2008/755/EC: Commission Decision of 24 September 2008 amending Decision 2005/176/EC laying down the codified form and the codes for the notification of animal diseases pursuant to Council Directive 82/894/EEC (notified under document number C(2008) 5175) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-09-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal disease, exchange of information, information system, veterinary legislation

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Official Journal of the European Union

26.9.2008

COMMISSION DECISION

of 24 September 2008

amending Decision 2005/176/EC laying down the codified form and the codes for the notification
of animal diseases pursuant to Council Directive 82/894/EEC

(notified under document number C(2008) 5175)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/755/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

In order to make it possible to distinguish between noti­
fications of outbreaks of African swine fever in wild boar
that disease in domestic pigs,
and of outbreaks of
different codes should be given for the notification of
those two types of outbreaks.

It is therefore necessary to amend the list of disease codes
set out in Annex V to Decision 2005/176/EC.

Germany, Italy, Denmark, Spain, Portugal and Sweden
their
have adjusted the names and boundaries of
veterinary regions. The adjustment of
those regions
the Animal Disease Notification System. The
affects
new regions should therefore replace those currently
listed in that system.
is therefore appropriate to
amend Annexes X/01, X/03, X/09, X/11, X/12 and
X/16 to Decision 2005/176/EC accordingly.

It

Decision 2005/176/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

In order to protect confidentiality of
the transmitted
information, the Annexes to this Decision should not
be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 2005/176/EC is amended as follows:

1. Annex V is replaced by the text in Annex I to this Decision.

2. Annex X/01 is replaced by the text in Annex II to this

Decision.

regard

of
Having
21 December 1982 on the notification of animal diseases
within the Community (1), and in particular Article 5(1) thereof,

Council Directive

82/894/EEC

to

Whereas:

(1)

Directive 82/894/EEC concerns notifications of outbreaks
of the animal diseases listed in Annex I thereto.

(2)

(3)

Commission Decision 2005/176/EC (2)
lays down the
the notification of
codified form and the codes for
to Directive 82/894/EEC.
animal diseases pursuant
Annex V to that Decision lists
the
the codes
diseases, while Annexes X/01, X/03, X/09, X/11, X/12
and X/16 list the codes for the veterinary regions in
Germany, Italy, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, and Sweden
respectively.

for

The list in Annex I to Directive 82/894/EEC, as amended
by Commission Decision 2008/650/EC (3), was recently
updated whereby certain diseases affecting fish listed in
Part II of Annex IV to Council Directive 2006/88/EC (4)
were included in that list and Teschen disease (porcine
enterovirus encephalomyelitis), which is no longer a
compulsorily notifiable disease pursuant
to Council
Directive 92/119/EEC (5), was deleted from that list.

(1) OJ L 378, 31.12.1982, p. 58.
(2) OJ L 59, 5.3.2005, p. 40.
(3) OJ L 213, 8.8.2008, p. 42.
(4) OJ L 328, 24.11.2006, p. 14.
(5) OJ L 62, 15.3.1993, p. 69.

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3. Annex X/03 is replaced by the text in Annex III to this

Article 2

Decision.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

4. Annex X/09 is replaced by the text in Annex IV to this

Decision.

5. Annex X/11 is replaced by the text in Annex V to this

Decision.

Done at Brussels, 24 September 2008.

6. Annex X/12 is replaced by the text in Annex VI to this

Decision.

7. Annex X/16 is replaced by the text in Annex VII to this

Decision.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission