Commission Directive 2008/53/EC of 30 April 2008 amending Annex IV to Council Directive 2006/88/EC as regards Spring viraemia of carp (SVC) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-04-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal disease, aquaculture, disease prevention, freshwater fish, health legislation, import, marketing standard

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DIRECTIVES

COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2008/53/EC

of 30 April 2008

amending Annex IV to Council Directive 2006/88/EC as regards Spring viraemia of carp (SVC)

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 2006/88/EC of 24 October
2006 on animal health requirements for aquaculture animals
and products thereof, and on the prevention and control of
and in particular
certain diseases
Article 61(2) thereof,

animals (1),

in aquatic

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Directive 2006/88/EC lays down certain animal health
rules applicable to aquaculture animals and products
thereof. Those rules take into account
the listing of
diseases as exotic and non-exotic in Part II of Annex
IV to that Directive and the susceptible species.

Spring viraemia of carp (SVC) is included in the list of
non-exotic diseases in Part II of Annex IV to Directive
2006/88/EC.

In the framework of discussions in the Council leading to
the adoption of Directive 2006/88/EC, the Commission
issued a declaration acknowledging the concerns raised
by several of the carp producing Member States on the
consequences of having SVC subject
to harmonised
Community provisions. The Commission therefore
declared that
it would, after the entry into force of
Directive 2006/88/EC, but before its date of application,
upon the request and based on the arguments presented
to it, re-assess whether SVC should continue be included
in the list in Part II of Annex IV to that Directive. The
Commission has received requests for re-assessment from
several Member States.

(1) OJ L 328, 24.11.2006, p. 14.

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

Part I of Annex IV to Directive 2006/88/EC sets out the
criteria for listing diseases as exotic and non-exotic.
According to the criteria for listing non-exotic diseases,
consideration should be given as to whether the disease
has the potential
if
introduced into a Member State free of the disease by
production losses and by annual costs associated with the
disease and its control exceeding 5 % of the value of the
production of the susceptible aquaculture animal species
production in the region.

for significant economic impact

According to information from the main carp production
Member States, SVC is already an endemic disease.
However, during the last 20 to 25 years, SVC has not
caused major losses to the industry.

In addition,
it is appropriate to consider whether SVC
may be controlled at Member State level and whether
such control is cost-beneficial. Due to the hydrographical
situation and the structure of the carp aquaculture in the
main carp producing Member States, the costs related to
measures to eradicate that disease would be dispropor-
tionate to the economic losses caused by the disease. On
the basis of the recent information received, SVC appears
not to meet all the criteria for inclusion in the list of
non-exotic diseases in Part II of Annex IV to Directive
2006/88/EC.

Consequently,
it is appropriate to delete SVC from the
list of non-exotic diseases in Part II of Annex IV to
Directive 2006/88/EC.

Article 43 of Directive 2006/88/EC provides
that
Member States may take measures to prevent the intro-
duction of, or to control, diseases not listed in Part II of
Annex IV thereto, where those diseases constitute a
significant risk for the animal health situation of aqua-
culture or wild aquatic animals in those Member States.
Those measures are not to exceed the limits of what is
appropriate and necessary to prevent the introduction of,
or control of, such diseases.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Annex IV to Directive 2006/88/EC is amended in accordance
with the Annex to this Directive.

Article 2

Member States shall adopt and publish, by 1 August 2008 at
the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions
necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith
communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions
and a correlation table between those provisions and this
Directive.

They shall apply those provisions from 1 August 2008.

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain
a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a
reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member
States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text
of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the
field covered by this Directive.

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day
following that of its publication in the Official
Journal of the
European Union.

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Article 4

Done at Brussels, 30 April 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission

(9)

against

to Article 63 of Directive 2006/88/EC,
Pursuant
Commission Decision 2004/453/EC of 29 April 2004
implementing Council Directive 91/67/EEC as regards
measures
aquaculture
animals (1) is to continue to apply for the purposes of
Directive 2006/88/EC pending the adoption of
the
necessary provisions in accordance with Article 43 of
that Directive, which are to be adopted no later than
three years after entry into force of the Directive.

diseases

certain

in

(10) Under Commission Decision 2004/453/EC, Denmark,
Ireland, Finland, Sweden and United Kingdom have
their whole territory or parts thereof approved as SVC-
free or under control and eradication programmes. Those
Member States may consequently require additional guar-
antees
the introduction into those territories of
species susceptible to SVC.

for

(11)

in

in

place

The Member States that may require additional guar-
antees
accordance with Decision
2004/453/EC should be allowed to continue to apply
measures in accordance with Article 43 of Directive
including restrictions on the placing on
2006/88/EC,
the market and imports,
in order to control SVC and
maintain their disease-free status.

