2008/592/EC: Commission Decision of 3 July 2008 amending Decision 2000/572/EC laying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries (notified under document number C(2008) 3301) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-07-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: health certificate, import, meat product, third country, veterinary inspection

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 3 July 2008

amending Decision 2000/572/EC laying down the animal and public health and veterinary
certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries

(notified under document number C(2008) 3301)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/592/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(2)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

to

regard

Council Directive

Having
of
16 December 2002 laying down the animal health rules
governing the production, processing, distribution and intro­
human
duction
consumption (1), and in particular Article 8(1) and (4) and
Article 9(2)(b) and (4)(b) and (c) thereof,

2002/99/EC

products

animal

origin

for

of

of

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the hygiene
of foodstuffs (2), and in particular Article 12 thereof,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down
specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin (3), and in
particular Article 9 thereof,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down
the organisation of official controls on
specific rules
products of animal origin intended for human consumption (4),
and in particular Article 16 thereof,

for

Whereas:

(1)

Commission Decision 2000/572/EC (5)
lays down the
animal and public health and veterinary certification
conditions for imports of meat preparations into the
Community from third countries.

(1) OJ L 18, 23.1.2002, p. 11.
(2) OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 1, as corrected by OJ L 226, 25.6.2004,

p. 3.

(3) OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 55, as corrected by OJ L 226, 25.6.2004,
p. 22. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1243/2007 (OJ L 281, 25.10.2007, p. 8).

(4) OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 206, as corrected by OJ L 226, 25.6.2004,
p. 83. Regulation as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No
1791/2006 (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 1).

(5) OJ L 240, 23.9.2000, p. 19. Decision as last amended by Decision
2004/437/EC (OJ L 154, 30.4.2004, p. 65, as corrected by OJ
L 189, 27.5.2004, p. 52).

(EC) No

Following the entry into application of Regulations (EC)
Nos 852/2004, 853/2004 and 854/2004 and of
of
Commission Regulation
5 December 2005 laying down specific rules on official
controls for Trichinella in meat (6),
is necessary to
amend and update Community health conditions and
certification requirements
into the
Community of meat preparations in order to introduce
the correct references to the new legislation.

2075/2005

imports

the

for

it

(3)

(4)

veterinary

system introduced

Traces (Trade Control and Expert System) is an integrated
computerised
by
Commission Decision 2004/292/EC of 30 March 2004
on the introduction of the Traces system and amending
Decision 92/486/EEC (7). Standardisation of health cer­
tificates is essential for the effective computer processing
of the certificates in the Traces system.

95/328/EC,

93/197/EEC,

92/260/EEC,

79/542/EEC,

Commission Decision 2007/240/EC of 16 April 2007
laying down new veterinary certificates for importing
live animals, semen, embryos, ova and products of
to
animal origin into the Community pursuant
93/195/EEC,
Decisions
93/196/EEC,
96/333/EC,
96/539/EC, 96/540/EC, 2000/572/EC, 2000/585/EC,
2003/56/EC,
2002/613/EC,
2000/666/EC,
2003/858/EC,
2003/804/EC,
2003/779/EC,
2004/407/EC,
2003/863/EC,
2003/881/EC,
2004/438/EC,
and
2006/168/EC (8) provides
the various veterinary
and public and animal health certificates required for
the import of
live animals, semen, embryo, ova and
products of animal origin into the Community and the
certificates
through the Community of
products of animal origin are to be based on the
standard models for veterinary certificates in Annex I
to that Decision.

2004/595/EC,
that

2004/639/EC

transit

for

(5)

Accordingly, the model certificates set out in Annexes II
and III to Decision 2000/572/EC should be replaced by
new models in order to ensure compatibility with Traces.

(6) OJ L 338, 22.12.2005, p. 60. Regulation as last amended by Regu­

lation (EC) No 1245/2007 (OJ L 281, 25.10.2007, p. 19).

(7) OJ L 94, 31.3.2004, p. 63. Decision as last amended by Decision

2005/515/EC (OJ L 187, 19.7.2005, p. 29).

(8) OJ L 104, 21.4.2007, p. 37.

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(6)

(7)

(8)

with

issued

accordance

To avoid any disruption of trade, the use of the cer­
tificates
Decision
in
2000/572/EC before the amendments
introduced by
the present Decision, should be authorised for a period
this
of six months after
Decision. Those certificates
should be accepted for
import into the community for a period of 10 months
after the application of the present Decision.

the date of application of

Decision 2000/572/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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 2000/572/EC is amended as follows:

1. Article 3 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 3

The importation of meat preparations is subject
following conditions:

to the

1. they have been produced in accordance with the relevant
requirements laid down in Regulations (EC) No 178/2002
of the European Parliament and of the Council (*), (EC)
No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the
the European
Council (**),
and (EC) No
Parliament
999/2001 of
the
Council (****)
specified in the health certificate
referred to in Article 4(2) of this Decision;

the European Parliament and of
as

(EC) No 853/2004 of
the Council (***)

and of

2. they come from an establishment or establishments im­
plementing a programme based on the hazard analysis
and
in
accordance with Regulation (EC) No 852/2004;

(HACCP) principles

control point

critical

3. they have been frozen at an internal temperature of not
more than – 18 °C at the production plant or plants of
origin.

___________

(*) OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1.
(**) OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 1, as corrected by OJ L 226,

25.6.2004, p. 3.

(***) OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 55, as corrected by OJ

L 226, 25.6.2004, p. 22.

(****) OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1.’;

2. Article 4a is amended as follows:

(a)

(a),

‘Decision 94/984/EC’
in point
‘Commission Decision 2006/696/EC (*)
___________
(*) OJ L 295, 25.10.2006, p. 1.’;

is

replaced by

(b) in point (b), the words ‘Decision 94/984/EC’ are replaced

by ‘Decision 2006/696/EC’.

3. Annexes II and III are replaced by the text in the Annex to

this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision shall apply from 1 July 2008.

However, consignments of meat preparations for which health
certificates were issued in accordance with the model established
by Decision 2000/572/EC before the amendments introduced
to
by the present Decision and with an issue date prior
into the
31 December 2008, shall be accepted for import
Community until 1 April 2009.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 3 July 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX II

Model animal and public health certificate for meat preparations intended for consignment to the European
Community from third countries

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ANNEX III

(TRANSIT AND/OR STORAGE)

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