CELEX: 32014D0441
Language: en
Date: 2014-07-07 00:00:00
Title: 2014/441/EU: Commission Implementing Decision of 7 July 2014 amending Decision 2003/467/EC as regards the declaration of Estonia as officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free Member State (notified under document C(2014) 4547)  Text with EEA relevance

9.7.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 200/19
            
         COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION
   of 7 July 2014
   amending Decision 2003/467/EC as regards the declaration of Estonia as officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free Member State
   
      
         (notified under document C(2014) 4547)
      
   
   (Text with EEA relevance)
   
      (2014/441/EU)
   
   THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
   Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
   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 point E in Chapter I of Annex D thereto,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Directive 64/432/EEC applies to trade within the Union in bovine animals and swine. It lays down the conditions whereby a Member State or region of a Member State may be declared officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free as regards bovine herds.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Annex III to Commission Decision 2003/467/EC (2) lists the Member States and regions thereof which are declared officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis -free.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Estonia has submitted to the Commission documentation demonstrating compliance with the conditions for the officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free status laid down in Directive 64/432/EEC for its whole territory.
            
         
               (4)
            
            
               Following the evaluation of the documentation submitted by Estonia, that Member-State should be declared officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free.
            
         
               (5)
            
            
               Annex III to Decision 2003/467/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.
            
         
               (6)
            
            
               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
   Annex III to Decision 2003/467/EC is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.
   Article 2
   This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
   
      Done at Brussels, 7 July 2014.
      
         
            For the Commission
         
         Tonio BORG
         
            Member of the Commission
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ 121, 29.7.1964, p. 1977/64.
   
      (2)  Commission Decision 2003/467/EC of 23 June 2003 establishing the official tuberculosis, brucellosis and enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free status of certain Member States and regions of Member States as regards bovine herds (OJ L 156, 25.6.2003, p. 74).
   
      ANNEX
      In Annex III to Decision 2003/467/EC, Chapter 1 is replaced by the following:
      
         ‘CHAPTER 1
         
            Officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free Member States
         
         
                     ISO code
                  
                  
                     Member State
                  
               
                     BE
                  
                  
                     Belgium
                  
               
                     CZ
                  
                  
                     Czech Republic
                  
               
                     DK
                  
                  
                     Denmark
                  
               
                     DE
                  
                  
                     Germany
                  
               
                     EE
                  
                  
                     Estonia
                  
               
                     IE
                  
                  
                     Ireland
                  
               
                     ES
                  
                  
                     Spain
                  
               
                     FR
                  
                  
                     France
                  
               
                     CY
                  
                  
                     Cyprus
                  
               
                     LV
                  
                  
                     Latvia
                  
               
                     LT
                  
                  
                     Lithuania
                  
               
                     LU
                  
                  
                     Luxembourg
                  
               
                     NL
                  
                  
                     Netherlands
                  
               
                     AT
                  
                  
                     Austria
                  
               
                     SI
                  
                  
                     Slovenia
                  
               
                     SK
                  
                  
                     Slovakia
                  
               
                     FI
                  
                  
                     Finland
                  
               
                     SE
                  
                  
                     Sweden
                  
               
                     UK
                  
                  
                     United Kingdom’