2008/233/EC: Commission Decision of 17 March 2008 amending Decision 2004/558/EC implementing Council Directive 64/432/EEC as regards additional guarantees for intra-Community trade in bovine animals relating to infectious bovine rhinotracheitis and the approval of the eradication programme presented by certain Member States (notified under document number C(2008) 1004) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-03-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Czechia, Germany, Italy, animal disease, cattle, health control, health legislation, intra-EU trade

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(Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is not obligatory)

II

DECISIONS

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 17 March 2008

amending Decision 2004/558/EC implementing Council Directive 64/432/EEC as regards additional
guarantees
to infectious bovine
in bovine
rhinotracheitis and the approval of the eradication programme presented by certain Member States

intra-Community trade

relating

animals

for

(notified under document number C(2008) 1004)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/233/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 64/432/EEC of 26 June
1964 on animal health problems affecting intra-Community
trade in bovine animals and swine (1), and in particular
Article 9(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

a

that a
Article 9 of Directive 64/432/EEC provides
Member State, which has
compulsory national
control programme for one of the contagious diseases
listed in Annex E(II) to that Directive, may submit its
programme to the Commission for approval. That
Article also provides for the definition of the additional
guarantees which may be required in intra-Community
trade.

Commission Decision 2004/558/EC of 15 July 2004
implementing Council Directive 64/432/EEC as regards
in
additional guarantees
relating to infectious bovine rhino-
bovine animals
eradication
of
the
and
tracheitis

intra-Community trade

approval

the

for

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

programmes presented by certain Member States (2)
approves the programmes for the control and eradication
the infection with the bovine herpesvirus type 1
of
listed in
(BHV1) presented by the Member States
Annex I to that Decision for the regions listed in that
Annex, and for which additional guarantees for BHV1
apply
in accordance with Article 9 of Directive
64/432/EEC.

The Czech Republic has now submitted the programme
with the aim of eradicating BHV1 infection in the whole
territory of that Member State. That programme complies
with the criteria set out
in Article 9(1) of Directive
64/432/EEC. That programme also provides for rules
for the national movement of bovine animals which
are
to those previously implemented in
certain Member States or regions thereof, which were
successful
in eradicating the disease in those Member
States or regions.

equivalent

The programme presented by the Czech Republic and the
additional guarantees presented in accordance with
Article 9 of Directive 64/432/EEC, should be approved.

Annex I to Decision 2004/558/EC should therefore be
amended accordingly.

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 121, 29.7.1964, p. 1977/64. Directive as last amended by
Commission Decision 2007/729/EC (OJ L 294, 13.11.2007, p. 26).

(2) OJ L 249, 23.7.2004, p. 20. Decision as last amended by Decision

2007/584/EC (OJ L 219, 24.8.2007, p. 37).

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Annex I to Decision 2004/558/EC is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 1

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done in Brussels, 17 March 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission

ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

Member States

Regions of Member States to which the additional guarantees for infectious bovine rhinotracheitis
apply in accordance with Article 9 of Directive 64/432/EEC

Czech Republic

All regions

Germany

Italy

All regions, except Regierungsbezirke Oberpfalz and Oberfranken in the federal state of
Bavaria

The Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia
The Autonomous Province of Trento’