2008/682/EC: Commission Decision of 18 August 2008 amending Decision 2007/870/EC as regards the approval of the plan for the emergency vaccination against classical swine fever of pigs in holdings with a marker vaccine in Romania (notified under document number C(2008) 4360)
Date: 2008-08-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Romania, animal plague, livestock farming, swine, vaccination

20.8.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 222/9

COMMISSION DECISION

of 18 August 2008

amending Decision 2007/870/EC as regards the approval of the plan for the emergency vaccination
against classical swine fever of pigs in holdings with a marker vaccine in Romania

(notified under document number C(2008) 4360)

(Only the Romanian text is authentic)

(2008/682/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

One of the plans approved by that Decision concerns the
emergency vaccination against classical swine fever of
pigs in pig holdings with a marker vaccine. The availa­
bility of such vaccine was restricted after the approval of
that plan. Romania has
accordingly amended that
emergency vaccination plan.

amended vaccination plan was

That
submitted by
Romania to the Commission for approval on 30 June
2008.

amended plan has

the
The
Commission and found to comply with Directive
2001/89/EC. Accordingly, that plan should be approved.

been examined

by

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

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

(4)

(5)

(6)

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

In Article 3 to Decision 2007/870/EC, the date ‘29 November
2007’ is replaced by ‘30 June 2008’.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to Romania.

Done at Brussels, 18 August 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of Bulgaria and
Romania,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania,
and in particular Article 42 thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 2001/89/EC of 23 October
2001 on Community measures for the control of classical swine
fever (1),
of
and
Article 19(3),

in particular

subparagraph

third

the

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Directive 2001/89/EC introduces minimum Community
measures for the control of classical swine fever. Those
measures include the provision that Member States are to
submit to the Commission, following the confirmation of
a primary case of classical swine fever in feral pigs, a plan
of the measures to eradicate that disease. Those measures
also provide for the emergency vaccination of pigs in pig
holdings.

Commission Decision 2007/870/EC of 21 December
2007 approving the plans for 2008 for the eradication
of classical swine fever in feral pigs and the emergency
vaccination of those pigs and of pigs in holdings against
that disease in Romania (2) was adopted as one of a
number of measures to combat classical swine fever in
that Member
until
State. That Decision
31 December 2008.

applies

(1) OJ L 316, 1.12.2001, p. 5. Directive as

last amended by
Commission Decision 2007/729/EC (OJ L 294, 13.11.2007, p. 26).

(2) OJ L 340, 22.12.2007, p. 105.