CELEX: 32015D0567
Language: en
Date: 2015-04-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/567 of 7 April 2015 amending Annex I to Decision 2003/467/EC as regards the declaration of Lithuania as an officially tuberculosis-free Member State as regards bovine herds (notified under document C(2015) 2161)  Text with EEA relevance

9.4.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 93/69
            
         COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2015/567
   of 7 April 2015
   amending Annex I to Decision 2003/467/EC as regards the declaration of Lithuania as an officially tuberculosis-free Member State as regards bovine herds
   
      
         (notified under document C(2015) 2161)
      
   
   (Text with EEA relevance)
   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 paragraph 4 of Annex A.I thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Directive 64/432/EEC applies to trade within the Union in bovine animals. It lays down the conditions whereby a Member State may be declared officially tuberculosis-free as regards bovine herds.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Chapter 1 of Annex I to Commission Decision 2003/467/EC (2) lists the Member States which are declared officially tuberculosis-free as regards bovine herds.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Lithuania has submitted to the Commission documentation demonstrating compliance for its whole territory with the conditions laid down in Directive 64/432/EEC for officially tuberculosis-free status as regards bovine herds. Accordingly, it should be declared an officially tuberculosis-free Member State as regards bovine herds.
            
         
               (4)
            
            
               The list set out in Chapter 1 of Annex I to Decision 2003/467/EC should therefore be amended to include Lithuania.
            
         
               (5)
            
            
               The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
   Article 1
   Annex I 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 April 2015.
      
         
            For the Commission
         
         Vytenis ANDRIUKAITIS
         
            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 I to Decision 2003/467/EC, Chapter 1 is replaced by the following:
      
         ‘CHAPTER 1
         
            Officially tuberculosis-free Member States
         
         
                     ISO code
                  
                  
                     Member State
                  
               
                     BE
                  
                  
                     Belgium
                  
               
                     CZ
                  
                  
                     Czech Republic
                  
               
                     DK
                  
                  
                     Denmark
                  
               
                     DE
                  
                  
                     Germany
                  
               
                     EE
                  
                  
                     Estonia
                  
               
                     FR
                  
                  
                     France
                  
               
                     LV
                  
                  
                     Latvia
                  
               
                     LT
                  
                  
                     Lithuania
                  
               
                     LU
                  
                  
                     Luxembourg
                  
               
                     HU
                  
                  
                     Hungary
                  
               
                     NL
                  
                  
                     Netherlands
                  
               
                     AT
                  
                  
                     Austria
                  
               
                     PL
                  
                  
                     Poland
                  
               
                     SI
                  
                  
                     Slovenia
                  
               
                     SK
                  
                  
                     Slovakia
                  
               
                     FI
                  
                  
                     Finland
                  
               
                     SE
                  
                  
                     Sweden’