EEA relevance) 

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, 

Having  regard  to  the  Act  of  Accession  of  the  Czech  Republic,  Estonia,  Cyprus,  Latvia, 
Lithuania,  Hungary,  Malta,  Poland,  Slovenia  and  Slovakia  ,  and  in  particular  Article  57(2) 
thereof, 

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission1, 

Whereas: 

(1) 

Regulation (EC) No. 882/20042 establishes a harmonised framework of general rules 
for  the  organisation  of  official  controls  performed  to  ensure  the  verification  of 
compliance  with  feed  and  food  law,  animal  health  and  animal  welfare  rules.  Those 
controls are applied to exports to the Community, to the placing on the market in the 
Community, and to the introduction from third countries, into the territories set out in 
Annex I to that Regulation. 

(2) 

It is now necessary to complete the list of territories in order to include all the Member 
States in that list in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004.  

(3) 

Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 should therefore be amended accordingly, 

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 

Annex  I  to  Regulation  (EC)  No.  882/2004  is  replaced  by  the  text  in  the  Annex  to  this 
Regulation. 

Article 1 

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OJ C xxx, xx.xx.xxxx, p. xx. 
OJ L 165, 29.4.2004, p.1; corrected version in OJ L 191, 28.5.2004, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by 
Council Regulation (EC) No 1791/2006 (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 1). 

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Article 2 

This Regulation shall enter into force on the […] day following that of its publication in the 
Official Journal of the European Union. 

It shall apply from 1 April 2004. 

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. 

Done at Brussels,  

For the Council 
The President 

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ANNEX  

"Annex I 

Territories referred to in Article 2(15) 

The territory of the Kingdom of Belgium 

The territory of the Republic of Bulgaria 

The territory of the Czech Republic  

The territory of the Kingdom of Denmark with the exception of the Faroe Islands and 
Greenland 

The territory of the Federal Republic of Germany 

The territory of the Republic of Estonia 

The territory of Ireland 

The territory of the Hellenic Republic 

The territory of the Kingdom of Spain with the exception of Ceuta and Melilla 

The territory of the French Republic 

The territory of the Italian Republic 

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The territory of the Republic of Cyprus 

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The territory of the Republic of Latvia 

The territory of the Republic of Lithuania

The territory of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 

The territory of the Republic of Hungary 

The territory of the Republic of Malta 

The territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Europe 

The territory of the Republic of Austria 

The territory of the Republic of Poland 

The territory of the Portuguese Republic 

The territory of Romania 

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The territory of the Republic of Slovenia 

The territory of the Slovak Republic 

The territory of the Republic of Finland 

The territory of the Kingdom of Sweden 

The territory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" 

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