CELEX: 51996PC0279(02)
Language: en
Date: 1996-06-19
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DIRECTIVE amending Directive 93/53/EEC introducing minimum Community measures for the control of certain fish diseases

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51996PC0279(02)

Proposal for a COUNCIL DIRECTIVE amending Directive 93/53/EEC introducing minimum Community measures for the control of certain fish diseases  /* COM/96/0279 FINAL - CNS 96/0158 */  

Official Journal C 242 , 21/08/1996 P. 0013

Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive  93/53/EEC introducing minimum Community measures for the control of certain fish diseases(96/C   242/09)(Text with EEA relevance)COM(96) 279 final - 96/0158(CNS)(Submitted by the  Commission on 20 June 1996)THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 43  thereof, Having regard to the proposal of the Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament, Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee, Whereas Council Directive 91/67/EEC of 28 January 1991  (1) concerning animal health conditions  governing the placing on the market of aquaculture animals and products, as last amended by  Directive 95/22/EC  (2) lays down the animal health conditions for the placing on the market of  aquaculture fish susceptible to the diseases listed in its Annex A; whereas this list includes  viral diseases such as IHN and VHS, as well as gyrodactylosis caused by the parasite Gyrodactylus  salaris; Whereas Council Directive 93/53/EEC of 24 June 1993 introducing minimum Community measures for the  control of certain fish diseases  (3), as amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and  Sweden, lays down control measures for infectious salmon anemia (ISA), infectious haematopoietic  necrosis (IHN), and viral haemorrhagic septecemia (VHS); Whereas the measures provided for in Directive 93/53/EEC are designed for the control of viral  diseases; whereas those measures are not appropriate for gyrodactylosis; HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE: Article 1 Directive 93/53/EEC is amended as follows: 1. Article 1 is replaced by the following text: 'Article 1This Directive defines the minimum Community measures for the control of the fish  diseases referred to in Article 2, points 1 and 2.`; 2. in Article 2, point 1 is replaced by the following text: '1. List I diseases: infectious salmon anaemia as referred to in Annex A, list I to Council  Directive 91/67/EEC;`3. in Article 2, point 2 is replaced by the following text: '2. List II diseases: infectious haematopoietic necrosis and viral haemorrhagic septicaemia, as  referred to in Annex A, list II to Directive 91/67/EEC;`. Article 2 1.  Member States shall bring into force laws, regulations and administrative  provisions necessary to comply with this Directive before 1 July 1997. They shall forthwith notify  the Commission thereof. When Member States adopt these measures, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall  be accompanied by such reference on the occasion of their official publication. The methods of  making such reference shall be laid down by the Member States. 2.  Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national  law which they adopt in the field governed by this Directive. Article 3 This Directive shall enter into force 20 days after its publication in the Official  Journal of the European Communities. Article 4 This Directive is addressed to the Member States. (1) OJ No L 46, 19. 2. 1991, p. 1.  (2) OJ No L 243, 11. 10. 1995, p. 1.  (3) OJ No L 175, 19. 7. 1993, p. 23.