2009/148/EC: Commission Decision of 19 February 2009 amending Decision 2008/883/EC as regards Brazil concerning the date for which imports into the Community of certain fresh bovine meat are authorised (notified under document number C(2009) 1040) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2009-02-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU financing, Germany, Netherlands, Slovenia, action programme, parasitology, plant disease, plant health control

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Official Journal of the European Union

20.2.2009

COMMISSION DECISION

of 19 February 2009

amending Decision 2008/883/EC as regards Brazil concerning the date for which imports into the
Community of certain fresh bovine meat are authorised

(notified under document number C(2009) 1040)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2009/148/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

amended by Commission
Decision 79/542/EEC,
as
inter
Decision 2008/642/EC (3),
reinstated the
States of Paraná and São Paulo in the entry for Brazil
in Part 1 of Annex II to Decision 79/542/EEC, with code
of
importation into the
the
Community of bovine de-boned and matured meat
from animals slaughtered on or after 1 August 2008.

territory BR-3 for

alia,

to

regard

2002/99/EC

Council Directive

of
Having
16 December 2002 laying down the animal health rules
governing the production, processing, distribution and intro­
duction
human
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)

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
animals
importation into the Community of
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.

(4)

(5)

as

Decision 79/542/EEC,
amended by Commission
Decision 2008/883/EC (4), further amended that Annex
as regards the entry for Brazil with code of territory BR-1
in order to re-instate Mato Grosso do Sul and include the
rest of the States of Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso in
order to allow the importation into the Community of
from animals
bovine de-boned and matured meat
slaughtered on or after 1 December 2008. However,
Article 2 of Decision 2008/883/EC allows the impor­
tation into the Community of consignments of
fresh
from the territory with
de-boned and matured beef
code BR-1 as defined in Decision 2008/642/EC and
obtained from animals slaughtered before 1 December
2008 until 14 January 2009.

or

on

slaughtered

from animals

More time should be given to allow stocks of bovine
meat
before
1 December 2008 from the territory of Brazil with
code BR-1 as set out in the entry for that country in
Part 1 of Annex II to Decision 79/542/EEC, as amended
by Decision 2008/642/EC, to continue to be able to be
imported into the Community as there are no animal
health concerns, being those territories already authorised
into the
before that date for
import of
Community. Accordingly, Article
of Decision
2008/883/EC should be amended in order to allow
such imports until 30 June 2009.

fresh meat
2

(6)

Decision 2008/883/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

(7)

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

(3) OJ L 207, 5.8.2008, p. 36.
(4) OJ L 316, 26.11.2008, p. 14.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

In Decision 2008/883/EC, Article 2 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 2

Consignments of fresh de-boned and matured bovine meat from the territory of Brazil with code BR-1,
as set out in Part 1 of Annex II to Decision 79/542/EEC, as amended by Commission Decision
2008/642/EC (*), from animals slaughtered on or before 1 December 2008 may continue to be
imported into the Community until 30 June 2009.

___________
(*) OJ L 207, 5.8.2008, p. 36.’

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 19 February 2009.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission