2004/36/EC: Commission Decision of 23 December 2003 amending Decision 97/296/EC drawing up the list of third countries from which the import of fishery products is authorised for human consumption, with respect to Guyana, Kenya, Serbia and Montenegro and Egypt (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2003) 5007)

Commission Decision
of 23 December 2003
amending Decision 97/296/EC drawing up the list of third countries from which the import of fishery products is authorised for human consumption, with respect to Guyana, Kenya, Serbia and Montenegro and Egypt
(notified under document number C(2003) 5007)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2004/36/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Decision 95/408/EC of 22 June 1995 on the conditions for drawing up, for an interim period, provisional lists of third country establishments from which Member States are authorised to import certain products of animal origin, fishery products or live bivalve molluscs(1), and in particular Article 2(2) and (3) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Commission Decision 97/296/EC of 22 April 1997 drawing up the list of third countries from which the import of fishery products is authorised for human consumption(2) lists the countries and territories from which imports of fishery products for human consumption is authorised. Part I of the Annex to that Decision lists the countries and territories covered by a specific Decision under Council Directive 91/493/EEC of 22 July 1991 laying down the health conditions for the production and the placing on the market of fishery products(3), and part II of that Annex lists the countries and territories meeting the conditions set out in Article 2(2) of Decision 95/408/EC.
(2) Commission Decisions 2004/40/EC(4), 2004/39/EC(5), 2004/37/EC(6) and 2004/38/EC(7) set specific import conditions for fishery products originating in Guyana, Kenya, Serbia and Montenegro and Egypt, respectively. These countries should therefore be added to the list in part I of the Annex to Decision 97/296/EC.
(3) Decision 97/296/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.
(4) This Decision should take effect on the same day as Decisions 2004/40/EC and 2004/38/EC as regards the import of fishery products from Guyana and Egypt.
(5) As regards the import of fishery products from Kenya and Serbia and Montenegro this Decision should take effect on the same day as Decisions 2004/39/EC and 2004/37/EC.
(6) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,