2008/636/EC: Commission Decision of 22 July 2008 establishing the list of third countries from which Member States authorise imports of ova and embryos of the porcine species (notified under document number C(2008) 3671) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-07-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal breeding, health control, import licence, swine, third country, veterinary inspection

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 22 July 2008

establishing the list of third countries from which Member States authorise imports of ova and
embryos of the porcine species

(notified under document number C(2008) 3671)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/636/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Commission Decision 2002/613/EC of 19 July 2002
laying down the importation conditions of semen of
domestic animals of the porcine species (3).

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 92/65/EEC of 13 July 1992
laying down animal health requirements governing trade in and
imports into the Community of animals, semen, ova and
embryos not subject to animal health requirements laid down
in specific Community rules referred to in Annex A(I)
to
Directive 90/425/EEC (1), and in particular the introductory
phrase and Article 17(3)(a) and Article 28 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Directive 92/65/EEC lays down the
animal health
requirements governing trade in and imports into the
Community of animals, semen, ova and embryos not
subject to the animal health requirements laid down in
the specific Community acts referred to therein. It also
provides for the establishment of a list of those third
countries or parts of third countries, able to provide
guarantees equivalent to those referred to therein, and
from which Member States may import semen, ova
and embryos of the porcine species.

Part III of the Annex to Commission Decision 94/63/EC
of 31 January 1994 drawing up a list of third countries
from which Member States authorise imports of semen,
ova and embryos of the ovine and caprine species and
ova and embryos of the porcine species (2) establishes a
list of third countries from which Member States are to
authorise imports of ova and embryos of the porcine
species, and third countries from which imports of
in accordance with
authorised,
porcine

semen are

(1) OJ L 268, 14.9.1992, p. 54. Directive as

last amended by
Commission Decision 2007/265/EC (OJ L 114, 1.5.2007, p. 17).
(2) OJ L 28, 2.2.1994, p. 47. Decision as last amended by Decision

2004/211/EC (OJ L 73, 11.3.2004, p. 1).

(3)

(4)

(5)

Decision 94/63/EC has been amended several times to
take account of new scientific and technical develop­
ments. At present,
to semen, ova and
it applies
embryos of the ovine and caprine species and ova and
embryos of the porcine species.

The Commission intends to lay down in a separate act
the animal health conditions applicable to imports into
the Community of semen, ova and embryos of the ovine
and caprine species, including the list of third countries
from which Member States are to authorise imports of
those commodities.

Decision 2002/613/EC establishes a list of third countries
from which Member States are to authorise imports of
porcine semen. That list was set up based on the animal
third countries from which Member
health status of
States are to authorise the imports of
live pigs. As
there is no scientific evidence suggesting that with
regard to major exotic contagious diseases the risks
arising from the health status of
the donor porcine
female and male could be mitigated by treatment of
the embryo,
is appropriate and in the interests of
consistency and coherency of Community legislation, to
refer to that list in the present Decision when laying
down a list of
third countries from which Member
States are to authorise imports of ova and embryos of
that species.

it

(6)

For the sake of clarity of Community legislation,
appropriate to repeal Decision 94/63/EC.

it is

(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

(3) OJ L 196, 25.7.2002, p. 45. Decision as last amended by Decision

2007/14/EC (OJ L 7, 12.1.2007, p. 28).

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 3

This Decision shall apply from 1 September 2008.

Article 1

Article 4

Member States shall authorise imports of ova and embryos of
the porcine species
from which
imports of porcine semen are authorised in accordance with
Article 1 of Decision 2002/613/EC.

from the third countries

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 22 July 2008.

Article 2

Decision 94/63/EC is repealed.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission