2008/337/EC: Commission Decision of 24 April 2008 amending Decision 2006/968/EC implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 as regards guidelines and procedures for the electronic identification of ovine and caprine animals (notified under document number C(2008) 1571) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-04-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: approval, data processing, electronic equipment, goat, international standard, management information system, research body, sheep, traceability

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 24 April 2008

amending Decision 2006/968/EC implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 as regards
guidelines and procedures for the electronic identification of ovine and caprine animals

(notified under document number C(2008) 1571)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/337/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 of
17 December 2003 establishing a system for the identification
and registration of ovine and caprine animals and amending
Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Directives 92/102/EEC
and 64/432/EEC (1), and in particular Article 9(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(4)

(5)

(1)

(2)

Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 provides that each Member
State is to establish a system for the identification and
registration of ovine and caprine animals in accordance
with that Regulation. Pursuant to Regulation (EC) No
21/2004,
those
animals is eartags. The second means of identification
and
includes
caprine animals.

identification of ovine

the first means of

identification of

electronic

the

sets

2006/968/EC (2)

animals pursuant
That Decision
concerning

out
Commission Decision
guidelines and procedures for the approval of identifiers
and readers for the electronic identification of ovine and
to Regulation (EC) No
caprine
down minimum
lays
21/2004.
requirements
and
conformance
certain
performance tests for the approval of those identifiers
and readers. Those tests are to be carried out by
designated test
and are
assessed and accredited in accordance with certain
European standards.

that operate

laboratories

(1) OJ L 5, 9.1.2004, p. 8. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1560/2007 (OJ L 340, 22.12.2007, p. 25).

(2) OJ L 401, 30.12.2006, p. 41.

Article 12(2) of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April
2004 on official controls performed to ensure the veri-
fication of compliance with feed and food law, animal
health and animal welfare rules (3)
to those
European standards in relation to the designation by
competent authorities of official laboratories.

refers

It
is appropriate to amend the reference in Decision
2006/968/EC to those standards in order to take into
account
laboratories
referred to in that Decision.

the specific character of

the test

18

Article
(EC) No
of Commission Regulation
2076/2005 of 5 December 2005 laying down transi-
tional arrangements for the implementation of Regu-
lations (EC) No 853/2004, (EC) No 854/2004, (EC) No
882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council
and amending Regulations (EC) No 853/2004 and (EC)
No 854/2004 (4) provides
a derogation from
Article 12(2) of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004.
Pursuant
the competent authority
may designate for a transitional period a test laboratory
which has not been accredited. For the sake of clarity,
Decision 2006/968/EC should refer to this derogation.

to that derogation,

for

(6)

Decision 2006/968/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

(7)

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

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

(3) OJ L 165, 30.4.2004, p. 1; corrected version in OJ L 191,
28.5.2004, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Council Regulation
(EC) No 301/2008 (OJ L 97, 9.4.2008, p. 85).

(4) OJ L 338, 22.12.2005, p. 83. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1246/2007 (OJ L 281, 25.10.2007, p. 21).

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

The Annex to Decision 2006/968/EC is amended in accordance
with the Annex to this Decision.

Done at Brussels, 24 April 2008.

Article 2

This Decision shall apply from 1 June 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission

In the Annex to Decision 2006/968/EC, Chapter IV is replaced by the following:

ANNEX

‘CHAPTER IV

Test laboratories

The competent authority shall designate test laboratories for carrying out the tests provided for in this

1.
Decision.

However, the competent authority may only designate test laboratories that operate and are assessed and
2.
accredited in accordance with Article 12(2)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004. Article 18 of Regulation (EC)
No 2076/2005 applies until 31 December 2009.

3. Member States shall draw up and keep up-to-date lists of test laboratories designated by the competent
authorities and make such information available to the other Member States and the public on a website.’