2010/188/: Commission Decision of 29 March 2010 amending Annex III to Decision 2003/467/EC as regards the declaration that certain administrative regions of Poland and Portugal are officially free of enzootic bovine leukosis (notified under document C(2010) 1912) (Text with EEA relevance)

30.3.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 83/59
COMMISSION DECISION
of 29 March 2010
amending Annex III to Decision 2003/467/EC as regards the declaration that certain administrative regions of Poland and Portugal are officially free of enzootic bovine leukosis
(notified under document C(2010) 1912)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2010/188/EU)
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 Annex D(I)(E) thereto,
Whereas:
(1) Directive 64/432/EEC provides that a Member State or part of a Member State may be declared officially free of enzootic bovine leukosis as regards bovine herds subject to compliance with certain conditions set out in that Directive.
(2) The list of regions of Member States declared free of enzootic bovine leukosis are set out in Annex III to 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 (2).
(3) Poland has submitted to the Commission documentation demonstrating compliance with the appropriate conditions provided for in Directive 64/432/EEC as regards 25 administrative regions (powiaty) within the superior administrative units (voivodships) of Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Podlaskie and Mazowieckie in order that those regions may be considered officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free regions of Poland.
(4) Following evaluation of the documentation submitted by Poland, the regions (powiaty) concerned should be declared as officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free regions of Poland.
(5) Portugal has submitted to the Commission documentation demonstrating compliance with the appropriate conditions provided for in Directive 64/432/EEC as regards the Autonomous Region of Azores in order that that region may be considered an officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free region of Portugal.
(6) Following evaluation of the documentation submitted by Portugal, the Autonomous Region of Azores should be declared as an officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free region of Portugal.
(7) Annex III to Decision 2003/467/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.
(8) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,