2008/476/EC: Commission Decision of 6 June 2008 amending Decision 2008/185/EC to include the departments of Côtes-d'Armor, Finistère, Ille-et-Vilaine, Morbihan and Nord, France, in the list of regions free of Aujeszky’s disease (notified under document number C(2008) 2387) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-06-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, animal disease, disease prevention, health control, intra-EU trade, swine, veterinary inspection

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 6 June 2008

amending Decision 2008/185/EC to include the departments of Côtes-d'Armor, Finistère, Ille-et-
Vilaine, Morbihan and Nord, France, in the list of regions free of Aujeszky’s disease
(notified under document number C(2008) 2387)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/476/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

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
Articles 9(2) and 10(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(4)

(5)

(1)

(2)

certain contagious disease,

Directive 64/432/EEC lays down rules applicable to intra-
Community trade in certain animals. Article 9 of that
Directive provides for compulsory national programmes
including Aujeszky’s
for
submitted to the Commission for
disease,
approval.
of Directive
64/432/EEC provides for Member States to submit docu-
mentation to the Commission concerning the status of
those diseases in their territory.

addition, Article

to be
In

10

Commission Decision 2008/185/EC of 21 February
2008 on additional guarantees
in intra-Community
trade of pigs relating to Aujeszky’s disease and criteria
to provide information on this disease (2) contains a list
of Member States or regions thereof free of Aujeszky’s
disease and where vaccination is prohibited in Annex I
thereto. Annex II to Decision 2008/185/EC contains a
list of Member States or regions thereof where disease
control programme for that disease are in place.

A programme for the eradication of Aujeszky’s disease
has been implemented in France for several years and the
departments of Côtes-d’Armor, Finistère,
Ille-et-Vilaine,
Morbihan and Nord are listed as regions where an
approved Aujeszky’s disease control programme is in
place.

France has submitted supporting documentation to the
Commission as regards the Aujeszky’s disease-free status
of the departments of Côtes-d’Armor, Finistère,
Ille-et-
Vilaine, Morbihan and Nord demonstrating that
the
disease has been eradicated from those departments.

The Commission has
examined the documentation
to comply with
submitted by France and found it
Article 10(1) of Directive 64/432/EEC. Accordingly,
those departments should be included in the list
in
Annex I to Decision 2008/185/EC.

(6)

Decision 2008/185/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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

(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 59, 4.3.2008, p. 19.

Annexes I and II to Decision 2008/185/EC are replaced by the
text in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 1

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This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 6 June 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

Member States or regions thereof free of Aujeszky’s disease and where vaccination is prohibited

ISO code

Member State

Regions

CZ

DK

DE

FR

Czech Republic

Denmark

Germany

France

All regions

All regions

All regions

The departments of Ain, Aisne, Allier, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-
Maritimes, Ardèche, Ardennes, Ariège, Aube, Aude, Aveyron, Bas-Rhin,
Bouches-du-Rhône, Calvados, Cantal, Charente, Charente-Maritime, Cher,
Corrèze, Côte-d'Or, Côtes-d'Armor, Creuse, Deux-Sèvres, Dordogne,
Doubs, Drôme, Essonne, Eure, Eure-et-Loir, Finistère, Gard, Gers,
Gironde, Hautes-Alpes, Hauts-de-Seine, Haute Garonne, Haute-Loire,
Haute-Marne, Hautes-Pyrénées, Haut-Rhin, Haute-Saône, Haute-Savoie,
Haute-Vienne, Hérault,
Jura,
Landes, Loire, Loire-Atlantique, Loir-et-Cher, Loiret, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne,
Lozère, Maine-et-Loire, Manche, Marne, Mayenne, Meurthe-et-Moselle,
Meuse, Morbihan, Moselle, Nièvre, Nord, Oise, Orne, Paris, Pas de
Calais,
Puy-de-Dôme,
Réunion, Rhône, Sarthe, Saône-et-Loire, Savoie, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-
Maritime, Seine-Saint-Denis, Somme, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Territoire
de Belfort, Val-de-Marne, Val-d'Oise, Var, Vaucluse, Vendée, Vienne,
Vosges, Yonne, Yvelines

Pyrénées-Atlantiques,

Pyrénées-Orientales,

Indre-et-Loire,

Ille-et-Vilaine,

Indre,

Isère,

CY

LU

AT

SK

FI

SE

UK

Cyprus

Luxembourg

Austria

Slovakia

Finland

Sweden

Whole territory

All regions

Whole territory

All regions

All regions

All regions

United Kingdom

All regions in England, Scotland and Wales

ANNEX II

Member States or regions thereof where approved Aujeszky’s disease control programmes are in place

ISO code

Member State

Regions

BE

ES

IT

NL

Belgium

Spain

Whole territory

The territory of the Autonomous Communities of Galicia, País Vasco,
Asturias, Cantabria, Navarra, La Rioja

The territory of
the provinces of León, Zamora, Palencia, Burgos,
Valladolid and Ávila in the Autonomous Community of Castilla y León

The territory of the province of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands

Italy

Netherlands

The province of Bolzano

Whole territory’