CELEX: 32008D0269
Language: en
Date: 2008-03-19 00:00:00
Title: 2008/269/EC: Commission Decision of 19 March 2008 amending Decision 2001/618/EC to include the departments of Côtes-d’Armor, Finistère, Ille-et-Vilaine, Morbihan and Nord, France, in the list of regions free of Aujeszky’s disease (notified under document number C(2008) 1072) (Text with EEA relevance)

27.3.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 85/9
            
         
      COMMISSION DECISION
   
   of 19 March 2008
   amending Decision 2001/618/EC to include the departments of Côtes-d’Armor, Finistère, Ille-et-Vilaine, Morbihan and Nord, France, in the list of regions free of Aujeszky’s disease
   (notified under document number C(2008) 1072)
   (Text with EEA relevance)
   (2008/269/EC)
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
   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 Articles 9(2) and 10(2) thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Directive 64/432/EEC lays down rules applicable to intra-Community trade in certain animals. Article 9 of that Directive provides for compulsory national programmes for certain contagious disease, including Aujeszky’s disease, to be submitted to the Commission for approval. In addition, Article 10 of Directive 64/432/EC provides for Member States to submit documentation to the Commission concerning the status of those diseases in their territory.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Commission Decision 2001/618/EC of 23 July 2001 on additional guarantees in intra-Community trade of pigs relating to Aujeszky’s disease, criteria to provide information on this disease and repealing Decisions 93/24/EEC and 93/244/EEC (2) contains a list of Member States or regions thereof free of Aujeszky’s disease and where vaccination is prohibited in Annex I thereto. Annex II to Decision 2001/618/EC contains a list of Member States or regions thereof where disease control programme for that disease are in place.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               A programme for the eradication of Aujeszky’s disease has been implemented in France for several years and the departments of Côtes-d’Armor, Finistère, Ille-et-Vilaine, Morbihan and Nord are listed as regions where an approved Aujeszky’s disease control programme is in place.
            
         
               (4)
            
            
               France has submitted supporting documentation to the Commission as regards the Aujeszky’s disease-free status of the departments of Côtes-d’Armor, Finistère, Ille-et-Vilaine, Morbihan and Nord demonstrating that the disease has been eradicated from those departments.
            
         
               (5)
            
            
               The Commission has examined the documentation submitted by France and found it to comply with Article 10(1) of Directive 64/432/EEC. Accordingly, those departments should be included in the list in Annex I to Decision 2001/618/EC.
            
         
               (6)
            
            
               Decision 2001/618/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.
            
         
               (7)
            
            
               The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
   Article 1
   Annexes I and II to Decision 2001/618/EC are replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.
   Article 2
   This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
   
      Done at Brussels, 19 March 2008.
      
         
            For the Commission
         
         Androulla VASSILIOU
         
         
            Member of the Commission
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ 121, 29.7.1964, p. 1977/64. Directive as last amended by Commission Decision 2007/729/EC (OJ L 294, 13.11.2007, p. 26).
   
      (2)  OJ L 215, 9.8.2001, p. 48. Decision as last amended by Decision 2007/729/EC.
   
      ANNEX
      ‘
            ANNEX I
            Member States or regions thereof free of Aujeszky’s disease and where vaccination is prohibited
            
                        ISO code
                     
                     
                        Member State
                     
                     
                        Regions
                     
                  
                        CZ
                     
                     
                        Czech Republic
                     
                     
                        All regions
                     
                  
                        DK
                     
                     
                        Denmark
                     
                     
                        All regions
                     
                  
                        DE
                     
                     
                        Germany
                     
                     
                        All regions
                     
                  
                        FR
                     
                     
                        France
                     
                     
                        The departments of Ain, Aisne, Allier, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes, Ardèche, Ardennes, Ariège, Aube, Aude, Aveyron, Bas-Rhin, Bouches-du-Rhône, Calvados, Cantal, Charente, Charente-Maritime, Cher, Corrèze, Côte-d’Or, Côtes-d’Armor, Creuse, Deux-Sèvres, Dordogne, Doubs, Drôme, Essonne, Eure, Eure-et-Loir, Finistère, Gard, Gers, Gironde, Hautes-Alpes, Hauts-de-Seine, Haute-Garonne, Haute-Loire, Haute-Marne, Hautes-Pyrénées, Haut-Rhin, Haute-Saône, Haute-Savoie, Haute-Vienne, Hérault, Ille-et-Vilaine, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Isère, Jura, Landes, Loire, Loire-Atlantique, Loir-et-Cher, Loiret, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Lozère, Maine-et-Loire, Manche, Marne, Mayenne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Morbihan, Moselle, Nièvre, Nord, Oise, Orne, Paris, Pas-de-Calais, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Pyrénées-Orientales, Puy-de-Dôme, Réunion, Rhône, Sarthe, Saône-et-Loire, Savoie, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Maritime, Seine-Saint-Denis, Somme, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Territoire-de-Belfort, Val-de-Marne, Val-d’Oise, Var, Vaucluse, Vendée, Vienne, Vosges, Yonne, Yvelines
                     
                  
                        CY
                     
                     
                        Cyprus
                     
                     
                        Whole territory
                     
                  
                        LU
                     
                     
                        Luxembourg
                     
                     
                        All regions
                     
                  
                        AT
                     
                     
                        Austria
                     
                     
                        Whole territory
                     
                  
                        SK
                     
                     
                        Slovakia
                     
                     
                        All regions
                     
                  
                        FI
                     
                     
                        Finland
                     
                     
                        All regions
                     
                  
                        SE
                     
                     
                        Sweden
                     
                     
                        All regions
                     
                  
                        UK
                     
                     
                        United Kingdom
                     
                     
                        All regions in England, Scotland and Wales
                     
                  
         
            ANNEX II
            Member States or regions thereof where approved Aujeszky’s disease control programmes are in place
            
                        ISO code
                     
                     
                        Member State
                     
                     
                        Regions
                     
                  
                        BE
                     
                     
                        Belgium
                     
                     
                        Whole territory
                     
                  
                        ES
                     
                     
                        Spain
                     
                     
                        The territory of the Autonomous Communities of Galicia, País Vasco, Asturias, Cantabria, Navarra, La Rioja
                        The territory of the provinces of León, Zamora, Palencia, Burgos, Valladolid and Ávila in the Autonomous Community of Castilla y León.
                        The territory of the province of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands
                     
                  
                        IT
                     
                     
                        Italy
                     
                     
                        The province of Bolzano
                     
                  
                        NL
                     
                     
                        Netherlands
                     
                     
                        Whole territory
                     
                  ’