2009/248/EC: Commission Decision of 18 March 2009 amending Decision 2008/185/EC as regards the animal health conditions for trade in pigs between Member States or regions thereof which are free of Aujeszky’s disease (notified under document number C(2009) 1687) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2009-03-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, animal disease, animal product, health control, intra-EU trade, swine, veterinary inspection

L 73/22

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

19.3.2009

COMMISSION DECISION

of 18 March 2009

amending Decision 2008/185/EC as regards the animal health conditions for trade in pigs between
Member States or regions thereof which are free of Aujeszky’s disease
(notified under document number C(2009) 1687)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2009/248/EC)

(5)

(6)

Decision 2008/185/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

Decision 2008/185/EC is amended as follows:

1.

in Article 1,
following:

the introductory phrase is replaced by the

regions

‘Pigs intended for breeding or production, dispatched to
Member States or
free of
Aujeszky’s disease and which are listed in Annex I must
come from a Member State or region thereof listed in that
Annex or must comply with the following additional
conditions:’;

thereof which are

2.

in Article 2,
following:

the introductory phrase is replaced by the

‘Pigs intended for slaughter, dispatched to Member States or
regions thereof which are free of Aujeszky’s disease and
which are listed in Annex I must come from a Member
listed in that Annex or must
State or
comply with the following additional conditions:’.

region thereof

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 18 March 2009.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 64/432/EEC of 26 June
1964 on animal health problems affecting intra-Community
trade in bovine animals and swine (1), and in particular
Article 10(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Directive 64/432/EEC provides criteria for approving a
Member State or region thereof as being free of certain
including Aujeszky’s disease. That
contagious diseases,
Directive also provides that
the additional guarantees,
general or specific, which may be required in intra-
Community trade in relation to those Member States
and regions, are to be laid down in accordance with
the procedure set out therein.

Annex I
to Commission Decision 2008/185/EC of
21 February 2008 on additional guarantees in intra-
Community trade of pigs relating to Aujeszky’s disease
and criteria to provide information on this disease (2) lists
Member States or regions thereof which are free of
Aujeszky’s disease and where vaccination is prohibited.

Decision 2008/185/EC also lays down the additional
guarantees relating to that disease for movements of
pigs between Member States. Those additional guarantees
are linked to the disease-status of the concerned Member
States or regions thereof.

The experience in implementing those guarantees has
shown that it is necessary to clarify that the movement
of pigs between Member States or regions thereof, which
are free of Aujeszky’s disease and where vaccination is
prohibited and which are listed in Annex I to Decision
2008/185/EC, does not
require any additional guar­
antees.

(1) OJ 121, 29.7.1964, p. 1977/64.
(2) OJ L 59, 4.3.2008, p. 19.