2009/254/EC: Commission Decision of 20 March 2009 amending Decision 2008/855/EC as regards animal health control measures relating to classical swine fever in Germany (notified under document number C(2009) 1668) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2009-03-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, animal plague, intra-EU trade, swine, veterinary inspection, veterinary legislation

L 75/22

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

21.3.2009

COMMISSION DECISION

of 20 March 2009

amending Decision 2008/855/EC as regards animal health control measures relating to classical
swine fever in Germany

(notified under document number C(2009) 1668)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2009/254/EC)

phalia and Rhineland-Palatinate which was free of the
disease so far have been reported. Accordingly, those
in the Annex to
areas should be added to the list
Decision 2008/855/EC and the measures provided for
in that Decision should apply.

For the sake of transparency of Community legislation,
in the Annex to
the list set out
the entire part of
Decision
concerns Germany
should be replaced by the text in the Annex to this
Decision.

2008/855/EC which

Decision 2008/855/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

(5)

(6)

(7)

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The part of
the Annex to Decision 2008/855/EC which
concerns Germany is replaced by the text in the Annex to
this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 20 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

to

regard

Council Directive

Having
of
11 December 1989 concerning veterinary checks in intra-
the
Community trade with a view to the completion of
internal market (1), and in particular Article 9(4) thereof,

89/662/EEC

Having regard to Council Directive 90/425/EEC of 26 June
1990 concerning veterinary and zootechnical checks applicable
in intra-Community trade in certain live animals and products
with a view to the completion of the internal market (2), and in
particular Article 10(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Commission Decision 2008/855/EC of 3 November
animal health control measures
2008 concerning
relating to classical
in certain Member
swine fever
States (3) lays down certain control measures concerning
classical swine fever in the Member States or regions
thereof set out in the Annex to that Decision.

Germany has informed the Commission about the recent
evolution of that disease in feral pigs in certain areas of
the
and
Rhineland-Palatinate.

states of North Rhine-Westphalia

federal

states. Accordingly,

That information indicates that classical swine fever in
feral pigs has been eradicated in certain areas of those
federal
the
situation improved should therefore be removed from
the list in the Annex to Decision 2008/855/EC and the
measures provided for in that Decision should no longer
apply.

areas where

those

(4)

New cases of classical swine fever in feral pigs in a region
on both sides of the border between North Rhine-West­

(1) OJ L 395, 30.12.1989, p. 13.
(2) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 29.
(3) OJ L 302, 13.11.2008, p. 19.

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Official Journal of the European Union

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‘1. Germany

A. In the federal state Rhineland-Palatinate:

ANNEX

(a) in the Kreis Ahrweiler: the municipalities Adenau and Altenahr;

(b) in the Landkreis Vulkaneifel: in the municipality Obere Kyll the localities Birgel, Esch, Feusdorf and Jünkerath,
in the municipality Hillesheim the localities Berndorf, Dohm-Lammersdorf, Hillesheim, Kerpen, Nohn, Oberehe-
Stroheich, Üxheim, Walsdorf and Wiesbaum, in the municipality Daun the locality Dreis-Brück, in the munici­
pality Kelberg the localities Beinhausen, Bodenbach, Bongard, Borler, Boxberg, Brücktal, Drees, Gelenberg,
Kelberg, Kirsbach, Neichen, Nitz, Reimerath and Welcherath;

(c) the Kreise Altenkirchen and Neuwied;

(d) in the Kreis Westerwald: the municipalities Bad Marienberg, Hachenburg, Ransbach-Baumbach, Rennerod,
Selters, Wallmerod and Westerburg, the municipality Höhr-Grenzhausen north of the motorway A48, the
municipality Montabaur north of the motorway A3 and the municipality Wirges north of the motorways
A48 and A3.

B.

In the federal state North Rhine-Westfalia:

(a) in the Kreis Euskirchen: the city Bad Münstereifel, in the city of Mechernich the localities Antweiler, Harzheim,
Holzheim, Lessenich, Rißdorf, Wachendorf and Weiler am Berge, in the city of Euskirchen the localities of
Billig, Euenheim, Euskirchen, Flamersheim, Kirchheim, Kuchenheim, Kreuzweingarten, Niederkastenholz,
Palmersheim, Rheder, Roitzheim, Schweinheim and Stotzheim, in the municipality of Nettersheim the localities
Bouderath, Buir, Engelgau, Frohngau, Holzmühlheim, Pesch, Tondorf und Roderath, in the municipality Dahlem
the locality Dahlem and the municipality Blankenheim, except the locality Blankenheimer Wald;

(b) in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis: in the city of Meckenheim the localities Ersdorf and Altendorf, in the city of Rheinbach
the localities Oberdrees, Niederdrees, Wormersdorf, Todenfeld, Hilberath, Merzbach, Irlenbusch, Queckenberg,
Kleinschlehbach, Großschlehbach, Loch, Berscheidt, Eichen and Kurtenberg, in the municipality of Swisttal the
localities Miel and Odendorf, the cities Bad Honnef, Königswinter, Hennef (Sieg), Sankt Augustin, Niederkassel,
Troisdorf, Siegburg and Lohmar and the municipalities Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, Eitorf, Ruppichteroth, Windeck
and Much;

Junkernhees and Mittelhees,

(c) in the Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein in the municipality Kreuztal the localities Krombach, Eichen, Fellinghausen,
Osthelden,
in the city Siegen the localities Sohlbach, Dillnhütten, Geisweid,
Birlenbach, Trupbach, Seelbach, Achenbach, Lindenberg, Rosterberg, Rödgen, Obersdorf, Eisern and Eiserfeld,
the municipalities Freudenberg, Neunkirchen and Burbach, in the municipality Wilnsdorf the localities Rinsdorf
and Wilden;

(d) in the Kreis Olpe in the city Drolshagen the localities Drolshagen, Lüdespert, Schlade, Hützemert, Feld­
mannshof, Gipperich, Benolpe, Wormberg, Gelsingen, Husten, Halbhusten, Iseringhausen, Brachtpe, Berling­
hausen, Eichen, Heiderhof, Forth and Buchhagen, in the city of Olpe the localities Olpe, Rhode, Saßmicke, Dahl,
Friedrichsthal, Thieringhausen, Günsen, Altenkleusheim, Rhonard, Stachelau, Lütringhausen and Rüblinghausen,
the municipality Wenden;

(e) in the Märkische Kreis the cities Halver, Kierspe and Meinerzhagen;

(f)

in the city Remscheid the localities Halle, Lusebusch, Hackenberg, Dörper Höhe, Niederlangenbach, Durchsholz,
Nagelsberg, Kleebach, Niederfeldbach, Endringhausen, Lennep, Westerholt, Grenzwall, Birgden, Schneppendahl,
Oberfeldbach, Hasenberg, Lüdorf, Engelsburg,
Forsten, Oberlangenbach, Niederlangenbach, Karlsruhe,
Sonnenschein, Buchholzen, Bornefeld and Bergisch Born;

(g) in the cities Köln and Bonn the municipalities on the right side of the river Rhine;

(h) the city Leverkusen;

(i)

(j)

the Rheinisch-Bergische Kreis;
the Oberbergische Kreis.’