CELEX: 31975D0248
Language: en
Date: 1975-04-07 00:00:00
Title: 75/248/EEC: Commission Decision of 7 April 1975 concerning the supply of foot-and-mouth disease vaccine

22. 4. 75                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 102/23
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 7 April 1975
                               concerning the supply of foot-and-mouth disease vaccine
                                                          (75/248 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
COMMUNITIES,                                                         are in accordance with the Opinion of the Standing
                                                                     Veterinary Committee,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Having regard to the Council Decision of 26 March
 1973 (') on action to protect Community livestock
against certain foot-and-mouth diseases, as last                                            Article 1
amended by the Council Decision of 15 July 1 974 (2 ),
and in particular Article 1 (2) thereof ;                            The consignments of vaccine to be supplied by the
                                                                     IM/ IFFA subsequently to those provided for in Article
Having regard to the Commission Decision of 8                        3(1 ) (a) and (b) of the contract concluded on 8
October 1 973 (3) determining the types of vaccine to                October 1973 and in Article 1       of the Commission
be supplied to the Community in respect of control                   Decisions of 12 June 1974 and 13 November 1974
measures against exotic foot-and-mouth disease ;                     shall consist of :
 Having regard to the Commission Decision of 13                      — 150 000 doses of vaccine Asia 1 ,
 November 1974 (4) increasing the reserve of foot-and-               — 200 000 doses of vaccine A 22.
 mouth disease vaccine for the protection of Commu­
 nity livestock ;                                                    These vaccines shall , at the date as fixed pursuant to
                                                                     the last subparagraph of Article 3(1 ) of the aforesaid
Whereas the contract concluded on 8 October 1973                     contract when they actually become available have
 between the European Economic Community, repre­                     undergone bacteriological, innocuity and activity tests.
 sented by the Commission of the European Economic
 Community, and the Institut Mérieux, Division IFFA,                                         Article 2
 254 rue Marcel Mérieux, Lyon 7e, acting as agent for
 the France-Iranian foot-and-mouth vaccine produc­                   This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
 tion units of the National Institute for Serums and
 Vaccines (RAZI) of Hessarak ( Iran), fixed the dates for
 the initial consignments of vaccine only ;                           Done at Brussels, 7 April 1 975 .
 Whereas, in consequence, in order to ensure the
                                                                                               I7o r the (.'oui mission
 protection of the European Economic Community
 against foot-and-mouth disease, provision should be                                              P.J. LARDINOIS
 made for the supply of further consignments of foot-
 and-mouth disease vaccine ;                                                               Member o/ the Commission
 (') OJ  No  L 106,  20. 4. 1973, p. 26.
 (-) OJ  No  L 202,  24. 7. 1974, p. 38 .
 H   OJ  No  L 308 , 8 . 11 . 1973, p. 21 .
 (4) OJ  No  L 316,  26. II . 1974, p. 13 .