CELEX: 51985PC0057
Language: en
Date: 1985-02-28
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE AMENDING DIRECTIVE 72/461/EEC ON HEALTH PROBLEMS AFFECTING INTRA-COMMUNITY TRADE IN FRESH MEAT AND DIRECTIVE 72/462/EEC ON HEALTH AND VETERINARY INSPECTION PROBLEMS UPON IMPORTATION OF BOVINE ANIMALS AND SWINE AND FRESH MEAT FROM THIRD COUNTRIES

15.3.85                               Official Journal of the European Communities                            No C 68/5
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             Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 72/461/EEC on health problems
             affecting intra-Community trade in fresh meat and Directive 72/462/EEC on health and
             veterinary inspection problems upon importation of bovine animals and swine and fresh
                                                  meat from third countries
                                                     COM(85) 57 final
                              (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 1 March 1985)
                                                        (85/C 68/06)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas Member States, through their veterinary
COMMUNITIES,                                                      authorities, should have the possibility of authorizing
                                                                  on a more liberal basis the importation of glands and
                                                                  organs, including blood, for pharmaceutical manufac-
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
                                                                  turing purposes from other Member States and from
European Economic Community and in particular
                                                                  non-member countries; whereas the veterinary auth-
Article 43 thereof,
                                                                  orities, with a view to ensuring the proper and
                                                                  specific use of such raw material, should grant the
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                authorization only when certain conditions are
                                                                  fulfilled,
Having regard to the opinion of the               European
Parliament,                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                                          Article 1
Social Committee,
                                                                  Directive 72/461/EEC is hereby amended as follows:
Whereas Directive 72/461/EEC ('), as last amended
by Directive 84/643/EEC (2), lays down the health                 1. In Article 1 (2), the following subparagraph is
requirements which must be fulfilled by animals from                  added:
which meat is obtained for intra-Community trade;                     'However, glands and organs, including blood, are
whereas Directive 72/462/EEC (3), as last amended                     not considered to be meat when they are imported
by Directive 83/91/EEC (4), lays down health and                      as a raw material for the pharmaceutical manufac-
veterinary inspection requirements for the importation                turing industry under the guarantees laid down in
of bovine animals and swine and fresh meat from                      Article 5b.'
third countries;
                                                                  2. An Article 5b is inserted as follows:
Whereas glands and organs, including blood, are
within the scope of the abovementioned Directives;
whereas glands and organs, including blood, from                       Article 5b
animals are required in large quantity by the phar-
maceutical manufacturing industries of Member                         The glands and organs, including blood, referred
States to ensure the availability of extracts and                     to in Article 1 (2) may be authorized for impor-
enzymes for human and veterinary medicine;                            tation by the veterinary authorizies of a Member
                                                                      State provided conditions are laid           down
                                                                      concerning the identity of the material, its
                                                                     packaging, transportation, storage, handling and
C)  OJ No L 302, 31. 12. 1972, p. 24.                                processing and the disposal of packaging and
O   OJ No L 339, 27. 12. 1984, p. 27.                                wrapping and of residual matter following
(5) OJ No L 302, 31. 12. 1972, p. 28.                                processing so that public and animal health risks
(4) OJ No L 59, 5. 3. 1983, p. 34.                                    are eliminated.'
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                           Article 2                                  the identity of the material, its packaging, trans-
                                                                      portation, storage, handling and processing and
In Article 1 (2) of Directive 72/462/EEC,                the          the disposal of packaging and wrapping and of
following is hereby added:                                            residual matter following processing so that
c
  (e) glands and organs, including blood, which are                   public and animal health risks are eliminated.'
      imported as a raw material for the pharma-                                          Article 3
      ceutical manufacturing industry.
      When such an importation is authorized by a                 The Member States shall bring into force the laws,
      Member State, it shall be under the control of              regulations and administrative provisions necessary to
      the veterinary authorities of the Member State              comply with this Directive not later than 1 July 1985
      concerned. The veterinary authority, in order to            and shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.
      guarantee the proper and specific use of such                                       Article 4
      material, shall ensure that, in granting the auth-
      orization, conditions are laid down concerning              This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
               Amendments to the proposal for a 17th Council Directive on the harmonization of the
               laws of the Member States relating to turnover taxes — exemption from value-added tax
                          on the temporay importation of goods other than means of transport (*)
                                                     COM(85) 58 final
               (Submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to the second paragraph of Article
                                         149 of the EEC Treaty on 1 March 1985)
                                                        (85/C 68/07)
               The Commission hereby amends and supplements its proposal as follows:
               1. In Article 1 (4) (e), the words 'neither established his business nor has a fixed
                   estabishment' are deleted and replaced by the words 'not established the headquarters
                   of his business'.
               2. In Article 6 (2), the word 'all' is inserted after the words 'was initially granted and
                   assumes'.
               (') OJ No C 244, 13. 9. 1984, p. 4.