2009/4/EC: Commission Decision of 18 December 2008 amending Annex II to Council Decision 79/542/EEC as regards the entry for Botswana and Brazil in the list of third countries or parts thereof from which imports into the Community of certain fresh meat are authorised (notified under document number C(2008) 8516) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2008-12-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Botswana, Brazil, beef, boned meat, foot-and-mouth disease, fresh meat, health certificate, health control, human nutrition, import restriction

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 18 December 2008

amending Annex II to Council Decision 79/542/EEC as regards the entry for Botswana and Brazil in
the list of third countries or parts thereof from which imports into the Community of certain fresh
meat are authorised

(notified under document number C(2008) 8516)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2009/4/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

to

regard

2002/99/EC

Council Directive

Having
of
16 December 2002 laying down the animal health rules
governing the production, processing, distribution and intro­
human
duction
consumption (1), and in particular the introductory phrase of
Article 8,
and
Article 8(4) thereof,

subparagraph of Article 8(1)

products

animal

origin

first

the

for

of

of

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Council Decision 79/542/EEC of 21 December 1976
drawing up a list of third countries or parts of third
countries, and laying down animal and public health
and veterinary certification conditions, for importation
into the Community of certain live animals and their
fresh meat (2) establishes the sanitary conditions for the
importation into the Community of
animals
excluding equidae, and the importation of fresh meat
of such animals, including equidae, but excluding meat
preparations.

live

thereof

listed in Part 1 of Annex II

Decision 79/542/EEC provides that imports of fresh meat
intended for human consumption are only allowed if
such meat comes from a territory of a third country or
a part
to that
Decision, and the fresh meat meets the requirements
set out in the appropriate veterinary certificate for that
meat in accordance with the models set out in Part 2 of
that Annex, taking into account any specific conditions
or supplementary guarantees required for the meat.

territories

Botswana is listed in Part 1 of Annex II to Decision
79/542/EEC and has been divided into different terri­
tories, mainly according to their animal health status.
Those
to the
Community de-boned and matured fresh meat of
domestic bovine animals, of domestic sheep and goats,
and of certain farmed and wild non-domestic animals
(fresh meat).

authorised to export

are

On 20 October 2008, an outbreak of foot-and-mouth
disease was suspected in a farm located in the district of
Ghanzi, situated in the veterinary disease control zone 12
of Botswana. That veterinary disease control zone is at
present
to the
Community. As soon as the outbreak was confirmed,
the competent authority in Botswana suspended exports
of fresh meat to the Community.

authorised to export

fresh meat

these

imports

In view of
into the
circumstances,
Community of fresh meat from the veterinary disease
control zone 12 of Botswana should no longer be
authorised. Considering that the competent authority in
Botswana has provided sufficient guarantees regarding
the measures put in place to control the spread of the
the affected areas are
disease and considering that
completely fenced it
that
restriction to veterinary disease control zone 12 only.

appropriate

to limit

is

The description of the territory BR-1 of Brazil excludes
from the territories authorised to export fresh de-boned
and matured bovine meat into the Community an area
called the ‘high surveillance zone’. This consists of a strip
of 15 km along the border with Paraguay that covers a
number of municipalities, including Caracol and Antônio
João that were not included. It is therefore opportune to
add these two municipalities to the description of the
‘high surveillance zone’ in the territory BR-1.

Part 1 of Annex II
therefore be amended accordingly.

to Decision 79/542/EEC should

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)

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

(1) OJ L 18, 23.1.2003, p. 11.
(2) OJ L 146, 14.6.1979, p. 15.

Part 1 of Annex II to Decision 79/542/EEC is replaced by the
text in the Annex to this Decision.

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This Decision shall apply from 20 December 2008.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 18 December 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

‘PART 1

List of third countries or parts thereof (*)

Country

Code of
Territory

Description of territory

1

2

3

AL — Albania

AL-0 Whole country

AR — Argentina

AR-0 Whole country

AR-1

of:

