Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Council Directive 64/432/EEC as regards computer databases which are part of the surveillance networks in the Member States
Date: 2011-08-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: beef, cattle, database, health control, labelling, meat product

EUROPEAN COMMISSION 

Brussels, 30.8.2011 
COM(2011) 524 final 

2011/0228 (COD) 

Proposal for a 

DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL 

amending Council Directive 64/432/EEC as regards computer databases which are part 
of the surveillance networks in the Member States 

 
 
  
 
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 

The  Proposal  for  a  Regulation  of  the  European  Parliament  and  the  Council  amending 
Regulation  (EC)  No  1760/2000  as  regards  electronic  identification  of  bovine  animals  and 
deleting  the  provisions  on  voluntary  beef  labelling,  makes  necessary  to  amend  accordingly 
Council  Directive  64/432/EEC  as  regards  computer  databases  which  are  part  of  the 
surveillance  networks  in  the  Member  States.  The  elements  of  the  computer  databases  laid 
down  in  Directive  64/432/EEC  do  not  include  so  far  any  reference  to  electronic  means  of 
identification. 

Therefore, Council Directive 64/432/EEC as regards computer databases which are part of the 
surveillance  networks  in  the  Member  States  should  be  amended  taking  into  account  the 
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council amending Regulation 
(EC)  No  1760/2000  as  regards  electronic  identification  of  bovine  animals  and  deleting  the 
provisions on voluntary beef labelling. Based on this, the two proposals are presented under 
the same legislative package.  

This draft Directive of the European Parliament and the Council has no financial implications 
for the budget of the European Union. 

Directive 64/432/EEC should therefore be amended accordingly. 

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2011/0228 (COD) 

Proposal for a 

DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL 

amending Council Directive 64/432/EEC as regards computer databases which are part 
of the surveillance networks in the Member States 

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 

Having  regard  to  the  Treaty  on  the  Functioning  of  the  European  Union,  and  in  particular 
Article 43(2), 

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission, 

After transmission of the draft legislative act to the national Parliaments, 

Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee1, 

Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure, 

Whereas: 

(1) 

(2) 

(3) 

(4) 

Council  Directive  64/432/EEC of  26  June  1964  on  animal  health  problems  affecting 
intra-Community  trade  in  bovine  animals  and  swine2  applies  to  trade  in  bovine 
animals  and  swine  within  the  Union.  That  Directive  provides  that  the  competent 
authority in a Member State may introduce a system of surveillance networks. Those 
networks  include  a  computer  database  which  is  to  contain  at  least  a  number  of 
elements laid down in Directive 64/432/EEC, inter alia the identification code of each 
animal. 

Regulation  of  the  European  Parliament  and  of  the  Council  (EC)  No  1760/2000  of 
17 July  2000  establishing  a  system  for  the  identification  and  registration  of  bovine 
animals and regarding the labelling of beef and beef products3, lays down rules on the 
use of electronic means of identification of bovine animals. 

The  elements  of  the  computer  databases  laid  down  in  Directive  64/432/EEC  do  not 
include any reference to electronic means of identification. 

In the interest of consistency of Union legislation, such element should be added to the 
list  of  elements  to  be  included  in  the  computer  databases  laid  down  in  Directive 
64/432/EEC. 

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OJ C xx, xx.xx. xxxx, p. xx. 
OJ 121, 29.7.1964, p. 1977/64. 
OJ L 204, 11.8.2000, p. 1. 

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Directive 64/432/EEC should therefore be amended accordingly, 

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE: 

Article 1 

In Article 14(3), in part C, point (1) of Directive 64/432/EEC, shall be replaced as follows: 

"(1) 

for each animal: 

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the unique identification code, 

date of birth, 

sex, 

breed or colour of coat, 

identification code of the mother or, in the case of an animal imported from a 
third  country,  the  unique  identification  code  of  the  individual  means  of 
identification  allocated  to  the  animal  by  the  Member  State  of  destination  in 
accordance to Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000, 

identification number of the holding where born, 

identification numbers of all holdings where the animal has been kept and the 
dates of each change of holding, 

date of death and slaughter, 

the type of electronic identifier, if applied to the animal." 

Article 2 

1. 

Member States shall adopt and publish, by [**] at the latest, the laws, regulations and 
administrative  provisions  necessary  to  comply  with  this  Directive.  They  shall 
forthwith  communicate  to  the  Commission  the  text  of  those  provisions  and  a 
correlation table between those provisions and this Directive.  

They shall apply those provisions from […]. 

When  Member  States  adopt  those  provisions,  they  shall  contain  a  reference  to  this 
Directive  or  be  accompanied  by  such  a  reference  on  the  occasion  of  their  official 
publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made. 

2. 

Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions 
of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive. 

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This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in 
the Official Journal of the European Union. 

Article 3 

Article 4 

This Directive is addressed to the Member States. 

Done at Brussels, 

For the European Parliament 
The President 

For the Council 
The President 

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