CELEX: 31977D0293
Language: en
Date: 1977-04-18 00:00:00
Title: 77/293/EEC: Commission Decision of 18 April 1977 amending the Commission Decision of 30 March 1977 on certain measures to prevent the spread of classical swine fever

No L 98 / 24                            Official Journal of the European Communities                              22 . 4 . 77
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 18 April 1977
                amending the Commission Decision of 30 March 1977 on certain measures to
                                          prevent the spread of classical swine fever
                                                           (77/293/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     for pigs for slaughter ; whereas in contrast it is prema­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                       ture to lift these measures as far as animals for rearing
                                                                    and fattening are concerned ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,                                                Whereas it is suitable to permit Member States to
 Having regard to the Council Directive of 26 June                  have a necessary delay to proceed with the necessary
  1964 on animal health problems affecting intra­                   adaptation of their regulations to conform to the
 Community trade in bovine animals and swine ('), as                present Decision as far as animals for slaughter are
 last amended by the Council Directive of 21                        concerned ;
 December 1 976 (2 ), and in particular Article 9 (4)
 thereof,                                                           Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
                                                                    are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing
 Having regard to the Council Directive of 12                       Veterinary Committee,
 December 1972 on health problems affecting intra­
 Community trade in fresh meat (3), as last amended by
 the Council Directive of 21 December 1976 (2), and in
 particular Article 8 (4) thereof,                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 Whereas, by its Decision of 30 March 1977 (4), the
 Commission adopted measures requiring the Member                                            Article 1
 States to prohibit the introduction into their territory
 of live pigs originating in the Netherlands, owing to              The date of 18 April 1977, indicated in the first
 the outbreak of an epidemic of classical swine fever in            Article of the Commission Decision of 6 April 1977,
 that country ; and that this measure has been
                                                                    modifying the Decision of 30 March 1977 in relation
 prolonged until 18 April 1977 by the Commission                    to certain protective measures against classical swine
 Decision of 6 April 1 977 (5) ;
                                                                    fever, is replaced by 19 April 1977.
 Whereas, although outbreaks of swine fever are still
 appearing, they are situated largely in a well delimited
 zone which is subject to animal health measures prohi­                                      A rticle 2
 biting the exit of live pigs to all other parts of Nether­
 lands territory ; whereas, moreover, these measures                The text of the first Article of the Decision of 30
 include the prohibition on the introduction into intra­            March 1977 is replaced by the following :
 Community trade of fresh meat obtained from pigs
 originating in this zone, which , by reason of the                     ' 1 . Member States prohibit until 3 May 1977 the
 severe official dispositions applied by the Netherlands                introduction into their territory of pigs for rearing
 authorities, must not be considered as excluding the                   and fattening from the Netherlands .
 commercialization in intra-Community trade of fresh
 meat obtained in certain abattoirs in the aforesaid                    2.    From 31 March 1977 the Netherlands may
 zone, but from live pigs originating in free zones ;                   only send to the other Member States fresh meat
 whereas in consequence easing of conditions for intra­                 of pigs not originating :
 Community trade in fresh meat, as was provided for                     (a) — from the coastal region of the North Sea
 by the previous Commission Decisions, must be                                   delimited by the following waters : Haring­
 fundamentally confirmed ;                                                      vliet — Hollandsch Diep — Amer —
Whereas the evolution of the health situation in the                             Bergsche Maas — Maas — Maas/Waal­
 Netherlands also permits under analogous conditions                             kanaal — Waal-Pannerdenkanaal — IJssel
                                                                                — Ketelmeer — Vossemeer — Dronten­
 to provide for the lifting of the prohibition measures
                                                                                 meer — Veluwemeer — Eemmeer — Gooi­
(')  OJ No  121 , 29 . 7 . 1964, p. 1977/ 64 .                                   meer — IJmeer — IJ — Noordzeekanaal ,
(:)  OJ No  L 26, 31 . 1 . 1977, p. 81 .                                     — from regions which are subject to prohibi­
(3 ) OJ No  L 302, 31 . 12 . 1972, p. 24 .
(4 ) OJ No  L 87 , 5 . 4 . 1977 , p. 34 .                                        tion measures laid down by the Nether­
(5 ) OJ No  L 93 , 15 . 4 . 1977, p. 17 .                                        lands authorities ;
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    (b) slaughtered after 30 March 1977 in abattoirs             The health certificate provided for by the Council
        situated outside the aforementioned regions,             Directive of 26 June 1964, accompanying pigs for
        or, as an exception and from 7 April 1977, in            slaughter dispatched from the Netherlands must
        abattoirs situated in the interior of the afore­         be completed by the following :
        said regions on the condition that the Nether­           — animals in conformity with the Commission
        lands authorities ensure in particular that a                Decision of 18 April 1977.'
        period of at least 24 hours elapses after
        cleaning and disinfection before the exclusive                              Article 4
        slaughter of these pigs.
                                                             This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
    3. The Netherlands may only send to other
    Member States from 20 April 1977 pigs for
    slaughter which do not originate from the regions        Done at Brussels, 18 April 1977.
    indicated in the previous paragraph.'
                                                                                       For the Commission
                         Article 3
                                                                                        Finn GUNDELACH
The following is added to Article 2 of the Decision of
30 March 1977 :                                                                            Vice-President