CELEX: 51993PC0055
Language: en
Date: 1993-02-18
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DIRECTIVE amending Council Directive 89/556/EEC on animal health conditions governing intra- Community trade in and importation from third countries of embryos of domestic animals of the bovine species

5 . 3 . 93                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                  No C 63 / 11
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                                                           (.Preparatory Acts)
                                                      COMMISSION
              Proposal for a Council Directive amending Council Directive 89/556/EEC on animal health
              conditions governing intra-Community trade in and importation from third countries of
                                           embryos of domestic animals of the bovine species
                                                              (93 /C 63 /04)
                                                           COM(93) 55 final
                                          (Submitted by the Commission on 19 February 1993)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE :
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                               Article 1
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43
thereof,                                                                 Directive 89/ 556 /EEC is hereby amended as follows :
                                                                         1 . Article 1 (2) is replaced by the following :
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                             '2 . This Directive shall not apply to embryos
Having regard to the opinion of the European                                 derived by transfer of nuclei .';
Parliament,
                                                                        2. in Article 3 (a), the words 'as defined in Article 2 (b)
Whereas Article 1 of Council Directive 89/556/EEC ('),                       of Directive 88/407/EEC (')', are replaced by
as last amended by Directive 90/ 425 /EEC (2), laying                        'approved for the collection, processing and storage
down the animal health conditions governing intra­                           of semen by the national authority.' The related
                                                                             footnote is deleted ;
Community trade in and importation from third
countries of embryos of domestic animals of the bovine                   3 . Article 4 is deleted .
species, excluded embryos derived by certain techniques
from the scope of the said Directive ; whereas embryos                                              Article 2
which are to be subjected to techniques which involve
the penetration of the zona pellucida may be introduced                  1.      Member States shall bring into force the laws,
into trade or be imported as long as they meet the                      regulations and administrative provisions necessary to
requirements of Directive 89/556/EEC prior to the tech­                 comply with this Directive before 1 July 1993 . They shall
niques, with certain additional safeguards ; whereas                    forthwith inform the Commission thereof.
embryos derived by in vitro fertilization may also be                   When Member States adopt these provisions, the
introduced into trade or imported, with appropriate safe­
                                                                        provisions shall contain a reference to this Directive or
guards ;
                                                                        shall be accompanied by such reference at the time of
                                                                        their official publication. The procedure for such
Whereas the additional safeguards require amendments                     reference shall be adopted by Member States.
to the Annexes, which fall under the competence of the
Commission, under the provisions of Article 16 of                        2.      Member      States   shall    communicate   to   the
Directive 89/ 556/EEC ;                                                  Commission the text of the main provisions of domestic
                                                                         law they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.
Whereas it is opportune to make other amendments to
the Directive, to clarify the status of semen used for                                              Article 3
fertilization of ova and to take account of the new foot
and mouth disease policy in the Community,                              This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
(') OJ No L 302, 19 . 10 . 1989 , p . 1 .
O OJ No L 224, 18 . 8 . 1990 , p. 29 .