CELEX: 51982PC0529
Language: en
Date: 1982-09-09
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE AMENDING DIRECTIVES 64/432/EEC AND 72/461/EEC AS REGARDS CERTAIN MEASURES RELATING TO FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE, AUJESZKY' S DISEASE AND SWINE VESICULAR DISEASE

No C 249/6                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                 23. 9. 82
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             Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directives 64/432/EEC and 72/461/EEC as
             regards certain measures relating to foot-and-mouth disease, Aujeszky's disease and swine
                                                     vesicular disease
                          (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 13 September 1982)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas Council Directive 72/461/EEC (5), as last
COMMUNITIES,                                                     amended by Directive 81/476/EEC (*), lays down the
                                                                 conditions to be met as regards health by animals
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                     whose meat is intended for intra-Community trade;
European Economic Community, and in particular
Article 43 thereof,                                              Whereas the favourable trend of foot-and-mouth
                                                                 disease in the Community makes it possible gradually
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,               to lay down Community measures to replace the
                                                                 special arrangements which some Member States
Having regard to the opinion of the             European         were authorized to apply in trade in fresh meat,
Parliament,
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
Social Committee,                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
Whereas Council Directive 64/432/EEC ('), as last                                           Article 1
amended by Directive 82/61/EEC (2), lays down the
                                                                 Directive 64/432/EEC is hereby amended as follows:
conditions to be met as regards health by live cattle
and pigs intended for intra-Community trade;                      1. In Article 3:
                                                                      (a) in paragraph 2 (c) (iii) the term 'Aujeszky's
Whereas Aujeszky's disease represents a danger to the                     disease' is inserted between the words 'swine
Community pig herd; whereas there should therefore                        fever' and 'contagious porcine paralysis';
be guarantees to prevent the spread of the disease;
                                                                      (b) in paragraph 4, the following clause is added
                                                                          to the first sentence:
Whereas, in view of the development of foot-and-
mouth disease and swine vesicular disease in the                          'also from a holding in which vaccination is
Community, only Community measures to which                               not carried out against Aujeszky's disease or is
Member States which have been free of foot-and-                           only carried out with a dead vaccine'.
mouth disease for over two years, which do not
practise vaccination against that disease and which do            2. In Article 4b:
not allow the presence of vaccinated animals on their                 (a) in the first and penultimate paragraphs
territory may subject the entry to their territory of                     '31 December 1982' is replaced by '31
cattle and pigs from other Member States should be                        December 1985';
retained for an additional period; whereas, in
addition,    if    foot-and-mouth       disease    occurs             (b) the following paragraph is added:
accidentally in a defined part of the territory of those                  'The Member States defined in the first
Member States the right to apply the provisions in                        paragraph continue to qualify for application
question must be retained if the disease is eliminated                    of this Article when foot-and-mouth disease
by the slaughter and destruction of all animals of the                    has occurred in a defined part of their territory
susceptible species at the places where the outbreaks                      and has been eliminated by slaughter and
occur without recourse to vaccination;                                     destruction of all animals of susceptible species
(') OJ No 121, 29. 7. 1964, p. 1977/64.                           O OJ No L 302, 31. 12. 1972, p. 24.
(2) OJ No L 29, 6. 2. 1982, p. 13.                                (4) OJ No L 186, 8. 7. 1981, p. 20.
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         at the places where the outbreaks          occur          their territory of fresh meat of animals not coming
         without recourse to vaccination.'                         from:
3. The following is added to Annex E at point (b):                 — another Member State on the territory of
                                                                       which no outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease
   'Aujeszky's disease'.
                                                                       has been recorded for at least one year and
4. In Annex F, Model III, point V:                                     where national rules require the slaughter and
                                                                       destruction of all animals of species susceptible
   (a) under (c) the two following indents are added:
                                                                       to foot-and-mouth disease in the places where
         '— from a holding in which vaccination                        the outbreaks occur, or from
              against Aujeszky's disease is not carried
                                                                   — another Member State having satisfied the
              out O ,
                                                                       above conditions on whose territory foot-and-
          — from a holding in which vaccination                        mouth disease had been detected in a limited
              against Aujeszky's disease is only carried               area and was eliminated more than six months
              out using a dead vaccine ( 2 )'.                         previously by the slaughter and destruction of
   (b) under (e), last line, the term 'Aujeszky's                      all animals of susceptible species in the places
         disease' is inserted between the words 'swine                 where the outbreaks occurred, without
         fever' and 'and contagious swine paralysis'.                  recourse to vaccination.'
                          Article 2
                                                                                         Article 3
Article 13 of Directive          72/461/EEC     is hereby
replaced by the following:                                     Member States shall bring into force the laws, regu-
                                                               lations and administrative provisions necessary to
     'Article 13                                               comply with this Directive not later than 1 January
                                                               1983.
    Until 31 December 1985 Ireland and the United
    Kingdom in respect of Northern Ireland may                                           Article 4
    oppose, on the grounds of protection against
    foot-and-mouth disease, the introduction into              This Directive is addressed to the Member States.