2008/661/EC: Commission Decision of 1 August 2008 amending Decision 2007/182/EC on a survey for chronic wasting disease in cervids (notified under document number C(2008) 3986) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-08-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal disease, cervidae, disease prevention, exchange of information, research method

L 215/8

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

12.8.2008

COMMISSION DECISION

of 1 August 2008

amending Decision 2007/182/EC on a survey for chronic wasting disease in cervids

(notified under document number C(2008) 3986)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/661/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(6)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down
rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain
transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (1), and in particular
Article 6(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(7)

(8)

In order to allow a statistically robust assessment of the
survey data by the EFSA, it is necessary that the Member
States concerned are allowed more time to reach the
targets set out in Decision 2007/182/EC. It is therefore
appropriate to prolong the date for completion of the
survey by an additional one-year period.

Decision 2007/182/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

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 lays down rules for the
prevention, control and eradication of transmissible ence­
phalopathies (TSEs) in animals.

Chronic wasting disease is a TSE affecting cervids, which
is widespread in North America but which, to date, has
never been reported in the Community.

Commission Decision 2007/182/EC of 19 March 2007
on a survey for chronic wasting disease in cervids (2) was
adopted following an opinion published by the European
Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
recommending that a
targeted surveillance of cervids should be undertaken in
the Community.

Decision 2007/182/EC lays down rules for a survey to
detect the presence of chronic wasting disease in cervids
to be carried out in accordance with certain minimum
requirements.
It provides that Member States are to
complete their survey by no later than the end of the
2007 hunting season.

reports

Based on the preliminary annual
the
Commission has received to date from the Member
States pursuant
it appears
that certain Member States have not had sufficient time
to achieve their target numbers of samples as required by
that Decision.

to Decision 2007/182/EC,

that

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 2007/182/EC is amended as follows:

1.

in Article 3(2) the year ‘2007’ is replaced by ‘2008’;

2.

in point 2 of Annex IV the following paragraph is added:

‘The 2008 report shall
the 2008
hunting season, even when some samples will have been
taken in 2009.’

include the results of

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 1 August 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1. Regulation as

last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 571/2008 (OJ L 161, 20.6.2008,
p. 4).

(2) OJ L 84, 24.3.2007, p. 37.