Buenos

Palmar),

provinces

Entre Ríos,

Corrientes
Berón
of

Aires,
The
(except
the
Catamarca,
de Astrada,
departments
Capital, Empedrado, General Paz,
Itati,
Mbucuruyá, San Cosme and San Luís
del
La Rioja,
Mendoza, Misiones, part of Neuquén
(excluding territory included in AR-4),
part of Río Negro (excluding territory
included in AR-4), San Juan, San Luis,
Santa Fe, Tucuman, Cordoba, La Pampa,
Santiago del Estero, Chaco Formosa, Jujuy
and Salta, excluding the buffer area of 25
km from the border with Bolivia and
Paraguay that extends from the Santa
in the Province of
Catalina District
Jujuy,
in the
Province of Formosa

to the Laishi District

AR-2

Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego

AR-3

AR-4

Corrientes: the departments of Berón de
Astrada, Capital, Empedrado, General Paz,
Itati, Mbucuruyá, San Cosme and San
Luís del Palmar

Part of Río Negro (except: in Avellaneda
the zone located north of the Provincial
road 7 and east of the Provincial road
250, in Conesa the zone located east of
the Provincial road 2, in El Cuy the zone
located north of the Provincial road 7
from its intersection with the Provincial
road 66 to
border with the
Department of Avellaneda, and in San
Antonio the zone located east of
the
Provincial
roads 250 and 2), part of
the
Neuquén (except
zone located east of the Provincial road
17, and in Picun Leufú the zone located
east of the Provincial road 17)

in Confluencia

the

AU — Australia

AU-0 Whole country

BA — Bosnia
Herzegovina

BA-0 Whole country

BH — Bahrain

BH-0 Whole country

Veterinary certificate

Model(s)

4

—

EQU

BOV

RUF

SG

5

A

A

Specific
conditions

Closing
date (**)

Opening date (***)

6

1

1

7

8

18 March 2005

1 December 2007

1 March 2002

A

1

1 December 2007

1 August 2008

BOV, OVI,
RUW, RUF

BOV
RUF

BOV, OVI,
RUW, RUF

BOV, OVI,
POR, EQU,
RUF, RUW,
SUF, SUW

—

—

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1

1

1

1

1

1

7

8

1 December 2008

31 January 2008

1 August 2008

1 December 2007

7 March 2002

20 Octo-
ber 2008

1

2

3

4

5

BR — Brazil

BR-0 Whole country

BR-1

State of Minas Gerais, State of Espírito
Santo, State of Goiás, State of Mato
Grosso, State of Rio Grande Do Sul,
State of Mato Grosso Do Sul (except for
the designated high surveillance zone of
15 km from the external borders in the
municipalities of Porto Mutinho, Caracol,
Bela Vista, Antônio João, Ponta Porã, Aral
Moreira, Coronel Sapucaia, Paranhos, Sete
Quedas,
Japora', and Mundo Novo and
the designated high surveillance zone in
the municipalities of Corumbá
and
Ladário)

BR-2

State of Santa Catarina

BR-3

States of Paraná and São Paulo

EQU

BOV

A and
H

BOV

BOV

A and
H

A and
H

F

F

F

G

BW — Botswana

BW-0 Whole country

EQU, EQW

BW-1

The veterinary disease control zones 3c,
4b, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 18

BOV, OVI,
RUF, RUW

BW-2

The veterinary disease control zones 10,
11, 13 and 14

BOV, OVI,
RUF, RUW

BW-3

The veterinary disease control zone 12

BY — Belarus

BY-0 Whole country

BZ — Belize

BZ-0 Whole country

CA — Canada

CA-0 Whole country

CH — Switzerland

CH-0 Whole country

CL — Chile

CL-0 Whole country

CN — China

CN-0 Whole country

CO — Colombia

CO-0 Whole country

CR — Costa Rica

CR-0 Whole country

CU — Cuba

CU-0 Whole country

BOV, OVI,
RUF, RUW

—

BOV, EQU

BOV, OVI,
POR, EQU,
SUF, SUW
RUF, RUW

*

BOV, OVI,
POR, EQU,
RUF, RUW,
SUF

—

EQU

BOV, EQU

BOV, EQU

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5

6

7

8

1

2

3

DZ — Algeria

DZ-0 Whole country

ET — Ethiopia

ET-0

Whole country

FK — Falkland
Islands

FK-0

Whole country

GL — Greenland

GL-0 Whole country

GT — Guatemala

GT-0 Whole country

HK — Hong Kong

HK-0 Whole country

HN — Honduras

HN-0 Whole country

HR — Croatia

HR-0 Whole country

IL — Israel

IN — India

IL-0

Whole country

IN-0

Whole country

IS — Iceland

IS-0

Whole country

KE — Kenya

KE-0 Whole country

MA — Morocco

MA-0 Whole country

ME — Montenegro

ME-0 Whole country

MG — Madagascar

MG-0 Whole country

MK — Former
Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia (****)

