CELEX: 32016D0042
Language: en
Date: 2016-01-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/42 of 15 January 2016 amending the Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/2460 concerning certain protective measures in relation to highly pathogenic avian influenza of subtype H5 in France (notified under document C(2016) 209) (Text with EEA relevance)

16.1.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 11/10
            
         COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2016/42
   of 15 January 2016
   amending the Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/2460 concerning certain protective measures in relation to highly pathogenic avian influenza of subtype H5 in France
   
      
         (notified under document C(2016) 209)
      
   
   (Only the French text is authentic)
   (Text with EEA relevance)
   THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
   Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
   Having regard to Council Directive 89/662/EEC of 11 December 1989 concerning veterinary checks in intra-Community trade with a view to the completion of the internal market (1), and in particular Article 9(4) thereof,
   Having regard to Council Directive 90/425/EEC of 26 June 1990 concerning veterinary and zootechnical checks applicable in intra-Community trade in certain live animals and products with a view to the completion of the internal market (2), and in particular Article 10(4) thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Council Directive 2005/94/EC (3) sets out certain preventive measures relating to the surveillance and the early detection of avian influenza and the minimum control measures to be applied in the event of an outbreak of that disease in poultry or other captive birds. Article 16 of that Directive provides for the establishment of protection, surveillance and further restricted zones in the event of an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               In 2015, France notified the Commission of outbreaks of HPAI of subtype H5 in holdings on its territory where poultry are kept and it immediately took the minimum control measures required pursuant to Directive 2005/94/EC, including the establishment of protection, surveillance and a further restricted zone in accordance with that Directive.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               In addition, Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/2460 (4) was adopted to take account of the spread of HPAI in France and the establishment by the competent authority of that Member State of a large further restricted zone around the protection and surveillance zones. That further restricted zone comprises several departments or parts thereof in the south-west of that Member State. Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/2460 provides, inter alia, that the further restricted zone established by France in accordance with Directive 2005/94/EC is to include at least the areas listed as the further restricted zone in the Annex to that Implementing Decision.
            
         
               (4)
            
            
               France has now reported further HPAI outbreaks located outside the areas listed as the further restricted zone in the Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/2460. Due to the development of the epidemiological situation and the risk of further disease spread, France is enlarging the further restricted zone around the established protection and surveillance zones.
            
         
               (5)
            
            
               It is therefore necessary to amend the Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/2460 in order to take account of the enlargement of the further restricted zone by France.
            
         
               (6)
            
            
               The Commission has examined the control measures taken by France and it is satisfied that the borders of the further restricted zone, established by the competent authority of that Member State, in accordance with Article 16(4) of Directive 2005/94/EC, are at a sufficient distance to the actual holdings where the HPAI outbreaks have been confirmed.
            
         
               (7)
            
            
               In order to prevent any unnecessary disturbance to trade within the Union and to avoid unjustified barriers to trade being imposed by third countries, it is necessary to rapidly describe the enlarged further restricted zone established by France at Union level.
            
         
               (8)
            
            
               Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/2460 should therefore be amended accordingly.
            
         
               (9)
            
            
               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
   The Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/2460 is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Decision.
   Article 2
   This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
   
      Done at Brussels, 15 January 2016.
      
         
            For the Commission
         
         Vytenis ANDRIUKAITIS
         
            Member of the Commission
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 395, 30.12.1989, p. 13.
   
      (2)  OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 29.
   
      (3)  Council Directive 2005/94/EC of 20 December 2005 on Community measures for the control of avian influenza and repealing Directive 92/40/EEC (OJ L 10, 14.1.2006, p. 16).
   
      (4)  Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/2460 of 23 December 2015 concerning certain protective measures in relation to highly pathogenic avian influenza of subtype H5 in France (OJ L 339, 24.12.2015, p. 52).
   
      ANNEX
      
         
            ‘ANNEX
            Further restricted zone as referred to in Article 2(1):
            
                        ISO Country Code
                     
                     
                        Member State
                     
                     
                        Name (Department number)
                     
                     
                         
                     
                     
                         
                     
                  
                        FR
                     
                     
                        France
                     
                     
                        Areas comprising the departments of:
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                         
                     
                     
                        DORDOGNE (24)
                        GERS (32)
                        GIRONDE (33)
                        HAUTE-VIENNE (87)
                        HAUTES-PYRÉNÉES (65)
                        LANDES (40)
                        LOT-ET-GARONNE (47)
                        PYRÉNÉES-ATLANTIQUES (64)
                        LOT (46)
                        HAUTE-GARONNE (31)
                     
                     
                         
                     
                     
                         
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                         
                     
                     
                        Areas comprising parts of the departments of:
                     
                     
                         
                     
                     
                         
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                         
                     
                     
                        CHARENTE (16) the commune of:
                     
                     
                        16254
                     
                     
                        PALLUAUD
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                         
                     
                     
                        CORREZE (19) the communes of:
                     
                     
                        19015
                        19030
                        19047
                        19066
                        19077
                        19107
                        19120
                        19124
                        19161
                        19182
                        19191
                        19195
                        19229
                        19239
                        19289
                        19007
                        19012
                        19019
                        19026
                        19029
                        19044
                        19050
                        19067
                        19116
                        19170
                        19260
                        19280
                     
                     
                        AYEN
                        BRIGNAC-LA-PLAINE
                        CHARTRIER-FERRIÈRE
                        CUBLAC
                        ESTIVALS
                        LARCHE
                        LOUIGNAC
                        MANSAC
                        PERPEZAC-LE-BLANC
                        SAINT-AULAIRE
                        SAINT-CERNIN-DE-LARCHE
                        SAINT-CYPRIEN
                        SAINT-PANTALÉON-DE-LARCHE
                        SAINT-ROBERT
                        YSSANDON
                        ALTILLAC
                        ASTAILLAC
                        BEAULIEU-SUR-DORDOGNE
                        BILHAC
                        BRANCEILLES
                        LA-CHAPELLE-AUX-SAINTS
                        CHAUFFOUR-SUR-VELL
                        CUREMONTE
                        LIOURDRES
                        QUEYSSAC-LES-VIGNES
                        SIONIAC
                        VEGENNES’