2008/829/EC: Commission Decision of 30 October 2008 amending the Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC establishing the BSE status of Member States or third countries or regions thereof according to their BSE risk (notified under document number C(2008) 6274) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-10-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EFTA countries, EU Member State, animal disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, disease prevention, health control, third country

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 30 October 2008

amending the Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC establishing the BSE status of Member States or third
countries or regions thereof according to their BSE risk

(notified under document number C(2008) 6274)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/829/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

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
the third subparagraph of Article 5(2) and Article 5(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(4)

(5)

therefore be brought in line with the recommendations
of the Resolution of the OIE. Pending a final conclusion
on the BSE risk status of certain Member States and
taking into account
the harmonised stringent BSE
protective measures applied within the Community,
those Member
should remain provisionally
recognised as countries with a controlled BSE risk.

States

Decision 2007/453/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

The Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC is replaced by the text in
the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on 1 December 2008.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 30 October 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission

(1)

(2)

(3)

(TSEs)

in animals.

Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 lays down rules for the
prevention, control and eradication of
transmissible
It
spongiform encephalopathies
applies to the production and placing on the market of
live animals and products of animal origin. For that
purpose, the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
status of Member States or third countries or regions
thereof (‘countries or regions’)
is to be determined by
classification into one of three categories depending on
the BSE risk involved, namely a negligible BSE risk, a
controlled BSE risk and an undetermined BSE risk.

The Annex to Commission Decision 2007/453/EC of
29 June 2007 establishing the BSE status of Member
States or third countries or regions thereof according
to their BSE risk (2) lists countries or regions according
to their BSE risk status.

Pending the final conclusion on the BSE risk status of the
Member States, all Member States were provisionally
recognised as countries with a controlled BSE risk as
laid down in Decision 2007/453/EC. During the OIE
a Resolution was
General Session in May 2008,
adopted
different
status of
countries. The Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC should

to the BSE

relating

(1) OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 172, 30.6.2007, p. 84.

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ANNEX

LIST OF COUNTRIES OR REGIONS

A. Countries or regions with a negligible BSE risk

Member States

— Finland

— Sweden

EFTA countries

— Iceland

— Norway

Third countries

— Argentina

— Australia

— New Zealand

— Paraguay

— Singapore

— Uruguay

B. Countries or regions with a controlled BSE risk

Member States

— Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus,
Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia,
Slovakia, the United Kingdom

EFTA countries

— Switzerland

— Liechtenstein

Third countries

— Brazil

— Canada

— Chile

— Taiwan

— Mexico

— United States

C. Countries or regions with an undetermined BSE risk

— Countries or regions not listed in points A or B of this Annex.