MK-0 Whole country

MU — Mauritius

MU-0 Whole country

MX — Mexico

MX-0 Whole country

NA — Namibia

NA-0 Whole country

4

—

—

BOV, OVI,
EQU

BOV, OVI,
EQU, RUF,
RUW

BOV, EQU

—

BOV, EQU

BOV, OVI,
EQU, RUF,
RUW

—

—

BOV, OVI,
EQU, RUF,
RUW

—

EQU

BOV, OVI,
EQU

—

OVI, EQU

—

BOV, EQU

EQU, EQW

NA-1

South of the cordon fences which extend
from Palgrave Point in the west to Gam
in the east

BOV, OVI,
RUF, RUW

F

1

NC — New
Caledonia

NC-0 Whole country

NI — Nicaragua

NI-0

Whole country

BOV, RUF,
RUW

—

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1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

NZ — New Zealand

NZ-0 Whole country

PA — Panama

PA-0 Whole country

PY — Paraguay

PY-0

Whole country

BOV, OVI,
POR, EQU,
RUF, RUW,
SUF, SUW

BOV, EQU

EQU

PY-1

Whole country except for the designated
high surveillance zone of 15 km from
the external borders

BOV

A

1

1 August 2008

RS — Serbia (*****)

RS-0 Whole country

RU — Russian
Federation

RU-0 Whole country

RU-1

Region of Murmansk, Yamolo-Nenets
autonomous area

SV — El Salvador

SV-0 Whole country

SZ — Swaziland

SZ-0 Whole country

SZ-1

SZ-2

Area west of the “red line” fences which
extends northwards from the river Usutu
to the frontier with South Africa west of
Nkalashane

veterinary

foot-and-mouth

The
sur­
veillance and vaccination control areas
as gazetted as a Statutory Instrument
under legal notice number 51 of 2001

TH — Thailand

TH-0 Whole country

TN — Tunisia

TN-0 Whole country

TR — Turkey

TR-0 Whole country

TR-1

The provinces of Amasya, Ankara, Aydin,
Balikesir, Bursa, Cankiri, Corum, Denizli,
Izmir, Kastamonu, Kutahya, Manisa,
Usak, Yozgat and Kirikkale

UA — Ukraine

UA-0 Whole country

US — United States

US-0 Whole country

UY — Uruguay

UY-0 Whole country

BOV, OVI,
EQU

—

RUF

—

EQU, EQW

BOV, RUF,
RUW

BOV, RUF,
RUW

—

—

—

EQU

—

BOV, OVI,
POR, EQU,
SUF, SUW,
RUF, RUW

EQU

BOV

OVI

F

F

G

A

A

1

1

1

1

4 August 2003

1 November 2001

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2

3

ZA — South Africa

ZA-0 Whole country

ZA-1

The whole country except:
— the part of

foot-and-mouth
the
disease control area situated in the
veterinary regions of Mpumalanga
in the
and Northern provinces,
district
the
of
veterinary region of Natal and in the
border area with Botswana east of
longitude 28°, and

Ingwavuma

of

— the district of Camperdown,
province of KwaZuluNatal

in the

7

8

4

EQU, EQW

BOV, OVI,
RUF, RUW

5

F

6

1

ZW — Zimbabwe

ZW-0 Whole country

—

(*) Without prejudice to specific certification requirements provided for in Community agreements with third countries.
(**) Meat from animals slaughtered on or before the date indicated in column 7 can be imported into the Community for 90 days from that date. Consignments on the
high seas can be imported into the Community if certified before the date indicated in column 7 for 40 days from that date. (NB: no date in column 7 means that there
are no time restrictions).

(***) Only meat from animals slaughtered on or after the date indicated in column 8 can be imported into the Community (no date in column 8 means that there are no

time restrictions).

(****) The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; provisional code that does not prejudge in any way the definitive nomenclature for this country, which will be agreed

following the conclusion of negotiations currently taking place on this subject in the United Nations.

(*****) Not including Kosovo as defined by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999.
*

= Certificates in accordance with the agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products (OJ L 114, 30.4.2002,

p. 132).

— = No certificate laid down and fresh meat imports are prohibited (except for those species where indicated in the line for the whole country).
1 = Category restrictions:

No offal authorised (except, in the case of bovine species, diaphragm and masseter muscles).’