CELEX: 31974D0143
Language: en
Date: 1974-03-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 18 March 1974 on certain measures to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease

No L 77/40                             Official Journal of the European Communities                              22. 3 . 74
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 18 March 1974
                     on certain measures to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease
                                                         (74/ 143/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                           Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                               Member States may prohibit the introduction into
                                                                   their territory of bovine animals and swine and of the
Having regard to the Council Directive of 26 June                  fresh meat of bovine animals, swine, sheep and goats
1964 ( ! ) on animal health problems affecting intra­              from the following French departments : Cotes-du­
Community trade in bovine animals and swine, as last               Nord, Ille-et-Vilaine, Morbihan, Manche, Mayenne,
amended by the Council Directive of 7 February                     Loire-Atlantique .
1972 (2), and in particular Article 9 thereof ;
                                                                                           Article 2
Having regard to the Council Directive of 12
December 1972 (3) on health problems affecting intra­              Countries to which animals and fresh meat are sent
Community trade in fresh meat, and in particular                   may demand presentation of a certificate certifying
Article 8 thereof ;                                                that the animals and fresh meat sent from France do
Whereas an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has
                                                                   not come from the departments referred to in Article
                                                                    1.
occurred in France ; whereas the disease is liable to
endanger the livestock of other Member States, who                                         Article 3
import both animals and fresh meat in large quanti­
ties ;                                                             The Commission will follow the development of the
                                                                   situation and the present Decision may be amended
Whereas, without prejudice to the provisions already               depending on such development.
available    to the     new    Member      States  which  are
contained either in the Act concerning the Condi­                                          Article 4
tions of Accession and the Adjustments to the Trea­
ties or in the Directive of 12 December 1972, the                  This Decision is addressed to all Member States .
other Member States should therefore be permitted to
take measures to protect their livestock which will                 Done at Brussels, 18 March 1974.
apply for the time necessary to eradicate this epizootic
disease ;                                                                                     For the Commission
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision                                                The President
are in accordance with the Opinion of the Permanent
Veterinary Committee,                                                                        Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
 (!) OJ No 121 , 29 . 7 . 1964, p . 1977/ 64.
 (2 ) OJ No L 38 , 12. 2. 1972, p . 95.
 (3) OJ No L 302, 31 . 12. 1972, p. 24.