(12) Annex IV to Directive 2006/88/EC should therefore be

amended accordingly.

(13) Directive 2006/88/EC provides that the Member States
are to adopt national measures complying with that
Directive by 1 May 2008 and apply the national
provisions by 1 August 2008. In order to give Member
States sufficient time, the national measures complying
with Directive 2006/88/EC, as amended by the present
Directive, should be adopted by 1 August 2008, and the
national provisions applied from 1 August 2008.

(14)

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

in this Directive are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

(1) OJ L 156, 30.4.2004, p. 5; as corrected by OJ L 202, 7.6.2004, p. 4.
Decision as amended by Decision 2006/272/EC (OJ L 99, 7.4.2006,
p. 31).

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Part II to Annex IV is replaced by the following:

ANNEX

‘PART II

Listed diseases

EXOTIC DISEASES

DISEASE

SUSCEPTIBLE SPECIES

FISH

Epizootic haematopoietic necrosis

Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and redfin perch (Perca
fluviatilis)

Epizootic ulcerative syndrome

Genera: Catla, Channa, Labeo, Mastacembelus, Mugil, Puntius and
Trichogaster

MOLLUSCS

Infection with Bonamia exitiosa

Australian mud oyster (Ostrea angasi) and Chilean flat oyster
(O. chilensis)

Infection with Perkinsus marinus

Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) and Eastern oyster (C. virginica)

Infection with Microcytos mackini

CRUSTACEANS

Taura syndrome

Yellowhead disease

Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas), Eastern oyster (C. virginica),
Olympia flat oyster (Ostrea conchaphila) and European flat
oyster (O. edulis)

Gulf white shrimp (Penaeus setiferus), Pacific blue shrimp (P.
stylirostris), and Pacific white shrimp (P. vannamei)

Gulf brown shrimp (Penaeus aztecus), Gulf pink shrimp (P.
japonicus), black tiger shrimp
duorarum), Kuruma prawn (P.
(P. monodon), Gulf white shrimp (P. setiferus), Pacific blue
shrimp (P. stylirostris), and Pacific white shrimp (P. vannamei)

NON-EXOTIC DISEASES

DISEASES

SUSCEPTIBLE SPECIES

FISH

Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia
(VHS)

Infectious haematopoietic necrosis
(IHN)

Herring (Clupea spp.), whitefish (Coregonussp.), pike (Esox
lucius), haddock (Gadusaeglefinus), Pacific cod (G. macroce-
phalus), Atlantic cod (G. morhua), Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus
rockling (Onos mustelus),
spp.)
brown trout
(Scophthalmus maximus),
sprat (Sprattussprattus) and grayling (Thymallus thymallus)

rainbow trout

(Salmo trutta),

(O. mykiss),

turbot

Chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta), coho salmon (O. kisutch),
Masou salmon (O. masou), rainbow or steelhead trout (O.
salmon (O. nerka), pink salmon (O.
mykiss),
rhodurus)
and Atlantic
salmon (Salmo salar)

chinook salmon (O.tshawytscha),

sockeye

Koi herpes virus (KHV) disease

Common carp and koi carp (Cyprinus carpio)

Infectious salmon anaemia (ISA)

Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), Atlantic salmon (Salmo
salar), and brown and sea trout (S. trutta)

MOLLUSCS

Infection with Marteilia refringens

Infection with Bonamia ostreae

Australian mud oyster (Ostrea angasi), Chilean flat oyster (O.
chilensis), European flat oyster (O. edulis), Argentinian oyster
(O. puelchana), blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) and Mediterranean
mussel (M. galloprovincialis)

Australian mud oyster (Ostrea angasi), Chilean flat oyster (O.
chilensis), Olympia flat oyster (O. conchaphila), Asiatic oyster
(O. denselammellosa), European flat oyster (O. edulis), and
Argentinian oyster (O. puelchana)

CRUSTACEANS White spot disease

All decapod crustaceans (order Decapoda)’